ALEX Learning Activity Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [DLIT] (5) 23 :

17) Publish organized information in different ways to make it more useful or relevant.

Examples: Infographic, student created website.

Global collaborators will be taken through the steps to create their own Google site to use as an online portfolio.

This Nearpod lesson can be teacher led or student paced. Students will need to have a Google account to log into to use this resource.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [ELA2021] (5) 26 :

26. Analyze how two or more texts address similar topics in diverse media and formats, including graphics, live and/or recorded performances, and written works.

a. Explain how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the overall meaning and tone of a text.

b. Compare and contrast the approaches to theme in several stories within a genre.

c. Locate information quickly within a text and apply information from multiple sources to analysis of the topics.

d. Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

e. Compare the approaches of several authors of articles about the same or similar topics.

[ARTS] MED (5) 1 :

1) Present original ideas and innovations for media arts products, utilizing personal experiences and/or the work of others.

[DLIT] (5) 6 :

R6) Produce, review, and revise authentic artifacts that include multimedia using appropriate digital tools.

[DLIT] (5) 22 :

16) Use advanced features of digital tools and media-rich resources to communicate key ideas and details in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains.

[DLIT] (5) 23 :

17) Publish organized information in different ways to make it more useful or relevant.

Examples: Infographic, student created website.

[DLIT] (5) 26 :

20) Collaborate locally and globally using online digital tools under teacher supervision.

Analyzing a commercial for a high-interest product, students will identify the elements and principles of design used to convey the message and ideal of a company through a digital collaborative space. Students will generate many, varied, and unusual ways to communicate their own message, matching the company's ideals, through a different use of elements and principles of design.

This is the third activity in a series of four to meet Media Arts Standard 5.1:

Using Productive Thinking in Media Arts
Identifying and Choosing a Message in Media Arts
Cracking the Code in Media Arts
Storyboarding in Media Arts

This activity was created as a result of the Arts COS Resource Development Summit.