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=Tech Tuesday Final Product - Alicia Whitley=

Course: Honors English I
Lesson: "Quidgie!"

This lesson intended to teach students about propaganda techniques used in speeches and other forms of persuasive writing. At this point in the lesson, the students have already researched and reviewed common advertising strategies. They have looked up the definitions, they have looked for examples of print and non-print advertising that fits those strategies, and for this lesson, they had to apply that knowledge to create commercials for a fictitious product, Quidgie, using the persuasive and argumentative strategies they've studied. They uploaded their commercials to the class wikispace (see link above for artifacts), and then reflected on and reviewed commercials created by their classmates. Students used the discussion board to complete this part of the assignment.

Though the lesson was not necessarily "new" - students had been recording their commercials and/or performing them for classmates in the past - however, using the wikispace to share and comment on the commercials is. In general, it was a pretty good experience, made better by the ability to use the technology effectively for classwork.

Objectives: NC SCOS for English I: 2.01, 2.02, 2.04, 3.01, 4.01, 4.02, 6.01, 6.02; NC SCOS Technology Skills: 1.01, 2.02, 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04

Technology Tools: Students used laptops, flipcams, iMovie, Garage Band, a wiki, and Quicktime to complete the project. They also used word processing programs to create and edit scripts, web based email and text messanging to communicate with me and each other.