Friday, February 13, 2009

modulk 05

Module Number 05 Assignment 5.1 Version 5.0

Group Members

01. M.H.Dinesh Kumara
02. P.G. Banjul Karunarathna
03. W.N.P. Weerakkody
04. Y.H.N.N. Banduprema

Introduction

With the growing demand of implementing the new technological methods on education, Power Point takes place a presentation application that displays a series of designed slides to present a story, subject matters, advertisements or programmers in an attractive and effective manner. A presentation can be made more expressive with the usage of audio, video, pictures, texts, animations, drawings and buttons. We can replace Power point Presentations to the news papers, assembly, exhibitions, advertisements, notices and posters.
It is vastly motivated the students with the presentation made out by audios, videos, pictures, texts, animations, drawing and buttons in the learning teaching process. Students can display dynamic and attractive screen to audience using colour, texts types, speech, through the bubbles and templates using the suitable time durations. The students get more enthusiastic when they can add links to music and extracts from other resources such as television, Encarta, graphics internet and images downloading by the internet.
Then, with the intention of implementing the PowerPoint into learning teaching scenario, this task is focused grade 8, 9 and 10 students has selected as the benefactors. Here the Grade 8 students are expected to produce a linear type of presentation while the grade 9 and 10 students are expected to produce a branched type presentation where groups work under sub-themes. The ICT aspects involved in the task as the knowledge levels of students and the subject matters are gradually improved from lower grade to upper grades. (The ICT aspects are given below) as the preparation for the task, at the beginning of each project the students are given an opportunity to experiment on power point tools, through peer learning and with the help of the teacher.
In Grade 8 students have to search the places of paintings, sculptures, and wood carving on kandian era by peering the internet and other tools and present them in ms power point tool. The students of grade 9 have to search the numbers, the medium of colour that paintings were painted and the kind of events on, paintings, sculptures, and wood carving of those places and present them using the presentation tools. Grade 10 students have to find out the information (the author, historical and cultural importance of the events, the special features of the paintings and the differences with the paintings of other eras. etc…) on the artistic events those mentioned above and have to do the presentation using the presentation models.


Educational aspects
Since these projects are done as presentations, the students are highly motivated and they engage in the learning teaching process very creatively.
The students in grade 8, 9 and 10 do their task in parallel to the lessons on art subject in school learning teaching scenario. Not only they motivated to implement the knowledge on paintings in kandian era to the school based exams and other competitions in school but also they practiced to attach any social events such as educational trips and also in day to day events.
In these task the students of grade 8, 9, and 10 produce three presentations relevant to one topic. In the task teacher has given guidelines to students to do the task relevant to the grade level respectively from similar one to complex one. There they can get experiences peering on the important historical era in Sri Lanka in reporting paintings, culture and social factors using most appropriate presentation tools.
The whole students who participated to this task work in groups and produce presentations; there they get the feeling of team sprit, companionship and satisfaction. The students of grade 8 and 9 device their project works among groups. Their final presentation will be a branched type presentation connecting all the work done by the groups. Here they experience unity, team work and reaching goals through dedication and hard work. In the group itself, they get the opportunity to experience collaborate learning, as they share duties according to the different types of skills, the group members have.


ICT Skills
Teacher Skills
The teacher should have a good knowledge of the functions and possibilities of presentation tools. Creating a well planned presentation with suitable lay out, design and most effective information is also a required teacher’s skill. The teacher should know the correct usage of colour, font type and font style, buttons and other navigational features, pictures, sound, designs and pictures etc...in presentations. The teacher also should have a clear idea to select suitable layout according to the type of the presentation and the audience of it.
The teacher need to be able to connect the presentations prepared by the groups under sub-themes and produce a branched type presentation with appropriate links.
The teacher should have a firm knowledge in distributing presentations prepared by the students. Here the presentation and all the files and folders linked to the presentation should be saved under one folder so that the links would be active at any computer. The teacher should be able to copy a presentation into CDs.
The teacher should be of a good knowledge on historical events, social and cultural background of subjected areas


