Web based activity
Why get vaccinated?
Even though you probably don’t need a vaccine to go to school online, they are still a good idea. You are going to research why we get vaccines, which ones we need by certain ages, where to go to find out which ones you should get if you are going to travel, and inform the public not only of your findings, but what the consequences could be if you are not vaccinated against particular diseases.
In 2015 Measles cases started happening in various US states. We thought we eradicated Measles because there had been so few cases for decades. We had what is called “herd immunity”. In herd immunity, the idea is that there are so few susceptible hosts that the pathogen never gets to establish itself in the population. In 1998 A.J. Wakefield and others published an article in the Lancet connecting autism to the MMR vaccine, the one that is given for measles. Even though the article was wrong, the damage had already been done. People heard what they wanted to hear and decided that MMR is connected to the large number of autistic children who seem to randomly show up. Let me be very clear, this was a mistake. The article was retracted. There is no scientific connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. You should not propagate the idea that vaccinations have such serious side effects if it is known they don’t. People can still have reactions to the vaccine, but it does not cause autism. Are we clear on that?
One part of this project is to investigate what a virus is and why we can’t just take a pill to get them to go away. Another part of this project is to look at why Measles started to show up more often in 2015 than in other years. You will inform us which shots need to be done by age 5. You will also let us know where we can go for more information about vaccines. Finally, you will describe, as creatively as possible, what happens to those who do not get vaccinated.
You are encouraged to use the resources I provide. You may NOT use any wiki based resource unless I made it available to you. Even though many wiki sites are valid, when it comes to science, many people like to put out their opinions as fact and that leads to misinformation.
You may use images that are a part of Creative Commons or are published on a US government website as long as the pages you are using are not subject to copyright restrictions. If you create an online presentation that lets you link to images at other websites, you may embed images that are not in the Creative Commons, but you should note where the image is coming from. Saying something like, “image linked to www.nameofwebsite.com” is fine.
You may embed or link to YouTube videos, as long as the copyright is appropriate. If it is a long or confusing video, be sure to give a written summary to accompany the video.
What I’ll be looking for with the grading:
Even though you probably don’t need a vaccine to go to school online, they are still a good idea. You are going to research why we get vaccines, which ones we need by certain ages, where to go to find out which ones you should get if you are going to travel, and inform the public not only of your findings, but what the consequences could be if you are not vaccinated against particular diseases.
In 2015 Measles cases started happening in various US states. We thought we eradicated Measles because there had been so few cases for decades. We had what is called “herd immunity”. In herd immunity, the idea is that there are so few susceptible hosts that the pathogen never gets to establish itself in the population. In 1998 A.J. Wakefield and others published an article in the Lancet connecting autism to the MMR vaccine, the one that is given for measles. Even though the article was wrong, the damage had already been done. People heard what they wanted to hear and decided that MMR is connected to the large number of autistic children who seem to randomly show up. Let me be very clear, this was a mistake. The article was retracted. There is no scientific connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. You should not propagate the idea that vaccinations have such serious side effects if it is known they don’t. People can still have reactions to the vaccine, but it does not cause autism. Are we clear on that?
One part of this project is to investigate what a virus is and why we can’t just take a pill to get them to go away. Another part of this project is to look at why Measles started to show up more often in 2015 than in other years. You will inform us which shots need to be done by age 5. You will also let us know where we can go for more information about vaccines. Finally, you will describe, as creatively as possible, what happens to those who do not get vaccinated.
You are encouraged to use the resources I provide. You may NOT use any wiki based resource unless I made it available to you. Even though many wiki sites are valid, when it comes to science, many people like to put out their opinions as fact and that leads to misinformation.
You may use images that are a part of Creative Commons or are published on a US government website as long as the pages you are using are not subject to copyright restrictions. If you create an online presentation that lets you link to images at other websites, you may embed images that are not in the Creative Commons, but you should note where the image is coming from. Saying something like, “image linked to www.nameofwebsite.com” is fine.
You may embed or link to YouTube videos, as long as the copyright is appropriate. If it is a long or confusing video, be sure to give a written summary to accompany the video.
