Project Instructions for Students

Assignment Description:

The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php), the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/index.html) and the California Digital Library (http://www.cdlib.org/) are launching a project where you as a Miramonte student in Journalism 1 get to choose Internet sites to "save" that represent a student's or teen's world. You will be "collecting" sites that will be archived, so like print books or magazines, people will be able to look back and see what Internet sites were important to you in 2008. It will be like an "Internet time capsule" from your class at Miramonte. Two other high schools from across the nation have also been selected to participate.

• Charelston High School in Illinois (http://www.charleston.k12.il.us/CHS/)
• Batron Rough Magnet High School in Louisiana - (http://brmhs.ebrschools.org/)

The place where your selected sites will be visible to the public will be at Archive-It (http://www.archive-it.org/) Miramonte will be listed under the drop down menu "Select an Institution". Archive-It uses a web crawler to capture the sites and you'll be able to see how the site changes over time. As you collect 5 sites each (different for every student) you'll post them on the Blackboard Discussion Board in your Journalism 1 course and from Blackboard Ms. Davis will post them to the Archive-It site. For each site chosen, students provide a one sentence description of the site and a one sentence description of why the site is reflective of the students' place in the world.

Because the "web crawler" has some difficultly with streaming sites or very large sites you'll want to be very specific in the Internet pages you choose. For example you should not choose large general search engines like:

http://www.google.com/ or http://www.yahoo.com/
or even
http://www.youtube.com/ or http://www.wikipedia.org/
or
http://www.flickr.com/
but something more specific.

Also any site that has password protection can't be used because the "crawler" can't capture that site.
Good Luck, happy surfing and send any questions my way.~ Ms. Davis