Students’ skills
Grade 8

ICT skills

The students need to be familiar with opening folders, adding pictures into a presentation, adding texts pictures into a presentation, downloading pictures from internet, adding new blank slides and selecting a design to their presentation

Subject matter

The students should have the knowledge on historical sites in Sri Lanka, especially on kandian era. If not they are to be acknowledge on them

Grade 9

ICT skills

The students need to be familiar with opening folders, adding text into a presentation, inserting pictures and text into a folder, adding new blank slides.
The students should have an idea of using suitable font type font size, design, layout, header and footer, colour buttons and other navigation features etc.
They should also need to be aware of adding links to other folders and files, animating texts and pictures and producing a branched type presentation with appropriate links. The students also need to be aware of adding pictures into their presentation. The students have to be aware of the age group of the audience of their presentation.

Subject matter

The students should have the knowledge on historical sites in Sri Lanka, especially on kandian era. And also they should have thorough knowledge of the historical places and their paintings (number of paintings, kinds of paintings can be shown on that places and the painted materials etc…)

Grade 10

ICT skills

The students need to be familiar with opening folders, adding text into a presentation, inserting pictures from a folder, adding new blank slides. The students should have an idea of using suitable font type font size, design, layout, header and footer, colour buttons and other navigation features etc. They should also need to be aware of adding links to other folders and files; animating texts and pictures and producing a branched type presentation with appropriate links. They must have a firm understanding on saving and finding their files. The students also need to be aware of adding sound into their presentation.
The students need to be able to down load video clips from the internet or the television or to add their own video clips in a presentation. The students have to be aware of the age group of the audience of their presentation.


Subject matter

The students should have the knowledge on historical sites in Sri Lanka, especially on kandian era. And also they should have thorough knowledge of the historical places and their paintings (number of paintings, kinds of paintings can be shown on that places and the painted materials etc…). As well as they should have a keen knowledge of Sri Lankan cultural, social, economic and historical, political background of the kandian era and also other eras.

Requirements

Hardware and Software: - 05 computers (Installed Microsoft office package with
PowerPoint),
Encarta
Internet facilities to be used download pictures and information.

Grade : - Grade8, Grade 9 and Grade 10
Time Duration : - Grade8:- 220minutes
Grade9:- 380 minutes
Grade10:- 420 minutes
Subject : - art
Pre-preparations :- The teacher should prepare an activity to make the student get basic knowledge needed to be used in the targeted project, through engaging in the activity in an experimental way. For grade 8 students, the teacher should keep the necessary pictures downloaded from the internet or Encarta and installed in a folder.
Approach to the task

As the basic approach teacher should get the students who learn art subject in school teaching curricular and divide them into three groups. Then teacher has to make the involvement to collect the in formation on paintings, wood carvings and sculptures in kandian era. After the finding out the information teacher gets the students in grade 8 to perform their presentation given as an assignment by the teacher as shown in lesson plan.




Lesson Objectives:-

Grade 8

The students are motivated to find out the places where available paintings, wood carvings and sculptures can be seen in the kandian era. The students produce their activity as a power point presentation. The students practice coping pictures from the internet, adding pictures into a slide and preparing a linear type presentation. Then students distribute their presentation by any type of communicative models.

Grade 9
The students are motivated to find out information on paintings, wood carving, and an sculptures d their numbers of events, medium and kind of events relevant to the kandian era by internet, news papers, magazines, and articles that relate to the task. The students produce their activity as a branched type power point presentation with animations. The groups produce a branched type presentation in the groups using appropriate links. Then students distribute their presentation by any type of communicative models.

Grade10

The students are motivated to find out information on paintings, wood carving, and sculptures and the author, historical and cultural importance of the events, the special features of the paintings and the differences with the paintings of other eras relevant to the kandian era by internet, news papers, magazines, and articles that relate to the task. The students produce their activity as a branched typed power point presentation with animations. The groups produce a branched type presentation in the groups using appropriate links.Then students distribute their presentation by any type of communicative models.