What I’ll be looking for with the grading:
Note: many of the presentation links can also be Web 2.0 links and many of the Web 2.0 links can be presentation links- you must use at least 3 online sources so what you choose as your presentation requirement cannot also meet your Web 2.0 requirement. Likewise, what you use for your Web2.0 requirement can’t be the same thing you use to make your presentation. Part of this project is to force you to explore what is available for free (or very low cost) online.
Valid websites and resources you can use:
Measles vaccine information at US government website: http://www.vaccines.gov/diseases/measles/
Information about vaccines for travel: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel
Information relating to the 2015 outbreak: http://www.cdc.gov/features/measles/
Vaccine information: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/vaccination.html
State requirements for vaccinations: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/laws/state-reqs.html
Vaccine politics: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257990/
Evidence vaccines are not related to autism (pdf): http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4028.pdf
Map of Measles cases in the US in 2015: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
Measles & Rubella Initiative: http://www.measlesrubellainitiative.org/
CDC Measles website: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/index.html
These New Yorker articles may not be available to everybody. If you can’t access them, then I will download them and have them in the LMS for students to use.
Not Immune http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/16/immune-3
The measles cartoon: http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/daily-cartoon-monday-february-2nd-measles-disneyland
Vaccine resisters: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/talk-vaccine-resisters
Other online resources for content:
National Geographic:
Measles Returns: Many in US at Risk from “Eradicated” Disease, Experts Warn (2006): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060911-measles.html
Measles week, part 1: Introduction (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/15/measles-week-part-i-introduction/
Measles week, part 2: Emerging disease (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/16/measles-week-part-ii-emerging-disease/
Measles week, part 3: Not the answers (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/17/measles-week-part-iii-not-the-answers/
Measles week, part 4: Some of the answers (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/18/measles-week-part-iv-some-of-the-answers/
Measles week, part 5: What about the vaccine? (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/19/measles-week-part-v-what-about-the-vaccine/
How the Measles Virus Became a Master Contagion (2015): http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/05/how-the-measles-virus-became-a-master-of-contagion/
Measles are Back: Key Questions and Answers on Disease, Vaccinations (2015): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150124-measles-vaccinations-california-outbreak-disney-medicine/
Your Measles and Vaccination Questions Answered (2015): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150204-measles-vaccinations-debate-autism-medicine-california/
The Anti-Vaccine Generation: How Movement Against Shots Got Its Start (2015): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150206-measles-vaccine-disney-outbreak-polio-health-science-infocus/
Virus crisis: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/virus-crisis-sci?source=relatedvideo
New York Times:
How Should Schools Handle Unvaccinated Students? (2015): http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/how-should-schools-handle-unvaccinated-students/
When Contagion Spreads: Crowdsourcing Disease Outbreaks (2011): http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/when-contagion-spreads-crowdsourcing-disease-outbreaks/
Fighting Disease: Researching the History and Biology of Viruses (2011): http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/fighting-disease-researching-the-history-and-biology-of-vaccines/
Where you can build your presentations or parts of presentations online:
A place where you can link to molecular structures: http://www.chemeddl.org/
Glogster: http://edu.glogster.com/
Flipbook: http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/guest.php
VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com/products/k12/
Weebly: http://education.weebly.com/?session-expired=1&redirect=userHome.php#login
Edmoto: https://www.edmodo.com/
Capzles: http://www.capzles.com/
Creaza: http://www.creaza.com/
Google Sites: https://sites.google.com/
AuthorStream: http://www.authorstream.com/
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/
SlideRocket: http://www.sliderocket.com/
