Team+6+MNLI+12

Names: Jen Groskin and Kaitlin Carter Grade Levels: 8 and 10-12 Subject Areas: Civics and Italian
 * Team 6**

We will enhance student communication in real time using digital social media (Twitter). Find meaningful moments/lessons to incorporate Twitter into student assessment.
 * Project Description:**

- Introducing Twitter as an academic tool and resource - Practicing before formative assessments - Assessments (proper language use, identify other feeds in context and reliability)
 * Common aspects:**

Students will understand the benefits of using social media to communicate ideas, opinions, and learning. Students will learn how to use social media for academic purpose and assessment. Students will gather a cultural understanding about the themes and topics being followed. Students will be able to determine what is a relevant resource to use in a twitter discussion.
 * Goals:**

//In civics-// Students will use Twitter as a part of our Election 2012 Projects. They will use TWITTER to communicate with each other about the campaign, public opinion, and election night. Using Twitter they can follow real time news they will be required to include images from the campaign trail in their town. Students will have an opportunity to practice using Twitter with teacher supervision in an assignment a few weeks in advance of this assignment.
 * Classroom implementation:**

//In Italian-// As part of the AP Italian and Culture Exam students need to be able to compare the Italian culture to the reality in which they live. While students generally have an idea of what is happening in their own community, they lack the ability to draw conclusions about similarities and differences about the two cultures, not because of language skills, but lack of knowledge of current trends in Italy. Twitter is an excellent way to obtain real time information about what their peers in Italy are talking about. It will also be away for them to express their comments, make comparisons, and collaborate with others.



The project assignment including grading rubric:


 * Common core:**

//For Italian//- This assignment meets almost all (no speaking) of the [|National Standards for Foreign Language Education]. For Civics- The Twitter assignment is part of our larger "Election 2012 Project." The assignment meets many elements in the Writing Common Core Standards. See document for detailed explanation. .

Twitter Assignment for Civics:

Parent Letter:

Assessment: The Twitter feeds will be assessed based on a rubric that is under development! Students will have some input into the value of scores on the rubrics. **Tentative Rubric for Election Twitter 2012** 8 total tweets 1 point for Response 1 point for retweet 1 point for @ someone in the group 1 point for own thought opinion 0-1-2 score 0- didn’t do it 2 did it relevant successful used hashtag etc 1 missing hashtag- irrelevant information
 * Tentative Scoring Guide:**