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"Internet Photo Essays" Project

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Goals: 

Project participants will accomplish the following goals:

    • Increased ability to understand and present information on social issues from expressive and analytic perspectives
    • Increased ability to perform in a collaborative work environment
    • Increased ability to present information in multimedia formats
    • Increased skill in using multimedia authoring software and the Internet

Interviewing Project

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There's no better way to learn than by talking to people. Even if you're not a reporter, everyone needs good interviewing skills, whether it's to find the answer to a question or to get a job. Interviewing isn't something you can just rush into, however. Kids need preparation, practice and coaching.

Recommended Time: 

Plan on working on the various elements of this project for 15 to 30 minutes each day over several weeks, especially if you are introducing new software while you are doing it. You want to spend most of your time working on the basics of interviewing, rather than on technology.

Goals: 
    • To teach good interviewing, questioning and communication skills
    • To practice writing longer pieces
    • To help kids meet people in their community
    • To introduce or practice photography, photo-editing, or Web-authoring skills
    • To help kids research an inquiry-based project
    • To build teamwork skills.

Community Mapping: Collecting and Organizing Data from Surveys

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In this project, learners do a survey and create a spreadsheet using the data. Keep in mind that you could also do a survey project just with pen and paper, or you could have the group take photos to illustrate their findings and build a Web page with the results.

Recommended Time: 

If your learners are already familiar with the spreadsheet software, you can probably complete a simple, warm-up version of this project in two 30-minute sessions. If you are still introducing the software, however, plan on working on the various elements of this project for 15 to 30 minutes a day over a week or more. A more extended version of the project with a broader survey base might take longer.

Goals: 
  • Learn about surveys
  • Learn more about the people and other attributes of their community
  • Gather, analyze, and present data
  • Introduce or practice using spreadsheet software
  • Research an inquiry-based project 

What Does the Internet Look Like?

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Journal writing is an activity that follows the same pattern every day; only the topic changes. The idea is to get kids thinking about an important concept that will be used in other projects and activities that day—in this case, the Internet. Each day, you'll give them instructions for things to write or draw in their individual and group journals, then ask them to share the results with the class.

Recommended Time: 

Approximately 20 minutes

Goals: 

In addition to the goals mentioned above, this particular journal writing activity will help you introduce the Internet. Because even kids from the same school and neighborhood are likely to have very different levels of exposure to the Internet, an activity like this will help you assess where you have to begin in order to get everyone's knowledge to the same point.

Flint Profiles - Community Information Agents Online

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Description: Six high school children in the CIAO (Community Information Agents Online) program spent 6 weeks in Summer, 2000 learning video publishing for the net. This project goals were to help high school students become decision makers who influence community leaders to respond to their ideas for change. The youth built Web sites for the Urban Gardens program, the Neighborhood Roundtable and two library branches. Partners in the project included the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Information and the Kellogg Foundation.

Link: 
Flint Public Library
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