My BrainShark: http://my.brainshark.com/home.aspx
Prezi: http://prezi.com/
Vcasmo: http://www.vcasmo.com/
Biteslide, can create presentations there: http://www.biteslide.com/
Brinkpad: http://www.brinkpad.com/
Empressr: http://www.empressr.com/
Ignitecast: http://www.ignitecast.com/
Knovio: http://www.knovio.com/
Narrable: http://learn.narrable.com/
Utellstory: http://www.utellstory.com/
PopcornMaker, webmaker.org: https://popcorn.webmaker.org/
PowToon, animated videos and presentations: http://www.powtoon.com/
ScreencastOmatic, record your presentation: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html (can either count as the presentation software OR the Web 2.0 software, not both)
Snagit, screeshots would be Web 2.0 category, making the video presentation would be the presentation category- can only use for one for credit: Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
Projeqt, dynamic presentations: http://www.projeqt.com/
Rawshorts, video: http://www.rawshorts.com/
Slides, creating and sharing presentations: http://slides.com/
Slideroll, online slideshows: http://www.slideroll.com/
Reel, a place to upload images, ppt, or pdf files: http://www.reelapp.com/
Slidebomb, mashup slideshow: http://slidebomb.com/sbo_home.php
Slideful, slideshow maker: http://slideful.com/
SlideServe, presentations online: http://www.slideserve.com/
Slidestory, audio slideshows and podcasting: http://www.slidestory.com/
Stupeflix, make videos: https://studio.stupeflix.com/en/
TotSplash, organize and present ideas (like Prezi): http://www.totsplash.com/
Toufee, flash based movie: http://www.toufee.com/
Zentation, online presentations: http://zentation.com/
Zoho, slides, stories, present: https://www.zoho.com/docs/show.html
Formatpixel, online publishing: http://www.formatpixel.com/go/en/index.php
MyJugaad.in, website slideshow: http://myjugaad.in/
TikaTok, digital books: https://www.tikatok.com/
Web 2.0 tools that may help you build parts of your presentation:
For citations: http://easybib.com/
To find images that can be used in your presentation with few restrictions: http://search.creativecommons.org/
To make images or alter others: http://www.sumopaint.com/app/
Print What You Like: http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/
Sweet Search to find information: http://www.sweetsearch.com/
Bitstrips (to make comics): http://www.bitstrips.com/create/comic/
Place you can make your own drawings: http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
Audio with photos: http://www.fotobabble.com/
Digital Vaults: http://www.digitalvaults.org/#/create/
LiveBinders to help you find information: http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/home
Storybird, if you want to create a story to include in your presentation: http://storybird.com/
Animoto for videos: https://animoto.com/
Slideshow creator: http://www.123-banner.com/slideshows.php
BrinkPad: http://www.brinkpad.com/
Kizoa, slideshows, collages: http://www.kizoa.com/?
Knovio: http://www.knovio.com/
Madvideo: http://www.themadvideo.com/
Mypicpals, slideshow generator: http://mypicpals.com/
Thematic, photo stories: http://www.thematic.co/
PhotoPeach, slideshow generator: http://photopeach.com/
PhotoShow: http://www.photoshow.com/home
Photosnack, slideshow maker: http://www.photosnack.com/
Photozig, photo editing, sharing, sideshow, albums: http://www.photozig.com/
Picovico, pics into videos: http://www.picovico.com/app/index.html?ref=picovico.com&at=1425739098
Picturetrail: http://www.picturetrail.com/
Screencast.com, a place to store a video you made: http://www.screencast.com/
Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html (can either count as the presentation software OR the Web 2.0 software, not both)
Snagit, screeshots would be Web 2.0 category, making the video presentation would be the presentation category- can only use for one for credit: Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
Slidely, slideshows, maybe access to images or other people’s work: http://slide.ly/
Snapfish, a place to put photos: http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/platform/controller/t_=125598006
Smilebox, collages, slideshows: http://www.smilebox.com/
Adam: http://adamsapp.com/index.php
Dipity, create a timeline: http://www.dipity.com/
This activity is deliberately open-ended so that you can create something new, that nobody has thought about before. Can you convince us, in some unique way, why we should vaccinate children for Measles? You can do a lecture presentation with images, compile videos, create a website tour, do animations or cartoons, or a combination of any or all of these ideas. You can even have an idea that is not here and it will probably be fine. Your only limit is your imagination, and the requirements that you have to do some online research, put your presentation online, and use at least one Web 2.0 tool.
