Multimodal Learning Adventure - Sample NewsCast

The following CSOs would be addressed with this portion of the Multimodal Learning Adventure:

RLA.O.8.2.8 
conduct research by gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing data from a variety of sources:

Internet
databases for periodicals/newspapers
interviews
reference books
card catalogue
miscellaneous resource materials

• Students will have to research valid weather forecasts from reliable sources.

RLA.O.8.3.1 
model effective oral communication skills (e.g., tone, volume, rate, audience, etiquette, standard English) through the presentation of
compositions
reports
scripts with documented sources, using multiple computer-generated graphic aids.

• One student will be selected to orally report this broadcast.  There could be "NewsCaster" auditions so everyone gets a chance to at least practice reporting.

RLA.O.8.3.7
plan, create, organize, and present an age-appropriate media product that demonstrates format, purpose, and audience.

• This obviously contains all of these elements.  Students have to stick to the purpose: appropriately present local weather.  They have to understand their audience (student body).  

LEARNING MULTIMODAL LITERACY

This was created with PhotoStory.  Students would be collaborating, using new technologies, and creating an authentic project.  Students would need to learn how to format the videos, work the cameras (for other video segments), edit the clips, broadcast the news across the school, have effective sound, report efficiently, research ethically, etc.  Students would develop new and authentic literacies.