WEBSITE AND CLASSROOM BLOG CREATION TOOLS

Name: Kayla Nobinger

Grade Level: 3rd
Content Area: Social Studies
Technology Used (check all that apply):
Blog Wiki Other Website Creation Tool (list):
Content Area/Grade/Standards/Topics Addressed: SS5H6 Describe the importance of key people,
events, and developments between 1950- 1975. b. Explain the key events and people of the Civil
Rights movement: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on
Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall,
Lyndon B. Johnson, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr
Brief Description of Learning Experience: In this learning experience, after learning and discussing life
in America during the Civil Rights Movement, students will work in small groups to create a blog post
outlining a specific event/ key figure/ court case etc. in the form of an audio podcast in an effort to teach
someone whos never even heard of the Civil Rights Movement, what the event/ figure/ case was about.
Students will be given a week of class time to work in their groups to create the podcast. Students should
include the date, significance, and effect that event/case/ or figure had on the Civil Rights Movement and
how it affects their individual lives today. All students should speak at least once during the podcast.
Students will post the completed product to a Civil Rights Blog for other classes to view all around the
world.
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply):
See http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Student Engagement/Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This is a LoTi level 4 activity,

because students will apply the information to their lives today and talk about the impact that case/person/
event has on their lives today. The students are in the role as teacher.

Importance of technology: A website-creation tool is critical to this project in order for anyone and
everyone to have access to the podcast. The sharing capability to a global audience would be gone
completely. Students will also use AudioBoom to create the podcast, which is an online resource.

Internet Safety and Student Privacy: Students should keep their identity relatively privately, and not
disclose their full name, school, etc. and understand that anyone could find and listen to this podcast.
Parents/Administrators should know that in creating this podcast, no personal information other than their
first name and grade will be disclosed.

Describe your personal learning goal for this activity. My personal learning goal for this activity is to
challenge my students to create a way to be the teacher and really test their knowledge of the information. I
hope that this provides another way for other students in my class and beyond to study and hear information
an additional time no matter where they are. Im hoping that this is an effective way for students to retain
this information for a longer period.