Category: <span>Lesson Plans</span>

04.06.07

Core 1: What is leadership? The History of Communism in 7 Parts Working with wikimail and working on your Utopias Core 2: How can we use a social network such as standpoint to further discuss, enrich, and debate our beliefs? Work on your -Ism templates and standpoint beliefs. Core 3: …

04.05.07

Core 1: Introduction to the ideas from animal farm. Get the BritLit Podcast to work. Respond to personalized discussion questions and continue to work on Utopia. Core 2: Listen to a few audio essays from last year: Blake Jake Katelyn Carly Answer Personalized Discussion Questions and work on your -Ism. …

04.04.07

Core 1: How can we discuss our worlds? New examples of Utopian integration. Introduction to the reaction novel. Read about and discuss the many levels of Animal Farm. Core 2: What does formal and informal discussion look like on the wiki? Making Belief Statements real This I Believe Standpoint Listen …

04.03.07

Cores 1-4: What is the Value of Amateurs? Work on Sem2_Week11 either on your blog (using Writetomyblog.com or Learnerblogs.org if it is working) or on your wiki page. If you choose to write on your wiki page, you will need to submit the “edit” that you did today as a …

04.02.07

Core 1: How will the las eight weeks of middle school be different from the rest of middle school? Show off the Official Seal Generator How will our own licenses affect our content? Explore the Discovery Utopias Wiki. Core 2: How will the las eight weeks of middle school be …

03.22.07

Cores 1-2: Mini-debate on the ethics and importance of mashing-up and remixing ideas and content. Citing the research from yesterday, write out your proposal for what kind of remixing and mashing-up should be allowed with our content. Be sure to mention all different types of media (text, music, video, online …

03.21.07

Cores 1-2: Read the Remix Culture articles:  Mashups, Remixes and Copyright Law Remix Culture: A rights nightmare Issues surrounding re-use in Creative Commons Liscenses Debate the merits of Mashups and Remixes as art forms and workable solutions in pro- and anti- groups. Core 3: Fill out the Outsiders Anticipation Guide. …

03.20.07

ELT: Guyego Situations Cores 1-4: Get everything on your blog to work. Not be frustrated by technology. Write out your Sem2_Week10 and post to del.icio.us. Get one-on-one writing and technology help from Mr. Wilkoff.

03.19.07

Cores 1-4: Check in on Weekly Authentic Blog Posts. Cores 1-2: This week you will be constructing your own position paper on who gets to own ideas. You are going to create a solution for our own projects (utopias and -Isms) that will allow some intellectual rights to be preserved …

03.15.07

I’m sorry that I couldn’t be there to help you out in person (especially because I love teaching on my birthday), but I did want to tell you how to post from writetomyblog.com:  Click on Manage Posts Choose WordPress (not WordPress.com) as your Blog Service. Enter in your blog web …