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an example of what it is you want students to produce? Or, c) Did you you create two products that do both a) and b)? || As a way to differentiate, students will be given the choice between using either Voki or ToonDoo to create their political cartoon. For the purposes of this plan, we have created an example of a) an instructional power point, and b) a ToonDoo cartoon to show an example of what we want our students to produce. || media type="youtube" key="97xTC5CjjQk" height="315" width="560" 1. How will we publish our work this week? SlideShare, Edmodo, and On this Wiki 2. We have already shared work on this Wiki and Slideshare. We plan to post to Edmodo as well.
 * **Guiding Questions for your Facilitating Your Project Based Inquiry Process and Developing Your two products of learning (i.e., instructional plan and technology product).** || **Describe learner outcomes, teacher actions, student actions, resources, materials, content, websites, videos, technology as appropriate.** ||
 * I. What is the compelling question you have regarding pedagogy? || What issues are important to American voters today? ||
 * II. How are new literacies featured in your compelling question? || ToonDoo and Voki will be used as the new literacies along with Edmodo as a discussion forum. ||
 * III. How will you organize or group your students for the PBI? || Students are divided into five groups and assigned specific roles within the group. ||
 * IV. What prior knowledge do your students need to have to complete this PBI lesson? What lesson(s) would come before the PBI? || Students need a prior knowledge of basic civics such as political parties and voting rights. Before doing the PBI, students will need to be taught satire, sarcasm, and their use in political cartoons. Socratic seminars should have been used previously on other topics. ||
 * V. How will you scaffold and support your students' gathering and analyzing of information? How will you monitor this process? || The process will begin with a power point presented by the teacher. A list of resources students may use when researching will be provided to help them begin the research process. Scaffolding questions will be given to groups which students will use a jigsaw approach to gather and analyze information. ||
 * VI. How will you scaffold and support your students' creative synthesis of information in their PBI product? How will you monitor this process? || As students view the student-generated videos, the teacher monitors behavior and focus. Socratic questioning will be used to guide the discussion towards higher-level reasoning. Additionally, this will be conducted in an online forum using Edmodo so easily monitored. ||
 * VII. What intellectual elements in students' PBI product will be evaluated. What forms of assessments will you use (e.g. rubrics, checklist, etc). || A rubric will be used to grade the original political cartoon. The criteria included on the rubric will be: Is the issue addressed? Is it original? Is it creative? Is the use of satire, sarcasm, or irony applied to the stance? ||
 * VIII. What is the technology product that will accompany your PBI Instructional Plan? Does it a) support your instruction well, and if so, how? Or, b) is it

Student input through video collaboration jigsaw || Group discussions through the use Edmodo and Socratic questioning || -[|ToonDoo] -[|Voki] Assessment will be based on peer and teacher rubric evaluation. ||
 * Project Based Inquiry Unit Plan** Time Frame: One Week
 * **Compelling Question**: ||
 * What issues are important to American voters today? ||
 * **Gather and Analyze Information**: ||
 * Teacher input through use of Power Point
 * **Creatively Synthesize Information**: ||
 * Synthesize student created videos on issues
 * **Critically Evaluate and Revise:** ||
 * Students will determine which issue is the most important for American voters based on their research and Edmodo discussion. ||
 * **Publish and Share:** ||
 * The learner will chose one of the following multimedia storytelling tools to create a political cartoon:

** What issues are important to American voters today? **   ** A project-based inquiry approach lesson designed by Stephanie Phillips and Rob Smith ** __ Step One __ : The 8th grade ELA or SS teacher will pose the compelling question and post it in the room for continuous guidance. The teacher will show a power point presentation to introduce some of the political issues in America: foreign policy, healthcare, economics, immigration, and voting rights. An overview of the history of voting rights will also be included in the presentation. __ Step Two __ : Students will use the Jigsaw method to gather information regarding the issues. After analyzing their findings, students will create a brief, sixty second video to upload and share with classmates. The videos will be used to synthesize the information. The questions will be: Students will be divided into five groups evenly. For example, if there are 25 students in the class, each group will have five members. The members will choose a specific role within the group from a pre-determined list provided by the teacher (facilitator, time keeper, videographer, etc.) The teacher will provide a few websites for each issue to initiate the investigation/research process. The ultimate goal is that students will create a story map of the issues regarding their topic, and then use that to create a sixty second video highlighting those main ideas. __ Step Three __ : Each of the five videos will be shown in class followed by an in depth class discussion to synthesize the information presented on the voter issues in the US today. If necessary, replay the student-generated videos to enrich the discussion. Students will use Edmodo as the online tool for group discussion. Through this exchange of ideas, students will critically evaluate and revise their own individual opinion as to what issue is most important to US voters today. __ Step Four __ : Students will design and publish a multimedia storytelling Voki or ToonDoo to animate and detail their political issue of choice. media type="custom" key="20315014"
 * What are the issues regarding healthcare in the US today?
 * What are the issues regarding foreign policy in the US today?
 * What are the economic issues in the US today?
 * What are the issues regarding immigration in the US today?
 * What are the issues regarding voting rights in the US today?

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 * Overall Plan** was conceived by Rob Smith and Stephanie Phillips
 * Answered Questions** – Stephanie Phillips and Rob Smith
 * You Tube Video**- Rob Smith and Stephanie Phillips
 * Unit Plan**- Stephanie Phillips and Rob Smith
 * Narrative Lesson Plan**- Stephanie Phillips
 * Power Point Creation** – Rob Smith
 * Edited and placed on Slide Share** – Stephanie Phillips
 * ToonDoo-** Rob Smith with contributions from Stephanie Phillips