EDTECH at Boise State University

"Censorship in the classroom: Understanding controversial issues\n\nhttp://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=203\n\nA lesson plan for grades 9-12 English Language Arts and Information Skills\nLearn more\n\n * Learn more about banned books, biases, censorship, language arts, media, persuasive writing, propaganda, reading, stereotypes, and writing.\n\nHelp\n\nPlease read our disclaimer for lesson plans.\nLegal\n\nPrint\n\n * Print\n\nShare\n\n * Email\n * Delicious Delicious\n * Digg Digg\n * Facebook Facebook\n * StumbleUpon StumbleUpon\n\nIt is important for young people to understand their individual rights and what they, as citizens, can do to protect these rights. In addition, young people need to understand the way in which bias and stereotyping are used by the media to influence popular opinion. In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, researching the reasons these books have been censored. Following this research, students choose a side of the censorship issue and support their position through the development of an advertising campaign.\nNorth Carolina Curriculum Alignment\nEnglish Language Arts (2004)\nGrade 9\n\n * Goal 3: The learner will examine argumentation and develop informed opinions.\n o Objective 3.01: Study argument by:\n + examining relevant reasons and evidence.\n + noting the progression of ideas that substantiate the proposal.\n + analyzing style, tone, and use of language for a particular effect.\n + identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical, or cultural influences contexts, or biases.\n + identifying and analyzing rhetorical strategies that support proposals.\n\nGrade 10\n\n * Goal 3: The learner will defend argumentative positions on literary or nonliterary issues.\n o Objective 3.01: Examine controversial is

Kid friendly search engine. There are fun things on the website for the kids to visit as well. These include music, games, movies, sports, and ecards. Easy for students to use.

Great website for students and teachers to take notes on projects and daily work. Prevents misplacing the notes and difficulty in reading them because of messy handwriting.

Great website for Civil War Units. There are maps, battle statistics, weapons, people, and slavery. Easy for students to use. Well-maintained and accurate.

Great resource for students and teachers who are researching the Civil War. Information on battles, slavery, and soldiers. There are also links to official records which are interesting for the students to see.

This is a great website for all types of thematic units. There are full-length movies, movie clips, images, and lessons. This is a subscription service.

DoInk allows you to easily create vector-based Flash-style animations.

LiveMocha is a powerful online language learning community that allows you to interact with native speakers of many languages. It also provides a selection of free and paid language lessons.

Make Beliefs Comix allows you to easily create your own comic strip.

Prezi is a next-generation presentation tool that allows you to create animated presentations on a virtual canvas.

Rosetta Stone Shared Talk allows for real-time online chat with Spanish speakers from around the world.

This a great website for educational movies. It is not blocked by security filters like You Tube is at most schools.

TodaysMeet is a backchanneling tool that allows for real-time audience feedback and participation via Twitter.

VoiceThread is a collaborative multimedia slide show tool that supports voice, video, animated commenting, and several document formats.

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting.

Presentations with added voice, video and text comments.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Site to make word "art". I have used this in the revision process for writers who are redundant in their word choice; the more frequently a word is entered, the larger it appears on the finished project. Students can copy and paste their document into the website for this effect.

Xtranormal combines text-to-speech with animation, allowing you to create movies by simply choosing a scene, selecting actors, and typing in a script.

xtra normal is a site that helps you o create and publish animated movies. There is a filtered education site so kids don't access questionable content.

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

This is the website that accompanies the TCI social studies curriculum. Online lessons, student interactive journals, Powerpoint presentations, and teacher's guide are available.

Resource to assist in the research and exploration of colleges and information on different types of schools.

Career exploration tool to get students to research and obtain information on their post secondary aspirations.