Post a Discussion on Youth Voices about your research that also includes a photo essay, a video playlist or a list of podcasts about your research question.

Before you do this task, make sure that you've completed your annotations and your Dialectical Notes for your research. If you're up to date, then take a moment with this task to step back and ask for helpful comments from other students on Youth Voices by creating a Discussion post about your research so far.

Ask yourself:

1. What are the most important things I’ve come to understand?
2. How can I use my information to make those things clear to others?

Part I

Follow the steps under one of these two missions: Reclaim your topic or Relevant and reliable sources 

Begin by writing about your research in a Google Document. Share it with your teacher and a few peers, and ask them to insert comments. Revise, proofread, and make sure you have cited your sources correctly, then post your writing as a discussion on Youth Voices.

Choose one of these two missions to complete this task:

Reclaiming Your Topic This mission is designed to help you write another discussion post about your inquiry topic. This might be your fourth or fifth post on your question, and this won’t be the last time you write about your question. However, if you’ve been keeping up with your annotations and your dialectical notes (see Guides) as you do your research, then it’s quite likely that the post you write for this mission will elicit helpful comments from other students on Youth Voices.

Relevant and Reliable Research Write a thoroughly researched post based on your inquiry question. Your post must have FIVE reliable sources and provide a "Works Cited" listing all of them. Your discussion post should draw on relevant information from five reliable sources. Sources should be cited in the proper MLA or APA format at the bottom of the post. Use  the Five Reliable Sources guide.

Part II

Create one of the following: Creative Commons photo essay; EDU-YouTube playlist; iTunes and NPR podcasts. Use Dialectical Notes for these “texts.” This Discussion post will be part of the Collage Essay (under "Formulating  Arguments in Areas of Interest") that you will post later.

Go deeper into your research by doing one of the following:

1. Make a Creative Commons photo essay
2. Create an EDU-YouTube playlist
3. Collect iTunes and NPR podcasts

Keep notes using the guide Dialectical Notes. Share Presentation or playlist and docs with your teacher and peers.

Use Creative Commons Images in Research Use Creative Commons images to pose questions and complicate your thinking about your research topic. Images have a way of adding complex, sometimes even contradictory ways of seeing a subject. Make a short slide show that expresses different perspectives on your topic without words.

Use EDU-YouTube for Research Many of us use YouTube for entertainment, but browse over to YouTube.com/education to see how many fascinating videos you can find to spark your research project. Use EDU-YouTube to find 2 or 3 videos from such inspiring sources as TEDx Talks, Stamford University, and PBS NewsHour, and more!

Using iTunes and NPR Podcasts for Research Podcasts are rich sources of information for most any research project. Search on iTunes to see what you can find, then look on NPR to find couple of podcasts there as well. Listen carefully, take  dialectical notes, so that you can add your brief transcriptions, citations, and responses from these podcasts to your discussion post.

If you do a photo essay, make your Presentation Public to the web, Publish it, and copy the Document link, then come here (back to this P2PU Task), and paste that link into a comment box.

If you keep Dialectical Notes on videos or podcasts, make your Doc Public to the web, Publish it, and copy the Document link, then come here (back to this P2PU task), and paste that link into a comment box. You should also include links to your YouTube playlist or to a page of podcast links that you've collected in Docs. (See details in each assignment.)

Before you click Yes, I'm done , paste the following links into a comment here on this task:

• Copy link for your Discussion Post on Youth Voices (for Part I, above) into a comment under this task (on P2PU), then click  Yes I'm done .
• Copy embed a video playlist or make a link to it. OR Link to your photostory presentation or your mp3 Podcasts
• Link to your Dialectical notes for Part II.