FINAL+Exam+Project

 ** FINAL Exam Project Guidelines/Instructions **

**The objectives for our final project (semester 2 exam): ** **1. ****Student will demonstrate the ability to create, edit, insert images, insert links, insert podcasts, and save a wiki page. **   **2. ****Student will demonstrate these abilities while researching and writing about a topic presented for the project. **   **3. ****Student will demonstrate the ability to create a post on their blog account that corresponds with the topic chosen for this project. **   **4. ****Student will demonstrate the ability to create a podcast, export the podcast to an MP3 format, and insert the podcast within their wiki page. **   **5. ****Student will demonstrate the ability to utilize several other Web 2.0 tools within their project to gain the best information possible, to include, but not limited to, poll everywhere, Facebook, tweeter, etc… **

= THEME & TOPIC = =  Students are to choose **two topics **that will fit together with a theme chosen for their wiki site. They may chose from the list below or they may come up with their own topics, but must have them approved first before starting on the project details. = = The wiki content //** theme **//should correspond with __an event__ or __timeline__ or __FAQ’s page__ or __research site__. Click each theme to see an example. =

**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0d329c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Topics to choose from: //** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Computer of the Future ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Technology changes rapidly. Since the first personal computer appeared on the cover of //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Popular Electronics // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">in 1975, the computer has changed in performance, cost, size, and capabilities. The personal computer has morphed from a desktop to a handheld device. Think about what the computer of the future will be like. Discuss what the computer might look like, its functionality, capacity, and performance. <span style="color: #52238b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Globalization of the Computer Industry ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Many companies have outsourced specific types of computer work to other countries. There is a cost benefit to using overseas employees, but an economic toll on domestic companies. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing computer work to other countries. How could this have an impact on the U.S. economy and the job market in the future?

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">How Is YouTube Changing Society? **   <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The popularity of YouTube has made it possible for anyone to become a media publisher and can make an average person suddenly famous for a day. It seems that every week another video is posted that becomes a popular topic among friends and family members. Some of these videos are taken of other people with or without their knowledge. Consider the following scenario: You are on your way to school one day and are having a conversation with someone in your carpool that is getting rather animated. You are momentarily distracted when someone in the back seat makes a funny joke in an attempt to lighten the atmosphere. You turn around to speak to the person and the next thing you know you have jumped the curb and hit a stop sign. Meanwhile, a friend driving by who witnessed the accident thought it was funny and filmed the accident with her cell phone. She posted the video on YouTube with the title “Lousy Driver Alert!” a. What is the likelihood you would know this video existed on YouTube? b. Should the motorist who filmed the accident be required to get your release before posting the video? Why or why not? c. Does this scenario violate any guidelines provided by YouTube? d. If you became aware of the video, what would you do? e. Should someone be allowed to capture video of you without your knowledge? If you answer no, how could society police this action?

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">What Happens to Old Computers? **   <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The personal computer began to become a household fixture in the early 1990s. In the last twenty years, computers have gained improved productivity, increased in speed, decreased in size, and continue to get better and faster year after year. What happens to all the old computers? What impact will these old computers have on our environment in the next ten years?

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Spell Check Dependency ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Spell check is a feature available in many software applications. Most of you probably have grown up using spell check and grammar check. Are you dependent on spell check to proof your documents? Do you believe that features such as spell check and online calculators are causing our population to be overly dependent on them and unable to spell or calculate without those tools? What effect could this dependence have on the literacy of our society—or does it not matter how these things are checked, as long as the tools are available?

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">How Could You Use Social Technologies to Make a Better World? **  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">You work for a nonprofit organization working for a cleaner environment. How could you use social technologies to raise awareness and get new members and support? Discuss ways to use a wiki, blogs, media sharing, microblogging, and social bookmarking in a campaign to encourage people to take public transportation or walk rather than drive a car.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">1. Wiki site to educate seniors on how to not allow themselves to be victims of identity theft from using technology tools; computers, cell phones, etc. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Collaboration project for another class here at GCA or can create one for use in another school year. 3. Your ideas! (Get approved by me first!)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Other topic ideas:  **

=<span style="color: #3c2173; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> **Project Requirements** //**(500 point Exam):**//   =

** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Wiki Site Created //(worth 200 points!)//  **

 * 1) **<span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Home page - **<span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This page should have a summary of what this wiki site is all about, include links to all other pages within your summary paragraphs or images. You should have a link to your Digg account on this page as well. You will be adding a screen image of your Digg account at the end of your wiki site creation.
 * 2) <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Images** are required on all pages!
 * 3) <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**About Me page** (you should have no more than a couple of paragraphs talking about your interestes that deal with this project and your high school class. Do not give out any personal infromation like your last name, address, etc...)
 * 4) <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Two wiki pages** to cover your topics above (if you need more pages, you can create them)
 * 5) <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Your wiki site should be named: **"ODW-Final-yourfirstname"**
 * 6) <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Once your wiki site is created, email the link <span style="color: #d43a3a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**ASAP** !
 * 7) <span style="color: #080707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Add a link** to your blog site from you home page of the project wiki and give it a caption.

