Day 73 - Finish 3 Steps for Lab

Day 73 Bellwork:

Open your Spreadsheet, Lab Report & Presentation - ensure they meet the requirements in the examples provided.

Agenda:

1. Finish Bouncing Ball Lab
• Spreadsheet (with 2 graphs)
• Lab Report 
• Presentation
2. EverFi

Day 71 - Finish Lab Report and Day 72 - Presentation

Day 71 Bellwork:

Open your Lab Report that was started in previous lesson.

Agenda:

1. Finish Lab Report
2. Begin Part 3: Presentations

Day 72 Bellwork:

Open your Spreadsheet & Lab Report for the Bouncing Ball lab.

Agenda:

1. Finish Lab Report
2. Presentation - Bouncing Ball Lab
• Review Section 3: Presentation Materials

Day 69 - Cloud Computing and Day 70 - Bouncing Ball Lab

Day 69 Bellwork:

Open to the new Cloud Computing Unit

Agenda:

1. Intro to Cloud Computing Unit
2. Bouncing Ball Lab

Day 70 Bellwork:

Pick up your Bouncing Ball Lab sheet.

Agenda:

1. Lab Questions
2. Word Processing 
• Lab Report

Catch Up Day

Follow the Career Project Instructions for at least 3 different careers.

Continue your EverFi assignments.

Finish your Naviance Assignments:

Log in to Naviance

1. go to www.leyden212.org
2. hover over Student Info
3. hover over Naviance
4. click West Leyden
5. enter username is id number (NOT your email)
6. enter password is locker combo

Career

Cluster Finder (add top clusters) in Naviance

1. click Careers Tab
2. click Cluster Finder (under What are my interests?)
3. click results (or finish Cluster Finder)
4. Add top clusters to your profile.

College

SuperMatch College Research (add to "colleges I am thinking about")

1. click Colleges Tab
2. click SuperMatch College Search (under College Research)
3. on left side, under Find Your Best Fit, click each orange button and complete the search
4. choose colleges that you are interested in and add to Colleges I Am Thinking About

About Me > Interesting Things About Me

1. click on About Me tab
2. click on Game Plan (under Interesting Things About Me)
3. click on About Me tab
4. click on Resume (under Interesting Things About Me)
5. click Add a New Entry
6. complete as much as you can
7. click on About Me tab
8. Post Career Project link via Journal Section

Day 68 - Finish Project

Bellwork:

Open your Career Project

Agenda:

1. Test
2. Finish Career Project & 
3. Submit

Day 67 - Continue Career Project

Bellwork:

Open your Career Project document

Agenda:

1. Career Project Work Time

Day 66 - Career Plan

Bellwork:

Open the Career Project Document from Friday.

Agenda:

1. Career Project Work Time

Day 65 - Career Project Intro

Bellwork:

Open your Personal Business Letter Practice from yesterday

Agenda:

1. Finish PBL - put in your Career folder
2. Project Intro 
• Research

Day 64 - Resume & Letter of Interest

Bellwork:


Agenda:

1. In the Career Preparation Section, under Starting Your Career complete tasks 1-3
• Continue the Naviance Resume
• Review the Materials on Personal Business Letteres
• Write a Personal Business Letter.

Day 63 - Naviance Game Plan

Bellwork:

Check your grades - anything missing?

Agenda:

1. Naviance - Game Plan
2. EverFi Work Time
3. Done? WorkKeys KeyTrain

Day 62 - BLS

Bellwork:

Open to the Career Information page in Open Class AND your Career Cluster Research Worksheet

Agenda:

1. Intro to BLS
• Top 10 Occupations
• Your Career
2. EverFi

Day 61 - College Research

Bellwork:

Open the College Research spreadsheet from yesterday.

