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**You will use the PBI process to develop your project.**
====Be sure to design toward your rubrics for your 5 minute video and 8-10 page paper.====

**PBI Planning Draft ** Collaboratively compose a PBI Planning Draft of your INITIAL PBI plans. Please address ALL of the following:
 * What is your compelling question?
 * How does the use of flip cameras and similar media increase student engagement in an educational setting?


 * What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?
 * Students will be studying the Age of Revolutions and will create music videos or paper slide videos to demonstrate understanding of the causes and implications of the French Revolution or the American Revolution
 * Flip cameras will be used to film their final product, which needs to be well developed and informative
 * Videos will be presented to the class


 * What is your target age group?
 * 7th Grade, Social Studies


 * Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use?
 * Technological Approaches - Flip camera
 * Pedagogical Approaches - Students will be taught some basic skills on the use of flip cameras, will see examples of effective flip camera videos, and will learn how to apply their knowledge of the Age of Revolution to a song
 * Content - Age of Revolutions; students will have learned about the American Revolution and how it influenced the French to begin a French Revolution; students will also be discussing "Revolution" in Language Arts during this same time period, which will further there content knowledge on the subject


 * What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?
 * Common Core Standards
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">RH 1, 2, 10
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHST 4, 9, 10
 * Essential Standards
 * 7.H.1 - Use historical thinking to analyze various modern societies
 * 7.H.2 - Understand the implications of global interactions
 * 7.C&G.1 - Understand the development of government in modern societies and regions
 * 7.C.1 - Understand how cultural values influence relationships between individuals, groups, and political entities in modern societies and regions


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Students will begin the unit on the Age of Revolutions at the beginning of the 2nd quarter (October 29) and will be creating their videos during the final week of the unit (November 11-15)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Maybe we will use a K-W-L at the beginning of the unit to see what students know about revolutions and see what they want to know
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Students have already taken a technology interest survey and they have indicated that they want to engage in technology-rich assignments


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">What materials and resources do you need to be successful?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Flip cameras
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Primary documents about the French and American revolutions, including first hand accounts, as well as pictures


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">What part of the PBI do you find or anticipate will be most difficult to plan?
 * The implementation and use of flip camera videos are always difficult because of the uncertainty of student comfort level on the use of these as well as the uncertainty that the cameras will all work; it is also more difficult to monitor student behavior when using flip cameras (as many groups will be filming at once and in different locations)


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">How do you plan to prepare to overcome these anticipated difficulties?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">By having two people watching the students create their videos (as opposed to just one teacher), fewer discipline problems are anticipated; students also tend to be more productive when there are additional adults in the classroom


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">What other questions to you have about the PBI project?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Is there an example of a paper that we can see to note the overall process?