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AP Psych bloggers! This interactive lesson will not only prepare you for the AP unit on Motivation, Emotion and Health, but it will also get you ready for online college courses that use blackboard to communicate between participants and to build communities of knowledge and learn from each other.
Why BLOg?? • http://motivateyourstudents.blogspot.com/p/motivating-struggling-readers.html • http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2012/10/how-technology-powering-academic-success-infographic • Blogger.com • You will be invited to join and we will ALL have access and the ability to read drafts before final postings
Teams – Based off notes • Biological Theory • Drive-reduction theory • Arousal theory • Incentive theory • Cog dissonance & Humanistic theory • Hunger • Obesity • Eating disoders • Theories of Emotion • Expressing & Experiencing Emotion
Your posts • Informational post – Test grade • Due Monday by midnight • You have options in how you present your content(Video, prezi, thinklink). • You must define your term/terms • explain what your topic has to do with motivation and emotion • generate your own image to go along with examples of your term (can be a photograph, chart, etc that you draw or take) • You must use 3-4 external sources which you will incorporate through the use of adding links
Questions – Quiz Grade • Due Friday @ end of class • 3 Questions – HIGHER LEVEL QUESTIONS • 1 question must be answered through a link that you provide • 2 questions need to come from your content • These questions will be compiled to create a worksheet/worksheets for our virtual gallery walk. Completion of this worksheet/worksheets will be a quiz grade.
Virtual gallery walk • Tuesday/Wednesday • You will go through the blog reading the information and answering the questions provided. • Answers are due at the end of class on Wednesday.
Comments • Comments and responses to comments are due by test day • You must comment on 3 other groups posts (this is a part of your test grade) • 1. ONE comment must be a question • 2. ONE comment must be a detailed compliment • 3. ONE comment must be an extension/thought that includes evidence with an example/link
Of course there is Extra Credit • Up to 10 points • Get an adult (like your parent, other adult family member, or person you work for or have worked with) to comment on YOUR section • The comment must be thoughtful and appropriate and then you must respond to them. • They must sign NAME, JOB/ROLE, STUDENT, HOW KNOW YOU • 5 points per appropriate post/response