A.+Project+Statement

== //**Capstone Project, Task 5: Project Statement**// == Assume your school system has hired you as an educational consultant to help move its instructional programs to the next level of technological interaction, involving faculty and students to enhance the digital experiences of their students. You want to start small with a 1-week collaborative project with two other schools:
 * 1) **Briefly describe your proposed project.** This project is a multifaceted literary collaboration to 1. create a story by adding a fluent sentence to achieve a cohesive story, and 2. to promote storytelling among students of varying ages and cognitive backgrounds.
 * 2) **How will you improve learner performance by engaging learners in authentic experiences?** As students engage in a writing activity which requires creativity, they are improving their ability to synthesize a passage (practicing reading comprehension) and an ability to add relevant input that is also non-redundant. These are skills which reuire engagement in any literary activity as well as reading and reading. This in return would create an authentic experience. It also allows students to engage in the art of communicating, practicing the skills of writing for a real audience, honing technique, and developing a tone which is appropriate for posting online.
 * 3) **How will you facilitate learning through constructivist, collaborative learning experiences? **By composing a co-created story students will engage in a constructivist and collaborative learning experience. The students will respond to each other in a collaborative experience. The students will be engaged in differientated communication which is also a collaborative experience.
 * 4) **How will you create sound instructional materials and learning environments that are based on solid research and learning theory?** Utilizing the concepts of UDL, through collaboration we will utilize Richard Mayers 12 principles of multimedia design to create sound instructional materials and learning environments. .
 * 5) **How will you facilitate the use of innovations through the diffusion and integration of new technologies and technological experiences for your learners?** This project marries "tried and true" literary strategies of storytelling and reading favorite stories aloud to the latest technologies as students use edublogs to discuss children's tradebooks and tell stories. The students will create podcasts, voki, video, post discussions, or compose a collaborative story with relevant input.
 * 6) **How will you most effectively manage this process?** Each teacher will monitor the content of their student's work and posts on the blog. Classroom teachers will use the discussion board to ask questions or make comments about student's progress. Through email, teachers can communicate problems, questions or concerns with each other.
 * 7) **What ethical considerations will you make to ensure sound decisions are made?** Edublog is a secure site for educational purposes. Students will use their first names only in their postings.
 * 8) **What processes and resources will you include? **The students will create podcasts, voki, video, post discussions, or compose a collaborative story with relevant input. Tutorials for each of these special programs will be provided for students. Students have already learned how to compose a complete sentence and are learning how to apply this skill to a wholistic story.
 * 9) **Describe the learning environment and population that will be engaged in your project: **
 * Audience 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th grade students
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