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Digital Citizenship August 27-August 31

**Assignment 1 (August 27):** Complete the[| Online Learning Styles Inventory] (click the link). At the end of the questions, you will receive your results and you will have the ability to learn a little bit more about what your learning styles mean. Research your top three styles and think about how those styles relate to your educational experiences. After you have finished, complete the following writing assignment using a Google Document:

After you complete the inventory, write a brief description of your findings. What kind of learner are you? What suggestions were given to help you? Is this new information to you? Do the results surprise you? You can answer these questions or simply write a reflection based on the results. Just be sure to include the learning style results (what kind of learner you are most like) and how this information can help you.

-Please type your responses in Google docs. Save it as Your Full Name's Learning Style (ex: Joe Smith's Learning Style). -Share the document with Mrs. Lucia (KLucia@cypanthers.org).

**Assignment 2 (August 28):** Set up your Google Reader Account. In your Google Reader, you MUST subscribe to one technology feed, one news feed, and one education feed. Additionally, you should pick three more feeds to which you subscribe. These feeds must be informative, but the topics are up to you. Some category suggestions are: entertainment, sports, politics, health (but you can be as specific as you want under these categories). You will be reading from your Google Reader at least once each week, so make sure you are actually interested in the feeds to which you subscribe. Make sure you bookmark your Google Reader to your toolbar so that you can easily access it each week.

[|Google Reader in Plain English]

**Assignment 3 (August 28):** Set up a blog using Wordpress. Create a new blog. Name your blog with your name (ex. Sammy's Blog). Your blog address should be something unique and creative. Then change the settings to reflect your personality. Bookmark your blog! Then complete this Google Form to share the link to your blog with me.

**Assignment 4 (August 28):** Download and read through the blogging guidelines. You may want to save this to your desktop so you can reference it throughout the semester.

**Assignment 5 (August 28):** Check out the posting on [|my blog.]After you have read my posting, respond to the question at the bottom through a response to my blog posting. Since you're already there, go ahead and bookmark my blog to your bookmarks toolbar!

**Assignment 6 (August 28):** Modeling your first posting after my example, explain why you decided on the blog name that you did. You are not going to get credit for giving me an answer such as "I just did" or "That was the easiest thing I could think of". Your blog link and your first posting should show originality and give me a little insight into who you are.

**Assignment 7 (August 29 and August 30):** In your groups of 3, have one person create a new Google Document. The document should be named Digital Citizenship-Table # and shared with everyone at your table and Mrs. Lucia (klucia@cypanthers.org). Place all of your names at the top of the document. Then complete the following activities:


 * 1) Visit my Delicious Page and select an article tagged "digital citizenship". You should select the article as a group as everyone in the group must read the same article.
 * 2) Read the article.
 * 3) Re-read the article. This time while you are reading, post on the Google Document 3 very important points from the article and 1 most valuable point. Your MVP should not be one of your 3 VIPs. Make sure you indicate on the Google Doc which points are yours.
 * 4) Once everyone has finished #3, as a group, write a 3-5 line summary of the article and a 5-7 line reflection. The summary should explain the key points in the article and the reflection should explain how your group felt about the article (we agreed with the part about ___ because__ _, we all thought that ___ really stood out because__ __, etc.). Only one person in the group needs to type the summary and reflection but everyone must contribute ideas.

**Assignment 8 (August 30):** Complete a blog posting about yourself (See my example if you are having trouble getting started) Write 7-10 lines telling the class about who you are, where you are from, and some of your likes and dislikes.

**Assignment 9 (August 30):** Visit my Delicious Page, and read at least one article that is tagged as "digital citizenship." You must select a different article from the one that your group selected to read yesterday. Show me what you learned through this article in one of the following ways. Your creation should show that you clearly understand what digital citizenship is. Pick a tool you are already comfortable using. You will drop this in my drop box in the appropriate class period. Make sure you name your project appropriately (username.DC) *Be sure to include a link to the article somewhere on your document.
 * A word picture made using Wordle. Please include at least 40 words that paint an accurate picture of what you read, showing your understanding of digital citizenship. Take a screen shot (command+shift+4 will take a screen shot and save it to your desktop) of the wordle and drop the image in my dropbox. Make sure you rename your screen shot with your username before putting it in my dropbox.
 * A digital collage using copyright free images (AT LEAST 10 RELEVANT IMAGES) from Creative Commons. (Be sure to cite images on a separate page or at the bottom of your page.)
 * A detailed summary and reflection of the article you read (ABOUT 1 PAGE).
 * An oral summary and reflection recorded in Garage Band.
 * Some other representation of your knowledge approved by the teacher.

**Assignment 10 (August 31):** Look at the blog listings located on the Wiki Page (click the link). Begin to follow some of your classmates (you must follow at least 10 people in your own class period). //Some people have their blogs set to private so you will need to request access and then wait to be approved before you can begin to follow their blogs//. After you have started to follow your classmates, post responses to at least 3 different blog postings by 3 different people. Keep in mind the blog response requirements that we outlined in class this week.

**Assignment 11 (August 31):** Friday blog postings are reserved for focused free writes. For a focused free write, you may choose one of the @blogging topics (click the link to see starters) or if you are a creative, free thinker, you may free write. If you choose to free write without one of the starters, you must keep your writing focused and purposeful. You may not tell me about your weekend plans, for example. You may write a fictional story, or your story may be factual, but it must serve a purpose. If you are unsure of the expectations, please see me prior to posting.

**Assignment 12 (August 31):** Check back to your Google Reader. What new feeds do you see? At this point, you should have some feeds from a variety of your subscriptions. If you don't have many feeds or if your feeds are not what you expected, you should use this time to add subscriptions, or unsubscribe to some of your feeds you wish to have removed and then subscribe to new feeds. You must keep a minimum of 6 feeds at all times.

Have a wonderful 3 day weekend!!