Lesson plan

particulars
Steps
Grade8
Grade 9
Grade10





Description









Step 1


The teacher tells the students that the students are going to find the pictures relate to the kandian era’s paintings, wood carvings and sculptures and present them as PowerPoint presentation.
Then teacher divide the class into three groups providing them the certain areas to find out; paintings, wood carvings and sculptures. When grouping the students’ teacher should be consider the mixed abilities of ICT skills, English language skills and aesthetic sense should be in each group.

The teacher shows a structure diagram to the students to get an idea of their presentation. (This is given in Attachment 1 at the end of this lesson plan.)
An example of a presentation is given to the students to familiarize the Microsoft power point Tools. (Attachment 2)
(20minutes)
The teacher tells the students that the students are going to find the places which are given by the grade 8 students after completing their task and to find some information such as the numbers of events; medium and kind of events relate to the kandian era’s paintings, wood carvings and sculptures and present them as PowerPoint presentation.

And that the students should produce their activity as a branched type power point presentation.
Then teacher divide the class into three groups providing them the certain areas to find out; paintings, wood carvings and sculptures. When grouping the students’ teacher should be consider the mixed abilities of ICT skills, English language skills and aesthetic sense should be in each group.
The teacher shows a structure diagram to the students to get an idea of their presentation. (This is given in Attachment 1 at the end of this lesson plan.)
An example of a presentation is given to the students to familiarize the Microsoft power point Tools. (Attachment 2)
(30minutes )
the teacher tells the students that the students are going to find the places which are given by the grade 9 students after completing their task and to find some more information such as the author, historical and cultural importance of the events, the special features of the paintings and the differences with the paintings of other eras relate to the kandian era’s paintings, wood carvings and sculptures and present them as PowerPoint presentation.
And also that the students should produce their activity as a branched type power point presentation.

Then teacher divide the class into three groups providing them the certain areas to find out; paintings, wood carvings and sculptures. When grouping the students’ teacher should be consider the mixed abilities of ICT skills, English language skills and aesthetic sense should be in each group.
. The teacher shows a structure diagram to the students to get an idea of their presentation. (This is given in Attachment 1 at the end of this lesson plan.)
An example of a presentation is given to the students to familiarize the Microsoft power point Tools. (Attachment 2)
(40minutes )







Collecting
Information










Step 2

The students should have to find the pictures to relevant the given task within given time.
(40 minutes)
The students should have to find the information to relevant the given task within given time.
Then students can collect the information on paintings, wood carving, and sculptures about their numbers of events, medium and kind of events relevant to the kandian era by internet, news papers, magazines, and articles that relate to the task.

(80 minutes )
The students should have to find the information to relevant the given task within given time.
Then students can collect the more information on paintings, wood carving, and sculptures about the author, historical and cultural importance of the events, the special features of the paintings and the differences with the paintings of other eras relevant to the kandian era by internet, news papers, magazines, and articles that relate to the task.
They down load video clips from the internet or the television or bring their own video clips in relevance to the situation they have got.
(80 minutes)


Organizing
Information




Step 3

Then students have to gather and organize the pictures what they found in separately on paintings, wood carving and sculptures and divide them into sub- themes.
(20 minutes)
Then students have to gather and organize the information what they found in separately on paintings, wood carving and sculptures and divide them into sub- themes.

(40 minutes)
Then students have to gather and organize the information what they found in separately on paintings, wood carving and sculptures and divide them into sub- themes.
(40 minutes)



Planning the
Presentation







Planning the
Presentation



Step 4

Here the students plan their presentation with the help of the teacher. Here they plan number of slides they are going to prepare, the order of the slides, what types of pictures to be include the slides, etc..
(20 minutes)
Together with the teacher the class as a whole, plan their presentation. Here they plan on the where to insert pictures, the order of the slides, what types of pictures to be include the slides, etc..
They also decide the number of slides they are going to use, to give examples for the structure they have got and for the text they are going to prepare.
The students decide how to prepare the master page and the links they are going to add in the group presentation. And also they should have to concern to save the pictures on separate folder.
(60 minutes)
Together with the teacher the class as a whole, plan their presentation. Here they plan on where to insert pictures and whether to insert sound. They also decide the number of slides they are going to use, the order of the slides, what types of pictures to be include the slides, etc...
To give examples for the structure they have got and for the text they are going to prepare. The students decide how to prepare the master page and the links they are going to add in the group presentation. And also they should have to concern to save the pictures on separate folder (video and audio).
(60 minutes)







Digitization
Of material











Step 5

Before the students producing their presentation, they should have to digitalize the materials.



