Reflection

Essential Question leading this project: How are belief systems represented and reproduced through history, literature, art, and music?

How does personal history effect your beliefs?

Voice thread can be used in my unit plan by having children search the internet for different types of music that protrays different types of beliefs. This is a good tool because it will give the student concrete evidence of the music and how emotion is used. Also, it will give a range of evidence that the students can choose from to use in their project. The student can also choose to embed these threads in their power point.

SlideShares enable the student to have visual information available to show what they have found. Students can use these slide shares to show music, pictures, and videos. Students can upload photos of art that they have found that protray beliefs that are interesing to them. Along with the pictures, students can post a caption that describes the art and artist. Music threads can also be posted to slideshares as well as captions. Videos can be embedded into slideshares. For example, the student can video tape themselves reading a piece of literature that describes a type of belief and have it posted in their slideshare. Also, slideshares are a good organizational tools that sudents can use to imput the information they have found. A teacher can used these slideshares to create a templete for the students to use while they are finding their information. They can also be interactive, allowing other students to review the slides and offer imput or ask questions. Slidecasts use the slideshares to make a video. This can piece together the slideshares in sequence to protray the information the student has found.