Agenda:

1. Top 100 Jobs
2. College Research Spreadsheet
3. Everfi

Naviance College Search

Log in to Naviance

1. go to www.leyden212.org
2. hover over Student Info
3. hover over Naviance
4. click West Leyden
5. enter username is id number (NOT your email)
6. enter password is locker combo

College

SuperMatch College Research (add to "colleges I am thinking about")

1. click Colleges Tab
2. click SuperMatch College Search (under College Research)
3. on left side, under Find Your Best Fit, click each orange button and complete the search
4. choose colleges that you are interested in and add to Colleges I Am Thinking About

About Me > Interesting Things About Me

1. click on About Me tab
2. click on Game Plan (under Interesting Things About Me)
3. click on About Me tab
4. click on Resume (under Interesting Things About Me)
5. click Add a New Entry
6. complete as much as you can
7. click on About Me tab
8. Post Career Project link via Journal Section

Naviance

Log in to Naviance

1. go to www.leyden212.org
2. hover over Student Info
3. hover over Naviance
4. click West Leyden
5. enter username is id number (NOT your email)
6. enter password is locker combo

Career

Cluster Finder (add top clusters) in Naviance

1. click Careers Tab
2. click Cluster Finder (under What are my interests?)
3. click results (or finish Cluster Finder)
4. Add top clusters to your profile.

College

SuperMatch College Research (add to "colleges I am thinking about")

1. click Colleges Tab
2. click SuperMatch College Search (under College Research)
3. on left side, under Find Your Best Fit, click each orange button and complete the search
4. choose colleges that you are interested in and add to Colleges I Am Thinking About

About Me > Interesting Things About Me

1. click on About Me tab
2. click on Game Plan (under Interesting Things About Me)
   
3. click on About Me tab
4. click on Resume (under Interesting Things About Me)
5. click Add a New Entry
6. complete as much as you can
   
7. click on About Me tab
8. Post Career Project link via Journal Section

Day 60 - Careers Pathways & Education

Bellwork:

Open to the Career Prep page in Open Class.

Agenda:

1. Video: Choosing College Wisely
2. College Research & Comparison
• Triton vs Others?

Day 58 - Career Research

Bellwork:

Open to the Career Information section

Agenda:

1. TED-Style Talk
• Steve Jobs OR The Career in the Age of the App
2. Career Cluster Worksheet

Day 57 - Naviance

Bellwork:

Open to the Naviance section of the Career Planning Unit

Agenda:

1. Intro to Naviance
• Login
• Cluster Finder
• Reflection
2. EverFi

Day 54 - PSA Viewing

Bellwork:

Complete the PSA Reflection Form

Agenda:

1. Upload Video to YouTube
2. Submit to Submission Form
3. EverFi
4. PSA Viewing

Day 53 - Final PSA Work Day

Bellwork:

Get your PSA stuff out (storyboard, videos to transfer, etc)

Agenda:

1. PSA Work Day
• Final Work Time in Class
2. Done? EverFi
• Continue Lessons

Day 52 - EverFi

Bellwork:

I am sorry I am not here today. Please follow the agenda below.

Agenda:

1. EverFi
• log in and continue working on your lessons. 

Day 51 - PSA Filming Complete

Bellwork:

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Agenda:

1. PSA Filming - COMPLETE TODAY
2. Editing 

Day 50 - PSA

Bellwork:

Pick up where you left off on your PSA

Agenda:

1. PSA
• Planning
• Filming
• Editing

Day 49 - PSA Filming

Bellwork:

Grab your Storyboard

Agenda:

1. Storyboard Approval
2. PSA Filming

Day 48 - Everfi

1. Bellwork:
   
   
   I am sorry I am not here today. Please follow the agenda below.
   
   
   Agenda:
   
   
   1. EverFi
   • log in and continue working on your lessons. 

Day 47 - PSA Project

Bellwork:

Open to the PSA Project page.

