Second Project Outline

The focus of my lesson plan is going to be to help the students understand the enormous impact that leaders have had on our country, and to select a leader that they feel has helped to shape the world. To do this the student will use photoshop to create some sort of collage that helps describe who that person was, why they were influential and what they have done to impact us. They can pick Presidents of the United States, famous leaders like Mother Theresa or even a religous figure that has helped change the world. The main grade level that this project is going to be aimed at is 10th grade students. There is a unit on leaders and their influence in regards to politics, war, economics, and basically everyday life. I think this will allow people with all kinds of creativity to have a blast and explore. I really think that the kids will enjoy this because they will be able to be themselves in their project, and it adds a different perspective than a report. The Utah curriculum that I am going to be addressing is Standard 4 Objective 2. As an example of what I am looking for, I am going to have a picture of myself with some influential leaders, and write about why each of these leaders was effective. It will help them understand that these Presidents were significant and helped mold the country. Using Mount Rushmore will allow them to see the importance of these men and why they are carved in there. Putting my picture in there will help them see that anyone can be a powerful leader and can make an impact and that there is room for more faces. I think as far as ethics are concerned, I think it is important that they only use pictures and documents that are allowed to be shared in public presentations. I think it will be very important to keep the students away from pictures that could be very graphic or violent. They will also need to recognize plagarizm and citing other peoples works.

Personal Reflection on Mini Lessons

I thought that this was a great activity because it allowed us to teach each other our different sections and this made it so we each knew our part really well. We started off with Molly talking about Privacy and security. She showed us a mini video calling tracking teresa. It was really interesting to see just how easy it was for the hacker to access all of her information and find out all of her personal items. Molly also talked about viruses and spam mail. The next girl was in charge of cheating. She asked us to locate a paper written on a certain book. It took us less than 30 seconds. It was amazing how easily accessable all of these papers were. She talked about identifying cheating and how to recognize it. As well as ways of combating it, and web pages that are designed to help teachers. We then learned about copyrights and their importance and significance. I was amazed at how easy it is to break these laws. She provided examples of how easily the internet is used to illegally share things like movies and music. This is very evident in our society. The other girl talked about fair use of intellectual property. This was interesting because I hadnt heard very much about it. She was mentioning how alot of teachers have a lot of misconceptions about what is allowed and what isnt. A lot of teachers do things illegally without even knowing it, this is pretty obvious in a lot of settings. I was last and I talked about flexible copyrights, that allow people to use and add onto anothers work with their permission and in certain situations. Its free and very helpful for both the artist and the user. I think that more and more people are taking advantage of this valuable resource.