Sandy+Graziano

**Title:** Perspective is Everything
 * Lesson Format**

**Subject and Grade Level:** Writing 5th/6th Grade

**Goal**: The students will use the friendly letter format to describe three different perspectives in response to a single event. **Objectives**: The students will be able to reflect on an event and consider a variety of perspectives. These perspectives will be expressed using a variety of technical applications such as Blabberize, Voki, Go animate, or comic book/graphic novel applications. **Standards Alignment**: ISTE NET-S 2. Communication and Collaboration b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats. ISTE NET-S 1. Creativity and Innovation b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression


 * STATE GOAL 3: Write to communicate for a variety of purposes. **

C.  Communicate ideas in writing to accomplish a variety of purposes.


 * 3.C.2b ** Produce and format compositions for specified audiences using available technology.

**Initial Engaging Activity** (This lesson would take one 45 minute period): The teacher will play a short youtube clip from the movie Freaky Friday media type="youtube" key="nZ8KJ4MzzOw" height="185" width="336" After viewing the video clip the students would complete a venn diagram comparing and contrasting the mother and daughter characters in the movie clip. Students would be invited to reflect on how things look from different people's perspectives. How would it feel to wake up and see the world through the eyes of a teacher, a parent, or even a pet? The teacher would present a voice thread with multiple pages, each listing a persona (i.e. principal, mom, waitress, millionare, president). The students would be challenged to respond to each persona with a comment explaining how becoming this person would change their lives, via voice thread. -media type="custom" key="16402438"Voice Thread on Perspective Changes After all students have responded using the video, oral, or typed responses. These would be shown on the Smartboard and shared whole group.

**Concept Development** (This lesson would take 3, 45 minute class periods): The teacher will ask the students to reflect on the previous day's exploration of how varying perspectives change opinions and life experiences. The teacher will also review the friendly letter model using the elmo overhead camera to friendly letter a sample. The teacher will ask the students to brainstorm the different nonverbal ways that they currently communicate with their friends, (i.e. text, Facebook, Twitter, phone calls, passing notes).[|Communication Prezi]

The teacher will ask the students to use the [|www.voki.com] to create two personas and write a friendly letter from two different perspectives. Example: Dogmedia type="custom" key="15461710"vs New Babymedia type="custom" key="15461466" The student will create Voki persona and relay the friendly letter conversation between the two personas.

**Reinforcing Activity** (This lesson will take 1, 45 minute period): The teacher will model the blabberize site. Perspective shifts will be reflected upon and students will demonstrate their ability to adopt alternate perspectives by selecting an inanimate object and bring it to life using [|Blabberize Examples]. The teacher will challenge the students to select an item from the classroom to bring to life. Guidelines will require three to four conversation lines.

=__**Commentary: **__=
 * Time consuming.
 * More instructions are needed to clarify for a substitute
 * A lot of direct instruction needed for the different websites
 * Almost impossible for a substitute to come in and teach this lesson
 * Great use of technology
 * Variety of technology is commendable
 * Voki was really creative
 * Works best with 1-1 computing