|
Assignments completed each week by active members (PDF version) |
Reflect and Connect: Keep Track and Make Connections |
Wonder: Ask Questions and Point to What's Important |
Investigate: Analyze and Draw Conclusions |
Construct: Create and Use Multimedia |
Express: Collaborate and Combine with Others |
|
1. Five What's up? Updates: Compose twitter-like updates, but with unlimited length, images and audio. (Copy the suggested What's up? Guide to Docs. Write, copy, paste to Submit your update.) |
1.1 Make connections between something you are reading or learning to experiences in your own life (Guide: Personal Connections) or in the world (Guide: World Connections) |
1.2 Pose questions about the big themes in something that you are reading or learning about, and speculate about what the answers might be. (Guide: Questioning and Speculating) |
1.3 Describe a pattern you are noticing in your reading, and explain how this seems true because of how it connects to other books, articles, or academic presentations.(Guide: Book Connections) |
1.4 Upload a recording of your voice, embed a video, or use an image with your writing to explain your thoughts about what your are reading or learning. (Guide: Media Connections) |
1.5 Make connections between something you are reading or learning to other items posted on the Youth Voices Site Blog. (Guide: Youth Voices Connections) |
| 2. Five Comments: Respond to other students' Discussion posts on the Youth Voices. (Copy the suggested Comments Guide to Docs. Write, then copy and paste into a comments box.) |
2.1 Find something of interest to you in the New & Current Discussions and comment on it, using the Guide: General Discussion Response. |
2.2 Comment on a Discussion that is about a current event that you are also following. In your comment, include a quote and response from a news item that you have bookmarked in diigo. (Guide: Agree/Disagree Response) |
2.3 Add a comment to a Discussion and in your response, make your opinion clear. Support your position with 2 or more quotes and responses from your diigo bookmarks. (Guide: Agree/Disagree Response) |
2.4 Add another comment to a Discussion, and this time, insert an image, comic, graph or chart to support our comment. (Guide: Agree/Disagree Response and use our Specialized Google Search for Data) |
2.5 Reply to comments on a Discussion that you have published on Youth Voices. Quote from the other students comments and show what new thoughts you have now. |
|
3. Five Bookmarks or Sets of Sticky Notes: Find, manage, read, and respond to five or more different kinds of on-line resources about your inquiry question. (See Research Guides, especially the Search Guides, and the Youth Voices Diigo Group) |
3.1 Read and respond to a blog post or poem that is related to your inquiry or research question. (Use Google Blog Search, Technorati, or IceRocket, Poetry Online, Poetry Search and write 3+ Sticky Notes on the post or poem you find with Diigolet.) |
3.2 Read and respond to a current news item that is about your inquiry question. (Use Google News, New York Times Archive Since 1981,or News is Free, and write 3+ Sticky Notes on the news item you find with the Diigolet.) | 3.3 Read and respond to a magazine or journal article, or book about your inquiry question. (Use Find Articles, Google Scholar, Opposing Viewpoints, Google Books, and write 3+ Sticky Notes on the article that you find with the Diigolet.) | 3.4 Listen to or watch an audio or video podcast about your inquiry or research question. (Use Odeo, NPR Search, Podfeed, blip.tv, Creative Commons, and write 3+ Sticky Notes on the audio or video podcast that you find with the Diigolet.) | 3.5 Read and respond to several microbogs (and the resources that are linked to these posts) about your inquiry or research question. (Use Twitter Search, Twingly, or Tweetzi, and write 3+ Sticky Notes on the microblogs that you find with the Diigolet.) |
| 4. One well-developed Discussion Post: Create and revise a Discussion post each week. Develop an audio, text and media, or video post about your ongoing question on a critical issue. Add to ONE Google Doc over the week, which you will post at the end of the week. | 4.1 Freewrite about what you are thinking now about your question. (Draft 1 of 5 - Develop this draft in Google Docs or a similar document creator. Do not post this on Youth Voices until you have added two quotes, inserted an image or other media and revised.) | 4.2 Introduce, insert, and interpret a quotation from your bookmarks for a blog post (see 3.1) or news item (see 3.2). (This is Draft 2 of 5. Add this to your Google Doc. Share this with your teacher and a class mate or two.) See Copying a quotation from a bookmark to a discussion post |
4.3 Introduce, insert, and interpret a quotation from your bookmarks for a magazine article (see 3.3). Or introduce, insert and interpret a quotation from a Reading or Project Log. (Row 2) (This is Draft 3 of 5. Add to your Google Doc. Don't post until also do 4.4) |
4.4 Insert a Creative Commons image, video, or other media-- a comic or a graph or chart--and write about how this media in some way makes you think in new ways about your question. (Keep adding to your Google Doc. Don't post until your get feedback from students and teacher first.) |
4.5 Add your writing and/or other media to a Discussion post 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 a Discussion" on Youth Voices.)
|