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Assignment 1 Michele Sherman LIS 626 Assignment 1: Part 1 June 3, 2010

RE: Who belongs in a museum and why? I think that this is a great idea. We can have the students choose a person to research from a selection of books found in the library or they can choose a person on their own. Once students identified their person, they can start to research what it is about that person’s life and achievements that make them worthy of being featured in a new museum wing using various biography websites, online databases and books. Students will use a graphic organizer to locate important characteristics, contributions and experiences that made this person important. They will also list 5 things that they admire about their person and reasons why they are famous. This will lead them to think critically about the information they are looking for. As a final project, students could use their information to create a powerpoint presentation to be made into an Animoto video to be shown at a “museum opening.” Students would present their person and state why they belong in a museum to their peers, as this gives them an authentic audience and enables them to utilize 21st Century skills of using the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology to create new understandings of knowledge.



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