Problem+of+Practice+Assignment

**Rationale**
The rationale for this assignment grew out of my school’s continuing focus on social responsibility, the need to extend student awareness into the community, and to continue the integration and use of technology within our school. This past year was the school’s first year in which we focused on social responsibility as a school improvement goal. We focused on a number of aspects of social responsibility including building a school community, improving interactions between students and staff, and improving the overall awareness of and ability of the students to conduct themselves appropriately in a variety of social settings. Although there were initial difficulties, in our year-end review, we as a staff felt that we made a number of positive strides, however, one of the things that was lacking in many of the decisions that were being made about the direction and implementation of this goal was the lack of student input in addressing the need to and ways to improve the school. Therefore there was a consensus by our staff, that in the second year of the goal, that being next year, that we need to create a student committee that could promote student voice and engagement in working toward the successful implementation of our goal. With these thoughts in mind I have therefore devised the following activities as a means of increasing student engagement and belonging in the school and also within the greater community through the use of technology.

The three technologies that will be used as part of this assignment will be:
 * Digital Camera's
 * Glogster.com
 * Blogging (Blogger.com)

**Part I:** Digitizing a Poster
When designing this assignment I thought that the best way to approach this issue was to start small, and involve only a limited amount of technology. As I myself have difficulties using technology, so may some of my students. Therefore the first part of this assignment will involve the students completeing a poster that illustrates the various aspects of a socially responsible student. They will then need to utilise technology and take a digital photograph of their poster, so that they can upload it and use it on a glog which is the second part of this assignment.


 * Part One of your assignment is to find a picture or video from a website of your choice that conveys various aspects of a socially responsible student. Please send it to the following link [|www.speakersvoice.wikispaces.com]**


 * Below are examples of the first part of this assginment.**

Part II: Glogging
 * The poster from part one of the assignement will form part of a glog on Glogster ([|www.edu.glogster.com]) that will be created by the students and will be made up of text, images and video that will demonstrate social responsibility within the school. The goal of this assignment is to show what the students value about the school and what they envision the school, and their role within it, as socially responsible students, to look like. The students will be asked to envision, What is Summit? When you are completing part of this assignment use the vision for your own school to create your glog. What do you want your school to look like? Following the completion of the second part of this assignment I am envisioning transitioning the focus from a solely school-based focus to one that is community, or globally based through the use of a blog.**

Part Two of your assignment is to create your own glog (use the above link). Design it in such a way that represents the vision for your own school. Please send it to the following link:** Example can be found at []

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**Part III: Moving Beyond the Walls of the School**
The third part of this assignment will involve students extending what they have done within the school to the community thereby increasing the focus, and scope of the assignment. To accomplish this the students will post links to their glogs on a class blogging site. This will allow for both student and community feedback on the ideas of what we want our school to look like. It is hoped that this ability to comment and engage students will lead to a full and rich discussion about the direction we are taking in our school in regards to social responsibility. Additionally we can also have parent feedback on this assignment and so expand the feedback and the ideas that it generates.
 * Part Three of your assignment: Due to time constraints involved in the University of Oregon program you will not need to complete a blog entry as part of this assignment, however, if you have a personal blog you are welcome to post on this lesson and leave a link on the wikispaces page so that others may respond.**


 * Part: IV: Survey (Please Complete and then provide personal thoughts reflections to [|www.speakervoice.wikispaces.com])**

When you have completed the three parts of this assignment please complete the survey located at the link below:

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