0. Today’s featured app:
1. Did you know a movie is being filmed in Medford?
2. Senior scholarships
Seniors, there is still time to apply for some college scholarships
3. Boston Globe app project
Fact of the Day
a. Please check out BostonGlobe.com, read a story that interests you, and choose an interesting fact from that story. This fact will be featured as an example for the new BG News in Education student page!
Think: did you learn something new and would someone else be interested in learning this, too?
Here is an example- you will need both a fact and a link to the story:
http://mhswebdesign.com/test4/bg_nie_student/fastfacts.html
You can submit the fact and your story link here.
Content for the Student Gallery
b. Working in 4 groups of 3 people, you will create content for a student gallery that will be featured on the BG’s News in Education student page. Two groups will do the Remix the News activity and two groups will do the Build-a-paper activity.
Remix the News– one group will create an infographic and one group will create a Storify
Build-a-paper– one group will use ThingLink and one group will use TimelineJS
All groups will follow the instructions included on the pages linked to above. Examples are included.