esf cpd day 2010

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Using the Genre of Commoncraft in the Classroom

Damien Barry

damien.barry@discovery.edu.hk

Andy Nightingale

andy.nightingale@discovery.edu.hk

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What is commoncraft?

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Where does it fit in?

• Unit of Inquiry

• Language

• Explanation Texts

• Extension group/whole class activity

• Summative assessment

• Outlining a process and boiling it down to its main components/sequencing

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Year Four

• Used as summative assessment in Field to Table Unit of Inquiry

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Tuning In Activity

• Students watched two examples from

• http://www.commoncraft.com/

• Lightbulbs

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Tuning In Activity

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Developing Criteria

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Planning Phase/Pre-Production

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Year Four Example

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Where does it fit in?

• Any unit of work

• Stand alone subject or interdisciplinary

• MYP summative assessment task

• Whole-class task

• Groups chosen by teacher to ensure spread of abilities

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Year Seven

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Year Seven Example

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Imovie

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Garageband

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Process

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Workshop Task

• Groups of three

• One camera, one tripod, one A3 sheet

• Folder of basic props

• One to two minute presentation

• Digital Directors

• And your topic is …

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Working for ESF –A Survival Toolkit

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Acknowledging Sources

• Importance of acknowledging techniques and where we are getting them from

• Plagiarism

• commoncraft article