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=**__Tech Friday 1__:** //March 9, 2012 //=

**Overview: **
 * 1) **Top 5 Blogging Tips to Make Your Blog AWESOME !**
 * 2) **Reflect on Elena's presentation on Russia - What did you learn?**
 * 3) **Question: Discrimination - Please share answers!**
 * 4) **Share Miss Representation video clips - Please __ think __ about these questions and __ blog __ about it!**

**1) Top 5 Blogging Tips...**


 * 2) Elena's Presentation on Russia: What did you learn? **
 * **They use a different alphabet .**
 * **They eat pancakes with nutella .**
 * **Women and girls are treated different from boys and men. They are expected to do different things in society .**


 * 3) Question: What do you think discrimination is? Can you provide an example from history or from a current event in the news? Try to find a link and copy and paste it into your blog.**

//**To me, discrimination refers to the different values placed on different people, unjustly due to race, ethnicity, gender or religion. The current event involving the unjust killing of the Florida teenager is a prime example of discrimination. The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the fatal shooting last month of the unarmed black Florida teen, Trayvon Martin, by a crime watch volunteer, a case that has set off a national outcry:**// http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/us/justice-department-opens-inquiry-in-killing-of-trayvon-martin.html?_r=1&hp
 * Marion thinks...**

**4) Miss Representation, 8 minute movie trailer:** **http://vimeo.com/28066212**


 * What is your gut reaction to this video? Do you think genders are treated different in American society? Why or why not? Have you ever thought life would be easier or more difficult if you were born the other gender ? Why or why not?**