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1. Language Arts, Science, Technology Project Overview Learning Areas Levels Grade 7 & 8, 13 and 14 years old students. Objectives * To understand the importance of adapting communication choices such as vocabulary, sentence structure, rate of speech, and tone to meet the needs of different purposes and audiences; select suitable communication choices in various speaking contexts * To evaluate the effectiveness of their own and others’ talk in a variety of contexts; employ and consider the effects of verbal and non-verbal language Description Students will design a PowerPoint presentation in which they will have to present the information while appearing in the presentation. Theses presentations will be downloaded in a Zune to be shared with classmates and families. Software Keywords PowerPoint, Microsoft Essentials, Zune Video Production Science and Language Arts Authors Roberto Gauvin, Centre d’apprentissage du Haut-Madawaska, Clair, New Brunswick, Canada Documents

2. Teacher Planning and Management Click the documents below to help you understand the context of this exemplary learning project: Background & Planning: A picture of the origin and objectives of the learning project, including the manner in which the project was planned and managed. Classroom Images: Images of the classroom to give you a better feeling for how the project was implemented. Poster: A sample of the poster that will be used at the conference. Documents

3. Teaching Resources Student Project Overview: The proposal for this innovative project will include the use of Learning Essentials fro Microsoft and Zune. Students will have to use a PowerPoint presentation from the Learning Essentials package and include information from the science curriculum taught in class in order to synthesize a unit. Students will have to create a video while they present their work. They will be in the presentation like a weather forecaster uses a blue screen to have an image behind him. This effect called “Chroma key” , will give the impression that the student is part of the PowerPoint presentation. We will then convert the video in a MPEG-4 video format and download it into the Zune and on YouTube. The purpose of the project for the students will be to accumulate as many presentations possible from other students of their class. Student could then review the presentations from their classmates and decide if they can improve their own presentation, bringing it to a higher level. They will learn from their classmates when their projects are presented. This will help students improve their learning. By posting their presentations on their own personal blog, they will be able to converse and exchange ideas with other students all around the world. Documents

4. Assessment and Standards Click the documents below to see the assessment rubrics and standards cover in this learning project: Assessment Rubrics: Examples of assessment rubrics provided to students showing how the project was assessed. Mapping the Standards: Mapping this project’s learning objectives against curriculum standards. Assessment and Autenticity:The authenticity of the context in which we develop students’ understandings is crucial to the degree to which those understandings can be applied to new and different situations—a salient difference between simply recounting facts and applying knowledge to new problems. Documents

5. Teacher and School Information Le Centre d’Apprentissage du Haut-Madawaska is primary school in Clair, a rural community in New Brunswick. The school counts 224 students from nursery school till grade 8th. There are 25 students in grade 7 and 38 students in grade 8th divided in two groups. The school has been participating in the one to one laptop pilot project sponsored by the Province of New Brunswick for the last four years with its grade 7th and 8th students. The school offers a Sport-Art-Study program and a blog (E-portfolio) to all its students and teachers. The teaching staff is accompanied by a NICT mentor and a technical support person. The CAHM is the only French school in Atlantic Canada to be part in the network of innovating schools of industry Canada. The participation in this project enabled the school to be equipped with a television studio, a radio station and a recording studio. The school web site is available at the following address : http://cahm.nbed.nb.ca Roberto Gauvin is a teaching principal and teaches Television to grade 6,7 and 8 Middle school students. He pairs with other teachers to create videos of students presentations throughout the school year. His blog is available at the following address : http://carnets.opossum.ca/roberto/