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Facilitator Name: Kym Boyce
School: To be discussed
Date: Monday, August 17th, 2015
Program Club: Communication and Multimedia Arts
Duration: 90 minute
Learning Goals/ Objective: To facilitate a workshop on Image & Personal Brand:
Social Media Etiquette for students and staff to (1) teach the value of Identity,
Authenticity and Leadership, (2) the importance of Personal Brand & Image and to (3)
introduce guidelines for Internet Safety
Common Core Standards Covered:
Functional Skills - brainstorming (creative thinking), reading comprehension,
active listening, teamwork
Technical Skills - public speaking, group communication, literacy, internet safety,
leadership
Materials Needed: laptop, iPad (tablet), iPhone (smartphone)—display purposes only;
Smartboard and/ or projector; flip chart, markers; time cards; students will need:
computers, internet access, construction paper, crayons, paper, pen
Opening Ritual (8m): Facilitator will introduce self; purpose of workshop and students
will be guided through rules, roles, and an interactive icebreaker.
 Greetings and Introductions - “In Your Own Words”
Have students prepare nametags. Choose a sheet of construction paper by color.
Fold the sheet in half horizontally. Open it at its bend to form a name card for
their desk. On the Front of the name card write participant's name. On the Back of
the card, write down three (3) words that embody who the participant is and how
they define themselves. *There will be no further explanations. Let the 3 words
say/ name it all.
 Setting of Guidelines
Rule No 1. “One Mic” = one person speaks at a time
Rule No 2. Have Fun! Students will be encouraged to Play, Learn, and Grow.
 Introduce Learner Corner (Encourage Leadership & Participation)
Invite one (1) student volunteer and two (2) nominated students to represent the
group in below activities throughout the workshop.
 Timekeeper: Volunteer will manage 3 time cards (GREEN (3 mins left),
YELLOW (2 mins left), RED (1 min left) to assist the group with Time

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Management
 Group Leaders will be responsible in gathering information for their
classmates and collecting them on the side of the board or in the corner of
the room on a flip chart.
o Question Quarry: A place for all questions arising during workshop.
o Lexicon Lane: A place for all interesting words arising during
workshop.
 Introduce Icebreaker (15m) – “Ring Your Alarm” (Interactive Powerpoint
Presentation & Activity) Students will be taken through a short introductory
activity to understand the power of messaging.
 Talking Points
 If you had to go without one thing what would it be, your phone or your
email?
Raise your hand if it’s your cell phone.
Raise your hand if it’s your email.
 Okay, pretty much everyone uses a mobile phone these days. So much so,
that we can’t quite seem to detach ourselves from them. And our teachers,
our bosses, signs are always reminding us to TURN OFF our phones, or at
least put them on vibrate.
 Still, some may consider that cell phones CAN be used in the classroom
AND aid in Learning. A lot of us have cell phones and many of our
phones are smartphones.
 We have Smartboards and even smartpens in our classrooms, why not use
a smartphone? Take poll. Which have you used?
 Let’s take a look at a smartphone. Would anyone like to read this for us?
Definition: Smartphones smart·∙phone [smahrt-fohn] Noun. A device
that combines a cell phone with a hand-held computer.
 Did anybody else have an AHA! Moment. A smart phone is a hand-held
computer. And for many of us, it’s the first computer that we’ve owned.
 It’s amazing what these hand-held computers can tell us about ourselves.
Today, we’re going to discover, what your cell phone says about you and
what alarms they could potentially sound (send) off.
 Instructions. In just TWO easy steps... Well, technically THREE! We’re going to
switch things up a bit:
1. Take out your cell phones.
2. Tell us your name and how you use your cell phone.
3. Then, play your ringtone and share with us why you chose that
particular sound/ song.
4. Look at the 3 words that you wrote and ask yourself, “How well
does my ringtone align with what I say about myself?”
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probably don’t need to hear it again during the workshop? This would be
the perfect time to put your phones on vibrate. Let me do it too!
Activity A (20m): Students will participate in an active learning exercise to engage the
influence of Music---the lyrics, the sound, and its power--in a fun and exciting way.
Together we will engage a number of songs where students can use their own voice “out
loud” and challenge themselves to be careful of what they say.
 Instructions. Use this word association activity to energize participants. Divide
the group into at least two teams. The facilitator suggests a word (like dance, sun,
happy, love). Each group alternates turns singing a song that contains that word.
The game continues for five total rounds. Clean Versions Only! Derogatory
language will be automatically disqualified.
 Key Words to Use: bad / classic / blessings / lean / way / uptown / post / face /
myself / whip (Click links for possible examples of current songs)
 Food for Thought (Encourage Network and Teamwork)
If we are only as strong as our weakest link then how could we improve
(individually and collectively)? When you have a problem to solve how much
help is it to have someone else give you suggestions? Explain. Would a greater
number of people always make it easier to solve a problem? Why or why not?
Activity B (20m): (Raise Awareness, Develop Writing Skills) Create the space for
participants to delve into social justice issues surrounding their age group and the
importance of the messaging we communicate and share. Student’s will begin to delve
into the intersections of social media and social justice and explore how as quickly a song
can go viral so to can a video, a tweet, or a post can go for one’s personal page to the
entire world wide web.
 Review Examples from the popular song and music video, “Watch Me”, by
Silentó to the destructive trend of posting videos of school fights, and the even
more devastating impact of cyberbullying on mental health, such as in the tragic
case of the teenager Felicia Garcia who consequently committed suicide, and the
more recent outrage of the Jada pose hashtag, which encouraged youth to repost
images of themselves laid out in the same fashion Jada was found passed out after
having been allegedly drugged and date raped at a house party.
 FreeWrite: Students will be given the opportunity to do own self-assessment and
reflective writing. Record stream of thoughts around any of the topics shared.
Write sentences to form a single paragraph. Tell a personal story about whatever
comes to mind regarding that topic. Guideline: Stretch your verbal/ linguistic
intelligence towards excellence in grammer, spelling & punctuation.
o Topics include –

