Week 2

Continuing the GAME plan (WEEK 2)

My GOAL this week is to Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility through a lesson that has been ongoing throughout this semester. In order to do this I needed a microphone, audacity, a Smartboard, our class website with a blog and a computer to facilitate our activity from.

Many of you have heard me talk about podcasting a mock trial of Romeo and Juliet. Now what I want to do is take the activity a step further and have students blog under the podcast as to who they thought won or lost. Their responses will have to be thoughtful and respectful. In taking this ACTION, I will allow my students the ability to learn my desired standard for the week which is to Promote Digital Citizenship and Responsibility.

I will MONITER my class’s posts throughout the week to ensure that they are engaging in appropriate dialogue with one another. I will also give rewards to those who report any abuse on our blog by giving students who find abuse extra credit.

My EVALUTION of this plan comes through the quality of responses students give to one another in their podcasting blogging assignment. This assignment is unique in that students need to have their own voices on our website. It brings a human element that is inescapable. It will also require students to engage in healthy discussions and criticisms of their work, and not themselves. By doing this, I hope students make the link between people on the other side of the screen and themselves.