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Participating in Youth Voices |
first person, reflective, personal |
current events, out in the world |
books, academic, peer-reviewed |
media, passionate, crafted |
connected, micro-form, social |
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1. What's up? Write twitter-like updates. (140 characters) -- Think gist statements. |
1.1 Write about something personal, outside of school. |
1.2 Write about something happening in current events. |
1.3 Write about something you've been thinking about in a class. |
1.4 Write about a video, image, audio, or piece of music. |
1.5 Write about other What's up? posts that made you think. |
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2. Thought Logs: Write about projects (photo elements; photo essay topic; navigations; graduation work; personal safety lessons) Follow the directions in this row to post 3 discussions each week to show what you are learning and researching in class. (200 words each) |
2.1 Make connections to experiences in your own life. (Copy Response Guide: Personal Connections to Docs, write, then post as a discussion on Youth Voices.) |
2.2 Make connections to current events, things in the world. (Copy Response Guide: World Connections to Docs, write, then post as a discussion on Youth Voices.) |
2.3 Make connections to other books, photographs, or academic presentations you remember. (Copy Response Guide: Book Connections to Docs, write, then post as a discussion on Youth Voices.) |
2.4 Make connections to videos, images, audio, music, or other media. (Copy Response Guide: Media Connections to Docs, write, then post as a discussion on Youth Voices.) |
2.5 Make connections to other items posted on the Youth Voices Site Blog. (Copy Response Guide: Youth Voices Connections to Docs, write, then post as a discussion on Youth Voices.) |
| 3. iSearch Logs: Create or revise from Row 2 an item for your blog over a week or two about an ongoing question on a critical issue that you care about for your photo essay/essay work. Add to ONE wiki entry over the week, which you will post as a discussion at the end of the week after many additions and revisions using this row of directions as a guide.(See Row 5) (About 500 words in final draft) | 3.1 Frame your iSearch content as a question that your research will answer. Freewrite about what you are thinking now about your question and add new ideas. (Draft 1 of 5 - Develop this draft in your wiki YV page. Do not post this on Youth Voices until you have added two quotes, inserted an image or other media and revised, according to the directions in this row. | 3.2 Introduce, insert, and interpret a quotation related to your research from your Diigo bookmarks or a blog post (see 5.1), magazine (5.3), or news item (see 5.2). (This is Draft 2 of 5. Add this to your wiki YV page. Share this with your teacher and a class mate or two.) See Copying a quotation from a bookmark to a discussion post |
3.3 Introduce, insert, and interpret a quotation from your bookmarks for a comment (row 3)-- or introduce, insert and interpret a quotation from a Thought Log. (Row 2) (This is Draft 3 of 5. Add to your Wiki YV page. Don't post until also do 3.4) |
3.4 Insert a Creative Commons image, Flickr Creative commons image , video, or other media--like a comic--and write about how this media in some way makes you think in new ways about your question. (This is Draft 4 of 5. Keep adding to your wiki YV page. Don't post until your get feedback from students and teacher first.) Our photos |
3.5 Make final revisions to the organization and flow (transitions) of your ideas. Edit for correctness. Get feedback from teacher and peers before you add your writing and/or other media to your blog on
Youth Voices. (Be sure to spell-check and grammar check and read it
aloud... and make it as perfect as you can before you "Add To My Blog"
as a discussion on Youth Voices.)
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4. Comments: Responding to other students' posts on the Youth Voices Site Blog. (Use either General Discussion Response or Agree or Disagree Response) Must do 4.5 and any other two. Comments should be reflective -- not short. |
4.1 Respond to a YV post about something similar to your "Reading or Project Log" post (for example: a Literature Log about the same book your are reading). |
4.2 Respond to a discussion item on Youth Voices that is about a current event that you are also following. |
4.3 Respond to a Literature Log, photograph, or other post on the Youth Voices Site Blog that comes from a class assignment that is different than yours. |
4.4 Respond to an image, video, podcast on the Youth Voices Site Blog. (See: How to ...talk about photographs, ...comment on an image, ...Comment on Audio, ...comment on audio files, ... a Video) |
4.5 Reply to someones comment on something that you have published on Youth Voices. |
| 5. Bookmarks: Finding, managing, reading, and responding to a variety of on-line resources about your inquiry question. (See Diigo or W5 Diigo | 5.1 Read and respond to a YV blog post that is related to your inquiry or research question. Bookmark, highlight, and comment in Diigo -- save to writing8- | 5.2 Read and respond to a current news item that is about your inquiry question. Respond with a Diigo comment and save to writing8-- Bookmark, highlight, and comment in Diigo | 5.3 Read and respond to a magazine or journal article online or in class about your inquiry question. (Use "Note in Reader." Bookmark, highlight, and comment in Diigo --save to writing8- |
5.4 Listen to a YV podcast about your inquiry or research question. (Use "Note in Reader." See: Responding to a podcast) |
5.5 Read and respond several YV twitter posts about your inquiry or research question. Bookmark, highlight, and comment in Diigo --save to writing8- |