Kim+Huston+Lessons

Kim Huston Lessons
1. Creativity and innovation 4. Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making 2. Communication and collaboration 5. Digitial citizenship 3. Research and information fluency 6. Technology operations and concepts 50 min |||| Instructional Activities || Materials and Resources ||
 * Daily Lesson GAME Plan ||
 * **Lesson Title:** paper blogging |||| **Related Lessons:** writing, grammar ||
 * **Grade Level:** 5th |||| **Unit:** technology/writing ||
 * GOALS ||
 * **Content Standards:** Creating a small, paper blogging community gives students a chance to understand “blogging” and safely practice having an “online persona.” ||
 * **ISTE NETS-S**
 * Instructional Objective(s):** To help students understand the mechanics of blogging and commenting on blogs, discuss appropriate uses for blogs, and practice safe blogging ||
 * ACTION ||
 * **Before-Class Preparation:** The teacher will post the word BLOG in the middle of a space on the board. The letter B will be covered up with Post-its. We will be writing definitions of what we think "LOG" means. The students' definitions might be the log of a tree, a ship's log, travel log, or writing log. The teacher will explain that it is not a personal journal or diary, and that they are going to have a chance to practice on the posting space what many people are doing online, and uncover the "B" from the word BLOG. ||
 * During Class ||
 * Time
 * |||| Explain that Web-log = blog and that your paper blog space will work much like an online one.
 * Ask students to raise their hands if they share your “passion” about something like video games or searching for bugs. Ask them if they think you’ll find anyone at school that shares the same interest. Tell them that blogs are a way to use the WWW to connect to others who share a passion/interest, and that on our school “posting space” our community will share about our passions for favorite foods or beverages, since we all have them!
 * Have students come to your “Blogspot”– a place where You provide them with a blog page and easy ways to customize it. Your “Blogspot” will have the selection of colorful paper and pens.
 * As students finish their first “post” collect them on a central table and then give each student three Post-it notes and explain that you want them to read three other people’s blogs and post “comments” by sticking Post-it notes with their reactions on to them.
 * When everyone has posted their comments, have the blog owners come get their blogs with comments and review whether they want to keep them. (This can lead to good discussions and whether to allow anonymous comments) || *Bulletin Board or posting space.
 * A selection of colorful paper, Post-it notes, pens and markers.
 * Stapler, tape, or push pins for posting. ||
 * **Notes:** Tell students to name their blog safely, and for this first exercise pick a favorite (not necessarily the favorite) food. Have the students describe their food or beverage, tell something about it that makes us get hungry for it. Have students include a drawing of it, to catch our attention so we’ll read their blog. ||
 * MONITOR ||
 * **Ongoing Assessment(s):** Check blogs and comments to make sure they are appropriate. After this set of blogs has been posted for a week or two, have students put up new “posts” on their blogs (the old posts may have to be cleared off to make room for the new ones). Let students post about any interest they would like to–and check again for appropriateness. Music, summer vacation activities, and pets were favorite subjects.


 * Accommodations and Extensions:** As they are ready, staple/post the blogs with comments on the posting space. Have a selection of pens and post it notes nearby, inviting other students to “post comments on our blogs.” Remind students that they can still remove any comments they don’t like, and that they can stop in and check their “blogs” during free time.


 * Back-up Plan:** We won't be using the computers at this time, so a back-up plan is not needed. ||
 * EVALUATION ||
 * **Lesson Reflection and Notes:** The teacher would consider having another older student make an inappropriate comment (obviously, have the student who comments part of the setup) and leading a discussion on how to react, research recommended responses to cyberbullying–another whole lesson or two! Talk about controversy and comment control, whether or not to insist people sign their comments. ||