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**Writing to Persuade –**

**App Reviews**

**Objective**: 3rd grade student will write reviews of app they have played, and after learning safe and appropriate on-line behaviors will post their entries in the Moodle “There’s an App for That… Reviews”.

**Proposed Technology**: Moodle – Forum posting

**Materials:** Access to an app Writers notebook Microsoft Word Computer FlashDrive Pencil Internet

**Prior Knowledge:**


 * Students will have written reviews on movies, games, books, food, restaurant.
 * Techniques for writing will have been discussed
 * Appropriate rating scale established
 * Students will be familiar with Word and storing files on their flash drive
 * Students will be familiar with searching for an image on the Internet, and saving it to their flash drive,

**Procedure:**


 * Students will complete the 2 Cybersmart handouts reviewing personal and private information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in; tabstops: list .5in;">Students will write a review of an app and have the content reviewed by the classroom teacher
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in; tabstops: list .5in;">Students will create that review in digital format
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in; tabstops: list .5in;">Students will search and store an image related to their app on their flashdrive
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in; tabstops: list .5in;">Students will post the review in the forum of the class Moodle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in; tabstops: list .5in;">Students will review app posts of their classmates
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in; tabstops: list .5in;">Students will respond appropriately to classmates posts, and inappropriate comments will not be allowed to be posted, as this is a moderated forum.

**Online Resources** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in;">Cybersmart (cybersmartcurriculum.org)

**Worksheets:**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> [|**http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/assets/files/activitysheets/2-3/Whats_Private.pdf**]


 * Permission Letter**
 * Works Cited**

"What’s Private?" //CyberSmart//. Web. 1 Apr. 2011. [].