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It’s My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Unit |
| Estimated Time | Nine 50-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Monroe, Louisiana |
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STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
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PRINTOUTS
- It’s My Life Assignment
- Presentation Music and Image Planner
- It’s My Life Project Rubric
- Sample Multimodal Autobiography
- It’s My Life Self-Assessment
WEBSITES
- PowerPoint in the Classroom
- Demo: Add music to a presentation
- PowerPoint Tutorial - Adding sound
- A Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright
- Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for School Projects
- Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate over Downloading Music
- The Year I Was Born: An Autobiographical Research Project
- Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process
PREPARATION
- Arrange for the use of a computer lab, projector, and CD player.
- Familiarize yourself with PowerPoint. Visit the PowerPoint in the Classroom Website and the PowerPoint tutorials on adding sound and adding music for helpful information and guides. You may also choose to share these Web resources with your students.
- Create a model autobiography presentation for students to view (optional).
- Review fair use and copyright guidelines before having students use copyrighted music and images in their projects.
- Make copies of the Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for School Projects, It’s My Life Assignment, Presentation Music and Image Planner, Sample Multimodal Autobiography, It’s My Life Self-Assessment, and It’s My Life Project Rubric sheets for your students.
- Test the Stapleless Book on your computers to familiarize yourself with the tool and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.