Wishing you all Happy Holidays and New Year!
See you in January...
Enjoy the time off..get rest..read...and even WRITE...yes, BLOG AWAY...
Wishing you all the best!
Ms. Gamzon
Friday, December 19, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Wed. Time's Best Blogs and comments
Time.com best blogs:
Visit this web site. Use the ;links on the web site to explore the "best blogs". By the end of the period, you should post a comment here about about what you like or don't like about the blogs you visited.
You should also have at least one interesting entry on your own blog. Make sure we can
visit your blog.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1725323,00.html
Also, visit this site about blogging:
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/
Visit this web site. Use the ;links on the web site to explore the "best blogs". By the end of the period, you should post a comment here about about what you like or don't like about the blogs you visited.
You should also have at least one interesting entry on your own blog. Make sure we can
visit your blog.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1725323,00.html
Also, visit this site about blogging:
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Blogging
PicturePerfect: Blogging about your future lifestyle
Overview
After completing the peak readiness activities, students design their own Life Plan, publishing the final version on a blog, using the Blogger website.
The students will blog about the detailed vision of their independent adult future, covering the following steps:
1. Decide your lifestyle goals
2. Explore educational options and outcomes
* Find Colleges, Explore Admissions, Compare Costs
3. Identify Job, Career, and Vocational Options
* Profile yourself, identify job and career categories
* Explore income, working conditions, job outlook
4. Research and Decide Your Independent Lifestyle
* Find a real apartment/house, furnish your house/appartment, determine costs to move out, create a budget for basic expenses
* Purchase a car, calculate a car loan, real costs of owning and maintaining a car, explore insurance costs for cars and health
* Calculate leisure and entertainment costs
* Establish saving, investing, credit cards, and rainy days budgets
* Income needed to achieve your preferred lifestyle vs. actual projected income based on job choices
5. Explore giving back to the community
6. Align your lifestyle, mission, and earning power
Student Objectives
Students will
* create a vision of their place in the world and what it will take to get there.
* gain a greater understanding of their environment and their peers by examining other blogs.
* consider elements of visual rhetoric as they design their blogs.
* write a series of texts that communicate effectively with their audience.
* find resources on the Internet to support the content of their vision.
Reason for choosing:
In today's world it is extremely important for students to develop a clear vision of their place in the world that alignes their lifestyle preferences with their potential future earning power. By completing the activity the student can see the path, step by step, of how to get there, gain the skills to meet the challenges and opportunities, and discover solid reasons to make right choices and take right actions.
Blogs provide a space for globally sharing opinions in order to grow communities of discourse and knowledge - a space where students and teachers can learn from each other: by sharing their visions in a blog the student will "publicly" stand up for his or her future and share important personal insights with the rest of the class (and the world) that will improve the classroom environment and build a stronger team.
Possible Obstacles:
* Prepare general instructions for using the Blogger software. Included in these instructions should be materials explaining exactly what a blog is with regards to its intended use in the class.
* Appropriate Language and blog content: Internet content is timeless, even if you remove content, it might be archived or syndicated. Colleges and Employers all search the Internet to discern an individuals history.
* Bullying and cyberbullying issues: since the blogs will contain very personal content it is important to make sure everyone respects and considers their classmates' feelings. Guidelines should be established on how to react to bullying/cyberbullying if it does occur.
* Post anonymously - avoid personal or identifying details (e.g. personal photos, name, address, phone number, age, etc.)
Overview
After completing the peak readiness activities, students design their own Life Plan, publishing the final version on a blog, using the Blogger website.
The students will blog about the detailed vision of their independent adult future, covering the following steps:
1. Decide your lifestyle goals
2. Explore educational options and outcomes
* Find Colleges, Explore Admissions, Compare Costs
3. Identify Job, Career, and Vocational Options
* Profile yourself, identify job and career categories
* Explore income, working conditions, job outlook
4. Research and Decide Your Independent Lifestyle
* Find a real apartment/house, furnish your house/appartment, determine costs to move out, create a budget for basic expenses
* Purchase a car, calculate a car loan, real costs of owning and maintaining a car, explore insurance costs for cars and health
* Calculate leisure and entertainment costs
* Establish saving, investing, credit cards, and rainy days budgets
* Income needed to achieve your preferred lifestyle vs. actual projected income based on job choices
5. Explore giving back to the community
6. Align your lifestyle, mission, and earning power
Student Objectives
Students will
* create a vision of their place in the world and what it will take to get there.
* gain a greater understanding of their environment and their peers by examining other blogs.
* consider elements of visual rhetoric as they design their blogs.
* write a series of texts that communicate effectively with their audience.
* find resources on the Internet to support the content of their vision.
Reason for choosing:
In today's world it is extremely important for students to develop a clear vision of their place in the world that alignes their lifestyle preferences with their potential future earning power. By completing the activity the student can see the path, step by step, of how to get there, gain the skills to meet the challenges and opportunities, and discover solid reasons to make right choices and take right actions.
Blogs provide a space for globally sharing opinions in order to grow communities of discourse and knowledge - a space where students and teachers can learn from each other: by sharing their visions in a blog the student will "publicly" stand up for his or her future and share important personal insights with the rest of the class (and the world) that will improve the classroom environment and build a stronger team.
Possible Obstacles:
* Prepare general instructions for using the Blogger software. Included in these instructions should be materials explaining exactly what a blog is with regards to its intended use in the class.
* Appropriate Language and blog content: Internet content is timeless, even if you remove content, it might be archived or syndicated. Colleges and Employers all search the Internet to discern an individuals history.
* Bullying and cyberbullying issues: since the blogs will contain very personal content it is important to make sure everyone respects and considers their classmates' feelings. Guidelines should be established on how to react to bullying/cyberbullying if it does occur.
* Post anonymously - avoid personal or identifying details (e.g. personal photos, name, address, phone number, age, etc.)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Agenda 10/6
Agenda 10/6
Exploring Sensationalism, Bias, Objective/Balanced Reporting and Parody NewsPeriod 1 Activity
1. Go to the following link to find 2 TABLOID stories that you consider to be sensationalism in journalism: www.top10links.com/cat.php/News:Newspapers:Tabloids
2. Check out the op ed pages and columns of 2 major newspapers (New york Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, etc.) to find articles that have a slant or bias.
3. Find 2 articles on the front pages of these major newspapers that seem to be well-balanced and objective.
4. Finally, check out The Onion for parody at: www.theonion.com/content/
5. Share you findings with a partner and together post a reply to this assignment for credit.
6. Finish editing articles. Work on your FUTURE BOOK (10 articles you would like to write this year).
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
After watching Outfoxed
Briefly answer the following questions:
1. What are some of the techniques used by Fox News that are shown in the movie that appear to "bias" the news presentation?
2. What other examples of news "bias" have you observed in local or national or cable news?
3. Do you think that "fair and balanced" correctly depicts the journalism that you read or see? Should the news be based on "news judgment"? Is cable news too opinionated?
1. What are some of the techniques used by Fox News that are shown in the movie that appear to "bias" the news presentation?
2. What other examples of news "bias" have you observed in local or national or cable news?
3. Do you think that "fair and balanced" correctly depicts the journalism that you read or see? Should the news be based on "news judgment"? Is cable news too opinionated?
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