Jason+Habisch+7-D-1+Lesson+Plan

This lesson assumes students already have and used a blog, wiki and an RSS reader.

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 * **Objective or goal of the lesson**
 * As part of the 8th grade U.S. history course and the objective of learning how both the allies and axis created and used propaganda students will be creating their own awareness campaign to promote online safety with student council.
 * Students will be using Wikis, Blogs and RSS to collaborate, reflect and keep track of everyone's contributions.
 * Students will learn the principles of online safety by learning how to teach others about online safety.
 * **Technology which will be used.**
 * Blog.
 * Wiki
 * RSS
 * **Brief explanation of how the technology will be used**
 * Students will use a wiki to collaborate, RSS to keep track of other student's wiki contributions and blog reflections.
 * **Description of what behavior is expected of students**
 * Students will carry a professional demeanor online. This means they will make positive, constructive comments and keep all online activity for this assignment focused on the objectives and tasks.
 * **Process or steps for teaching (i.e., what you will actually do in the classroom)**
 * 1) Watch the youtube video called[| Bulletin Board] from the Ad Council. This ad is actually the least disturbing of the ones I saw on this issue on YouTube.
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 * 3) In small groups have students discuss the following questions.
 * 4) What was the goal of this video?
 * 5) Was it effective in reaching that goal?
 * 6) What did the video director do well?
 * 7) What could have been improved or added to increase it's effectiveness?
 * 8) What would make this video more effective for our student body?
 * 9) Discuss as a group the answers to these questions.
 * 10) [|Mindmap] what students think are the largest safety issues online. I will call up mindmeister on the projector pc and have students follow along with their own mindmap on paper. They will raise thier hands and contribute ideas that I will put on the mindmap. I will publish this mindmap on my course wiki.
 * 11) Students will get into groups and identify one of the safety issues from the mindmap to target in an awareness campaign.
 * 12) Students then decide who their small group leader is. The student will be responsible for creating a secure, private wiki on wikispaces and communicate the login info to the rest of the group.
 * 13) Once students look over the directions in step 8 they need to discuss who should do what or what each person is responsible for adding to the wiki. This list of expectations should be compiled by the leader and sent to me. I will use this as a rubric to grade their participation.
 * 14) Students will then add information to the wiki that is relevant. This includes but is not limited to:
 * 15) Awareness campaigns that have already been done.
 * 16) Organizations that have done research or are promoting awareness of online safety.
 * 17) Ideas for effective awareness campaign at our school with our students.
 * 18) A final plan for a week long awareness campaign that will target the entire school including students and staff.
 * 19) Students will post on their blog a response to the following responses.
 * 20) What was the awareness campaign plan your group developed?
 * 21) include link to the wiki
 * 22) Do you think the plan will be effective if executed? Why or why not? If not what did you do to make improvements to the plan?
 * 23) What did you learn about online safety?
 * 24) Students will use the RSS reader feeds they have already created of the class blogs to read other's posts and find three other students blogs to respond to. They will make a comment on three other blogs responding to the content of the blogger's post.
 * **What actions you will take and how you expect your students to respond if they find inappropriate content**
 * 1) Students finding inappropriate content is inevitable. To demonstrate that it is inevitable I will have funny pictures of myself on my class wiki and accidentally go there. This will all be done using the projector hooked up to the pc. I will show the class the pictures and then back out. The pics will be fun, I will probably have my girls paint my face and dress me up or something. Nothing too embarrassing but funny.. Talking about this issue with some humor will help students know that it is not their fault if they unwittingly get a site that is not good but it is their responsibility to hit the back arrow on the browser and get out of their.
 * **Citations for any sources used, if applicable**

Parent Permission Letter

Dear families,

8th grade U.S. History will be creating an online safety campaign for the school as part of a bigger lesson on propaganda. Propaganda during World War Two was vital for both the Allies and the Axis to get their messages out and everyone working in the same direction. Propaganda often is negative so I wanted to make a positive propaganda campaign. We are calling it the Online Safety Awareness Campaign. Students have already been using online technologies like a wiki, blog and an RSS reader for previous projects. To ensure safety we have not allowed information that identifies the student or the school. We simply have used first names and all the blogs linked to our class wiki so students can find them. Since a majority of my students have Facebook or MySpace accounts I thought the issue of online safety was timely.

A review of how the technology works: Students will be collaborating on a private secure wiki. This is like an online notebook that only the members can see or use. Students will be reflecting on the project with thier blogs. These blog posts will follow a format and students will be posting responses to writing prompts I create. These posts follow the same format as earlier projects on the blog. We are emphasizing safety and a professional demeanor working together so we can help continue to teach students that working together online is not the same as chatting on Facebook. Students will also keep track of each other with RSS. RSS is a way to have the content of the blogs or wikis added updated automatically. It is a safe technology and does not involve giving out any information.

Permission:

Please sign below if you give your child permission to continue using these technologies online. During curriculum night at the beginning of school we discussed this technology, the benefits of using it and how we are going to stay safe online but I would like to use this permission form as a way to continue to help you talk with your child about online safety. If you are not comfortable allowing your child use online tools please email me at jhabisch@lakewoodpark.org and let me know. I have an alternative way this can be done not using online tools.

Thank you!

Jason Habisch

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