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Social Networking- Learning more about the Cold War through social media

Lesson Overview: This lesson entails the use of social media and how it can impact a student's perspective on learning. Students will use Skype as a part of their learning activity to engage them with actual real life stories of the cold war. Students will interview the people who were witness to the Cold War and then write about their experiences. Lesson Objectives Students will have an understanding of what and how life was under the communist regimes of the Soviet Union. Students will use digital stories and pictures of what they have learned from guest speakers and express how life was in the cold war for communist regimes. NETS Standards interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. understand and use technology systems. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures. Accommodations

Materials: Computer for students (one to one) Skype, Webcam, Microphone, projector, Flicker Accounts, Wikispaces set up.
 * //Student Difficulty// || //Accommodation// ||
 * Students with Cognitive Difficulties || Have students use touch screen computer. have students pre-write questions, and give students transcript of dialogue ||
 * Students with Physical Difficulties || Use special keyboard, mouse, and Bluetooth mic ||
 * Students with Sensory Difficulties || Use Zoom Text. Also have a headphone set if hard of hearing and screen will be large for visual impairment ||
 * At-Risk Students || Have students ask relevant questions based on their own lives and how it was in their lives during communism ||
 * Gifted and Talented Students || Expand their research into a mini essay and argument formulation ||

Sequence- Informational - 1 class period the rest for homework Orientation- 1 Class period and along with Application-Rest for homework

__Informational (is also the motivational section as it will get students interested)__ The Cold War brought about many life changing events for people, especially in the Soviet Union. The people of the former Soviet Union went through many difficulties and transitions in their lives, from the dark days of communism to revolutions to systematic economic change. Students will have an opportunity to talk up to six people that are a part of this history. These are a list of people that I know *I kept their last names off because I want to respect privacy of online exposure. They are more than willing to help however, not to be put in public blog!
 * ** Name of Volunteers * ** || ** Country ** || ** Who were they? ** ||
 * ** Andrei V ** || Romania || Participated in the 1989 Revolution. Was at last Ceausescu speach ||
 * ** Olivain S ** || Romania || 22 Year Old, grew up in post communist world ||
 * ** Dr. Martha R. ** || Poland || Worked in communistic hospital and now is a consulting doctor to the Polish Government for medical reform post communism ||
 * ** Dr. Alan A. ** || USA || Professor. Former head of Soviet affairs for RAND think tank. ||
 * ** Marion R ** || Poland || Former prosecutor in communist Poland, was also a secret leader with Polish Solidarity. ||
 * ** Gabby S ** || Romania/USA/Germany || A defector of the Romania communist state, went to America to teach, now teaching in Germany. ||

Students will use Skype An example screen- Students can video conference, voice conference or IM one of the participants of the project. Students may also use a contact of their own if they know of one. Students will use my Skype account to protect the volunteers with their own privacy (unless it is their own contact-then ok) The times will be set up in class and students will have a short chance to talk to this person in a small group.


 * // Video button is clicked, then video camera will transmit images of people to other computer. Completely easy to do and only requires a webcam. In my class this will be broadcast on a white screen with speakers so that is seen and heard by the entire class. A students will call the participant and will introduce the class. // ||

Students will develop their own interview questions based on topics that were discussed in class and will allow of one question per student of that group to ask the volunteer on the other end. Students will base these questions on the unit of study, the Cold War and social effects of the Cold War. Students will already have been exposed to the conditions of the political, economical, and social status of the communist countries, this will guide them in creating questions of relevance. Students will record their answers and then go into small groups and discuss what the volunteer said in regards to the questions asked. As well students will be asked to listen to a story that was mentioned by the volunteer and record ideas of this story on their own. We will discuss this in class. Instructions: 1. Students will have the ability to track down their own volunteer using Skype (screen shot will prove this occurred) 2. If students do not have a contact then they are welcome to use my contacts. I will set up times and dates for students to participate in this event. If the volunteers will allow a conference call then I will use DimDim ( [] ) instead of Skype. However, for the sake of this project students will do a video conference from my room and participate with the volunteer. 3. Students will have opportunities to talk via a microphone and all students will listen via speakers. This will be a town hall event and students will have questions that ready for the

__Orientation Activity__ Using Wiki spaces-- Students will continue on from the first assignment by creating a story from the interview that they just completed. This interview will now be turned into a personal story, with each student getting into character of a person who was in a communist country. Students will be asked to think about the political, economical and social impactions of what it is was like during this time period. Students will also be asked to make comments on other stories that are relevant and empathetic to struggles that were taking place and the eventually liberation of the people. Students will have a page created in wikispaces.com where students will post their work. Directions: 1. Students will get a invitation by me the creator of the account-they accept They must create their own account 2. Students find their page and create the text, add a picture. 3. Students are then informed of how to draw a line so that they can cause separation of their text and the comments the other students will write. 4. Students will be reminded of digital citizenship and honesty and then instructed to make comments on their fellow students pages. http://coldwarstories.wikispaces.com/ Students will also be asked to create a flickr image page that will also be linked to their wikispaces.

Rubric
 * ||  || Poor || Meet || Exceeded ||
 * Write Up of Person || 75% || Students write up did not entail details and relevance to interviews life || Student made points to details and made relevant the interviewee || Student make clear references in great detail about the interviewee. ||
 * Wiki utilized || 25% || Did not make wiki || Made wiki but was not clear or organized || Wiki was clear and organized ||

__Application__  Flickr. Students will create a photo journal of the experience of writing a story about the volunteer activity. I have many of my images that I created that I will give to the students as royalty free images, assuring that there will be no copyright infringements. Students will there photos in the gallery with descriptions of what the photo is and how it relates to their story. Directions: 1. Students will get an invitation to my Flickr account, group-they will need a yahoo account. 2. Students will then be able to upload photos 3. Before uploading, students must find the photos that are appropriate to the story that they created for wikispaces in activity 2. 4. Students will write a brief description of why this photo was chosen and put that in the post in the gallery. They are to complete 10 [|http://www.flickr.com/groups/1378225@N23/]

Rubric
 * || Mark || Poor || Meet || Exceeded ||
 * Relevant photos and descriptions || 75% || Photos are not relevant and/or they have little to no description || Students attempted to gather relevant photos and/or descriptions are satisfactory || Students gathered relevant photos and descriptions are accurate ||
 * Use of Flicker || 25% || Did not use flicker ||  || Used Flicker ||

__ Closer __ On their wiki, students will be asked to write a one paragraph essay on what they think living in communist Eastern Europe was like. They are to use the resources that they gathered from the interviews. This is to be put on their wikispaces.

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