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
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?
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
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
Information and Technology Class
Curriculum Overview (http://teenlearning.csla.net)
Unit 1: Digital citizenship/Setting up a blogging page using links, embedding and uploading
Unit 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 .
Website evaluation lesson and activity
Copyright vs. Fair Use
- Updated statistics from ebizmas
A. Welcome to the World of Digital Citizenship (Microsoft, 2008)- 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?
B. Fair use case study from Media Education Lab at Temple UniversityWhat is "transformative use"?
What is fair use when doing a project?
Another case study on Bratz dolls
LIBRARY CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
8th_ gr_Libr_Curr_Overview_2010-2011.doc
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Unit 1: Booktalks: Urban FictionUnit 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