Multimedia Essay

TDT1 Task 3
Angela Pearson
July 2, 2020

Discussion of Purpose

The graphics and text used in this task will be incorporated into an instructional unit for

a Kindergarten classroom. This language arts unit about “Parts of Speech” includes and details

the identification of verbs and adjectives in simple sentences. During this unit, students will

learn with understanding two parts of speech and why they are important when reading and

writing sentences. It is important for students to understand how verbs and adjectives work

together in order to correctly write descriptive sentences as well as identify parts of speech

within text.

Audience

The audience for this task is a Kindergarten classroom within the Collierville, Tn school

district. The classrooms typical are occupied with no more than twenty students. My previously

class had approximately 17 students, including nine girls and eight boys. The make-up of the

classroom included a variety of ethnic groups and backgrounds. I had eleven Caucasian

students, three students from India, one Asian student, one African American student, and one

mixed race student. One of my students received English as a Second Language Service, two

students received Speech and Language services and three students received gifted

accommodations.

Software Rationale
 For this instructional unit, I used two software programs to create a multimedia

presentation. The first program chosen was Keynote. This program was already downloaded on

my computer because it is provided by my school district as a software program to use in our

classrooms. I chose this program because it was a program that I have previously used in my

classroom with help and training from our technology department. Keynote is a program that

is very familiar to PowerPoint because it allows you to create templates and/or manipulate

slides as well. Due to the fact that most of my students are visual learners, I like that Keynote

gives me the opportunity to share information with graphics to help students see and hear the

information with visual examples. In addition, my classroom is equipped with a promethean

board, so I am easily able to use multimedia creations and display them on a large screen for

my students. Therefore, selecting Keynote to create my storyboard was the best choice for my

classroom.

In addition to Keynote, I also used iMovie as a software program. Like Keynote, it was

also provided by my school district and already download on my computer. Therefore, it was

the best choice to bring my slideshow to life by creating a movie with audio. Although, iMovie

was on my computer, this was the first time I actually used this software program. However, it

was very self-explanatory and not difficult to complete the task at all. I was able to easily make

transitions through slides, adjust time lengths and add audio without a challenge. After using

this program, I do feel I could create more learning tools through iMovie for my students.

Conceptual Framework

In the Kindergarten classroom, we teach them a variety of state standards that include

but are not limited to the parts of speech. The parts of speech are essential to proper grammar.
This concept is very important when teaching kindergarten students how to read and write

sentences correctly. The eight parts of speech are nouns, pronouns, verbs adjectives, adverbs,

prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. However, in the Kindergarten classroom, we are

limited to teach and help our students learn nouns, verbs and adjectives proficiently. For my

presentation, I chose to include “verbs and adjectives”. I chose to display a slide defining the

parts of speech, but I also included graphics and slides that provided details and examples. Both

parts of speech, were highlighted on the title of a slide. The slides were neatly put together and

organized for both presenters and learners. I presented the information by explaining the

graphics and allowing students to think about what was being read to them. I felt this style will

allow students to engage in the lesson and promote a thoughtful discussion about the parts of

speech. Presenters of the presentation have the option to pause the video to allow time for

discussion or questions.

