Grade+8+(incl.+Tech+class)

Information and Technology Class

 * Curriculum Overview (http://teenlearning.csla.net)**

U**nit 1:** **Digital citizenship/Setting up a blogging page using links, embedding and uploading**

U**nit 2:** **Citing sources: Images and Giving Credit**

Unit 3: Evaluating Information Websites and Bibliography Unit 4: Collaboration online: Good Manners and Commenting Unit 5: Creating Your Own Images, animations and videos Unit 6: Creating Documents and Presentations Unit 7: Fun with Books and Reading Unit 8: Creating a final project using favorite web 2.0 tools and posting to blog

//**Project-based learning:** Perspective papers// on genetic diseases written in form of blog entries using Blogger or [|Ning].
 * Students learn how to comment on each others' work in respectful, helpful ways
 * Students learn empathy with people who suffer from a chronic disease (and meet science standards!)
 * Students learn how to organize their research by tagging and adding notes using delicious or digg
 * Students learn how to use EasyBib to create works cited pages for different types of sources

//**Website evaluation** lesson// and activity
 * Students learn to think about authorship and purpose of a web site selected for research

A. Welcome to the World of Digital Citizenship (Microsoft, 2008) B. Fair use case study from Media Education Lab at Temple University What is "transformative use"? What is fair use when doing a project? Another case study on Bratz dolls
 * //Copyright vs. Fair Use//**
 * Updated statistics from ebizmas
 * How do creative rights and fair use relate to social media?
 * Have I ever infringed on someone's copyrights?
 * How is social media changing the conversation around copyrighted content and creative rights?


 * LIBRARY CURRICULUM OVERVIEW**

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Unit 1: Booktalks: Urban Fiction Unit 2: Book talks: Historical fiction Unit 3: Reading database articles and taking notes Unit 4: Booktalks: Literary nonfiction about history Unit 5: Booktalks: Books with characters taken from mythology, legends, and religious texts Unit 6: Booktalks: Different forms of poetry Unit 7: Booktalks: Plays Unit 8: Booktalks: Memoirs