As the technique of "Advocacy" can present some very creative & effective learning activities, designing, assembling, and posting an online advocacy site seems like a tremendous undertaking. While the various tasks associated with an online advocacy site could be very numerous, the potential for a 'live' adocacy site that contains downloadable brochures and documents, powerpoints, video essays, and podcasts is certainly an age & skill appropriate acitivity for high school students.
As I have several students that have just won award medals for their quality presentations at the district science fair, an equally doable and challenging activity would be a school -wide, content specific 'Wiki -Fair'. The challenges in completing this kind of activity would be many. Each 'content area' ( Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Health & Physical Education, Fine Arts, FACS) would have to establish a "theme" to drive the 'issue' that each advocacy site would address. The school system and building administrators would have to approve the use of school hardware & software for such an activity. Individual teachers would have to dedicate some of their class meeting time(s) to introducing, assisting, and co-facilitating such an endeavor.
Equally important would be the issue of how such an activity would be "graded", assessed, and evaluated for both the awarding of "1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, etc..." and credit towards the grade on the student's report card. Surely all of these issues and challenges could be met, but who would lead that effort??? School Administrators? Content teachers? Technology Resource teachers? County -Level School System Administrators? The answer probably lies somewhere in a combination of all of these groups, or should students and parents be afforded the leadership roles???
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