World Leaders and Social Networking

As discussed in class, I am asking that you create an online Social Networking profile using myspace.com. You are to select from the world leaders we discussed in class listed here:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Fidel Castro
Vladimir Putin
Ariel Sharon
Saddam Hussein
Kim Jong-il
George Bush
Queen Elizabeth II
Hugo Chavez

Remember our discussions regarding what goes into an online profile:

• Your leader's name
• Create a screen name
• Would this person list their birthdate or age range? If so, would it be accurate or embellished?
• What type of picture would this person use to portray their personality? Would it be a recent photo, an old photo, an icon, an avatar, etc?
• What political or religious views might be conveyed in the profile?
• Is this person married, single, divorced? Would he or she tell the truth lie about his or her status?
• What privacy settings would this person use to control this profile? Would he or she allow open access or require selective availability?

DETAILS

• What adjectives would you use to describe this person's behavior? How might this subject's personality affect the information found in this profile?
• What are the person's strengths and weaknesses? How might these weaknesses be recast as strenghts for an online networking profile?
• What education, if any, would this character or person list?
• How might this person describe his or her work?
• What might be listed under the prompt "What are you doing right now"?

NETWORKS AND GROUPS

• What other people would be part of this person's network or group?
• What would other people write in their comments to this person?

FOR FUN

• What personal info would be listed? Include activities, interest, music, tv shows, movies and books, and fav. quotes.
• What photos or videos would be posted to the profile? (explanantions can be written)
• What virtual gifts would this person have received?

What happened at Ellis Island? - Be the Immigrant

For tonight's blog, I would like you to create a journal entry as if you are an immigrant who just arrived at Ellis Island. Using your notes from today's film, your knowledge of Ellis Island (which should be extensive at this point) and your imagination, I want you to be creative and not be limited by grammar. Please feel free to free write and not worry about run on sentences or punctuation. Yes, that said DO NOT worry about that. In three paragraphs, you will describe the following:

1. Your journey (you may include the journey to the ship that took you to Ellis)
2. What was the first thing you saw as you entered NY harbor. Describe how you felt as you approached Ellis and as you got off the boat.
3. As you exit the boat, tell me what you went through. Did you arrive alone, with family, did everyone get to stay, was there a reason why someone was turned away, etc?

Be sure to have this completed by tomorrow 1/4/07.

Ms. B