7D+Longacre,+Erin+-+Lesson+Plan+and+Permission+Letter

= Lesson Plan Title =

 Blogging Safely Lesson Plan

=Objective =

 Students will learn how to securely and safely create their own blogs, they will also learn how to address comments from people outside the school building. =Technology To Be Use =  Blogs RSS feeds (for teacher use only) They will create their own blogs at wordpess.com and then I will subscribe to their RSS feeds to monitor activity. =Expected Behavior of Studenta =  • Students are expected to write posts on their blogs as if they were turning in the papers to the teacher. • There may be no foul langue or inappropriate comments / references in your own post. • When responding to classmate’s blogs all comments must be positive and encouraging. • Any inappropriate langue or comments will result in a discipline referral.

=Process =


 * Students will get a laptop and proceed to go to the website wordpress.com


 * There they will create their own blogs by creating an account. This account asks for a user name and password, the user name then becomes the name of the blog. It is important that students do not use their full names. They may use their first names or create a unique title for their blog.


 *  Once they have entered this information they will be asked about privacy, they may chose to let their blog show up in search engines if they like, or they may keep it private it is their choice.


 * The site will then ask you to create a profile and asks for your first and last name. I will instruct them not to enter their last name and only enter their first name if they chose, they may also use a pseudonym if they would like.
 * This is where I will explain the idea of creating an online presence and how it is important not to put to much information onto the page regardless of if it is public or private. Also if the information about themselves they should not put addresses, places of employment, or other information that would identify you. You may hobbies and other fun facts but nothing to personal.
 * Example:
 * Do: I like to watch TV, my favorite show is Psych.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Don’t: I like to go to rookies every Tuesday night for wings.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Students will then receive a conformation e-mail and their blogs will be active!


 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Their first post will be a response to this comment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Since we are just getting started I want to know what you think about blogs. Have you ever used them before? If yes did you find them useful or interesting to your educational goals or personal goals? If no how do you think they would be useful in your educational goals, or personal goals? Being part of the technology generation what have you found to be the most useful tool for helping you with school, and the most useful tool in your own personal lives?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Students will get questions to respond to weekly on their blogs, most questions will be about material we are currently learning or things that are going on the media.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Students will be required to read their classmates post and response to 2 posts a week


 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">In order to monitor all posts and comments I will subscribe to the student’s RSS feeds.

=<span style="background-color: #382323; color: #b72a9f; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Actions to be Taken / Student Responses to Inappropriate Content: = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> In order to help students deal with blogging in an environment where anyone can comment on their posts I will have a classroom discussion about online safety. We will talk about accepting comments from people outside the school and how all comments received in this manor should be addressed by both the student and myself. We will also discuss the need to keep our identities private and to not reveal too much about ourselves in the posts.

Another important aspect is to respect each other’s posts and never post negative or degrading comments on classmate’s pages. We will also discus consequences for these actions regardless of if the posts were made in school or at home.

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