Nation Issues 2000

Informal Project Overview:

The teachers I will be telecommuting with are:

Heidi Fyffe
8^th SS and LA teacher
Painesville , Ohio

And

Stacy Eleo
8^th grade SS teacher  (she works with ED students
Charleston , SC

The following is from an email I sent to both teachers. 

Friday, Sept. 22: 1.  Introduce the project to the classes to each other through digital pictures letters, etc. 2. Introduce the purpose and scope of the project.  3. Introduce the 4 candidates (I think we should include Nader and Buchanan).  4. Introduce the 4 issues we will be examining:  (Heidi says hers students will look at education, the death penalty, abortion, and gun control.)  Those are fine with me.

Friday, Sept. 29:  We discuss issue #1--gun control (for example) Then students receive a ballot that lists the candidates four different views on the issue, without revealing the identity of the candidates, students vote for the president (or number) based on his view of the issue. We input results into a spreadsheet (which I can create) and email the results to each other.

Friday, Oct. 6th:  We review each other's results with our classes and repeat for issue #2.

And so on for Oct. 13th and 20th.

Nov. 3rd, we could poll the students to vote on the presidents by name.  Up till now, they wouldn't know which candidate they were voting on, because they voted soley on the view of the issue.  We could input the info and graph it like the others and compare results.

Nov. 3rd:  Possibly we could teleconference or chat in Netmeeting/Instant Messenger and discuss the results, and/or debate issues.”