School: McGill University Course: Media

Date: August 18, 2017 Cycle/Year: MATL

Duration: 60 minutes Location: Cont. Ed.
Learning By the end of todays presentation, students will have the opportunity to:
Opportunities 1. experiment with group formation, establishing roles, and working
collaboratively using a non-hierarchical approach;
2. co-construct the meaning of an indie folk-rock song using an
online annotation resource;
3. explore examples of completed media texts;
4. work together to navigate and negotiate the challenges of
selecting an appropriate app for producing a mobile media text.
Big Idea / Unit Mobile media for effective collaboration, collaboration for effective mobile
media use.
ELA Speaking: group discussion
Competencies Reading: lyrics to Old Dive
Listening: lyrics and video to Old Dive, taking and applying peer
feedback
Production/writing: Genius annotation; LAUNCH activity development
Prof. Comp. / 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12
Teaching Skills
Student Skills Teamwork, reflection, reading comprehension, collaboration, ICT use.

Materials / Website, Old Dive links, headphones, BYODs.

Resources
Time Plan
2:00-2:05 Hook/Pre-Assessment
Direct students to website presentation page (Michelle)
Padlet-pre-assessment (Michelle)

Introduction
2:05 - 2:08 1. Collaboration (Daphne)
2:08 - 2:11 2. Mobile Media (Matt)
2:11 - 2:13 3. Tying the two together (Paul)
2:13 - 2:15 4. Purpose and Rationale (Paul)

Learning Activity(ies) and/or Tasks (intro: Daphne)
2:15 - 2:20 1. Introduce Mediatext: Hamishs The Old Dive (Daphne)
2:20 - 2:30 2. Annotation Activity w/ Genius (Matt)
Discuss annotation activity (Matt)
2:30 - 2:35 3. Sample Activities for mobile media assignment (intro: Matt)
Song Exploder (Paul)
Musical Mime (Michelle)
 Digital Story (Matt)
Cellphilm (Daphne)
2:35 - 2:50 4. Group Activity (Michelle)
a. Group Formation (load 0:18) - Students get into groups of 4
(different subject areas: diversity = strength!)
b. Determine roles: focus monitor, techie (one with computer),
timekeeper, speaker)
c. Mobile Media Assignment (mindmap only EDEC 612)
2:50 - 3:00 5. Activity Debrief & Questions (All)
a. Step 5 of Mindmapping Activity Assignment
b. Our groups reflections (time permitting)
Post-Lesson
Reflection