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 internet safety
 identity & reputation
 cyberbullying & mental health
 filming police & each other
Activity C (20m) Common Sense Media: Digital Bytes Activity ( e-Learning Activity)
Guide students to the Common Sense Media website online and facilitate a Leadership
lesson on Influence and Impact in the Digital World.
 Participants will choose a Question Direction and then two groups will be formed
based on personal selections. Within groups students will watch a video and then
discuss the listed questions among the group. Facilitator will walk around class to
support and observe group communication.
o Group 1: How can you seize the day in the digital world?
o Group 2: How can you cultivate kindness online?
 Group 1 Activity - Would You #YOLO?
What does #YOLO mean to today’s generation, and what does it have to do with
the Internet? Teens discuss how #YOLO plays out online (what happens when
you use digital media to “live in the moment”?) and how it can impact one’s
online reputation or identity.
 Group 2 Activity - Haters and Trolls
What are the differences among teasing, harassing, cyberbullying, and trolling
online? Teens analyze the motives behind, for example, trolling (deliberately
provoking or upsetting others online, with the intent of inciting an angry
response) and explore how it affects individuals, groups, and entire communities.
 Class Discussion – (Reflection) Participants share with the class their reactions to
the videos and discussions in their respective groups answering these guiding
questions:
1. What was your biggest TAKEAWAY from this video?
2. What part of this video struck you the most? Why?
3. What do you want to know more about? Why?
Closing Ritual (7m): Fearless Feedback (Build Class Participation)
Participants share responses and specific guiding information of individual activity's
strengths and opportunities for growth toward improvement of overall class performance.
 Action Station (Call to Action) - Participants will be guided to choose any level
and a genre and explore what they find there.
Two Levels
Grasshopper: young student, novice, amateur seeking to acquire some skill
Sensai: masterful, advanced, life long learner

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 GRASSHOPPER
 Book: Words You Thought You Knew: 1001 Commonly Misused
Words and Phrases by Jenna Glatzer
 Website: Personal Branding for Teens: 7 Steps to Teach and
Learn It (http://www.radicalparenting.com/2009/05/11/personal-
branding-for-teens-7-steps-to-teach-and-learn-it/)
 Blog: What's a “weblog” and what are 10 Top Blog Sites?
 SENSAI
 Book: Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
 Website: Go to DoSomething.org and Sign Up for the Social
Media Makeover Campaign. You will receive facts on
cyberbullying and tips on teaching your friends to stay safe online.
(https://www.dosomething.org/campaigns/social-media-
makeover?source=campaigns)
 Blog: (a) Create a blog. (b) Design your own layout. (c) Include
writing content that is remarkable, unique and newsworthy. (d)
Market it on your favorite social media websites like Facebook,
Twitter, and YouTube, and get your family and friends to follow
you!
Ask yourself: What are you going to do to get other people
Interested, excited, inspired, encouraged, involved?
Miscellaneous: Suggested Words for Lexicon Lane (CommonSenseMedia.org)
Would you #YOLO?
o Reputation - The general impression of a person held by others and the
public.
o Identity - All the factors that make up who you are.
o Motto - A sentence, phrase, or word expressing the spirit or guiding
principle of a particular person or group.
o Digital footprint - All the information online about a person either posted
by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally.
o Legacy - Something that is a result of events in the past or that comes
from someone in the past.
Haters and Trolls
o Hate speech- A verbal attack targeting someone because of his or her
race, gender, religion, ability, or sexual orientation.
o Troll - A person who deliberately posts upsetting or inflammatory
messages in an online community. Cyberbullying - The use of digital
media tools such as the Internet and cell phones to deliberately upset or
harass someone.
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aggressively or more candidly, than they would face to face.
o Controversy - Public disagreement or debate.