Your+New+Challenge

=Your Weekly Challenge:=

The document below is your weekly challenge now, among other challenges I will give you as they arise. We will look at this rubric and tweek it as needed for this class. This rubric was developed using the following [|document] borrowed from Youth Voices.

· Post that you have completed a section on the class wiki. Follow the rules on this site.
====· Your topics must vary from week to week. You will get nothing out of this if you try to reuse material or use someone else’s material. **ALL POSTS NEED TO BE CHECKED FOR SPELLING & MECHANICAL ACCURACY! All posts must have your name and section number. (i.e. 3.4 Anne)**==== We will create a rubric for original content ASAP

**Please read the rubric carefully!** There are some clear rules to follow.
|| **Reflective &** || **5 points** || **5 points** || **5 points** || **5 points** || || 1.1 Post an entry about something personal, outside of school || 1.2 Post an entry about something happening in current events. Give the link to the article to which you refer on the post. Giving a direct quote would be good. || 1.3 Post an entry about something you've been thinking about in a class. || 1.4 Post an entry about a video, image, audio, or piece of music. Give the link to the article to which you refer in the post. || 1.5 Respond to at least 1 post from another classmate that made you think. You can earn 5 extra points for each item beyond the minimum that you respond to in this category. || || **15 points** || **15 points** || **15 points** || **(****[|Blog]****,** **[|Vlog]****,** **[|YouTube]****,** **Wiki****, etc)** || 2.1 Post an entry about something personal, outside of school to one of these forums for discussion amongst others. || 2.2 Post an entry about something happening in current events or things happening around the world. Give specific quotes that affected you. Give the link to the article to which you refer on the post. || 2.3 Post an entry about your connections to other books, photographs, or academic presentations you remember. Specific quotes, details, etc are a must in the reference || 2.4 Post an entry about your connections to videos, images, audio, music, or other media in an area of passion for you. Give link to media to which you’re referring. || 2.5 Respond at least one to your peers’ posts in the other categories on this line. You can earn 5 extra points for each item beyond the minimum that you respond to in this category. || || **25 points** || **15 points** || || || || 3.3 Create an original podcast on any topic (personal interest, current events, academia, or current media) and post to web. If you are referencing an online article, make sure to include some info about the source and your commentary on the topic. Podcast should have **significant** commentary and not be merely a summary. Commentary must outweigh summary. Please write out what you are going to say **before** you record.
 * **Weekly Participation**
 * Personal** || **Current Events &**
 * Out in the Real World** || **Books & Academia** || **Media & Web 2.0** || **Your Responses to Your Class** ||
 * || **5 points**
 * **1. Twitter**
 * || **15 points** || **15 points**
 * **2. Class Forums**
 * || || || **25 points**
 * **3. Original Content (created by student)**

Your podcasts should be about something of substance, regardless of topic. || 3.4 Create a video, image, audio, music, or other media and post onto some web 2.0 forum. Content must be **thoughtfully** created. || 3.5 Respond at least one to your peers’ posts in the other categories on this line. You can earn 5 extra points for each item beyond the minimum that you respond to in this category. || || **15 points** || || **15 points** || **15 points** || || 4.1 Using sites you’ve bookmarked on your reader, post an entry on a blog/vlog of personal interest. Give direct link to entry. Entry must be thoughtful. || 4.2 Using sites you’ve bookmarked on your reader, post an entry on a forum about a current news item(s). Give direct link to entry. Entry must be thoughtful. || || 4.4 Listen to and respond to a podcast. You must find a podcasting forum that allows you to post. If it is a podcast from iTunes, you need to pull the podcast as an audio file and then post the audio file and your response in an online forum. || 4.5 Respond at least one to your peers’ posts in the other categories on this line. You can earn 5 extra points for each item beyond the minimum that you respond to in this category. ||
 * || **15 points**
 * **4. Bookmarking: Getting Your Voice Heard out on the Web**