Digital Rock Story Telling: 1950’s The Early Rock Stars
Assessment Project Due Date – Thursday 9/30
In pairs you will research one of the following early rock and roll stars of the 1950s and create a digital media presentation (that includes pictures, music and podcasting) informing the class about the influence and important of these rock stars to rock history.
Below are the tasks you will need to complete in order to successfully create a digital presentation using Photo Story 3
Day 1 & 2 (In the computer Lab)
- Research information about your topic.
Find out:
Who is he?
Where is he from?
What were his hits songs?
What made him a rock and roll celebrity?
What else is important to know about him?
What happened to him after the 1950s?
Record all this information in your Rock Journal. Be sure to record where you find this information. Any information that you take from the internet must be properly on a works cited slide on your presentation.If you find any information on a website that you cut and paste that is considered PLAGARISM.
- Select photographs that offer a visual about your topic(choose 10-15 different pictures that offer a visual representation).
- Save these pictures from the internet in the “HaikenRock Write” folder on the student drive. *Make sure you use the full-size image for the best quality photo. Photos must be saved as a .jpg in order to upload on PhotoStory.
Day 3 (In the computer lab)
Using your research notes, write a script for your presentation using the storyboard worksheet distributed by your teacher. This storyboard worksheet will help you to organize your pictures and to draft what you want to say on the digital rock history project.
REMEMBER, this is not a power point presentation so there will be no words on the slides – only the title slide should have the name of your artist.
If you would like to make a collage of pictures for one or all of your slides, go to power point and design a collage on one power point slide. You should then save your power point slide when you are totally finished as a .jpg on the student drive (see your teacher to help you with this).
Days 4-7 will be in the classroom with the laptops to help you put all the information you have collected into the digital stories.
Digital Rock Story Telling: 1950’s The Early Rock Stars
Rubric for Digital Rock History Assessment Project
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Group Work:
Distribution of Work
/One member does all the work for the project, while other does nothing but the others did a little bit at the end, trying to catch up
/One member did much more than the others because they were distracted and not focused
/Each group member had a mostly equal amount of work but one member may have needed more support
/Each group member assumes an equal amount of the work load
Use of Class Time
/Class time was not used wisely and the student put in no effort in creating project.
/Class time was not always used wisely, but student showed some effort in creating project.
/Used class time wisely. Student could have put in more effort in to executing design of project.
/Class time used wisely.Obvious that time and effort went into the planning and designing project.
Quality of Project:
Quality of InformationAbout Early Rock and Roll Star
/Includes some information and a few facts.Multiple errors throughout presentation.
/Includes information but not enough to understand the topic.
/Includes key information. Information presented is accurate.
/Covers topic completely and in-depth. Complete and accurate information.
Works Cited
/Works cited only lists Wikipedia or Google and/or missing citations for photos or music.
/Works cited is general and does not offer information to check validity of sources.
/Works cited lists all sources used for project. Missing some citation information.
/Works cited lists variety of sources utilized for music, photos, and information.
Quality of Presentation
/ Graphics ineffective in communicating topic. Too much and or too many distractions. / Some good graphics and decent text. Presentation does not flow. Leaves more questions than answers. / Effective presentation with graphics, music, & text coordinated in a way to understand the topic. / Polished presentation. Sharp graphics, music and text coordinated well to thoroughly convey topic.Presentation
/ Difficulty communicating ideas due to lack of preparation and brevity of speech. /Communicates ideas for the most part, some participants unclear in presentation.
/ Communicates ideas with proper voice projection, and some enthusiasm. / Communicates ideas with enthusiasm, proper voice projection, and clear delivery.Comments:
Total Points: ______(24 Maximum)
Digital Rock Story Telling: 1950’s The Early Rock Stars
Assessment Project Due Date – Thursday 9/30
Putting it all together on PhotoStory 3. . .
- Open photo story 3 on the lab top computer.
- Select “Begin a New Story” Click Next.
- Import the pictures you want to include in your digital presentation.
- Arrange photos in the appropriate order for your digital presentation.
- SAVE EARLY and SAVE OFTEN!!!!
Save the project on the student drive in the “Haiken Rock Write” folder.
- You can add titles and add effects to your imagery.
Choose the effects and add any necessary titles to your pictures. In addition select the font, size and colors of the headings on your pictures.
- Record your script (Narrate your pictures).
- Select the image you wish to record your voice over on.
- Click the “Play” button to begin recording. Begin speaking to record your voice-over.
- Click the “Stop” button to stop recording your voice-over.
- Preview the slide and the recorded voice over.
- Customize the motion of your slides/photos.
- Click on the image in the timeline you wish to work with.
- Click on the Customize motion button directly below the picture. The images in the Start position and the End position will have handles appear.
- Use the handles to position the images for the desired effect.
- See Dr. Haiken to help you save your digital presentation as a .wmp file in Final Projects Folder.