Youth Voices: Photography and Research

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Assignments: Photography Commenting on Photos: Try it: Near Our School Assignment Unfamiliar Places Research Assignment Essential Questions Examples Some questions Researching with a partner The Process Think it Through Bookmarking/Notes Diigo

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Assignments:

 

What we're doing now:   Google Docs YV

 

Link to our page here.

 

Link to all assignments here or here.

 

Making comments/learning the site:

Responding to Quote format    An example from YouthVoices (281 words, without quote)

Comments Assignment

Current Events for ideas: News and You 8 for YV Assignments

 

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Photography

 

Commenting on Photos:

How to here.

 

Try it:

Hunting camo

http://youthvoices.net/node/6971

 

Near Our School

Assignment

 

 

What would reflect our interests and activities with just the click of a camera around our school?

• What places in your community are special to you?
• What stories can you tell about these places?
• Would these stories be what people expect someone from your community to write? Or would they be surprised?
• How will reading your story and knowing about your special place help a young person at another school relate to your life and get to know you?
• Take a picture of a something or a place near your school. How does that image represent you and your community? How does it -- in some way -- represent something about the youths who go to your school?

 

Take pictures outside of school (at least twenty total for the class). Look for an image that interests you while providing insight about what your life is like everyday as you enter and leave the school building.

 

Choose one photo and crop it using iPhoto to increase the visual interest and alter the emphasis of the picture to make your point.

 

Discuss your cropped version and explain what you did and why you did it on your iSearch page.

 

Finally, on your YV Drafts page,  insert your image and tell the story that fits your picture (read the questions above). Edit your story and post the final image and story on a blog post at Youth Voices. Tag it: Near Our School.

 

 

Unfamiliar Places

No assignment here.

http://youthvoices.net/node/2601

 

 

software and photos in NT Times

 

 

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Research

http://youthvoices.net/node/517

 

 

Assignment

1. Write 10 questions that you have about self and 10 questions that you have about the world.
2. If you are using Google Docs, make the teacher a collaborator so that the teacher knows who is having trouble and who has not completed the assignment and who needs help with editing the questions so they can be useful to the student for writing and researching.
3. In parenthesis, type at least one tag after each question. (tag is another word for keyword)
4. In the Interests section of your Youth Voices, add each of the tag words. Notice that some will immediately become links. You will know it is a link if it has an underline after typing it. These links are connections to other students in the elgg who have similar interests and concerns.
5. Next, pick one question and write about it as though you are the expert. Write about why it is of interest to you and all that you already know about it. Write about what you would like to know about it that you don't already know.
6. Refer to the Be a Blogger Guide[1], the Producing (Drafts) section for guidelines as to how to deepen the writing and make it more interesting.  Our Blogging Guide.  Note: I'm still working on it.
7. When you are done, remember to post the writing as a blog post and tag it.
8. Now you can read and listen to other blog posts that relate to the same topic. Comment to those writers who are writing and recording posts about topics that are also of interest to you.
9. Continue to use the Be a Blogger Guide[2], the for guidelines as to how to publish and participate in interesting conversations and make new friends in the elgg.  Our Blogging Guide.  Note: I'm still working on it.

 

Essential Questions

• What questions do you have and how can you find information that helps you answer those questions online?
• Why are some things important to some people and how and why do people share their interests and questions online?
• How can an online community help you find answers to questions that you have?
• How do you make sure that your questions come to the attention of those who can help you online and how do you connect with people to get them to help you and for you to help them online?

 

Examples

 

Some questions

• Self:

At what age will I die? (death) Will I be obese? (obesity, fat) Will I age quickly? (aging, old) Will i get any taller? (height, tall) Will I get stronger? (strength, power) Why must we go to school? (school)

 

• World:

Will peace ever be gained? (peace) Is the world really running out of oil energy? (oil, energy) Will there be a cure to cancer? (cancer) Will there be a cure for HIV? (HIV) Is the Dominican Republic ever going to be a rich country? (Dominican Republic) Is Osama Bin Laden going to be captured? (Bin Laden) Why do people judge each other? (judge)

 

 

Researching with a partner

 

The Process

http://youthvoices.net/announce/researching-question-partner/2879

 

Think it Through

http://youthvoices.net/assign/think-it-through-interview-research/2648

 

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Bookmarking/Notes

 

Diigo

Highlight main ideas and add sticky notes with Diigo.

Use these to respond to photos, blogs, etc.

 

How To Diigo

W5 How To Diigo