Your Mission

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Your creative writing prompt: You live on the edge of The Blue Mountains National Park. The government has decided they want to cut down a significance part of the park to build a new suburb called The New Blue Mountains. You have invited them to take a virtual reality bush walk through the Blue Mountains National Park. You want them to have an enjoyable time and feel an emotional connection to this place so that they do not want to cut it down and even more so, to take action to protect it.

Your mission: Compose an emotional, immersive and persuasive speech to go with a Virtual Reality tour of a space within The Blue Mountains National Park. You will be required to write half to one full page, record yourself reading your text and submit a compelling audio text alongside a virtual reality image.

Creativity and digital literacy

Students demonstrate creativity through composing an original, emotive and persuasive speech based on lived experiences, concepts of place, and understanding of text structures through the manipulation of audio and visual technologies including Virtual Reality and Audio Editing applications.

Technologies required in this task

  • Mindmup on computers – SimpleMind+ on ipads for mind mapping
  • Voice Recorder phone application for nature sound recordings
  • Huawei 360 panoramic camera extension for ipads for taking a virtual reality photo
  • Garage Band for recording yourself reading your speech and editing nature sounds together
  • Computers and ipads for completing the Google feedback forms for self and peer assessment
  • Huawei 360 ipad application for viewing virtual reality images

english Syllabus outcomes addressed

A student composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts EN3-2A. A student can plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience ACELY1704, ACELY1714

A student communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features EN3-1A