Random Act of Kindness/Service Flyer

Design a card or flyer advertising your service group, an upcoming service event, or random acts of kindness.

Flyer:
Using MS Word or online tool (Picnik.com) design a service flyer.

1. Find an inspirational quote and copy it. Use Word Art or change text size and color.
2. Find an appropriate picture and copy it into your flyer (Resize as needed)
3. Put all information (What, where, when, why, who, etc) in LARGE, easy to read font.
4. Email as attachment to mgt2011@gmail.com

Card:
Design a Random Act of Kindness Card in MS Word

1. Front Cover- Inspirational Picture
2. Inside- inspirational quote and examples of Random Acts of Kindess
3. Back Cover- your name or "A Friend"

Example:

Lesson Unit #2 - Feb 17 - Feb 27

Design Your Own SERVICE LEARNING Website

Objective #1: Students will use what they learned from web presentations to create a useful website for their service learning group

Objective #2: Students will write a comprehensive description of what their service group is, accomplishments so far, and goals for the future.

Objective #3: Students will create a list of resources, links, and other important information on their service topic and for their group.

Task:
Set up new blog:
1. Sign into your blogger account
2. Click Create a Blog (upper right)
3. Blog Title: Your Service Group
Blog Address: yourgroup1.blogspot, yourgroup2.blogspot.com
4. Type word verification and click Continue
5. Choose an appropriate template from the list.
6. See me with problems or questions
7. EMAIL me your service learning url (http://yourgroup.blogspot.com)at mgt2011@gmail.com

Design Blog:
1. Write an introduction explaining what your group is and does.
2. Describe in detail projects you have worked on and what you have accomplished. Describe how you did these things and why, how long it took, how many other people or organizations were involved, etc.
3. Describe your realistic goals for this group for this year, next year, and your senior year.
4. Describe your dream goals for the group- if you had plenty of money and time, what
would you like to do with this group?

SPECIFIC REFLECTIONS ON Service Meeting (Feb 18):

1. Just the facts. What happened, what did you accomplish, what problems did you encounter.

2. Goals and responsibilities of the group decided THIS meeting (Feb. 18)

3. Successes from Feb 18 Meeting

4. Areas to Improve from Feb 18 Meeting

5. Personal goals

6. Personal responsibility

7. Create a plan for March 4. Address the areas to improve, organization, communication with group.

Resources and links
1. Research other internet sites that relate to your group
2. Create a Learn More, or list of links with a short description for learning about the topic.
3. Create a Give Now, or a list of organizations that raise money for this topic.
4. Create an Act Now, or list of people to contact to improve awareness, funding on the topic. This could be organizations, government officials (foreign and domestic), media, other schools, etc.


Example: http://slavery21st.blogspot.com/

Reminder/EC Word Wall Poster

CLASS OF 2011:

Mr. Ackerman's Word Wall assignment is due Wed. Feb 11. You must create a poster with a word, definition, a synonym, an antonym, a sentence using the word, and a picture that describes the word.


Extra Credit (20 pts)
Create a TECHNOLOGY Word Wall poster:

Use one of these terms found at these sites:

http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/
http://www.techterms.com/
http://www.techdictionary.com/

Due. Fri. Feb 13

Feb 2-13 Lessons (Weeks 2 and 3)

Objective #1: Increase student participation in Study Island.

Objective #2: Student will be able to evaluate positive and negatives of academic and personal interest websites through a presentation and rubric.

Objective #3: Students will gain confidence in public speaking and presentation skills (using projector and whiteboard, using laptops, checking connections).

1. Start off each class with 15 minutes on Study Island. See me if you do not know how to log in.

2. Whole class: we will watch a short presentation on how to evaluate websites at http://muse.widener.edu/~tltr/How_to_Evaluate_9.htm
If you MISS the presentation, you must watch it yourself with headphones.

3. Please copy and paste the following criteria into MS Word. Use this rubric when evaluating your own and classmates presentations.


Your Name:
Date: _______________ Class Period: ___________

Name of Presenter:

Name of Site:

Site URL: http://

Design
Can move from page to page easily. 1 2 3 4 5

Good use of graphics and color. 1 2 3 4 5

Content
Additional resource links are included. 1 2 3 4 5

Information is useful. 1 2 3 4 5

Rich content and will likely be revisited. 1 2 3 4 5

How this web site compares in content to
similar websites. 1 2 3 4 5

Technical Elements
All links work. 1 2 3 4 5

Can see meaningful information within 30 seconds. 1 2 3 4 5

Credibility
Contact person is stated with their e-mail address. 1 2 3 4 5

States the name of the host school or institution. 1 2 3 4 5

Links have been kept current. 1 2 3 4 5

States when this page was last updated. 1 2 3 4 5


Total Possible Points = 60

Points for this Site =

4. Sign up and begin website presentations and evaluations.

Additional Resources

Webquest on Evaluating Websiteshttp://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evalwebstu.html

Use the evaluation chart to keep track of your results: http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evalrole.html