Brainstorming


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**Sam's Thoughts:**

**Ideas for Social Networking Internet Project:**

__kinds of situations breeds confidence, which helps to keep you cool, calm, and collected in the face of stressful events and interactions". - Dr. Packer (Book "How Rude!")] __
 * Chain reaction "pay it forward" idea (regarding anti-bullying? Manners? Vocabulary?)
 * **Kids create some online site, where they can p**lug in "codes" teachers/administrators/adults pass out for "catching" them doing _, saying _ etc. Then they get rewards online? "level-up"? t ** hey earn "money" online to buy things local organizations donate? OR they "earn money" to buy things FOR OTHERS in the community? ...... **
 * **Get members/ businesses from the community to sponsor something: ex. For every 100 clicks, we'll donate ." or "for every _ we'll _." **Could be tied into the above idea?
 * Cause of kids choice (environment etc.) and get the whole nation involved? (National __day?) ex. national "Roll ANything Day", Gainesville's "Waste Watchers" ? etc.__
 * Teaching kids to solve confrontations (f airness, friendship, imagination, family, conflict resolution, peer pressure, anger, and fear.) ?
 * Manners Matter! "Good manners are impressive, attractive, and increasingly hard to find. Teens with good manners come out on top. Well-behaved kids stand out in a crowd, and are more likely to get what they want out of life The polite bird gets the worm, and kids with savoir-faire know how to make others feel good. And people who feel good are more likely to give you a job, agree to your requests, and enjoy your company. Knowing how to act in all


 * Books for all? In the homes? ("Bring in a used toy, we'll give you 10 books??") Donations from second-hand stores etc.?

__**Things they may be concerned about**: __


 * Environmental Issue (such as above)
 * Anti-bullying
 * Media's stress on body image?
 * Kid's Crime stoppers Club? (where kids can anonymously send in tips of potential crimes/ threats?)

__**Rai's Thoughts:**__


 * I really love the pay it forward idea.
 * The online site thing is a good idea, however... I have no clue how we'll build it. I can make websites, but I'm not *that* good lol. I don't know that I can make an actual "plug code in and keep track of stuff" site, but we could keep track of it manually... but that would take a lot of work on our part and for the teacher if she continues it after we leave.
 * Sponsors are a pain, but probably very very doable.

__I dunno; I'm really reluctant to set a course before we poll the kids. But at least here are a few resources that maybe we could show them to give them some ideas:__


 * Book!! - Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand - the Lemonade Stand for childhood cancer - []
 * Ian's Bead Company - selling beads to raise money for the ASPCA - [] -Love it-
 * Zack's Recycling Center - []
 * Kids Change the World (Australia) - [] -Gotta have it-
 * Neenah Changes the World - [] - Like it-

**Continuing thoughts**:

__ All of these are great! I think the two most likely to hold their attention would be **Ian's Bead Company** (writing a book, providing a product/service), and **Kid's Change the World** (it 'plants' a variety of 'seeds'. And the kids look cool. :) ). These two are more colorful and engaging in my opinion. Althouggghhh, the Neenah story was really powerful, I thought, and I think kids can really connect on a personal level to her feelings, which can be motivating. But if we chose that with hopes empathy will evoke the ideas we're after, we may be taking the chance of instilling only ideas of over seas endeavors (If we only show two videos about dogs, all our sticky notes will say "dog" ;) ). __

__ So I'm down for any combination of the three :) I think the first two I mentioned show a few ideas each which doesn't 'plant' any one idea alone. __ __ *And I do think if we end up using Neenah's story, someone should read the text aloud stinulating-ly :) __ __ Thanks for the vids, Rai! Great job :) **- Sam** __

__ = Sam's rankings (Cold Stone ever?) :) __

__For Wednesday Meeting:__

__- Sam Stickies__ __- Rai sticker (and tech sponsor for Cisco)__ __- Chart paper from PK__ __- Pencils__ __- All Bring laptops if possible JIC__ __- Everyone vote on videos__

___ Abbey's Thoughts:

I agree that the Australian kids are PERFECT for the intro. I like how they stress that they only put five minutes a day into these different projects and how bit of a variety there was in their projects. Also, agreed that the kids look super cool :)

However, I was torn betwen the Ian's Bead Story and Neenah's story. I like how Ian's is engaging and he's there talking and explaining himself. It makes his story more attainable, but I also really liked how they showed Neenah's thought process in developing her story. I'd be okay with either of the two because I think they both incorporate raising funds for their projects and they're both totally kid driven.

Thanks for the videos, Rai! I think they're excellent :)

Also, Sarah, would you mind posting the plan for Wednesday on here? Thanks so much!

--- Girls: Here's a copy of the email that I sent Flavin earlier today. Let me know if you have any questions or anything and we prob need to think of a meeting time for sometime this week, because Rai and Abbey, you guys can't stay late after PK on Wednesday right? Just a thought! :) Let me know if there's anything else you think I should send her.

code Hey again, I just wanted to check in with everything. The girls told me everything went great and we are working with ALL third grade! Yay! I'm really excited about getting started and just wanted to make sure that everything was still a go for this Wednesday at noon. We also had a meeting together so we could prepare for Wednesday and I just wanted to send you our schedule to make sure everything works for you and that there isn't anything else that you would like us to address. This is the plan so far:

-Introduce Ourselves -Explain that for the next couple of weeks, we are going to be working on using technology in school. -"Can adults be the only ones using technology?" -"What can kids use technology for?" -Show student project video examples -Teacher think alouds - model what we may be passionate about/ want to change in the world. -Focus: What do we want to focus on? Where do we live? What are some problems within Gainesville that you see? -Split into classes, then work with a shoulder partner to record their ideas on sticky notes -Mini share session among classes then come together with a few ideas and explain we will tally results and let them know an idea next meeting time.

Also, there are a few resources that we thought might be good to show the kids, as an engagement tool, but weren't sure if P.K's filter would block the sites. We also wanted to get your opinion on them. Just let us know what you think! Thanks a bunch. Talk to you soon. -Sarah

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