September 9-16, 2002

Greetings Campers!

To begin the first week of Camp Internet, be sure to have students prepare their WORLD PEACE POEMS and bring them into the CAMPWIDE FIELD REPORTS room beginning September 11^th. Let’s use the technology to help heal the youth by giving them a forum to express their highest hopes for the world and humankind. Their poems will also be printed and sent to a World Peace Meeting happening this month in Santa Barbara. Leaders at this meeting will have a chance to hear Camp Student’s ideas!!!

This Week in Channel Islands

To begin your special Expedition track on the Channel Islands, we suggest showing your students the main TRAILHEAD that begins the Expedition, and then set aside time for each student (individually or in small groups) to have time to the do the INTERNET DIG – How did Karana Survive?. The DIGS run Tuesday of one week through Monday at 3 pm of the next, giving you time to rotate the students through the DIG – or – take them to the computer lab for one group session. NOTE: you can now enter the DIGS right from your own trailhead with out having to go back out to the portal – see the upper link choices and step right on in.

If you have a video of The Island of the Blue Dolphins, it will compliment this DIG which includes first-ever-on-the-Internet press releases and photographs from the making of the film. We have noticed that if you change the size of the type on your computer monitors ( upper left on Explorer for example) to the ‘larger’ scale, then the DIGS become a lot easier for the students to read and follow along with. Please make certain they understand ACCEPTABLE USE rules, and that they include their FIRST NAME, and SCHOOL NAME in the YOUR HANDLE BOX each time they post. You can then go back in by next Monday and print out the DIG and use it to monitor the quality of their work and know who posted what.

Media Analysis Skills Project

We suggest using the Dig as a SPRINGBOARD to other learning activities, and if you can set time aside, the FOLLOW-UP activity is to begin having students analyze key events and details in the Lone Woman / Blue Dolphins story as portrayed in film, book, and historical articles to begin learning to understand how history can turn into historical fiction, a then into film with varying degrees of historical accuracy along the way. It is important in this day and time for students to begin to understand that what is portrayed in the media is not necessarily ‘TRUE’, and that they have the ability to develop their critical thinking skills to help them differentiate between fact and fiction.