EDU 5170 Educational Technology I Lesson Plan Integrating Technology & Pedagogy French Days and Months: Hillary

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Standards: 1. NYS Standard: Standard 1: Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication 2. Technology Standards Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments A) Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. Standard 3: Model Digital Age Work and Leaning. C) Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats (through EdModo). Objectives: 1. Students will be able to identify the months and days of the week in French (through practice using an online game and through making a French calendar). 2. Students will be able to edit an Excel document in order to create a French Calendar. Introducing the Learning Activity: For introducing the lesson I will explicitly present the objectives to the students. I will announce that they will be learning the months and days of the week in French. Here I will have students logon to their EdModo where objectives and the assignment are listed. For motivating the classroom I will show them an example of the finished product: a well designed calendar using the same template in French. Here, I will motivate students by being charismatic emphasizing that students will be able to do this by the end of the 20 minutes. After showing the example of the calendar they are creating, I will show them the game they are going to play and how to get there. Many students will be more motivated to learn vocabulary through practice in the form of a game.

Provide Information: As discussed previously, I will write on the board or have a slide presenting the objectives. I will show the students the model calendar in the paper form initially. Next, I will have students access their EdModo accounts where an assignment will be waiting. This will include a hyperlink to the game that will be used to practice vocabulary. Game hyperlink: (http://www.digitaldialects.com/French/Daysmonths.htm). Next, I will go through the days of the week with the whole class using a repetition exercise where I say the words in French and they repeat them to me in French, getting the students involved with pronunciation. After that is complete, I will call on students individually asking them what word in French corresponds to the English word I have said. (Example: Katie, in what month were you born? David, what day of the week is it today? etc.) After I have asked several of these questions, I will allow students to start the game. When it seems that the class has finished the exercise I will have them open the Excel document template I that is posted in the EdModo assignment. I will model this by opening it from my own EdModo account, which will be projected on the screen. (Template can be found at http://office.microsoft.com/enus/templates/results.aspx?qu=Calendars&av=zxl&queryid=186b15d2%2De347%2D4bce%2Daac 4%2D115582970713&AxInstalled=1&c=0#ai:TC102930059) Once each student has this up, I will model how to do January 2013 by relabeling the month in French and each of the days of the week in French after selecting the October tab on the bottom of the screen in the Excel document. Make the point that the week is starting on Monday rather than Sunday. This is common in France and other French-speaking countries. I will then allow them to practice what was learned by creating the rest of the calendar. After students are all done relabeling their calendars, I will show them that they can change the font, colors or themes by selecting Page Layout at the top of the Excel toolbar on my own computer that is projecting for the whole class to see. After they have finished this I will have them upload it to EdModo and complete a quick nongraded quiz asking about the effectiveness of the lesson. Provide Practice: The objective related to identifying and using vocabulary associated with months and days of the weeks in French. I have allowed students to practice this with the repeat after me exercise. The identifying of these vocabulary words is reinforced through the game the students play on the computers. The students then use the vocabulary they learn by creating the calendar in Excel. This exact task of creating a calendar will be practiced in class after the teacher models how to manipulate the template. The exact tasks stated in the objectives will be practiced individually, rather than in group format. Provide Knowledge of Results:

During the repeating exercise, I will correct students if they pronounce the vocabulary incorrectly. When students are working on the game, I will circulate through the classroom and provide feedback when I see students making mistakes or comment on positive progress. I will do the same while students are working on the calendars in Excel. As for written feedback I will be officially reviewing the calendars they have made. I will check for proper vocabulary meaning and spelling (including accents) and the effectiveness of their manipulation of the template: see Method of Assessment Review the Activity: I have included a quiz on EdModo that asks students goals asking them if they feel more comfortable working with Excel templates, if they feel they know the words I have taught and elements they liked or would change about the lesson. This is not graded, just used for improvement of the lesson and to tell if I have met my objectives. Method of Assessment: I have composed a rubric that highlights whether students have used vocabulary correctly, if students have spelled vocabulary correctly (including accents) and whether students have succeeded at making the calendar. (Are all months complete? Are all days inserted correctly? Did the student modify the style or colors?)

Rubric and Scoring Guide for Calendar in French

Vocabulary

Exceeds Expectations (5) All Vocabulary is Correct All Spelling is Correct (Including Accents) All Vocabulary was Correctly Relabeled and Calendar Style was Changed from Original Template

Spelling

Excel Usage

Meets Expectations (4) One or Two Vocabulary Words are Incorrect One or Two Spelling Mistakes (and/or Missing Accents) All Vocabulary was Correctly Relabeled (Students Did Not Forget to Relabel or Relabeled in the Correct Cell)

Meets Some Expectations (3) Three to Four Vocabulary Words are Incorrect Three to Four Spelling Mistakes (and/or Missing Accents) Students Forgot to Relabel One or Two Words but Still Relabeled the Rest in the Correct Cell.

Does Not Meet Expectations (2) Five or More Vocabulary Words are Incorrect Five or more Spelling Mistakes (and/or Missing Accents) Students Forgot to Relabel Three or More Words and/or Relabeled in the Incorrect Cell.

Each box from the Exceeds Expectations column is worth 5 points. Each box from Meets Expectations is worth 4 points. Each box from Meets Some Expectations is worth 3 points and boxes from Does Not Meet Expectations are worth 2 points each.

15 Points A

14 Points A-

13 Points B+

12 Points B

11 Points B-

10 Points C+

9 Points C

8 Points C-

7 Points D

6 Points F