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**General Topic**: Elementary and Secondary Education

**Specific Topic**: Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

**Audience for the project**: General (Adults and Secondary Students interested in education in PA)

**Type of Activity chosen to create**: Video Blog (Vblog or Vlog)

The No Child Left Behind ( NCLB) Act was signed 10 years ago by President W. Bush. This law holds schools accountable for students’ academic performance. Schools are measured by a set of standards that they must meet yearly ( AYP). The NCLB Act has been the topic of many discussions between educators.
 * Topic Overview **

My audience will use video blogs to acquire knowledge about the subject of NCLB and AYP. The audience will listen to two vlogs then answer questions related to the topic by clicking on an link that will take them to the quiz.
 * Task **

The project will be posted on my wiki space: http://antiguangem.wikispaces.com/Project+3 The vblog were found from searching various sites like Google Blog Search and Technorati. The audience will be asked to click on links and listen to two vblogs. Then, the audience will follow a quiz link to a to answer questions about the vblogs that they listened to.
 * Process/Guidance **

After listening to the vblogs, the audience will reflect on the knowledge they acquired from the vblogs. The quiz is make up of true and false questions and one essay question. Successful complete and a passing score will yield a certificate.
 * Evaluation **

I chose to create this project because I work in the education industry. Though vblogs are not really a new way to express ideas, find vblog on certain topics can be very difficult. It took a little time to find a vbog that was informative with all opinions. Vblogs allows the learning audience to be visually stimulated, so it is well suited for visual learner. They are also fun because the vblogs can be done using animation. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Reflection **