Lesson 2
Sharing The Knowledge

Instructional Objectives
The students will:

• use telecommunications (e-mail or chat) to share their work with other students and teachers
• practice "Netiquette", Internet manners and safety

Advance Preparation
*Review "Netiquette" and Internet safety with your students prior to the activity.
Have a chatroom set up for the students, or E-mail service.
Have accounts for the students to use the chatroom, or E-mail.
Have "Key-pals" set up for the class. Either from a school faraway, or from your same school (the important thing is that the students learn how to use telecommunications).
Have a time schedule set up with another class if using a chatroom (or you can share within the class using the technology for practice).

TIP: If using Tapped In you can set up recorders for your students (a transcript is e-mailed to the teacher). If using e-mail you can require that they print their e-mail. This way you can keep track of their work and have a "hard copy" record of the students' sharing.

Materials/Resources Needed
Ability to send and receive e-mail, and/or ability to use a secure chatroom.

Vocabulary
Chatroom: a place in cyberspace where one can communicate with other people by typing on the computer keyboard.
E-mail: a letter or message sent through the Internet
Key-pals: a person, especially a stranger in another country (or district, school, classroom, etc.), with whom arranges a regular exchange of e-mail
Telecommunications: communication by radio, telephone, telegraph, television, computer (Internet: e-mail, chatroom, video conferencing), etc.

The vocabulary from Lesson One:
Self-portrait: a painting, drawing, etc. of oneself, done by oneself.

Procedures

• Show the students how to use the chatroom or e-mail. Have a couple of students be the "Experts in Chatroom Use or E-mail" that can help others when help is needed.
• Have the students share their work and ideas from Lesson One with peers by using telecommunications.

Activities

• Share previous work and ideas with peers through the use of the Internet.

Homework
Write about their experience using a chatroom.

Evaluation
Was the student able to complete the task?
Did he/she use "Netiquette"? *(Tapped In can be set up so that the teacher receives a chat transcript in the form of an e-mail. I use this to make sure check for "Netiquette" and conference with the students if anything inappropriate is discovered.)
Teacher observation/discretion.

Illustrative Materials
Tapped In Portal

Student Work Samples
 

Outline		Resources
	Standards		Lesson 1 The Research
Lesson 2 Sharing The Knowledge		Lesson3 Self-Portraits
	Lesson 4 Mini Museum		E-Mail