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**What is Goal Based Learning?**
In Goal Based Learning instruction, teachers identify a specific set of skills to teach via a goal-based scenario, then "embed" that skill learning in a task, activity, or goal that the student will find interesting or motivational. The students, in turn, are exposed to pre-specified content skewed toward mastery learning.

This lesson's Goal-Based Scenario takes the form of multimedia learning in which students undertake the authentic role as a speech writer for a political candidate. Students learn historical facts by organizing and representing provided data. Internet web sites link to a diversity of resources and, alternatively, authoring programs allowed us to create a multimedia environment for interacting with resources and historical documents and videos.

**This Assignment meets the following NCTE/IRA National Standards for English Language Arts:**
 * Intended Audience: 10th Grade**
 * 4.Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
 * 5.Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
 * 8.Students use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
 * 11.Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.
 * 12.Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

** Now, Let's Get Started! **

**Team Contributions:** Jaclyn Bell was responsible for research, lesson standards, goal-based scenario explanations, Effective Speech Delivery page, Getting Started page, Delivering Your Message Page, site navigation, Peer and Project Rubric creation, and student connection text across all pages. Anna Blancett was responsible for research, assessment and reflection page, Characteristics of Strong Speech page, Historical Speeches page,and Voki creation. Charles Bowden was responsible for Research, contributing to Historical Speeches content, and general content across pages. Brittany Burns was responsible for the Convincing Your Audience page, Persuasive Writing page, Prezi creation, and wiki design.

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Our Goal-based scenarios takes the form of multimedia learning in which students undertake the authentic role as a speech writer for a political candidate. Students learn historical facts by organizing and re-presenting provided data. Internet web sites link to a diversity of resources and alternatively, authoring programs allowed us to create a multimedia environment for interacting with resources and historical documents and videos.