Week 4

Week 4: Reduce, Reuse, Remix

Lesson Goals

Give yourself and your classmates a hand. Your digital literacy skills have taken a big leap forward with the creation of a functional website.

This week you are using Google Slides to prepare a mini-lesson to teach your new non-magical students about your Nissaba course. Have fun finding and editing the perfect images to increase the effectiveness of your lesson visuals. Then advance those digital literacy skills even further by challenging yourself to add slide animations and/or an audio track in a Google Slides presentation. Make sure to stay on the right side of the muggle law with regards to the use of copyrighted material in an educational setting.

Remember the maxim, reduce, reuse, recycle? It applies in the digital world as well when resources are scarce, such as time and money. Through practice you'll learn how to reduce your workload by identifying images that are easier to work with right from the start, selecting images with maximum reuse in mind, and remixing to create new images by combining images already created before creating something from scratch.

Digital Literacy Skills: digital citizenship, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, content creation, consuming digital resources, effective communication

Digital Resources and Tools:

- Copyright Law: Classroom Use Exemptions
- Image editing with Pixlr (“Photoshop lite”)
- Pixlr Beginners Tutorial - [ Image Editing Online ]
- Google Slides The Complete Beginners Overview
- Using Images for More Effective Slide Presentations

Assignments

Before class meets:

- Learn about Copyright Law: Classroom Use Exemptions with a visit to the linked webpage.
- Familiarize yourself with Pixlr X by visiting the site viewing the Pixlr Beginners Tutorial .
- Watch Google Slides The Complete Beginners Overview.
- View the google slides presentation Using Images for More Effective Slide Presentations.

Assignments:

- Edit a photo using Pixlr (“Photoshop lite”) .
- Make a new image from one or two posted by classmates (Pixlr X - Tutorial - Photo editing made easy).
- Familiarize yourself with copyright law as it applies to classroom use.
- Watch the tutorial Google Slides The Complete Beginners Overview.
- Create a mini-lesson with Google Slides that you will use to teach your new non-magical students about your Nissaba course.
  - Choose a theme
  - Use at least 4 different slide formats
  - Insert an image you've located from each of the sources below.
    - An image you've edited
    - Your computer
    - Google Slides built in search functionality
    - Royalty-Free Pixabay
  - Format the slides using the explore feature.
  - Add notes in notes section.
  - Insert a video.
- Insert the presentation into a blog post.
- Comment on at least 2 other blog posts.

Challenge Assignments: Choose at least one to complete.

- Watch additional Pixlr X Tutorials .
- Add a slide animation.
- Link to another slide.
- Insert an audio file into a slide.

Reflection

In a new blog post reflect on what you learned this week.

- What did you learn?
- How would you use these digital tools in your classroom?
- How would you improve similar projects in the future?
- What do you still need help with?
- Narrate your process of creating the images and the slide presentation. Think of it as a tutorial for your classmates.
- Insert the images you created.
- Insert the lesson slide show.