Teacher: Mr. Royce
Grade Level: 11th Grade
Subject: English Language Arts
Date of Lesson: 4/14/16
Length of Lesson: 1 Day
Lesson Topic: Getting credible pictures from online to use in a blog
Overall Goal: Students will be able to search for photos from the internet to use in their own personal blog. These photos will be taken from credible sources and cited.
Learner Background: Students will have already established their own personal blogs. These blogs may have a post from outside work, but if not, this will be the first post. The blog will be titled online content management.
Student Learning Objectives:
- Students will be able to determine if an image is credible/ usable for online work.
- Students will learn how to properly cite an image and add a caption
Assessment:
Part One: Formative: Students will be asked if they know the difference between a credible image and an unusable image. Students will then be asked to give an example of each. Students will then be asked if they know about the Creative Commons Website.
Part Two: Summative: At the end of the class period students will have to submit a link to their blog with at least two images they could use online. These images will be cited and a caption will be added describing the picture. The students will be graded on completion of the assignment and will only receive a passing grade if the picture, caption, and citation are present.
Materials/ Resources
- WordPress
- blogspot.com
- Computer Lab
- Creativecommons.org
- Citation maker/ Purdue OWL
The Lesson:
Students will enter the computer lab and take a seat at an individual computer. Students will then be instructed to go to the blogs they have created from the week before. The teacher will give the formative assessment. Then the teacher will instruct the students to open the website creativecommons.org. From here, the teacher will explain that the students are to find an appropriate image from this search browser to include in their blog. The photo can be anything from a hobby or interest to something more personal like home life. Regardless of the image, the student will then have to transplant the image into their blog along with citation information (if applicable). The student will come up with a caption for the image. The student will then be instructed to gather an image from another source than through creativecommons.org. The student can use any cite they want to as long as the image is appropriate. The student will then transplant this image to their blog along with its citation information. The student will come up with a caption for this image too. Once both images are transplanted to the students blog along with citation information and captions, the student will have completed the activity.
Closing:
In closing, the instructor will ask if the students had more trouble finding and citing an image through the creativecommons.org website or through a regular google search. Once feedback is taken, the students will be instructed to submit their blogs through an email to the instructor.
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