3.C.+E+-+Explore,+Experience,+Enable+and+Equip

The heart of the lesson is the "E" section: How will our students be engaged in exploring the Big Ideas?

For a list of specific learning tasks see section 5A. (Students learn about all of the steps necessary to set up and carry out an iChat. The learning culminates with the students setting up and carrying out an iChat during the workshop).

Additional learning tasks that touch on the Big Ideas include having the workshop participants works with other participants to develop norms for middle-schoolers when doing an iChat. Norms include both social norms and performance norms (enunciation, eye contact, etc.) This is done in groups, followed by report-backs from each group, towards developing a collective list of norms that participants can select from and use in their chats.

The workshop should also provide a short (15 - 20 minute) section where students can brainstorm about different media, comparing their strengths and weaknesses in four categories: production, distribution, consumption (viewing, listening, reading), and audience participation.