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Blogs

Video (iMovie)

American Oil Consumption (iMovie)

Americas Self Image (iMovie)

Animal Shelters (iMovie)

Anti-Semitism in Cortland (iMovie)

Free Tibet (iMovie)

Liberation in the Classroom (iMovie)

Child Abuse (iMovie)

One Shot to Save a Life (iMovie)

Websites (iWeb)

Cancer Awareness (iweb)

Pat's Town website (iweb)

Technology and ELA Learning

Enhanced Podcasts (Garageband)

Wikis

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This imovie incorporates knowledge and facts; however, it is somewhat boring, and it is not a call to action. It invokes emotion, but it seems a little bit too fact based and impersonal.

                        -    “Only recently, and only in particular countries and cultures, has the abuse of children come to be seen as a major social problem and a main cause of many people's suffering and personal problems”  (Hopper).

-         “They found that having a history of child abuse — which was the case for almost 30 percent of the people in this study — led to more than twice the number of PTSD symptoms in adults who had later undergone other traumas, compared to traumatized adults who weren't abused in childhood”(Binder et. al.)

-         “Being abused and/or neglected as a child are not the only painful and potentially damaging experiences that human beings may suffer in childhood. Whether or not, and to what extent child abuse and neglect (or other painful experiences) have negative effects depends on a variety of factors - related to the abuse itself, but also to relationships, in which the abuse and the child's responses occur. Child abuse, in itself, does not "doom" people to lives of horrible suffering” (Hopper).

-         “Traumatic events in childhood — such as physical or sexual abuse — increase the risk of borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders” (Mayo Clinic Staff).

            Contribution/Complexity

-         Our contribution will be different because participants will become more emotionally intimate with the subject through the use of the i-movie, as well as engage in meaningful dialogue through the corresponding blog. It will also be different than the abovie imovie because it will be a call to action that will allow people to see what they can do if the issue of child abuse ever arises for them. Our imovie will end in a positive way, and will encourage others to be active members in society.

-         Participants will hopefully become more able to identify signs of child abuse, and draw from what is presented if they ever face a siuation involving child abuse. Viewers will be sensitive to those who fall victim to child abuse.

-         Participants will become more emotionally aware of the presence of child abuse.

-         Participants will hopefully want to fight against child abuse, and definitely never abuse their own children.

Publication and Publicity- We will publicize our imovie by posting it on youtube and asking for a discussion, and also posting a link to it on a group on facebook for college students to view.

Works Cited
Binder EB, Bradley RG, Wei L, Epstein MP, Deveau TC, Mercer KB, Tang Y, Gillespie          CF, Heim CM, Nemeroff CB, Schwartz AC, Cubells JF, Ressler KJ. Association            of FKBP5 Polymorphisms and Childhood Abuse With Risk of Posttraumatic            Stress Disorder Symptoms in Adults. Journal of the American Medical           Association, 299 (11): 1291-1305. March 19, 2008. March 31, 2008. http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2008/nimh-18.htm

Hopper, Jim. “Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources.” March 13, 2007. March       31, 2007. http://www.jimhopper.com/abstats/#s-intro

Mayo Clinic Staff. “Child abuse: A cause of borderline personality disorder?” June 6,    2007. March 31, 2008. http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/borderline-personality-            disorder/AN01093/METHOD=print

Production Schedule

Working with others on your project team (most likely a subset of the "medium group," if there are several different projects being created in this medium"), you will create a Production Schedule for your project.

Steps:

Find at least one internet source that discusses production in the medium (e.g., "blog production," or "web production"). Post the link on your wiki page and label it accordingly. http://youtube.com/watch?v=viMWlKkTAPk
Using the information from this source, along with the criteria from your rubric, create a list (on your wiki page) of everything you will have to do in order to achieve an "A" on the project.

Gather appropriate images.

Watch other examples of imovies

Plan format/ Interviews?/ Research

Use Garage Band to create effective soundtrack

Include Text

Any other necessary revisions

Agree upon what a midterm "draft" of the project will be (ie., what the project will look like when it is halfway finished) and get my approval on this. If you are working with any form of digital storytelling (video production or podcasting), plan to be finished with shooting and/or recording by this date (i.e., by midterm, you should have all the raw footage of your piece completed and have only editing and post-production left to do).

Have all images, sounds, and texts. Plan to compile them together after meeting with Dr. Sarver.

Plan to have that "draft" completed by the beginning of class on April 21. This week you will also plan to meet with the technology trainer to follow up on the project, anticipate next steps, and possibly revise your plans.
Assign tasks to particular people in the group in order to meet that April 21 deadline. Make sure that the workload is evenly distributed amongst all group members.

Krysi and Autumn will collaborate together as a team and maintain communication vie e-mail, IM, meetings (Library 2X a week), etc. in order to meet the April 21st deadline. Workload will be evenly distributed between both group members.

Using your list from #2, figure out what tasks remain after April 21 to complete the project at the "A" level by May 5. Assign tasks to individuals, using the same principles you used for #5. (If you are doing a video or a podcast, you will publish your piece to the appropriate web community ON MAY 5 -- or as shortly thereafter as possible --, but ALL production will be complete by this date.

Put the iMovie components together.

Edit

Outside feedback from friends

Meet with Tera Doty-Blance

Production Polishing

Revise your Project Proposal accordingly and plan to submit a final version of it on the wiki, along with your group's Production Schedule.

Production Schedule

Copy and paste a copy of this schedule onto your project-group's wiki page; then create your group's own production schedule by adding your project tasks and the person(s) responsible for completing them in the appropriate spaces:

M March 31 (PREPRODUCTION)

To do: Schedule group a) training and b) a "midterm"/follow-up meeting with Tera Doty-Blance (type dates of mee

tings below).

Person responsible: Autumn and Krysi: Friday – April 11th- 9:30 – 11:00 – iMovie

M April 7 (PREPRODUCTION/PRODUCTION)

Deadline: Project Proposal, Rubric, Production Schedule, and pre-filled Peer Evaluation forms

M April 14 (PRODUCTION)

Deadline: Have met with trainer

M April 21 (PRODUCTION/POSTPRODUCTION)

Deadline: Draft of Project due

M April 28 (POSTPRODUCTION)

M May 5 (PUBLISH)

Deadline: Final draft due

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Weekly Peer Reflection

Pre-fill "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms

Once you are finished with the Production Schedule, copy and paste from it in order to pre-fill the weekly "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms and attach the completed, pre-filled form beneath the appropriate date below.

Pre-fill it by following these directions:

Open this form Eval Form
Type your group's name in "Group" blank on the first line
Type "4/7/08" in the "Date of Meeting/Assessment" blank

Type the names of individual group members and the tasks assigned to them to be completed by April 7 on the appropriate blanks on the form (cut and paste from the Production Schedule)
Save this form and attach it in the blank beneath April 7 below, so that individual group members can individually dowload and complete the form before class on April 7
Repeat steps 1-5 for April 14-May 5

Be sure to divide this inputting among group members so that the work is equitably divided amongst group members. DUE: March 31

WEEKLY: Complete the "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms

Each week, each group member will download one copy of that week's form, evaluate each group member's performance (including him or herself) BEFORE class begins, and submit the confidential form to me at the beginning of class. Forms not completed before class will not be accepted, and the indivdiual will receive "0" points for that week's assessment.

If individual tasks have changed since the form was first pre-filled, be sure to note these changes on the wiki no later than Monday at 8am for that day's evaluation.