Lesson 4 of 4: 1. One ongoing progress check of stack. 2. Completed stack criteria: The stack is complete, neat, and contains all the requirements listed in the Student Guide. 3. Presentation criteria: Presentation is rehearsed and not thrown together; there is evidence of organization. Clip art, sounds, and how pictures and sound are related to the project is explained. Presentation is taken seriously, is entertaining and to the point; is not drawn out or boring. Presenters speak clearly and can be heard, presenters make eye contact with audience, are polite to the audience.

Lesson 4: There are 3 activities for this lesson. Activity #1: Teacher demonstrates the multimedia authoring tool, HyperStudio, by using an instructional stack, "How to Create a Great Presentation Stack." Teacher demonstrates the basic tools of the program: make a new stack, add a text object, change text styles, add background color, find and insert graphics, make navigation buttons, add sound. Teacher demonstrates how to scan photographs, take snapshots with a digital camera, and copy images to the hard drive of a computer. Students ask questions about operations. Activity #2: Teacher and students review the contents of the stack they will create. An electronic copy the instructional stack is placed on all computers for student reference, and each student receives a hard copy of "Student Guide B." Students put together their stacks. Teacher circulates and assists students as needed. Teacher trains one student in a single operation and announces that student as an "expert" who must teach other students (networking). Student Guide B: A. Creating the Basics for your stack: 1. A title card with the name of the stack and your full names. You can make one or use a ready-made card. 2. Your pictures. You can put them on your title card or make a new card. You must have your first and last names below or above your picture. 3. A menu or table of contents. You do not need to write down every card you have in your stack. Your menu should contain these four headings: What We Know, What We Discovered, What We Learned, and Works Cited. There should be buttons alongside each section or invisible buttons over each section. You can decorate your stack any way you want—use a border, different colors, add icons, etc., but there should be only four sections, each leading to the cards pertaining to that section. You can also use a Ready Made card for your menu/table of contents. B. What you need in Part 1, What I Know... In this section, include everything that you wrote about BEFORE you made any searches. This includes your first essay made from your charts, and what you learned from your interview with your relative. Put "what I assume" and "what I imagine" in this section, as one, single set of cards. Do not include facts that you got while doing your search. C. What you need in Part II, What I Discovered... In this section you will include everything that you found on the Internet or encyclopedia. You will add a short, written explanation for each item that you include. Here is a list of what to include: - Map of your country of origin, flag of your country; - Pictures of art, architecture (famous buildings), people, dance, customs, etc. (you can even import QuickTime movies into your stack); - Information/pictures of sports in your country. - Pictures of the landscape and different areas of your country. - Information about the geography, industry, population, and any other interesting facts. - Information about legends, myths, or famous stories about your country. - Scientific information about your country, either in the present or the past. D. What you need in Part III, What We Learned... In this section you and your partner will copy and paste the three essays you wrote and saved previously: (1) your interview essays from Part I, (2) the essay you did together called, "Essay of Discovery" and (3) the essay you wrote called "Essay of Reflection." E. Works cited card… Type the names and addresses of the places that you visited on the Internet, and place them in alphabetical order. If you don't remember a name, use your bookmarks to get you there and copy down the title of the site. Activity #3: Students rehearse presenting their stack. Pairs use a prepared checklist to be sure everything is included. Students make their presentations. After all presentations are completed, teacher conducts a discussion on the positive and negative aspe

Students use their word processing files to copy and past into their multimedia stacks. Students search the Internet for graphics and text to import into their stacks. Students use LCD projector to make their presentations. Networked computers, word processing and web browser applications, multimedia authoring tool, scanner, digital camera, and LCD projector.

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