Henry Jenkins and New Media Literacy

Watch this video and answer the following questions:

1. What is convergence culture?

2. What are the implications of convergence culture for education?

3.How are schools limiting kids' access to digital tools? Do you agree with these policies? Why or Why not?

Due Date:
Post your responses by Midnight Sunday November 1.

Update for Teacher of the Year Contest!

We have been blogging with fifth grade students. We made magazine covers that portrayed a teacher that had been nominated for a National Teacher of the Year award. Fifth grade students viewed our magazine covers and then voted for who they thought should win the Teacher of the Year of award. Below are their justifications for their votes.

1st place: Starfsu 5 - 4 votes
*He says he can make math fun even if you dont like math.
*I think that you would be a good teacher because you look like your very smart and intellagent in math. And that you have fun math activities so that they can learn and have fun.
*You would be a nice tracher because all the stuff you would do with your kids. I would like to be your stodent. And you are good and cerative. So I hope you become a good,nice,fun teacher!
*Because of thier creativity.

2nd place: Starfsu 14 - 3 votes
*I think this person will be a good teacher, because this person uses music to make math fun.
*I think this person will be a good teacher, because this person uses music to make math fun.
*I think he would be a great becuase hummur is great for all teacher!!!!! It gets the kids intrested in learening ,and when you make it great and fun ways for learning it easier to learen!!!!!

3rd place: Starfsu 20 - 2 votes
*Because she beleaves in learn forever.
*Becuase taking kids to National History Museums is educational
and fun.

Create Your Think Aloud with PowerPoint

Make your Think Aloud for Information Literacy into a multimedia presentation.

Create your Think Aloud with PowerPoint.

Save your PowerPoint as a .ppt.

Upload it to Google Docs.

Publish your PowerPoint in Google Docs.

Share your PowerPoint. Choose the publish/embed option.

Respond to students' comments about your magazine cover on blogmeister. Respond directly on the students' pages.


I won't be here on Thursday but there will be an assignment posted. Please check my blog for the assignment. You can do it at home or come to the lab if you choose.

Online Reading Strategies

Presentation on TrackStar

Watch this Think Aloud

Create a Think Aloud for the WebSite you validated on Tuesday.

Use Jing and PowerPoint to create the Think Aloud.
You must use these online reading and information literacy strategies:

Skim
Snatch and grab
Use of prior knowledge of content medium
Summerize
Question
Infer
Hypothesis
Synthesize
Identify purpose of information
Analyze Point of View
Assess Accuracy (triangulation, reading a URL, publisher of a site).

Due Date:
Post the Think Aloud to your blog by Sunday October 25 at Midnight.

Stargazers & Treasure Hunters

*Make a posting in blogmeister that contains a quote that you think will convience fifth grade students that the teacher on your magaizne cover should be the teacher of the year. Provide a link to your magazine cover.

*Use your blogmeister user name when you make comments so students can find you and reply back!

*Respond to any comments.

*Group response to new student postings:
10/14 How a dirt bike works
10/15 Computers
10/19 5th grade

*Presentaion on Information Literacy: Validating the Authority, Credibility, Reliability of Information on websites.

Assignment:
*Choose a website to validate from this list.

*Use this Website validation checklist to validate the website.

*Here are some resources to help you validate your website.

*Provide a link to the Website you chose to validate and summerize what you found out and the process you used to determine the authority, credibility, and reliability of information on the site.
Due: Thursday October 22

Teacher of the Year Contest: Blogging with Fifth Graders

1. We are going to be blogging with fifth grade students from one of PDS schools.

2. Check your Blackboard email for your user name and password for your Blogmeister account and sign up!

3. Upload your magazine cover to your blog.

4. Enter a teaching quote to convience students that the teacher you portrayed on your magazine cover should be the "Teacher of the Year".

5. Read students' postings about being a fifth grader and make comments. To make sure every student gets comments check the table above.

Media Literacy: Deconstructing Magazine Covers

Learning Objectives:
1. Students understand media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules.

2. Students understand media have embedded values and points of view.

3. Students analyze magazine covers portral of the same person.

4. Students critique the individual covers and then compare and contrast them with regard to technique, content, and impact.

Proceedure:
1. Show cover of Muscle & Fitness. Ask students:
What do you think about this person based on the cover of the magazine?
How does he look? Chart the adjectives students use.

2.Show cover of Esquire. Ask the same questions and chart student responses.

3. Compare and contrast the two magazine covers. What do you see that is different about the two covers? How do the differences effect how you feel about the person?

4. In pairs create a magazine cover that dipicts a person that has been nominated for the National Teacher of the Year award. From the cover we should be able to get an idea of their teaching philosophy and the kinds of activities we would see if we were to visit their classroom.

5. We will use PowerPoint to create your magazine cover.

6. We will spend Tuesday October 13 creating the covers.

7. Your covers will be posted on a blog site for fifth graders to view comment and vote on. They will be determining which teacher should receive the Teacher of the Year award based on your magazine cover!

Tuesday October 6: Google Forms & Graphing Tool's

Possibilities exist for creating a variety of online graphics. The Kid's Zone site works for some types of charts (pie, area, line and bar), but what if we need other types of charts such as Venn diagrams or simple line charts? There is help. Crappy Graphics is an better tool than its name implies. While the content on their web site can range from good to offensive, the important thing for me is your have option for easily creating specific types of graphics (Venn diagrams and line charts) to integrate into your teaching and your students learning. I repeat, this is not a site you set your 3rd graders loose on, and for that reason in this activity we will create a graphic on the site, and export it into our own domain (like a blog post).

Review some samples of what possibilities exist (be warned, there are good, bad, and possibly inappropriate). The tool has some real possibilities and I feel having access to it outweighs the possible issues related to public content.

1. Create a survey using Google Forms.

2. Everyone in the left hand column take surveys from the right hand column and vice versa!

3. Create a graph with Crappy Graph and Kid Zone. Save the link (copy and paste it somewhere).

4. Right click on your graph and save it as a .jpg then upload to your blog. You can also use the snipping tool.

Due Thursday 8:00am