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 * **Date** || AGENDA || **Work Period** ||
 * 2/28 || EQ: What do I owe Ms. Graves?
 * 1) Quite a few people in this class owe me back work. Since this is the case, today is your opportunity to make up any work that you owe me.
 * 2) I will pass out your mid-marking period reports. Please use them as a guide to make up any missing assignments. || # Complete all missing assignments. ||
 * 3/1 || EQ: Where in the Arab world have protests sprung up? Why? What is happening? Who is involved?


 * 1) Join the Pirate Pad conversation. Once there type in your name.
 * 2) Watch the video.
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 * 4) After viewing the video, please post all questions or comments that you may have about the Middle East or the video. Please feel free to share your impressions about this video as well.
 * 5) Look at how news is spread globally through Twitter hash tags immediately, what do you think of this?
 * 6) "In a matter of weeks, the people of Tunisia and Egypt ousted the dictators who had ruled their countries for decades. No individual, group or event was solely responsible for these historic shifts in power. Yet these six turning points helped to bring people, who have long felt abused by their governments, into the streets to revolt." (retrieved from NY Times online) || # Go to the Spreading the Revolution Website.
 * 7) Listen to the all of the audio and video for parts one and two.
 * 8) Respond to the following questions and post them to your research page.
 * [[file:SpreadingtheRevolutionques]] ||
 * 3/2 || EQ: How has Social networking changed the way the news reports what happens? How has Social Networking sparked change and revolution in the Middle East?
 * 1) Let's try this again...join the Meeting Words class conversation. Once there type in your name and be prepared to share any questions or comments you may have about the video or news story we will read.
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 * 4) As a class, we will read, Social Network: The weapons of our Modern Eraand then respond to our thoughts about this on the Meeting Words pad. || # Go to the Spreading the Revolution Website.
 * 5) Listen to the rest of the audio and video for Spreading the revolution (parts 3 thru 6).
 * 6) Respond to the following questions and post them to your research page.
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://massmediajmhs.wikispaces.com/file/view/SpreadingtheRevolutionques"]] [|SpreadingtheRevolutionques] ||
 * 3/3 || EQ: What does the term digital nation mean?

Destiny Website


 * 1) Watch Video
 * 2) media type="custom" key="8622166" || # Take Cyber Kid Quiz
 * 3) DO the questions for Growing up Online and post them to your research page[[file:Growing_Up_Online_Questions.docx]] ||
 * 3/4 || EQ: What does the term digital nation mean?


 * 1) Finish watching video
 * 2) media type="custom" key="8622168" || # Finish the questions for Growing up Online and post them to your research page[[file:Growing_Up_Online_Questions.docx]]
 * 3) **Blog:** Some kids think it's easier to socialize online now than in person. What do you think? Does the internet affect things in school? Think about how fighting starts online and how people are now able to spread rumors faster and quicker. Do you think that this makes it harder to keep things to yourself? ||
 * 3/7 || EQ: What is violence in the media? How does this affect children?


 * 1) [[file:violenceppt.ppt]]
 * 2) Watch the Documentary //Killing Screens//
 * 3) media type="custom" key="8622144" || # Answer the questions to the //Killing Screens// and post them to your Violence in the Media page.
 * 4) [[file:Killingscreensquestions.doc]] ||
 * 3/8 || EQ: What is violence in the media? How does this affect children?


 * 1) media type="custom" key="8622184"
 * 2) Watch the Video and respond to the Blog Prompt. || # Answer these questions and post them to your Violence in Media page.
 * 3) [[file:toughguisequestions.doc]]
 * 4) Today's Blog: Our attitudes towards TV violence have changed over time. At one time or another, each of the following have been considered violent acts. Which ones do you think are violent, and which do you think are not violent?


 * The Three Stooges poking each other in the eye.
 * Scenes of war on the 6:00 news.
 * A food fight.
 * Someone being threatened with a gun.
 * A nasty insult.
 * A cartoon character shooting another character. ||
 * 3/9 || EQ: What is violence in the media? How does this affect children?


 * 1) media type="custom" key="8622224"
 * 2) We've been talking about the effects of violence in the media. It seems that many people have their own beliefs about how and if they think violent programming effects children. || # Do research on the internet and find information on violence in the media
 * 3) Create a powerpoint:
 * 4) Create a title page
 * 5) Find and list at least three problems that psychologists feel affect children from the amount of violence they see on television.
 * 6) Find and list at least three things psychologists say as reasons why they believe violence does not effect children in any way.
 * 7) Insert either some sort of data, graph, or video clip about violence in the media.
 * 8) List the different types of violence on television (p.s. I listed these on the ppt on Monday, one ex. is violence for humor.)
 * 9) Sum up your opinion whether or not you think violence in the media effects children's perceptions. ||
 * 3/10 || EQ: Do video games promote violence?


 * 1) The lure of video games
 * 2) Video games and Computer Rating Systems
 * 3) media type="custom" key="8646318" || # Complete the video game survey and post it on your media violence page. [[file:Videogamesurvey.docx]]
 * 4) Read the article, Video Violence: Too Close To The Real Thing.
 * 5) Answer the questions about the article and post them to your media violence page.[[file:Videogamequest.docx]] ||
 * 3/11 || EQ: What is a PSA? How can we create a PSA using a voki?


 * 1) What is a PSA?
 * 2) media type="custom" key="8662342"
 * 3) What is a voki? Go to the voki website

Spell in Pictures with Flickr || # You have your opinion about whether or not media violence affects children. You must now create a voki that tells at least three specific facts about media violence. media type="custom" key="8662888" ||
 * 1) You must introduce yourself, give three specific facts about media violence and warn parents about the dangers of allowing their children to watch television unsupervised.
 * 2) My Example:
 * 3/14 || Make up work day. Friday is the end of the marking period. || Make up work day. Friday is the end of the marking period. ||
 * 3/15 || EQ: How do we analyze websites?


 * 1) 
 * What kind of Web site is this?
 * What decision does Jo have to make?
 * What should Jo be looking out for?
 * Does Jo make the right decision?
 * Why or why not?


 * 1) Using what we know, play the Jo Cool game and see if you can answer the questions and make the right decisions. || # Is Jo Cool or Jo Fool ||
 * 3/16 || EQ: What is online hate?


 * 1) Online Hate ||   ||
 * 3/17 || EQ: What is online hate?


 * 1) media type="custom" key="8736390"
 * 2) Why is it important to track online hate?
 * 3) What qualifies as online hate? || # Go to the website, Spectrum of Hate
 * 4) Respond to the following questions and post them to your media violence page. [[file:onlinehate.docx]] ||
 * 3/18 ||  ||   ||