Where I got my lists of links:
http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools
http://mashable.com/2007/08/12/online-presentations/
I pulled up each site to make sure it existed at the time I wrote this project. March 7, 2015
Valid websites and resources you can use:
Measles vaccine information at US government website: http://www.vaccines.gov/diseases/measles/
Information about vaccines for travel: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel
Information relating to the 2015 outbreak: http://www.cdc.gov/features/measles/
Vaccine information: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/vaccination.html
State requirements for vaccinations: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/laws/state-reqs.html
Vaccine politics: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257990/
Evidence vaccines are not related to autism (pdf): http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4028.pdf
Map of Measles cases in the US in 2015: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
Measles & Rubella Initiative: http://www.measlesrubellainitiative.org/
CDC Measles website: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/index.html
These New Yorker articles may not be available to everybody. If you can’t access them, then I will download them and have them in the LMS for students to use.
Not Immune http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/16/immune-3
The measles cartoon: http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/daily-cartoon-monday-february-2nd-measles-disneyland
Vaccine resisters: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/talk-vaccine-resisters
Other online resources for content:
National Geographic:
Measles Returns: Many in US at Risk from “Eradicated” Disease, Experts Warn (2006): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060911-measles.html
Measles week, part 1: Introduction (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/15/measles-week-part-i-introduction/
Measles week, part 2: Emerging disease (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/16/measles-week-part-ii-emerging-disease/
Measles week, part 3: Not the answers (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/17/measles-week-part-iii-not-the-answers/
Measles week, part 4: Some of the answers (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/18/measles-week-part-iv-some-of-the-answers/
Measles week, part 5: What about the vaccine? (2010): http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/03/19/measles-week-part-v-what-about-the-vaccine/
How the Measles Virus Became a Master Contagion (2015): http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/05/how-the-measles-virus-became-a-master-of-contagion/
Measles are Back: Key Questions and Answers on Disease, Vaccinations (2015): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150124-measles-vaccinations-california-outbreak-disney-medicine/
Your Measles and Vaccination Questions Answered (2015): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150204-measles-vaccinations-debate-autism-medicine-california/
The Anti-Vaccine Generation: How Movement Against Shots Got Its Start (2015): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150206-measles-vaccine-disney-outbreak-polio-health-science-infocus/
Virus crisis: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/virus-crisis-sci?source=relatedvideo
New York Times:
How Should Schools Handle Unvaccinated Students? (2015): http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/how-should-schools-handle-unvaccinated-students/
When Contagion Spreads: Crowdsourcing Disease Outbreaks (2011): http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/when-contagion-spreads-crowdsourcing-disease-outbreaks/
Fighting Disease: Researching the History and Biology of Viruses (2011): http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/fighting-disease-researching-the-history-and-biology-of-vaccines/
Where you can build your presentations or parts of presentations online:
A place where you can link to molecular structures: http://www.chemeddl.org/
Glogster: http://edu.glogster.com/
Flipbook: http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/guest.php
VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com/products/k12/
Weebly: http://education.weebly.com/?session-expired=1&redirect=userHome.php#login
Edmoto: https://www.edmodo.com/
Capzles: http://www.capzles.com/
Creaza: http://www.creaza.com/
Google Sites: https://sites.google.com/
AuthorStream: http://www.authorstream.com/
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/
SlideRocket: http://www.sliderocket.com/
My BrainShark: http://my.brainshark.com/home.aspx
Prezi: http://prezi.com/
Vcasmo: http://www.vcasmo.com/
Biteslide, can create presentations there: http://www.biteslide.com/
Brinkpad: http://www.brinkpad.com/
Empressr: http://www.empressr.com/
