Individual students will:
- Keep up with the reading schedule in support of individual / team progress
- Contribute an average of 2 separate written blog entries a week over the duration of 4 weeks (total: 8 blog entries minimum)
- Create blog entries that will demonstrate unique ideas, connections, prompts, questions, etc.
- Provide thoughtful, well-written reactions to reading and/or outside connection material that will invite others to leave comments (or even inspire blog entries of their own)
- Comment an average of 2 or more times per week on other student-group blogs, other than their own, over the duration of 4 weeks (total: 8 comments minimum)
- Contribute to as many different blogs from the student-group pages during the 4 week project
- Support his/her team ‘editor’ (a role that rotates every week)
- Use and reference the Internet appropriately — including the content of all entries, links, comments, and behind-the-scenes administration of the web site itself
‘Editors’ will:
- Maintain the team’s blog (appearance, etc.) during the length of one week
- Support individual requests and overview the publication of group members’ entries, the validity of their content, and any wishes they have concerning the actual web site itself
- Collaborate with Miss Tesmer & Mrs. Stansbury about the publication of all links and comments
- Encourage team members to maintain regular participation
- Keep an accurate team record (i.e. a spreadsheet) of all team members’ contributions to-date (kept in classroom)
Teams will:
- Successfully create a blog that demonstrates insight and analysis of selected holocaust-themed novel
- Create a unique ‘name’ and ‘look’ for the blog by the end of the project (without it becoming a distraction in terms of the quality / analysis of content that is published)
- Use other web tools (beyond the blog – like YouTube, photos, links to news articles, other multimedia) to demonstrate a unique way to share knowledge / discoveries
- Use class time and the computer lab use in an appropriate manner at all times
- Present to the class as a group on 2 occasions what has been ‘learned’ and what has been ‘created’: 1) sometime during the process and 2) on the final submission day
Miss Tesmer & Mrs. Stansbury will:
- Create a working web site for all student-groups
- Create a manageable reading calendar
- Create a classroom/work environment that will allow students to successfully work as teams and complete the overall project
- Provide behind-the-scenes technology support (and advice)
- Carefully review all written submissions and suggested links and remove submissions/other entries when deemed inappropriate
- Share the student-groups’ work/projects with professional educators and related colleagues
