Friday, September 28, 2012

Friday, September 28

Thanks for a great week!  I appreciate all of your hard work, and your helping each other.  You are a great group, I mean that sincerely.

A few reminders as you write your blog post this week:  First, remember that your audience might not know about our course.  Please be sure that even if they aren't a member of our course, they would have a good understanding of what we do.  Always write in full sentences and avoid text language (LOL, for example).  Finally, I will be grading your blog posts over the weekend.  It is due by midnight on the day assigned, which is generally Friday. I sometimes am up early Saturday and at school working, so you don't want to lose points for posting late.

Your blog post topics for this week:

  • Write a paragraph about our trip to Central Office to visit with our District Network Manager.  Please include any additional questions you might have.  I will be forwarding along what you say with a small thank you on Monday.  
  • Second, tell me what you have used Excel for in the past.  I can see from our first activity that there are a variety of experience levels with this software, so that will help me in teaching you.  
  • Third, tell me what Google Reader is all about.  What blogs did you subscribe to (when referring to your peers, no last names please).  You can include the URLs of the blogs in your post.  
  • Finally, I love reading your weekly reflections even if they aren't about our class.  Reflect on your week and write about what has been exciting, interesting, new, challenging, fun, etc.

Next week brings October and Homecoming Week - always a fun week at school!  I can't wait to see what you wear for dress up days :)

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Friday, September 21

The last Friday and the last full day of summer.  You can definitely feel fall is in the air!  Thanks for being such a great group to work with.  I do appreciate you, and I hope you are enjoying the class and getting to know one another.  We've worked hard this week, so I ask that you reflect on that work in this week's blog post by answering the following questions:

  • I asked you to check out the LibraryThing website.  I'd like you to write minimally one paragraph critiquing this site.  You should either recommend or not recommend it and provide rationale why.  Assume your reader is looking to find out if this is a good site or not.  Also, provide a link to this site in your blog post.
  • We watched two short videos this week.  We saw the newest version of "Shift Happens."  What is one thing that surprised you, had you asking a question, or confirmed something that you already knew?  We watched a Frontline video around electronic waste.  Write a quality paragraph describing your reaction to this video.
  • You had an opportunity to get to know a classmate a little better.  Tell me what you learned and what you liked/disliked about this project.
  • Finally, now that we have settled into the school year, write a paragraph about how your year is going.  This is an open-ended question, in other words write about what ever comes to mind, it doesn't need to necessarily be around our class.
Have an awesome weekend! 

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Friday, September 14

Our first full week of school is nearly done.  The week went rather quickly, and it feels like we are back in the routine of school.  I hope your first semester is off to a good start.  We did  a few Word projects this week, visited the LMC areas with Ms. Voss, and checked out a site following political information to help keep you informed prior to this November's election.  Here's what I'd like you to do:

  1. If you are having any trouble with anything in class, go ahead and write about that.
  2. What did you learn on our visit with Ms. Voss?  Will you be more inclined to use the LMC now?
  3. Write minimally one paragraph about the Google Politics & Election Hub site you were to check out this week.
Have a super weekend!  I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Friday, September 7, 2012

eTechnology - Week One!

Short introduction

 

Scale of 1 to 10 - rate your technology skills and why


 

What is a digital footprint?