Social Studies
Fight Fake News: Kids Can Report
In this 8-week class, learners will learn the five key elements of a news report. Each learner will create a collection of their news reports written through this class and report them in their virtual newsroom.
There are no upcoming classes.
55 minutes
per class
Once per week
over 8 weeks
9-13
year olds
1-4
learners per class
How does a “Multi-Day” course work?
Meets multiple times at scheduled times
Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality
Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher
Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries
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Description
Class Experience
For over twenty years, I have been working as a librarian teaching literacy classes to students from elementary school to college. For six years, I was a librarian for Prince George’s County Memorial Library System covering the Reference and Children’s sections. For over 10 years, I have been an adjunct full professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus teaching research paper writing and data analysis. For six years, I was teaching Developmental Reading to college freshmen at Prince George’s Community College. For two years, I was a library media specialist at Prince George’s County Public School System teaching narrative text by using the Dork Diaries book series. Writing experience can be seen at https://sites.google.com/view/weldon-researcher/home See article on this class about Dr. Weldon's teaching style at Weldon, L. S. J. (2020). "Keyboard Club: Motivating Students to Become QWERTY Literate. Computers in Libraries", 40(1), 32-36. Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan20/index.shtml
A one-page handout will be provided on the first day of class.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
55 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 2 - 4 hours per week outside of class.
Parents will need to create a KDP account in order for learners to publish writing portfolios of their work created from this class.
Teacher
About Me
I am a veteran educator with the following degrees: a doctorate in Education Leadership; a Master's in Library and Information Science; a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management; a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and...