Current+Events+9-11


 * __September 11th 2001__**

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Introduction
For this project you will research the events surrounding 9/11. You are to become very familiar with the situation and try to imagine yourself in the position of:**President George Bush, The American People, Rescue Firemen and Police, The Families and Friends of the Victims, News Reporters**. Your job will be to upload a picture that represents one of these personas and talk about the situation from your/their point of view using VoiceThread. Others in the class will be expected to respond to your work and you will respond to theirs as well. You will be in groups of three for this section of the project.

Lesson 1-Task 1
1. Choose one of these personalities to focus on and try to work out what they must feel about 9/11 and why they feel the way they do. 2. Create a group document in Google Drive, record the names of your group members and put the names of the person they have chosen to represent beside each one. 3. Copy the questions below beneath each one and try to answer the questions throughout your research over the next 3 lessons.


 * Who is the person you have chosen? **
 * ** What can you find out about their background (social, political, religious, economic, labour/job)? **
 * ** What is this person's stake in this crisis (What did they gain or lose? How did it affect them?) **
 * ** How might this person feel about what happened 10 years later? **
 * ** What message do you think the person you have chosen would like the world to know about the crisis? **

Pathfinder
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Plan your research using this Google Document. Make sure to take a copy for yourself. Do not work on the original. //(Planning an Effective Search taken and slightly modified, from PowerTools by Joyce Valenza)//

Yolink
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**Lessons 1-2 Task 2**
You will be working in Diigo for the next two lessons. For the **first lesson** please follow the Diigo Online Lesson tutorial, create your account, download the toolbar (firefox) join the group, and begin bookmarking the web resources you plan on using.

Join your group by clicking on the correct widget below.
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Use the questions from Lesson 1 to guide your search and note taking.

During the **second lesson** you will use Diigo sticky notes, the highlighter and comments to record the most important ideas which you can use to put your talk together. Please remember to include pictures as well as text.

Again use the questions from Lesson 1 to guide your search and note taking.

**Lessons 3-4 Task 3**
During these last two lessons you will work on your group Voicethreads.

An account has been made for each group. ABCICT1,ABCICT2,ABCICT3, ABCICT4, ABCICT5, ABCICT6, ABCICT7, ABCICT8. ABCICT9, ABCICT10

Next you will need to upload 1 or 2 pictures which will be the focus of your discussion. **BE SURE TO USE A GOOGLE ADVANCED SEARCH FOR COPYRIGHT FRIENDLY PICTURES!**

You can use different sources for your pictures.

Add a title to your picture and paste in its url.

Each group should sign in and create an **identity** for each member of the group. Do not worry about uploading avatar pictures at this point. You should use the persona you have chosen to represent as your identity combined with your first name. //Example: Jennifer-New York Fireman//





The next step is to share this work with your teacher by sending them an invitation.

Allow them to view, comment and doodle on it.

Next you will record your prepared speech. Only use the typing option if you run into trouble recording and only after having spoken to your teacher about it.





You can also use the doodle option to create arrows, circle items. Remember to be respectful of your subject if you choose to do this.

Embedding and/or Linking to Your Voicethread


You can choose to **link** to your presentation or **embed** it.

Copy either the **Embedding Code** or the **URL**.

To link the presentation, click to edit your wiki page, type in the name of the presentation, select the text you just typed and click the link button in the menu. Paste in the url of you presentation.

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