Middle School Multimedia Blogging and Podcasting Assignment and Checklist
You will continue to work on your blog and we will, next week, begin work on the podcast. This page simply summarizes what you are to include in your blog and how we will proceed, beginning on Tuesday, with our podcast.
Remember to have done the following by the end of Monday’s period (which means you may have to do some of this at home):
Have in your blog 3 photos along with a précis of news items. This could mean news in Korea or anywhere else in the world. News items should be reasonably well-known to the “average” person and not overly specific. News items could relate to the world of politics, medicine, entertainment, sports, technology and so on.
Have all nine (9) students and myself linked in your bloglist so as to easily navigate to a classmate’s site.
Through the comments section, add a line (or even two) to each classmate’s chain story. Make sure the story is something that could be read to any teacher in this school (i.e., no bad language or anything else that is considered inappropriate at school). Make sure the line you add fits reasonably well into the story. That means you have to have read (and possibly reread) the story to add a line or two of yours to your classmate’s story. In the end, each story should have a minimum of 10 sentences (maximum 20 sentences).
Each sentence is to have a noun and a verb. A minimum of seven (7) sentences must have adjectives within them. And a minimum of 5 sentences are to have adverbs within them.
All of the sentences that you write to your friends’ sites should have nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives.
With your finished story, you are to edit it. This means you touch up any improper grammar or punctuation (capital letters, periods, commas, spelling mistakes etc.). Finally, in a new posting you are to give your story a title.
Assignment Checklist--to get an A or higher, you must be able to say Yes to each of the following:
My bloglist contains every student and the teacher.
I have on my blog at least one gadget in addition to my bloglist (which is a gadget).
I have 3 photos of news items that could possibly be included in the yearbook along with a corresponding précis for each.
The sentences I have added to my classmates’ fitted reasonably well within their story
Each sentence I added to a classmate’s blog contained a noun, an adjective, a verb and an adverb.
My edited story has a title.
My edited story has a minimum of 10 sentences.
My edited story has a minimum of 7 adjectives.
My edited story has a minimum of 5 adverbs.
My edited story is posted under a creative title in my blog.
My edited story has a minimum of 5 links that lead to external images or sounds etc.
I have reread my story many times and have no spelling or grammar errors at all!
Overall, I am proud of my story and that it could be read to any teacher.
If you have all these elements checked, you can expect a grade in the A range. Missing elements will result in a grade of B or even C.
Starting next week, you will read your completed story into Audacity and create a truly multimedia story. This means you have to read it very well into the microphone with good rhythm and intonation.
Podcast
Starting next Tuesday, we’re going to begin work on a podcast. You will read your completed story into the microphone and record your story using the program Audacity. We will then add music to the story