Ignitecast: http://www.ignitecast.com/
Knovio: http://www.knovio.com/
Narrable: http://learn.narrable.com/
Utellstory: http://www.utellstory.com/
PopcornMaker, webmaker.org: https://popcorn.webmaker.org/
PowToon, animated videos and presentations: http://www.powtoon.com/
ScreencastOmatic, record your presentation: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html (can either count as the presentation software OR the Web 2.0 software, not both)
Snagit, screeshots would be Web 2.0 category, making the video presentation would be the presentation category- can only use for one for credit: Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
Projeqt, dynamic presentations: http://www.projeqt.com/
Rawshorts, video: http://www.rawshorts.com/
Slides, creating and sharing presentations: http://slides.com/
Slideroll, online slideshows: http://www.slideroll.com/
Reel, a place to upload images, ppt, or pdf files: http://www.reelapp.com/
Slidebomb, mashup slideshow: http://slidebomb.com/sbo_home.php
Slideful, slideshow maker: http://slideful.com/
SlideServe, presentations online: http://www.slideserve.com/
Slidestory, audio slideshows and podcasting: http://www.slidestory.com/
Stupeflix, make videos: https://studio.stupeflix.com/en/
TotSplash, organize and present ideas (like Prezi): http://www.totsplash.com/
Toufee, flash based movie: http://www.toufee.com/
Zentation, online presentations: http://zentation.com/
Zoho, slides, stories, present: https://www.zoho.com/docs/show.html
Formatpixel, online publishing: http://www.formatpixel.com/go/en/index.php
MyJugaad.in, website slideshow: http://myjugaad.in/
TikaTok, digital books: https://www.tikatok.com/
Web 2.0 tools that may help you build parts of your presentation:
For citations: http://easybib.com/
To find images that can be used in your presentation with few restrictions: http://search.creativecommons.org/
To make images or alter others: http://www.sumopaint.com/app/
Print What You Like: http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/
Sweet Search to find information: http://www.sweetsearch.com/
Bitstrips (to make comics): http://www.bitstrips.com/create/comic/
Place you can make your own drawings: http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
Audio with photos: http://www.fotobabble.com/
Digital Vaults: http://www.digitalvaults.org/#/create/
LiveBinders to help you find information: http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/home
Storybird, if you want to create a story to include in your presentation: http://storybird.com/
Animoto for videos: https://animoto.com/
Slideshow creator: http://www.123-banner.com/slideshows.php
BrinkPad: http://www.brinkpad.com/
Kizoa, slideshows, collages: http://www.kizoa.com/?
Knovio: http://www.knovio.com/
Madvideo: http://www.themadvideo.com/
Mypicpals, slideshow generator: http://mypicpals.com/
Thematic, photo stories: http://www.thematic.co/
PhotoPeach, slideshow generator: http://photopeach.com/
PhotoShow: http://www.photoshow.com/home
Photosnack, slideshow maker: http://www.photosnack.com/
Photozig, photo editing, sharing, sideshow, albums: http://www.photozig.com/
Picovico, pics into videos: http://www.picovico.com/app/index.html?ref=picovico.com&at=1425739098
Picturetrail: http://www.picturetrail.com/
Screencast.com, a place to store a video you made: http://www.screencast.com/
Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html (can either count as the presentation software OR the Web 2.0 software, not both)
Snagit, screeshots would be Web 2.0 category, making the video presentation would be the presentation category- can only use for one for credit: Jing, make a video, free software to make a video: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
Slidely, slideshows, maybe access to images or other people’s work: http://slide.ly/
Snapfish, a place to put photos: http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/platform/controller/t_=125598006
Smilebox, collages, slideshows: http://www.smilebox.com/
Adam: http://adamsapp.com/index.php
Dipity, create a timeline: http://www.dipity.com/
This activity is deliberately open-ended so that you can create something new, that nobody has thought about before. Can you convince us, in some unique way, why we should vaccinate children for Measles? You can do a lecture presentation with images, compile videos, create a website tour, do animations or cartoons, or a combination of any or all of these ideas. You can even have an idea that is not here and it will probably be fine. Your only limit is your imagination, and the requirements that you have to do some online research, put your presentation online, and use at least one Web 2.0 tool.
Where I got my lists of links:
http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools
http://mashable.com/2007/08/12/online-presentations/
I pulled up each site to make sure it existed at the time I wrote this project. March 7, 2015