The process
Keynote
• Open the Keynote application by double clicking.
• Choose the Parchment presentation. The Title slide will automatically open.
• Double click on the title text box and add the title.
• Double click on the subtitle text box and add the subtitle. Click on the arrow pointing
• up by the “36 pt” box to increase your font to 82 pt in the text formatting box.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add an additional slide.
• Choose the “Bullets” slide.
• Click in the text box and add the content. Highlight “Objectives”. Click on the arrow
pointing
• up by the “36 pt” box and increase your font to 50pt in the text formatting box.
• Under “Alignment”, click on the “align text to the top of the cell” button and the center
button.
• Click behind the word “Objective” on the slide and hit the return button on your
keyboard two times.
• In the text formatting box, click on the arrow pointing down by the “62 pt” box and
decrease your font to 38 pt.
• Under “Alignment”, click on the “align text to the left”.
• Type your content and then highlight only the content you want bulleted.
• To add bullet points, click on the drop-down menu next to “Bullets & Lists” and choose
“Bullet” in the text formatting box.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add an additional slide.
• Choose the “Horizontal” slide.
• Double click on the lower text box and click on the arrow pointing up by the “36 pt” box
and increase your font to 72 pt in the text formatting box.
• Add content.
• Under “Alignment”, click to “center text” in the text formatting box.
• Open your web browser and go to Pixabay.com and search for “sentences”.
• Click on the desired image and click the green “Free Download” box.
• Choose the “640 x 480” option and click the green “download” box.
• Move this image to your photos.
• Go back to the “Horizontal” slide in the Keynote Presentation and click on the photo
icon.
• In the pop-up window, locate and chose the desired image and click on it to put on your
slide.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add an additional slide.
• Choose the “Title and Bullets” slide.
• Double click on the title text box and add the content. Highlight “Story Elements
Include”. Click on the arrow pointing up by the “36 pt” box and increase your font to 66
pt in the text formatting box.
• Double click on the subtitle text box and add the content. Highlight text. Click on the
arrow pointing up by the “36 pt” box and increase your font to 62 pt in the text formatting
box and I changed the color to red.
• Under “Alignment”, click on the text center button.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add click on the “Title, Bullet & Photo”
slide.
• Double click on the Title box and add the content.
• In the title text formatting box, click on the arrow pointing up by the “72 pt” box to
increase your font to 85 pt.
• Double click on the text box and add the content. Increase the font size to 50 pt and change
the color to royal blue.
• Open your web browser and go to Pixabay.com and search for an image of “action.”
• Click on each desired image and click the green “Free Download” box.
• Choose the “500 x 640” option and click the green “download” box for each image.
• Move these images to your photos.
• Go back to the “Title, Bullet & Photo” slide in the Keynote Presentation and click on the
photo icon.
• In the pop-up window, locate and chose the desired images and click each to add to your
slide.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add an additional slide.
• Choose the “Photos-3 up” slide.
• Open your web browser and go to Pixabay.com and search for an image of “jumping, playing,
singing.”
• Click on each desired image and click the green “Free Download” box.
• Choose the “500 x 640” option and click the green “download” box for each image.
• Move these images to your photos.
• Go back to the “Photo- 3 up” slide in the Keynote Presentation and click on the
photo icon.
• In the pop-up window, locate and chose the desired images and click each to add to your
slide.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add click on the “Title, Bullet & Photo”
slide.
• Double click on the Title box and add the content. In the title text formatting box, click on
the arrow pointing up by the “72 pt” box to increase your font to 85 pt.
• Double click on the text box and add the content. Increase the font size to 50 pt and change
color to blue aqua.
• Open your web browser and go to Pixabay.com and search for an image of a popcorn.
• Click on each desired image and click the green “Free Download” box.
• Choose the “640 x 480” option and click the green “download” box for each image.
• Move these images to your photos.
• Go back to the “Photos-3up” slide in the Keynote Presentation and click on the
photo icon.
Open your web browser and go to Pixabay.com and search for an image of “soft, big, sweet.”
• Click on each desired image and click the green “Free Download” box.
• Choose the “500 x 640” option and click the green “download” box for each image.
• Move these images to your photos.
• Go back to the “Photo- 3 up” slide in the Keynote Presentation and click on the
photo icon.
• In the pop-up window, locate and chose the desired images and click each to add to your
slide.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add an additional slide.
•
Choose the “Title and Bullets” slide.
• Click in the text box and add the content. Highlight the title content.
• Click on the arrow pointing up by the “36 pt” box and increase your font to 45 pt in the
text formatting box.
• Type your content and then highlight only the content you want bulleted.
• To add bullet points, click on the drop-down menu next to “Bullets & Lists” and choose
“Bullet” in the text formatting box.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add click on the “Title & Subtitle” slide.
• Double click on the title text box and add the text.
• In the text formatting box, click on the arrow pointing up by the “80 pt” box and increase
your font to 45 pt.
• Double click on the subtitle text box and add the text.
• Click on the “+” button on the at the top left to add an additional slide.
• Choose the “Title & Bullets” slide.
• Click in the title text box and add the content. Highlight the title content.
• Click on the arrow pointing up by the “36 pt” box and increase your font to 72 pt in the
text formatting box.
• Under “Alignment” click on the center text button.
• Double click on the bottom text box.
• In the text formatting box, click on the arrow pointing down by the “62 pt” box and
decrease your font to 18 pt.
• Under “Alignment”, click on the “align text to the left”.
• Type your content and then highlight the content to remove bulleting.
• To add bullet points, click on the drop-down menu next to “Bullets & Lists” and choose
“None” in the text formatting box.
• Click on the first slide and click on the “Animate” button on the top right.
• Click on the “Add Effect” button and select “Clothesline” from the pop-up menu.
• Repeat this process for slides 2-4.
• Click on slide number 5 and click on the “Animate” button on the top right.
• Click on the “Add Effect” button and select “Droplet” from the pop-up menu.
• Repeat this process for slides 6-8.
• Click on slide number 9 and click on the “Animate” button on the top right.
• Click on the “Add Effect” button and select “Confetti” from the pop-up menu.
• Repeat this process for slides 9-11

iMovie
• Open iMovie and Keynote.
• Click on “+” to create new.
• Click on “Movie” in pop-up menu.
• Click on “My Media”.
• Click the arrow pointing down on the top bar to import the Keynote presentation.
• Click on the name of the Keynote presentation so that all slides are in order.
• You will see each slide in the bottom section of the split screen.
• The white line determines the length of each slide. I drug the white line on each slide to
give each slide 10 -12 seconds.
• I went back to the first slide, by swiping to the left side, and read it to determine if the
allotted time of 10 seconds was correct.
• I reread each slide several times and noted the amount of time needed for each slide.
• Click the Transition button at the top left to change or add various slide transitions.
• Click on the first slide and then the crop icon on the top right. Choose “Ken Burns” on
the top right.
• Adjust the cropping rectangle to choose the part of the slide that will be zoomed in or
out.
• Choose the third slide and the tenth slide and complete the same process, cropping the
words: characters
and setting to be highlighted.
• On each of the slides add the transition name “Cube” by dragging the box with
that name between each of the slides at the bottom of the screen.
• To add audio, press the microphone icon and click the record button.
• You will get a countdown of three seconds, and then you record.
• If you make a mistake, click the “command” and the “z” simultaneously to fix your
mistake.
• Watch your video to make sure the flow is desirable.
• Log on to your YouTube account.
• Go back to iMovie and click on the square with an upward pointing arrow.
• Choose YouTube.
• Wait for upload.
• Go back to YouTube, open your video and copy the link.

Weebly

• Login to your Weebly account.