Navigating the Streets: Emotions, Peers, and Decision-Making

Microblogs are social networking services that allow people to create mini-blog posts of up to 140 characters in length. Companies, celebrities, and politicians use microblogs to keep "followers" up to date on important events and news, but anyone can create a microblog account to communicate the events and news going on in his or her life. An example set of three microblog posts is:

Going to the store to get a snack and brother wants to come. Could get something sweet or nutritious. Sweets might set bad example.

At store in candy aisle – brother wants fruit and he’s probably right. Going to grab some grapes.

Grapes were a great choice. I need to remember this for the next snack time! #CleanEating

For this assignment, you will need to create a short collection of three to five microblog posts that show you or someone else making a decision using the six steps in the decision-making model. As modeled in the example above, these posts do not have to be complete sentences, but they should be complete thoughts. Your microblog posting should appeal to a teen audience and use appropriate language.

Before you begin, access the Decision-Making Microblog Checklist to make sure that you include all of the items required for full credit. If resources outside of this course are used to complete this assignment, please submit a Works Cited document. If you need assistance, visit the Developmental Module for information on citing any resources that you used.

Once you have completed your microblog postings, submit your completed assignment to the dropbox.