Monday, January 14. 2019

Today's schedule is ABCD

A & D Blocks Human Geography - Today we will be going to the Library/Learning Commons for another day to work on your Inquiry Project. Today I'll need you to explore the different formats you could use to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story. Answer the questions below to organize your thoughts and prepare to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story:

1. What is your Geo-Inquiry Question?
2. What kinds of data did you collect?
3. What did you learn from this data?
4. How will you represent data in your Geo-Inquiry Story?
5. What is the answer to your Geo-Inquiry Question or your proposed solution?
6. What action would you like to take based on your findings?
7. Who is the best audience for your Geo-Inquiry Story?
8. What kinds of elements will be most important to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story?
9. What is the best tool to use to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story?

Decide on a format for your end product by thinking about your interests and strengths, and what might be the most effective means of communicating the information that you have gathered and analysed. Analyse each format to determine which is the best fit for your Geo-Inquiry Story. Now...what do you need to do? How do you plan to go about doing it? When do you plan on getting it done.  Don't forget this is an active research project and I expect you'll need to go out into the community to interview people so who do you need to talk to and when will you talk with them? So yeah...it's the day where you really need to get going because including today there's only 9 classes remaining in the semester.

B Block Criminology - Today I'd like you to work on the online discussion thread...
Is social media good or bad for criminal trials (Casey Anthony, George Zimmerman, Jodi Arias)?
On the Wejit site, here is the question I'd like you to answer:

Is Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, Instagram, Snapchat) good or bad for criminal trials and the news/media coverage of them?

Think about who reports information and how that information is used.
Think about your privacy and how you manage your on-line presence.
Think about how social media can be introduced as evidence at trials (see the article here).
Think about how social media can be used during trials (see the article here).
Do viewer/user comments about media coverage of a trial provide valuable feedback for discussion or not? Why?

I've got links to the following articles on the site that I'd like you to scan through to help with your answers:

How "Trial by Media" Can Undermine the Courtroom
Social Media Has Changed Crime and the Justice System
Social Media and the Fair Trial
Social Media in the Courtroom
Tweeting from trials: How social media gives crime followers a front-row seat