You should already have a plan with topic, audience and format, plus a research log. Open those today. If anything is missing, rebuild topic, audience, format and first sources in two minutes, then start. By the end of this period you should have a complete draft for your format: something a partner could open and follow, even if checking and polishing still come next.

The four habits are already on the board. Restate each one in a single line so the class owns them, then open your tools.

1. Credit as you go. The moment you add a source, log the creator, link, date and licence or permission. Do not leave a pile of credits for the end.
2. Stay inside the class charter. Respect, consent, privacy and permission still apply to your own piece, not only to other people's posts.
3. Consent and personal information. If a real person appears in a photo, clip or story, check you have clear consent and whether any personal detail needs to stay out.
4. AI help, noted honestly. If an AI chat tool helped with wording, ideas or a caption, write that in your log in one plain line.

Done today

• A complete draft for your format, or a named gap on your plan
• Every source you used credited in the piece and listed in your log
• Any AI help noted in one honest line in the log

Your done bar today

• Text or short page: the full draft end to end; a reader can follow it without you talking over it.
• Image sequence: all frames placed with captions, even if one image is still a labelled placeholder.
• Short video or audio: the full sequence laid out end to end, with at least the opening and closing assembled; missing clips can be placeholder labels so a partner can still follow the shape.

Build steps

1. Open your plan, your research log and the tool for your format. If either is missing, rewrite topic, audience, format and first sources in two minutes, then start.
2. Build the piece for real in your chosen format (text post, short video, image sequence, audio clip, short page, or another format you agreed).
3. At the halfway mark, pause once: beginning and ending placed? If not, place them before polishing the middle.
4. Before you stop: charter check, finish credits and AI note, save the class way. Do not publish today.

If you get stuck

• Every time you add a borrowed image, clip, sound, quote or fact, stop and credit it in the piece and in your log before you move on.
• If an AI chat tool helped with wording, ideas or a caption, add one honest line to your log naming what it helped with.
• Check the class charter against what you have so far: would this still be fair, respectful and safe if it went to the audience you named?
• Cannot find a free-to-reuse file? Swap it for a placeholder label and note the gap in the log rather than stalling.
• Not at a full draft? Write the single biggest gap on your plan (missing middle / no credits / wrong format) and save what you have. Checking and fixing come next; publishing comes after that.

Name what slowed you down most today (finding a fair source, wording a credit, deciding what personal detail to leave out, resisting a last-minute AI rewrite you would not own). That friction is useful. It is the same friction checking will look for next time.

You should now have either a complete draft for your format or a clear gap note on your plan, and a log that matches what exists. Next you will run checks on safety, consent, crediting and accuracy before anything goes out.

Think about

• Which of the four habits (credit as you go, class charter, consent and personal information, honest AI notes) was hardest to keep while you were building, and why?
• If a partner opened your draft cold right now, what would they understand, and what would still confuse them?