OneWebDay+Ideas

As a web resource nearing our tenth anniversary, TeachersFirst is well aware of the changes in the World Wide Web and of the changes it has CAUSED over the past ten years. OneWebDay is just one chance to stop and celebrate the positive power of the web and to take stewardship of it as web users. [|Learn more about OneWebDay] as you plan an observance—large or small- for September 22 or a school day during that week. Here are some ideas you might consider for your school or classroom:
 * [|One Web Day- September 22]**
 * Do a lesson on Internet Safety using one of the [|resources from TeachersFirst] and have students make web safety posters, PowerPoints, or videos.
 * Have students keep a log of all the minutes and ways their family uses the web in a 24 hour period. Consolidate the data and make a large graph (using the computer, of course!) to hang in your classroom or hallway. Some categories they could use for the data: researching, emailing, playing games, organizing nad viewing photos, finding news, paying bills, communicating using social tools, shopping, online conferences, RSS feed viewing, etc.
 * With younger ones, talk about all the places and people their family contacts by email, photosharing, or visiting sites on the web. Make it a “homework” assignment to find out one geographic location ANY family member contacts via the web for work or personal purposes. Let them make signs with the names of the places. Find them on a map or Google Earth in your classroom. Then make a “web” on the playground out of yarn to “act out” the way that different places and people are connected using the web. Let each student “stand for” a place in the world contacted via the web. Take a digital picture and hang it on your room or put it on a class web page. (Your Phys Ed teacher might be willing to help with ways to interweave the “web”).
 * Have middle school students interview a grandparent (or someone of that generation) and make a comparison chart of the things students now do online compared to the ways the grandparent did them.
 * Have high school students list at least ten ways the web has changed the electoral process.
 * Have students collect as many “Without the Web, this wouldn’t have happened” stories as they can: stories of people who have found lost friends and relatives, discovered amazing things, etc. Share them on your class blog, wiki, or bulletin board.
 * Organize a service activity where teens help older citizens learn about the web in a school computer lab after school once a week or once a month.
 * As a class activity on a projector, “find” a school in a far-away city that seems to be a lot like your own school. Email their webmaster a class “web hello” introducing yourselves. See if you get a response.
 * Plan your own idea and share it on the TeachersFirst wiki (a place we set up for teachers to learn more about wikis as part of our Wiki Walk-Through)

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