** 1. Summary of this year in “Our Digital World” course **
a. What did you like about the course? b. What could be done to improve the course? c. Add images d. If you could add anything to the course curriculum, what would it be? e. Add link to wiki site.

** 2. Summary of your wiki site that was created **
a. **Five to ten sentences summarizing your wiki site and topic** b. Add images c. Add link to wiki site

** Survey using Poll Everywhere // (worth 50 points!) // **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Use the survey software somewhere in this project. **//BE CREATIVE//**!
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Promote the survey to as many people as you can, use your social networking apps for this!
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Use the results on your wiki page and add a screen shot of those results.


 * Podcast //(worth 50 points!)//**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Create a 1 to 2 minute podcast describing something about your topic. This podcast can be inserted on the page it represents.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Review the podcast for volume levels, editing issues (double words if edited), etc..

** Social Networking sites // (worth 30 points!) // **

 * 1) Use the sites for your project to gain valuable information from others not near you
 * 2) Insert a screen shot of the results from these sites on the page you discussed the results
 * 3) **DO NOT** go to any social networking site when you are not using the site for your project requirements!

** Diggo Bookmarking site // (worth 40 points!) // **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Create a link on your wiki page to access your Digg bookmarking account (Library) for **ALL** of your resources!
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Insert a screen shot image of your library page of the Digg account to your Home page
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Use your bookmarking skills to mark/highlight every website you use in your research for this project!


 * Grammar & Spelling //(worth 30 points!)//**

=**Progress Grade Each Friday will result from the following: //(Quiz grade)//**=

=<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Week #1 = **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Monday; May 9th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* **Wiki site** must be **created** by today (was due last Friday) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* **"About Me"** page must be **completed** by end of class <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Continue researching and saving information to your Digg bookmarking account for later use... **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Tuesday; May 10th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">* **<span style="color: #ffaa00; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Poll Everywhere ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';"> survey **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';"> should be sent out to your audience for results today **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">* Home page **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';"> should be close to completion by end of class today <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* You should have some information on your second & third page as well **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Wednesday; May __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* **Home page** must be **//completed//** today! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* **Links** should be added on home page to link to other pages in your wiki site **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Thursday; May 12th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* **Second page** of wiki should be complete by today! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Third page should have information posted and about complete <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* **Ideas for podcast** should be typed in a word document for next week **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Friday; May 13th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* **Third page** of wiki completed today <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Quiz grade based on completion of the above items**

=**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Week #2 **= **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Monday, May 16th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* All pages should have links to resources and to other pages within wiki site completed today. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Podcast brainstorming & Script should be done today. Send your script to me via email (Pbrake@gracebc.org) by Tuesday, May 17th. **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Tuesday, May 17th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Podcast should be created today and inserted in wiki page by Wednesday. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* You should have all images you are going to use placed in your wiki pages by today. Don't forget to add the URL of the image to your Digg account or to your resource area. See Thursday for final requirement! <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Your screen images of your FaceBook useage and your Poll Everywhere surveys should be inserted into your wiki page and comments added to let the viewer understand why the survey was used. **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Wednesday, May 18th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Podcast should be included in your wiki page and working by today. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Start your blog posts today. Both blogs need to be completed by Thursday. **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Thursday, May 19th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Blog posts need to be completed today including links back to your wiki site and images added. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Insert a screen shot of your Digg account to your wiki site, title it, "Resources page" and create a link back to your Digg account. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Your project should be done today, so you can use Friday as your clean-up day to make any modifications needed. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* You should be practicing your presentation of this site for next Wednesday. **__<span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">Friday, May 20th __** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* Wiki Project should be done and only thing left is to review and make modifications. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">* You should be practicing your presentation of this site for next Wednesday.

=__**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Student's Final Project Pages: **__=
 * 1) =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Callie =
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Caycee
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dylan
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Kristin
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Zach