Tony+Brown+Teaches+the+Importance+of+Voice+in+Monologues


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 * What do you want the students to know at the end of the project?** How to incorporate voice in their monologues


 * What do the students need to know before they start on the story?**What a monologue is


 * How will you introduce the story?** I will begin by teaching the importance of voice in monologues, and then I will show one good example about a student in my class.


 * What kind of technology tool(s) did you use?**I plan to use 3-4 30 second Zimmerman Twin shows


 * How will you assess the the students' understanding of what you have taught using your story? I will assess them based on how they incorporate voice in the monologues that they are creating.

How does your story reflect Mayer's Principles? My story/movie reflects all aspects of Mayer's Principles. I was able to use my "new glasses" as I created each of my stories/movies.

Multiple Representation Principle: It is better to present an explanation in words and pictures than solely in words. I will add animation with the words so that the audience can see the expressions, gestures, and words that are spoken in the monologue and lesson.

Contiguity Principle: When giving a multimedia explanation, present corresponding words and pictures contiguously rather than separately. All the words that are spoken or thought are placed very closely to the animation character to elimate any confusion.

Coherence Principle: When giving a multimedia explanation, use few rather than many extraneous words and pictures. When I sat down and wrote my monologue and my lesson it was about 2-3 pages in length. Because of the 30 second time frame for each of the three movies I was forced to summarize and elimate unnecessary words or phrases from the movies.

Modality Principle and Redundancy Principle: Students learn better from animation and narration than from animation and on screen text. Even though adding sound is difficult with the Zimmerman Twins movies, I still added many different poses, emotions, and effects that added to the narration. So even though I used words for my narration, I added narration effects and did not have any words included during those frames so that I would not confuse my audience and they could focus on the animation solely.

Individual Differences Design effects are stronger for low knowledge learners than high knowledge learners and high spatial learners than low spatial learners. I thought using the animation movies would definitely help the high spatial learners because it literally becomes a story when you make a cartoon. The low knowledge learners should be able to learn from the lesson and monologue because it is in short bursts, and right to the point.

Embed/link your story here: [] Part I- Michael's Monologue

[] Part III- Michael's Monologue

[] Part II- Michael's Monologue**