(20 minutes)

Before the students producing their presentation, they should have to digitalize the materials. Then they have to concern on the text type of presentation and image type of presentation which they are going to be performed. Then students have to prepare these presentations to relevant with master page and each other slides.

(40 minutes)

Before the students producing their presentation, they should have to digitalize the materials. Then they have to concern on the text type of presentation and image type of presentation which they are going to be performed. Then students have to prepare these presentations to relevant with master page and each other slides.
The students edit the pictures they have collected in a way to be used in their presentation and save them in a separate folder.
The students edit the videos and sounds they have collected and save in a separate folder.

(40 minutes )
Layout
Consideration




Step 6


The presentation must be presented in linear type of presentation and here they should greatly consider on background color of the slides, font color and font size.
(20 minutes )

Here they should greatly consider on background color of the slides, font color and font size, the type size, the position of the text and illustrations and how is sound to be used in the presentation. The students do necessary improvements considering the audience and aesthetics aspects. The students insert buttons and add necessary links to the slides and prepare a branched type presentation in the group.
(30 minutes)

Here they should greatly consider on background color of the slides, font color and font size, the type size, the position of the text and illustrations and how is sound to be used in the presentation. The students do necessary improvements considering the audience and aesthetics aspects. The students insert buttons and add necessary links to the slides and prepare a branched type presentation in the group.

(30 minutes)







Production of the presentation














Step 7

The students should practice the power point tools in engaging in the activity prepared by the teacher. Then the groups prepare a Home page.
As the students finish producing their presentations, the teacher adds an action button each to the slides to go to the next slide and does the final production of the presentation.

( 50 minutes)
The students should practice the power point tools in engaging in the activity prepared by the teacher.
Then the group members share the work among the members according to their abilities.
In the next set of slides they prepare the text with necessary pictures and animate pictures and text where necessary.
Then with the help of the teacher the groups get the three presentations into one folder. Then they design a home page and prepare a branched type presentation linking all the three presentations under the heading of paintings, wood carvings and sculptures.
(80 minutes)
The students should practice the power point tools in engaging in the activity prepared by the teacher.
Then the group members share the work among the members according to their abilities.
The groups prepare a Home page. They insert pictures from various files and folders in relevance to the examples they prepare in the first set of slides. They type some information on each slide and animate pictures and text.
The students add sound from the audio clips saved by them in a folder to the texts where necessary.
In the next set of slides they prepare the text with necessary pictures and animate pictures and text where necessary. Then the groups get the three presentations into one folder. Then they design a home page and prepare a branched type presentation linking all the three presentations under the heading of paintings, wood carving and sculptures.

(80 minutes)



Testing and distribution





Step 8

Distribute the presentations which have prepared by the student separately after copying them into CD to further reference to other students. The teacher checks whether the digitization is correct and activate.
(20 minutes )
Distribute the presentations which have prepared by the student separately after copying them into CD to further reference to other students. The teacher checks whether the digitization is correct and whether the links are activated.
(30 minutes )
Distribute the presentations which have prepared by the student separately after copying them into CD to further reference to other students. The teacher checks whether the digitization is correct and whether the links are activated.
(40 minutes)













Attachment 01




Grade 10

Diagram for linking the slides (A sample)

Arts of kandia n era
Paintings
Sculptures
Wood carvings
Kandy

Gadaladeniya

kanlathilakaya

Kandy

Gadaladeniya

kanlathilakaya

Kandy

Gadaladeniya

Ambekke

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