Authentic+Assessment+Activity

====The authentic assessment activity (AAA) is a learner-group activity within the workshop. The tutorial screen captures and narration recordings from the Voicethread production serve the purpose to familiarize the targeted audience with the Authorstream Web-site. After completion of the short tutorial, learners will engage in a group activity with the mobile computer devices (laptop, iPad, or smartphone) of their choosing. This choice of mobile devices to work with for the workshop will be how the audience will be divided up into small groups. The prerequisites are as follows:====

====**1)** All participants need to have computer access to an original PowerPoint (PPT) presentation and a final-cut video they have created in the past via their mobile device. An Email has been sent out to all participants who signed up for the workshop reminding them to have access to one of each of these original productions. These can be retrieved from the mobile computer device itself or from an online storage Web-site that they already are accustomed to using.====

**3)** Workshop instructors will provide a digital video/still camera and wiring for groups to use in the workshop if needed.
=Goals & Objectives=

====Participants will be able to recall and locate active engagement video tools and demonstrate how to research, choose, and use them in a problem-based scenario. Furthermore, participants wil be able to research, produce, publish, and eventually critique their five hour group streamlining accomplishments prior to the end of the workshop. Finally, students can practice shooting, editing, and uploading video via a provided video camera and their mobile devices while their PowerPoints in Authorstream are transferred to video for the purpose of uploading to a host Web-site.====

=Authentic Assessment Activity=

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====Your activity for this workshop is a group project. Teams will be grouped together initially by the mobile devices individual participants have decided to utilize in the workshop with preferably three - five participants per group.==== ====Before we break off into groups, every participant needs to set up individual accounts in Authorstream and YouTube if you haven’t already. The tutorial created on Voicethread has introduced you to the Authorstream interface so spend the next 10-15 minutes creating an account and logging-in @ []. Furthermore, make sure your YouTube account is accessible @ [].====

====Now, break off into your groups and introduce yourselves to your team members. Collaboration is necessary for the completion of the mission of the group activity, so get acquainted and spend the next 10 – 15 minutes discussing what the team would like to create using PowerPoint slides, video, Authorstream, and YouTube.====

**(Part – 1)**
====Your initial mission for this activity is to work together to get all team members PPT files uploaded to Authorstream, begin the transfers to video format, and begin to design a plan for development of a final group presentation/product for broadcast. The Authorstream conversion from PPT to video can take up to 100 minutes. Complete this process first so all group member conversions will be complete when we start back up. With the remaining time before the lunch break, please pick a group leader preferably with YouTube past-experience. Collaborate with your team to have a solid game plan to develop a one to two minute presentation with both PPT and Video to publish to your leaders YouTube account. These will be downloaded from YouTube to the facilitators’ computer system for presentation and evaluation from the participants in the workshop. Feel free to ask questions from the workshop instructor. Be sure to follow the graphic organizer timeline so groups can stay on task and be prepared to develop their products upon return from the lunch break.====

**(Part – 2/75 Minutes)**
====Continue to develop the group presentation to be viewed by the participants of the workshop. It is understood that the context may not match between the PPT information and the video information, that is, if you decide to use an already produced video file. There is not any penalty for this. Or, feel free to shoot video with the provided video camera or your mobile devise to match the context of your chosen PPT slides and edit them together before publishing. The choice is yours. If the capabilities are available, certainly feel free to challenge each other to create a formidable presentation and upload it to YouTube. With the remaining time before break-time, discuss with your group members how you could use the content of this workshop to improve instructional and learning methods in K-12 environments. Create synergy through this discussion of the possibilities using these tools for teachers as well as students.====