T3,+A4+Social+Media+Group+Report+on+Wiki

Assignment T3,A4: Selecting Social Media (A Group Project done on the class wiki) 10 pts For our purposes here we want you to learn to work in a group asychronously, though we realize that it is an artifical situation, due to the timeframe of the course! Pretend that you are on a committee with other teachers from other countries and international schools, all asked by the accrediting agency to work together to answer the question posted on the wiki. Or pretend you are on a committee in your own school to do this, but many of the group ride the buses home so they cannot stay after school or they live a long way away, have children waiting at home, etc. While we know this is 'artifical', try to learn how to make the collaborative process work for you using technology-mediated, asynchronous communications!

Divide yourselves into groups of 4-6 members and then to work as a team on a particular aspect of what we are pretending will be a big report, but that work will be asynchronous (done at different times and places). Each of you is to contribute one part or piece to a section of a report on social media (remember, this is theoretical). For now, you just join a team and contribute your part or piece as instructed below. Later, together, we will weave this into a final product.

Write RIGHT on here, even if you only write one sentence on day 1, one sentence on day 2, one sentence on day 3 and then finish the whole paragraph on day 4. ALL of the writing should be here on the wiki, not on WORD or something and pasted into the wiki. That defeats part of the value of the wiki. Each time you write something and get ready to leave the wiki, hit SAVE. That saves what you have done so far, but each of your other versions are also there, too. Pretend that this wiki is a WORD PROCESSOR on your computer; just write up a storm, saving each time you leave.

Specifics of the assignment: Each of will select one of the following sections in which to write; there will be no more than 6 people per section. Each of you is to create a subsection under the major topic. For example, if you elect to write on the section called MySpace & Facebook, you will be joining up to five other folks who are writing on that topic. Then within that topic, you will give your sub-section a title, such as "What is MySpace?" or "What is Facebook". Or you might decide to add a section there called "Parental Worries about Facebook". Whatever you choose to make YOUR sub-section be, you are to put it into the page for your section. We have chosen the big sections but up to six of you will then decide what your individual sub-sections will be and each of you will write your section so that if there are five of you on one big section, there will be five sub-sections, written by each of the five team members individually.

HYPOTHETICAL REPORT WE ARE DOING - Below is the outline of the sections in the big report. Each section is a team, consisting of no more than six of you. You pick your sub-section and put in your subsection's name. Each sub-section only needs to be one or two paragraphs. It is a group project, but you will each get an individual grade on your sub-section; see the rubric link in the SIDEBAR.

In your sub-section reference at least ONE article or site related to your report; use APA style to cite it in your narrative. THEN...go to the section marked REFERENCES and cite it here as per APA requirements so that in the end, your report has a complete bibliography!

BIG SECTIONS BELOW - Join one About Social Media Some Social Media Tools Issues Related to Social Media in General Issues Related to Social Media in Schools Examples of Social Media in Classrooms Teachers and Social Media Parents and Social Media Social Media Policies in Schools Social Media Policies in Organizations Digital Youth and Social Media References