The reason that I chose this lesson plan if because of the vocabulary that is required of the students and for the integration of technology that is so relevant to the filmmaking aspect of the lesson. Not only is the teacher required to use technology and understand what they're doing, but the students also have to understand and use the technology that they're given. Also, the students are required to work together, go out and do something outside of the classroom, and they need to be able to integrate what they’re learning in the classroom to what they’re filming outside of the classroom. Integration of classroom and technology is a huge part of this lesson plan.
There were some evident gaps. It was hard to rally in the lesson plan since it is such a drawn out lesson, taking up more than two weeks of class time, but once I got a handle on it, it was easier to pinpoint what needed to be added where. I noticed that there wasn’t much student involvement in the lesson until they had to film, so I added some more group work, as well as more teacher-student collaborations before the end product was due. The students and teachers need to work pretty closely with one-another on this project so in order for that to happen, they needed to have more connectivity during instead of just at the end.
The curriculum goal is to have a finished film as the end product of this two-week lesson, therefore film equipment, editing software, computers, and projectors, Smartboards, or some other kind of viewing stations were a vital necessity to the end result of this lesson. In order for the students to succeed with this project, technology both as part of their involvement and the teachers involvement was extremely important.
