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Research - Notice and Construct [Dec. 21, 2012, 12:14 p.m.]



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:

Image for issue at Youth Voices

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.

Five crescents - Wikipedia

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.

Image for issue at Youth Voices

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.

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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!

Image for issue at Youth Voices

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.