Why Not Posting Assignment 1

Why Not Posting Assignment 1
February 24, 2009
Due: Tomorrow, Wednesday February 25th

You may do the following with a partner of your choice or work on your own. It is up to you.
You are to create a handwritten introduction for the Why Not website.

PART I
• Your introduction should include:
o Your name(s),
o Your age(s)
o Something you value about yourself.
o Something you value about your school.
o Something you value your city, state, or country.
o Something you value about the opportunity to communicate with Palestinian students.
o A question for your audience (youth in, or concerned with, the Palestinian.

Example:
Portland Youth Extend Greetings
Hello. This is Frank and Joan. We are 16 year old students at Trillium Charter School in Portland, Oregon. We are excited to be making this connection for the first time and want to share a little about ourselves. We both play guitar and skateboard, and enjoy the fact that our school has small classes and we can call our teachers by their first names. We feel fortunate to live in Portland, a progressive city where people are generally kind and open-minded. We are looking forward to communicating with other youth all over the world about issues that our important to us. As a way to join that conversation, we would like to ask a question. We are currently studying the history of the Palestinian conflict in our “Faith and Conflict” class and would like to know what people would recommend we read, see, listen to, or experience in order to better understand the situation. Peace, Frank and Joan.

PART II
• Log in to the Why Not Website, hosted by Global Citizen Corps, at www.whynotyouth.org.
• Go to “GloPal Impressions”
• Go to “ADD and Edit Post in the Lounge”
• Post your introduction. Be sure to give it a title.
• Click “Add Post” when you are ready to put it online.

PART III
• Finally, go to “The Lounge” and read some of the many other postings on their.
• Next, respond to at least one of the posts on the Why Not website that you choose, by clicking “Add Comment” and typing in your thoughts or ideas.
• Be prepared to share with the class which posting you chose and why.