Agenda:

1. Select your group for the project - 3-4 students
2. Complete the PSA Proposal Form
• Conference with Mrs. L for approval
3. Begin drawing your story board. 
• Remember: Less is More

Day 46 - PSA Discussion

Bellwork:

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Agenda:

1. Topic Ideas
• Call to Action/Tagline?
2. Select Topics

Day 45 - Project Intro

Bellwork:

Open up to the Discussion Board Post

Agenda:

1. Discussion Board Post (10 minutes)
2. What is a PSA?
• Examples
3. List of Issues Relating to Digital Citizenship
4. Intro to Project

Day 44 - Cyberbullying Discussion

Bellwork:

Open the Reading Activity Document

Agenda:

1. Review of Reading Activity
• Reasons for each side of the argument
2. Discussion Board
• Post AND Respond to Peers
3. EverFi

Day 43 - Cyberbullying Discussion

Bellwork:

Open the Cyberbullying section in Open Class. Open task 3 and task 4.

Agenda:

1. Cyber bullying Reading Activity. 
2. EverFi

Day 42 - Cyberbullying Intro

Bellwork:

Check Grades

Agenda:

1. Cyberbullying Intro
• Videos
• Notes

Day 39 - Digital Footprint

Bellwork:

Blog Posts - DUE TODAY, ensure they are published in Blogger

Agenda:

1. Class Article Review: Can we legislate stupid? 
2. Digital Footprints
• What DO you do online?

Day 37 - I Googled Myself And....

Bellwork:

Ensure that you have your blog profile added into your Blogger

Agenda:

1. I Google Myself, And....
2. EverFi
3. REMINDER: Blog Post #1 - Disconnecting,

Day 36 - WorkKeys Wednesday

Bellwork:

If you haven't already added your Blog profile to your Blogger, please do so.

Agenda:

1. WorkKeys Wednesday
• Log in and continue your lessons
2. Blog Post #1 - Work Time

Day 38 - Questionable Tweets

Bellwork:

Blog Post

Agenda:

1. Questionable Tweet Activity
• Discussion
2. EverFi

Day 35 - Blogging

Bellwork:

Open your Blog Profile

Agenda:

1. Internet Safety Video
2. Finish Blog Profile
3. Blog Post #1
• Find related articles
• Find related images
• Find related videos

Day 34 - UPS Career Day

Today is UPS Career Day! Please welcome speakers employed with UPS.

Blogging

Bellwork:

Journal Question: How Can I Protect & Promote Myself on Social Networking Sites?

Agenda:

1. Blogging Intro & Reviews 
• purpose & characteristics 
2. Do's & Don'ts of Blogging
3. Build Your Blog in Blogger

Assignment Work Day

Assignments:

1. Social Networking Pros and Cons Activity 
2. Dos and Don'ts of Blogging activity 
3. Digital Literacy Blog Assignment 
• Add a profile 
• Entry #1
4. EverFi

Day 33: Create a Blogger account

Access your Blogger account:

Digital Literacy Blog Assignment 

1. Add a profile 
2. Entry #1
3. Entry #2
4. Entry #3

Resources:How to Create a Blog 
Choosing What to Blog

EverFi - Choosing a Computer

Log in to EverFi and finish the Choosing a Computer Module. If you do not finish, it needs to be done for homework.

If you have not registered yet, go to everfi.com/register and enter our class code: f90b1b36

If finished with Choosing a Computer Module, work on:

• Finishing Unit 1 Smore
• Online Identity - Pros and Cons
• Blogging Do's and Don'ts

Intro to EverFi

Log In to EverFi and complete the Introduction Module.

When finished you may begin the Choosing a Computer Module.

If you have not registered yet, go to everfi.com/register and enter our class code: f90b1b36

Day 32: Blogging

Introduction
Blog (shortened from web log) is a term used to describe a web based journal.  A blog can be anything from personal reflections shared online to writings on a particular area of interest.  In most cases readers of a blog have the opportunity to respond to the writers thoughts and comments. Blogs can be a very valuable tool and a unique way to have a voice on the internet but it is important to learn how to use a blog safely and effectively.

Tasks:

1. View and critique different examples of blogs (teacher led discussion)
2. Complete the Dos and Don'ts of Blogging activity
   

Resources:How to Create a Blog 
Choosing What to Blog

Digital Citizenship Work Day

Assignments

• Finish Unit 1 Smore
• Online Identity - Pros and Cons
• Blogging Do's and Don'ts

Day 31: Social Networking

IntroductionSocial networking is a great way to stay in touch with friends, share important events and even find a job, but it is important to learn how to use and enjoy social networking safely.

