Lesson 5: Promoting your cause

Year 7 – Using media – Gaining support for a cause

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Discuss with the person next to you

Starter activity

Can you think of three things that your teacher will want to see in your blog when marking your work?

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What are success criteria?

Starter activity

• Often when you work on a project, you will set a list of ‘success criteria’ before the project starts
• This is a list that you will use at the end of the project to decide if it meets the needs of the audience

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Success criteria?

Starter activity

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• The blog must include three images

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• Images must be interesting

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Blog must include useful information

Starter activity

• Why is this not appropriate for success criteria?
• How could it be improved?

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Think, write, pair, share

Starter activity

• Write down a minimum of four success criteria
• When directed, share your criteria with the person next to you
• Don’t be afraid to add or change the ones that you have already

Use these words to give you ideas for your success criteria:

Audience Licensing

Formatting Images

Hyperlinks Research

Citation Credibility

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Lesson 5: Writing your blog

Objectives

In this lesson, you will:

• Construct a blog using appropriate software
• Create content for a blog based on credible sources
• Apply referencing techniques that credit authors appropriately
• Design the layout of the content to make it suitable for the audience

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Assessment criteria

Activity 1

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Time to make your blog!

Activity 1

Teacher demonstration

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Making your blog

Activity 1

When making your blog:

• Remember to open your research document from last lesson
• Reference your sources appropriately
• Credit the authors of the images
• Use the formatting tools to make your blog suitable for your audience
• Use your success criteria and assessment criteria to make sure that you are including everything that you need

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Peer feedback

Activity 2

Which of these comments do you think is the most productive and why?

1. The image of the tree is good, but I think it would look better if it was text wrapped to the right of the image.
2. I don’t think your images are suitable.
3. Have you tried adding bullet points?

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Peer feedback

Activity 2

• You are now going to give feedback on your classmates’ work.

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• Feedback should always be constructive and not critical.

Question: What are you looking for when you look at their work?

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Peer feedback: Use the assessment grid

Activity 2

• Is the text readable? (colour, font style, size)
• Are the images appropriate for the story?
• Is each image attributed to the author?
• Have any image formatting techniques been used? Have they been applied appropriately?
• Have sources of information been referenced?

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Responding to feedback

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Activity 2

• Remember that feedback is designed to be supportive
• If you disagree with any feedback, try to think about why they wrote it before you reject it
• It is sometimes OK to disagree, but you must justify why on your feedback sheet

You will have an opportunity to make changes to your blog based on this feedback next lesson

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Discussion

Plenary

• Assessment of the unit will take the form of an end-of-unit test
• There won’t be questions relating to specific software such as Google Sites or Microsoft Sway, but there could be questions on generic software tools, such as alignment and making text bold, etc.
• What have you learnt during this unit and what do you think will be in the test?

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Next lesson

Summary

In this lesson, you...

Constructed a blog

Created content for a blog based on credible sources

Applied referencing techniques that credit authors appropriately

Designed the layout of the content to make it suitable for the audience

Next lesson, you will…

Complete your blogs and react to feedback from your classmates

Complete the end-of-unit test

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