Gr 8 - Online Social Media Project

MYP Guiding Question:

How do I use Social Media to present myself to the online world?

Start Date: Tuesday, 2nd November 2010 Handin Date: Tuesday, 23rd November 2010 End of Trimester 1: Wednesday, 24th November 2010 Duration: 4 weeks (8 lessons)

Table of Contents
Gr 8 - Online Social Media Project How do I use Social Media to present myself to the online world? MYP Computer Technology Design Cycle Lesson 1: Tues: Investigate: Introduction to Social Media Lesson 2: Investigate: 4th Nov 2010 Lesson 3: Tues: Plan & Design: 9th Nov Lesson 4: Thurs: Plan: 11th Nov Lesson 5: Tues: Create: Lesson 6: Thurs: Create: Lesson 7: Tues: Evaluate: Tues Nov 23rd Project Handin - final day for editing Google Doc Lesson 8: Evaluate: Reflection References:

MYP Computer Technology Design Cycle

Lesson 1: Tues: Investigate: Media

Tuesday 2nd November 2010

Introduction to Social

Required Outcome for this lesson: a. Create a new Google DOCUMENT. b. File name: (first name) + (Last inital) - Online Social Media Project c. Share: with wayne.voogt@cedarschoolbvi.com to EDIT d. Title your document: (same as above) e. Read the What is Social Media below. f. Answer todays questions. There are 4 questions (they are in orange below) in your NEW doc, not inside this document. g. Add to the definition of What is Social Media. h. Watch the 2 videos i. Define what social media means to you. j. Complete the two lists k. Understand, and be able to define, the meaning of Social Media in your own words. l. Complete your blog entry for todays lesson. All of the above must be completed by 10pm Wednesday 3rd November 2010. What is Social Media? Read through this definition below: In your new google doc answer the questions in orange. The best way to define social media is to break it down. Media is an instrument on communication, like a newspaper or a radio, so social media would be a social instrument of communication. In Web 2.0 terms, this would be a website that doesn't just give you information, but interacts with you while giving you that information. This interaction can be as simple as asking for your comments or letting you vote on an article, or it can be as complex as Flixster recommending movies to you based on the ratings of other people with similar interests. Think of regular media as a one-way street where you can read a newspaper or listen to a report on television, but you have very limited ability to give your thoughts on the matter. Social media, on the other hand, is a two-way street that gives you the ability to communicate too.

Nations, Daniel. "What is Social Media" About.com. Web. 1 Nov 2010. http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/social-media.htm Question 1. Adding more to this definition, so that you understand Social Media more. This definition was taken from the Internet by Mr, Voogt, you must think about what else could be said about the definition of Social Media? Search online for 3 more meanings of Social Media, Add the definitions you find off the Internet. You may copy and paste but you MUST USE the MLA citation correctly when acknowledging your sources. SEARCH for MLA in your Google Docs.

Next: To better understand Social Media, you must watch the following videos from YouTube: Social Media in plain English Social Media Revolution 2

Question 2: In 4-5 (or more) sentences DEFINE what social media means to you. Question 3: List 10 ways you think Social Media is changing the way we think about the web/design:

Question 4.

a) List 10 Social Media sites which you either personally have an account with or know of. b) Rank them in order of importance to you:

Lesson 2: Investigate:
Required Outcome for this lesson: 1. Completed Lesson 1 2. Understand your final outcome 3. Watch Video: Digital Nation Trailer http://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalNation Complete: 1. As an online user complete the phrase: I am ... a. Come up with at least 6 things you are when online. 2. How will you choose to present your 60 second show piece:

4th Nov 2010

Will it be a : video/presentation/prezi/animoto/vioce/music List 3 ideas on how you will present how you use social media to present yourself to the online world. More details on your final outcome will be described in other lessons.

Lesson 3: Tues: Plan & Design:

9th Nov

View different graphical representations of how you interact with a variety of Social Media.

Lesson Outcome: 1. Learn the basics of Drawings in Google Docs 2. Insert your Drawing into your Google Doc.

3. Edit your DrawingPlan your work for the upcoming lessons and final outcome.

Lesson 4: Thurs:

Plan:

11th Nov

You MUST have completed Lesson 1, 2 & 3 BEFORE moving on. Do not fall behind in your work or you will scramble at the end Final Outcome: A 60 second video showing how you use social media to present yourself to the world.