Tasks:

1. View the Social Networking Presentation
2. Watch this Video
3. Complete the Social Networking Pros and Cons Activity 
4. Complete the Social Networking Disadvantages Activity 

Online Predators

Introduction
Online predators do exist and are a very real threat. They target both boys and girls of all ages and use the anonymity of the Internet to their advantage since they can be whomever they want. Many are master manipulators with skills that can impair any child's sense of awareness. This is known as the grooming process. Predators look for children that are more technically savvy than their parents and that are emotionally vulnerable.

Tasks:

1. Complete the Internet Predator Profile activity
2. Watch the Profile of an Internet Predator video

Online Privacy

Introduction:
Your privacy on the Internet depends on your ability to control both the amount of personal information that you provide and who has access to that information. Think about the information that identity thieves are looking for.  How much of your information is already available online?

Tasks:

1. Google your mom or dad’s name (whoever is the head of household) along with your hometown.  What information did you find?  How difficult was it to uncover? Google yourself, also. What shows up about you?

Day 30: Identity Theft and Phishing

Introduction:
Identity theft is the fasting growing crime and it affects everyone.  What can you do to prevent being a victim of online scams and identity theft?

Tasks:

1. Open the Online Scams: Identity Theft & Phishing - Student Notes.  Make a copy and save it in your Digital Citizenship folder.
   • DIRECTIONS:  Use online resources to help you complete the notes on Online Scams: Identity Theft & Phishing Notes.  You must write your answers in your own words. Please keep track of your sources on the last slide.
2. Complete the Phishing Examples activity

Tasks:

1. Sign up for a PowToon account at www.powtoon.com
2. Think about how you can protect and promote your own positive digital presence.  Create a new PowToon movie and start listing what you’re currently about digital citezenship and what you can do in the future to promote a positive online identity.

Day 27 - Digital Citizenship Intro

Introduction
Before we jump into the unit, take a minute to think about what digital citizenship means and what role you play in being an internet user.

Tasks:

1. Click on the Padlet link,  "What Does Digital Citizenship Mean to You?" and answer the question.
2. In order to promote digital citizenship, one must be aware of both the positive and negative aspects of creating an online identity.  Click on the Online Identity – Pros and Cons link and add your thoughts to the list.
3. Create a Weebly page for out Digital Citizenship unit.

Review for Test

Unit Test Tomorrow
Create a Weebly web page for each module of the How to Be an Online Learner unit.

Day 20 - Project Work Time

Bellwork:

Open your Research Project document.

Agenda:

1. Smore Project Work Time
1. Find at LEAST 3 articles that support your thesis
2. SITE the articles using EasyBib
3. Determine the facts, quote or statistics you plan to use from each article
4. Create your Smore
2. Peer Edit (if time)
3. Rough Draft of Smore

MLA and Copyright Infringement

Copyright InfringementCopyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner.  With the Internet making information, images, videos and music so accessible, copyright infringement is a common occurrence.  Just because something is made public by way of the Internet, does not mean that you can use it without giving credit to author, or asking for permission to use their material.  

Tasks:

1. Complete this worksheet as you work through this module.
2. Learn more about copyright, fair-use, public domain and Creative Commons 
3. Complete Internet Research Vocabulary activity

Resources:
http://www.teachingcopyright.org/
http://creativecommons.org/


MLA Format - Writing Papers:
How many times has your teacher asked you to write an essay for homework?  Has she also asked you to follow certain guidelines when formatting your document?  Did she give you standards for margins, font size, etc.?  Your experiences probably vary depending on the teacher or the class.  However, as you continue your education, you'll find that your high school teachers and college professors will expect you to follow guidelines set forth by the Modern Language Association (MLA) called the MLA Style.

Tasks:

1. Complete this worksheet while working in this module.
2. Read more about MLA Format and how it's used in high school in the Academic Reports Notes 
3. Watch the YouTube Clip: Formatting a MLA Report Using Google Docs