Fall+2014+Team+5

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.====

**//What are some potential compelling questions your team is considering?//**
Will students write more effective narratives when using Storybird as a basis for narrative. How can Storybird as a basis for narrative be applied to motivate students to write more effective narratives? Does using storybird allow students to be more engage with their writing? Does using storybird allow students to be more engage with their writing?

**//What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?//**
For our inquiry, we want to make sure we design something that is easy to measure, or at least have a means to measure it. For example, if we went with the Storybird idea, we could have a control class writing without Storybird and then another class (preferably same teacher) that writing WITH Storybird. Then do a quantitave count of the vivid adjectives, images, and metaphors.

**//What is your target age group?//**
Grade 9-12

**//Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use?//**
CK: Improving writing skills TK: The use of online tool, Storybird, as a visual scaffold PK: Visual prompts as a scaffold to more effective narrative writing, Think, Pair, Share, group discussion, cooperative learning

**//What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?//**
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3.a Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3.c Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3.d Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3.e Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.

**//What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?//**
Currently considering 2 mini-lessons beginning in mid-October with planning.

**//What materials and resources do you need to be successful?//**
Access to computers in the classroom, possibility IPads

===I. Design space for paper planning===

===II. Design space for video documentary development===