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One way to understand this curriculum is to think of it as several different ongoing projects that will require your attention each week. We want you to make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out.

Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio.

You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions:

• audio podcasts
• text with embedded media
• discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads

Assignments completed each week by active members of Youth Voices

1. Five What's up? Updates:
Compose twitter-like updates, but with unlimited length, images and audio. (Copy the suggested What's up? Guide to Docs. Write, copy, paste to Submit your update.)

2. Five Comments:
Respond to other students' Discussion posts on the Youth Voices. (Copy the suggested Comments Guide to Docs. Write, then copy and paste into a comments box.)

3. Five Bookmarks or Sets of Sticky Notes:
Find, manage, read, and respond to five or more different kinds of on-line resources about your inquiry question. (See Research Guides, especially the Search Guides, and the Youth Voices Diigo Group)

4. One well-developed Discussion Post:
Create and revise a Discussion post each week. Develop an audio, text and media, or video post about your ongoing question on a critical issue. Add to ONE Google Doc over the week, which you will post at the end of the week.

Get the details on the "Power Users' Weekly Assignments."

Also, see the "Habits of Mind" that we emphasize each week in our class.