Virtural Tour TPACK Questions

What is the content you’ll be using in your lesson?
Music Fifth Grade
Standard 4
Listening The student will listen to, analyze, and describe music.
Objective 2
Perceive and respond to the messages in music and the use of music elements.

The rest of the tour focuses on Chopin's life and how his exeriences influenced the pieces he wrote.

What is the pedagogy you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content?

Students are able to listen music, view pictures, and research chopin's life all from one program. Activities that students complete at each location also increase enjoyment, as well as understanding of the topic.

What is the technology you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?
The audio and visual aspects of the tour help to engage the students and make learning about Chopin's life a fun activity. Seeing the locations that Chopin lived on a map allow students to further connect their understanding and see the relations and distance between these places. Google Earth allows me to bring all of this information about Chopin into a single place. Furthermore, it does so in a way that helps students see relationships and make connections other programs would not.

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Zelazowa Wola, Poland	View picture of Chopin's birthplace	Image overlay of Chopin's place of birth/ Wikipedia article link.
2. Warsaw, Poland	Go to Wikipedia article and list on worksheet some of the pieces that Chopin composed as a child in Warsaw.	When Chopin was 7 months old his family moved to Warsaw where Chopin wrote his first compositions and attended the Warsaw conservatory.
3. Vienna	Listen to Revolutionary Etude and write a possible interpretation of what the piece means.	While in Vienna Chopin realized the beauty of Poland and wrote this piece in response to a Polish revolution against Russia that was crushed.
4.Paris, France	Using the ruler write down the distance from Warsaw to Paris.	Chopin moved to Paris in 1830, where he achieve fame and taught many affluent piano students. Chopin died in Paris on October 17, 1849.
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	Both image overlays and polygons will be used in my virtual tour.

Digital Story- The Loser

Story Board

TPACK Questions for Storytelling Project

What is the content you’ll be using in your lesson?

The goal is to developing language through viewing media and presenting. Students will share writing with others using illustrations to add meaning (K-6 Language Arts Core Curriculum Standard 1 Objective 2 and Standard 8 Objective 6).

What is the pedagogy you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content?

We will be doing poetry interpretations. Not only are the students required to create a script, but they will also have the opportunity to visually represent a specific poem. This will give them further insight into the meaning and will help develop their language. They will create storyboards to help them successfully plan their projects out step by step.

What is the technology you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?

Students will be using a digital camera and PhotoStory software to create a film of their interpreted poem. They will combine pictures, music, and vocal reading to make this film. This is an amazingly fun project. Using these technologies makes the whole project unique. Their final product will be professional and impressive. The students will have the chance to see just how much they are capable of. This project could not have been done without the help of technology.

TPACK Questions

The content wewere focusing on in our lesson is how the earth's surface can be shaped by erosion and other factors. We were specifically focusing on volcanoes, mountain ranges, and canyons. The pedagoy we used was allowing students to explore canyons, volcanoes, and mountains. This allows students to discover the characteristics of each of these land features rather than just learning these characteristics from lecturing. The technology we used was Google Earth. It was a great fit for the content and pedagogy because it allowed students to understand the content in an engaging way. The information gained from Google Earth is true to the content.