Week 5 Technology Project

Technology Lesson Plan
After looking at the possibilities of Google Applications, I started thinking of ways to incorporate their use in teaching Accounting using student-centered rather than traditional lecture. This year the new Career and Technical Education TEKS require students to identify and analyze accounting scandal cases from 2002 that led to the creation and implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I thought this lesson would be ideal for students to explore the benefits of using Google Apps. Students will utilize the following Google Applications in their research process for this lesson: Google Books, Google News, Google Videos, and Google Images.

I wanted this lesson to be student centered, and I wanted the students to make use of their creativity through the creation of a mulitmedia presentation to present their research findings. Teams will choose one of the accounting scandals that led to the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and research the case using the Google Apps mentioned above. They will utilize a Wiki page to collaborate their findings and generate an outline for creating their presentation. Teams will create their multimedia presentations using either Windows Movie Maker, PowerPoint, or other presentation design application of their choosing. I wanted students to incorporate relevant text, images, video, and audio files to present their research findings of one of the case studies from this time. They will also use Audacity to record voices for their presentation. I will utilize Avatar and the class Wiki as a means of communicating the lesson objectives, materials, and procedures for the lesson. I also wanted to allow time for students to be able to reflect on their team and individual learning outcomes from the lesson through the use of a class Wiki Reflections page.

My technology lesson plan can be found at http://accountingscandalslesson.wikispaces.com/