Website Design
Get Real; Get AVID!
It is your turn to create a website in which future students can use it to navigate through our class, knowing just what is expected of them in the AVID class, just like I have for you all in my website ~Litjunkies Beach Cafe~! Your AVID website will be your final contribution to our AVID program as a senior here at PHS and will be counted as your final exam.
Tasks:
1. You will form a group of four and one person will be the "leader" who organizes the website. The group will have weekly deadlines that you will set as a group on an Action Plan, which you will turn in after today. These deadlines will help my AVID kiddies to become the adults you need to be with deadlines that you are delegating yourselves without Mama Forbes to check up on you every second. After each deadline, the leader will have three days to submit the work to the website page your group is responsible for designing. Each time a deadline is missed, you will lose 10% if the final grade.
2. Select a topic to research and then create a webpage on this website elaborating it.
Topics
_Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs
_Tutorials and Lit Circles
_Field Trips
_Community Service and Outreach
_Kumbaya Family (all groups must do this topic)
_AVID Academy Lessons: Teach a Lesson (all groups must do this topic)
2. Your group will work together on gathering the research needed to effectively explain your topic, explicate the Kumbaya Family aspect of our class, and develop a two-three minute video demonstrating a lesson on a subject that you found to be the most difficult overall in your high school years. For both the topic and the Kumbaya Family, you will need to include:
_ a paragraph offering a description of it
(What specifically is it? Describe it to someone who has never been in AVID)
_ a paragraph explaing how it helps
(I want you to "Get Real; Get AVID" and give an authentic explanation of what it really did for you!)
_ a paragraph explaining how you actually might, just might, have enjoyed yourself doing it.
(Enjoyed is a funny word. Sometimes, we enjoy the feeling we get from something, even if it's not necessarily a Harlem Shake kind of feeling. Sometimes that feeling that we enjoy is just the lessening of stress because we finally get it and sometimes it's the satisifaction of "getting" something!)
_ pictures and/or video clips demonstrating the visuals of the topic. Make this our class, not pictures you find online!
3. On the due date of your project, you will each create a synopsis and Works Cited page explaining how the different parts of your website demonstrate the mastery of the following objectives...
-Students will develop their ability to relate prior knowledge to new information and make connections to related topics of information.
-Students will demonstrate an ability to articulate a clear thesis on a topic, and identify, evaluate and use evidence to support their thesis.
-Students will continue to learn to effectively summarize ideas contained in a text.
-Students will participate in research projects that extend their knowledge of a particular topic and develop and support their own ideas and opinions.
-Students will participate in discussions, presenting their ideas in a clear and articulate manner.
-Students will listen to and respond to the ideas of others.
-Student will develop their skills in research techniques.
-Students will productively participate in both individual and group projects and discussions.
-Students will improve their oral communication skills through a variety of means, including presentation, debate, and Socratic Seminar.
4. Print out the action plan and rubric below. Turn in the action plan in tomorrow and turn the rubric in with your synopsis.
Good luck my AVID family; make me proud and help me to continue your amazing qualities with future AVID students with this legacy...
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