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Testlet 1
Overview
General Overview
You are a film studies teacher at a secondary school. You are part of a team of three teachers that teaches drama, music, and film.
Description of Students
Twenty-five of your students will participate in a project. The students are all in the same class and are 13 and 14 years old.
Learning and Teaching Environment
The school has a computer lab that contains the following ICT resources:
One television

One DVD player

One data projector

One interactive whiteboard

One high-quality sound system

Six low-cost digital video cameras

One professional grade, high-definition video camera

15 powerful computers that are connected to the Internet

Professional grade film editing and music production software

The teachers also have access to desktop computers located in the faculty lounge and the administration offices.
Learning Activities
The school plans to introduce a more collaborative approach between teachers of different subjects.
The team identifies an opportunity to create a collaborative learning activity for the students of drama, music and film. The team plans to complete the collaborative project in four weeks.
Currently, the students study each of the three subjects for one hour per week.
The school will pay a local filmmaker to visit the students for a one hour lesson early in the project. The filmmaker will answer the students' questions and demonstrate how to use film-editing software.
The filmmaker will also be available during each project lesson via video-conference link, telephone, and email.
Objectives
Learning Objectives
You identify the following learning objectives:
Improve the students' ability to work collaboratively within a creative framework.

Create a 60-second film trailer that combines live action film, voice-over narration, and original music.

Professional Development Objectives
The professional development objectives for the team are to:
use ICT effectively for teaching and learning;

incorporate appropriate ICT activities into lesson plans so that students work collaboratively within a

creative framework; and
integrate the use of ICT into the curriculum.

Pedagogical objectives
The school plans to increase the use of cross-curricular approaches to help the students understand learning as a connected experience rather than a set of separate disciplines.