Plans: Click on the links below to see examples of work: Grade level 1 - 2: Grade level 3 - 4: Grade level 5 - 6: a. Create a NEW Google Spreadsheet & SHARE it with Mr. Voogt b. Title your SPREADSHEET: (First name) (Last initial) - Planning Online Social Media Project. i. Row 1 will contain the headings, then each column will contain: 1. Column A Date 2. Column B Design Cycle Stage 3. Column C Planned Work 4. Column D Actual Work 5. Column E Area of Interaction 6. Column F Reflection/Blog Entry ii. Enter all the dates for the next 12 days. 1. Handin is: Monday 22nd November 2. You will need to work a little bit each day for the next 12 days 3. You must work on your creation as soon as your plan is complete. iii. Enter the Design Cycle Stage for each date.

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Design Cycle Stage

Enter what you plan to do at each day in order to achieve the outcome of a 60 second video show case your use of online media to the online community. Note: Free Video screen capture software: www.jing.com can be used to help build mini-clips to add to your video. Planning Example:
Planned Work (This the very important bit, plan it well, plan it today (11th November) and stick to your plan!)
I will carefully and comprehensively plan out each day to ensure my project is completed on time. The better I plan. The easier my project will be.

Actual Work

Area of Interaction

Blog Entry

11 Nov Day 1

Plan

Completed my plan. I detailed every day, under the Planned work column, deciding to work 30 mins a day on each piece of planned work. ...

Approaches to Learning

Completed blog entry

12 Nov Day 2

Plan

30 mins: On a new drawing in Google Docs I will layout out 60 sec timeline and plan what each 5 seconds in my video will contain. Either an image/text/video clip/sound effect/music/digital effect etc. If this is too difficult I will use a piece of paper and later scan it and upload it to my Computer Technology Folder in Google Docs. 30 mins: I will download Jing software and learn how to use it by making a 10 sec clip of myself on Facebook.

Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity

Completed: Yes/No

12 Nov Day 3

Create

...

Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity Approaches to Learning & Human Ingenuity

Completed: Yes/No

13 Nov Day 4.

Create/ Evaluate

30 mins: I will search for icon images for each social media site I use

...

Completed: Yes/No

. a. Continue ...

Quotable Quotes:
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. Margaret Thatcher - Britains longest serving female priminister. He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Lesson 5: Tues: Create:

(... on the way. Check this doc for updates.)

Lesson 6: Thurs: Create:

Lesson 7: Tues: Evaluate: Tues Nov 23rd Project Handin - final day for editing Google Doc

Welcome to the Handin day for your creations and completion of all aspects of the Computer Technology design cycle. I whole-heartedly look forward to viewing your creations over the next two days. To go with my previous email, here is a check-list for your final handin: 1. Investigate Stage: Have you answered all the questions to the best of your ability? Have sourced your three (3) definitions of Social Media using the MLA citation method correctly? 2. Design Stage: Social Media Diagram Have you completed your Social Media diagram? Is it inserted into your Online Social Media doc? Are the arrows accurately depicting your interaction with Social Media? 3. Plan stage: Spreadsheet Is this completely up-to-date? Thoroughly completed? If you had to change parts of your Planned work have you justified your reasons for the changes? Colourful and neat? 4. Create Stage: Creation You must handin by 5pm today. Jump drive? Email attachment? Upload to YouTube? How will Mr. V receive your final product. Take note of the size of the file you are hadning in. You must make a plan and let Mr. V know. 5. Evaluate stage: Blog Are your blog entries up to date? Did you reflect on your learning? The blog is your reflective area, not the area to state what you did, but rather what you learned and any new course of action you may have had to take. Is your spelling and grammar correct? Have you written with a voice? Would someone outside our class find your blog informative, interesting and well written? Could you add a picture or two on one or two posts that reflect your learning/thinking? Is your blog attractive to the eye?

Do you feel good about all your work?!

(First lesson of Trimester 2)

Lesson 8: Evaluate:
(... on the way. Check this doc for updates.)

Reflection

References:
Nations, Daniel. "What is Social Media" About.com. Web. 1 Nov 2010. http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/social-media.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng