Pressing Our Buttons

Discussion points for the following adverts:

• What is being sold?
• Who is it being sold to?
• Why might we want this?
• What values (or fears) do the advertisers think the audience has?

 

Year 12 Issues Oral Nomination Board

You will need to add your proposed issue for the oral presentaion on the nomination board.

 

ICT next goal poll

Use this poll to respond:

 

Some QR Code fun…

Download a QR Reader on your phone / iDevice of choice.

Scan:

Enjoy!

 

John Cleese on Creativity

 

12 Angry Fakebooks

Now that you are the expert for a particular character, put together a Facebook profile, including how you think they would interact with other Jurors. You can use Fakebook to make these profiles: http://classtools.net/fb/home/page

You can check out these ones my year 11s made for inspiration.

 

Once you have finished and saved your Fakebook, paste the link into the comment section.

 

Class Portal: Coming Along Nicely

Well, the class portal seems to be coming along nicely at the moment. Most of the text tour is complete, but it lacks a little pizzaz.

To make our class portal dazzle I suggest the following:

• We need pictures. They are worth a thousand words. Or so I’ve heard.
• We need to whip that sloppy spelling into shape.
• We need titles that grab the imagination.
• We need someone to show us the bigger picture.
• We need to be able to find our way around the posts.
• We need everything to look the same.

To this end, I suggest that the following roles need to be taken on:

• Images Editors
• Proof Readers
• Sub-Editors
• Big-Ideas People
• Archivist
• Typesetter

Some of these are real jobs in professional publications. Some of these should be real jobs in professional publications, which is why your class portal is better than a professional publication.

Please read the job descriptions below and suggest in the comments which roles you would like to take on. Suggest your first two preferences; I’ll try to make everyone happy.

Image Editors

The image editor’s job is to carefully read the articles and decide what type of image should be used to accompany each post. Because we want to be responsible internet users, we only want to use images that have a Creative Commons license, so that we are not breaking copyright. The image editor will have to make sure that all images are attributed to their source.

You can use http://search.creativecommons.org/ to find appropriate images.

Proof Readers

The proof readers are responsible for making sure that the content is typo free and makes sense. You can make small edits, such as changing ‘teh’ to ‘the’, but if you think it needs major re-writing in order to make sense, simply pass your suggestions on to the original author and they can fix it up.

Sub-Editors

The sub-editor needs to do a couple of things. Firstly, they must read the post carefully and then add any details that they think will make it more interesting or accurate. Some moderate re-writing is appropriate from the sub-editor. The sub-editor should then consider what the main message or point of the post is and then re-title the post, if appropriate.

Big Ideas People

Ok, so this is a made up job. However, the big ideas people will be responsible for bringing they key ideas and themes of the posts together. How they choose to do this is up to them, after all, they are the big ideas people, but they may choose to use tools such as Glogster or Bubbl.us to bring a visual representation of each of the key themes together. One big ideas person might, therefore, put together a poster representing the importance of family relationships for our survival, with some interesting images and key quotes on it. This can then be uploaded to the class portal and could even then serve as a link to the relevant posts relating to that theme.

Think BIG.

Archivist

The archivists need to make sense of all of the material we have produced and put it together in some sort of usable order. They might decide to make a page of hyperlinks that acts as a contents page to all of the text tour posts we have written. Some other structural changes to the site might be appropriate, too, so this can be decided by the archivists.

Typesetter

The typesetter needs to decide upon a format that all related posts should follow and then go through the site applying this format as they see fit. They might decide, for example, that all quotes need to be bold or indented, so they would need to go through the posts and make those changes.

Unknown

I don’t know everything. Don’t tell anyone, though. Maybe I haven’t thought of a job that needs to be done on the class portal. If you can think of a job that you’d like to do, that I haven’t mentioned, please leave your idea in the comments and the group can decide if it’s a good idea.

 

12 Angry Men: Say What?!

Juror Number One Wordle

You need to know the whole play, but it can be interesting to see what jumps out at you when you only look at the dialogue of one character.

This is an incredibly arbitrary re-working of the play, 12 Angry Men, but you may find it interesting to see what each character says individually.

NB: I have not checked this for accuracy against the VCAA mandated text. This was compiled from the online, 3 Act version, that can be found at: http://home.planet.nl/~brui1713/litbite/files/twelveangrymen.doc

If you notice any inaccuracies or would like to suggest amendments, please include them in the comments.

Juror One	Juror Two
Juror Three	Juror Four
Juror Five	Juror Six
Juror Seven	Juror Eight
Juror Nine	Juror Ten
Juror Eleven	Juror Twelve

The image above was create by using Microsoft Word to remove all of the times “FOREMAN –” appeared in the Juror One text, and then I pasted the result into Wordle. If you make a wordle for any of the characters, I’d love to see them, so tell me in the comments!

 

Who was the toughest survivor?

Answer the following poll question and tell us why you chose you answer in the comments section.

Also tell us what you think it was that helped these people survive their situations.

 

Fighting Viruses, Defending the Net

In the comments, explain what you think the main dangers on the internet are today.