Audio Storytelling Toolkit

Explain points of agreement and disagreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question and explain how supporting questions contribute to an inquiry and how, through engaging source work, new compelling and supporting questions emerge. (NCSS D1.3.9-12 - D1.4.9-12)

Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. (ISTE)

• CCTC AR-AV 3.1: Demonstrate how to repair and service transmitting and receiving systems.
• CCTC AR-AV 3.2: Employ knowledge of wireless and wired transmission systems.
• CCTC AR-AV 3.3: Demonstrate installation of cabling for audio/video productions.
• CCTC AR-AV 3.4: Demonstrate the installation of a wireless audio/video system.
• CCTC AR-AV 3.5: Demonstrate how to troubleshoot audio/video system operations.
• CCTC AR-AV 4.1: Apply knowledge of the critical elements in designing a production to activities in the pre-production stage.
• CCTC AR-AV 4.2: Identify the basic functions and resources for editing an audio/video production.
• CCTC AR-AV 4.3: Apply computer-based development in video production and editing, with an emphasis on digital technology.

• CCTC AR 2.1: Assess workplace conditions with regard to safety and health.

Whether students are constructing opinions, explanation, or arguments, they will gather information from a variety of sources and evaluate the relevance of that information. (NCSS D3.1.9-12 - D3.2.9-12)

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. (ISTE)

• CCTC AR-JB 2.1: Demonstrate how to cultivate sources for stories.
• CCTC AR-JB 2.2: Demonstrate how to obtain information to use in writing a story.
• CCTC AR-JB 2.3: Develop written stories for print and broadcast.
• CCTC AR-JB 2.4: Demonstrate how photographs support the development of stories.
• CCTC AR-JB 2.5: Employ knowledge of the similarities and differences among editorial, feature, and news writing styles.
• CCTC AR-JB 2.6: Define the terminology associated with journalism and broadcasting.
• CCTC AR-JB 2.7: Develop a complete radio project.
• CCTC AR-JB 2.8: Develop a complete television project.

• CCTC AR-JB 3.1: Analyze the elements of a newscast production.
• CCTC AR-JB 3.2: Analyze individual announcing competence.
• CCTC AR-JB 3.3: Identify wardrobe suitable for on-camera appearances.
• CCTC AR-JB 3.4: Analyze production functions..
• CCTC AR-JB 3.5: Demonstrate promoting productions.
• CCTC AR-JB 3.6: Analyze how image capturing and graphics design support the development of electronic presentations.
• CCTC AR-JB 3.7: Distinguish amongst various musical radio formats.

• CCTC AR-JB 4.1: Examine equipment and its function.
• CCTC AR-JB 4.2: Examine production activities.
• CCTC AR-JB 4.3: Explain how to run a board shift.
• CCTC AR-JB 4.4: Examine set design principles and practices.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2: Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.8: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10.)
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.