Dec
4
Week #15 December 5-9, 2012
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Bloggish Stuff
Post 1–Describe you life in one word, then do it in one sentence, then divide your life into three parts and list them, then take one part and describe it in one paragraph.
Post 2–Pick five objects in your house. What could someone who has never met your family learn about you and your family from those objects(these posts will not be accepted late, we will be connecting these posts to a project we will be starting on Monday).
Class Stuff
ipad group–complete project and be ready to present on Wednesday.
Netbook group–We’ll talk in class, there will be a few choices.
Friday for both groups is a district writing assignment.
Nov
28
Week #14 November 28-December 4, 2012
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Bloggish Stuff
When I am out on Tuesday you will have four questions to answer. Choose 2,3 or 4 and turn it into a blog post.
Go to oneword.com and follow the directions for a post.
Class Stuff
Movie folks…Wednesday is the last day, there will be no others.
iPad folks…starting new project on Wednesday.
Nov
21
Week #13 November 21-23, 2011
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CLASS STUFF
Ipad group is presenting on Tuesday.
Netbook group needs to find images on Monday, and have script written for next Monday.
BLOG STUFF
Ipad group write a post that reflects on your first week with the iPads
Both groups….write a post on Thanksgiving teaching me something about the holiday I did not previously know.
Oct
24
Week #9 October 24-28, 2011
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Class Stuff
Finish your part of Constitution and present with group on Tuesday
Bloggish Stuff
2-If the average human life span was 25 years, how would you live your life differently?
Oct
17
Week #8 October 17-21, 2011
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Class Stuff
Monday–Get background info on Articles of Confederation and answer questions for homelearning
Tuesday–Fish Bowl discussion on HL questions
Wednesday-Thursday–Build your Constitution
Friday–Share key parts of your Constitution with the class
Bloggish Stuff
Write a post with the title “October 28, 2061″ Make sure it includes at least three predictions about the world, three predictions about where you live, three predictions about you, and one prediction about me (be nice 
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Oct
11
Week #7 October 11-14, 2011
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Class Stuff
Tue/Wed-Presentations
Thursday-Connecting the dots, how do all the presentations connect?
Friday-Current Events (Occupy Wall Street, any other requests?)
Bloggish Stuff
1-Write one post about any current event
2-Blogging Challenge 5 is up. We have pretty much covered everything in Activities 1-3, so chose one from activity 4-10.
Oct
2
Week #6 October 3-7, 2011
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Class Stuff
This week you will work on a presentation that will display your knowledge on your Revolutionary War question in an exciting, creative, engaging way! Since everyone will be doing something slightly different there will be no full class notes posted here this week.
Wednesday -how to put essay onto blog
Bloggish Stuff
Blogging Challenge #4 is up. You must do activity 7 and at least one other activity. When doing activity 7, make sure you use the special google search tools, and only use a blog that is up to date.
Write a post about the presentation that you are working on. Keep track of what you accomplished each day, tell the audience about your topic, what problems you had, ideas you had, etc. When you are all done you willpost your final product on your blog. This post will not be published until next week…only save it as a draft.
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Sep
26
Week #5 September 26-30, 2011
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Class Stuff
Monday-narrow your research to one main question and create five supporting questions (see handout-Monday or Tuesday’s).
Tuesday-Wednesday-answer your supporting questions
Thursday- (handout)
Friday- (hand out) For those of you interested in doing a Stop Action film, here is a helpful link.
Bloggish Stuff
- Blogging Challenge #3 is up. Do Activity #1 and at least one other activity.
- Choose three other blogs from the challenge to comment on. Write a post that includes hyperlinks back to the blogs you read and describe why you chose at least one of them. Make sure you have a hyperlink in the post that would leave a pingback for the person.
- Answer the following question…what are you learning? You can interpret the question any way you would like.
There have been many problems saving blog posts at home. Here is the response from Edublogs that should fix the problems.
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Sep
18
Week 4 September 19-23, 2011
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To read our latest blog posts please click here. We are just starting to post this week.
Class Stuff-
Monday-present about me page
Tuesday-The BLOG TEST– AHHHH — I want to give everyone a question to answer in class to make sure that every single person can log on, write text, post an image, and insert a hyperlink into a post. The question for your post is here.
Wednesday-Start unit on American Revolution–What would you fight for?
Thursday-Intro Stop Animation project and begin American Rev. content
Friday-Begin Revolutionary War project
Bloggish Stuff
1-Sign up for the blogging challenge here. Then go to this week’s challenge which can be found here. Do one of the activities that are listed. There is quite a variety. Do one or more of the activities listed.
2-Write a post that answers the following question:
Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree as a young boy?
Start off with a summary of the story, a full explanation of whether or not it is true, and the sources that you used to make your conclusion. Also tell your readers why you think a story like this would have been told and has been around so long!
Remember to include an image and hyperlink in any post you write. All posts are always due by the end of the day Saturday unless otherwise noted.
Sep
12
Week #3 September 12-16, 2011
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Somehow between book fair visits, picture day, and fire drills we will finish setting up the blogs.
Monday–Review what images you can and cannot use from the internet. Each part of your post this week must have an image. If you use an image improperly it will be deleted. Finish the writing portion of your post and add images.
Tuesday–Each part of your post must have a hyperlink. Today add hyperlinks and finish up adding any images. Make sure each image links back to source and hyperlinks go to correct site. Use spell check!!
Wednesday–Share About me posts with the class.
Thursday and Friday–the mother of blog quizzes…wha ha ha 
The book fair, fire drills, and photo day will all mess with classes this week. Each class will fall behind a day at some point. The above order might not fit day-by-day for your class, but we will follow the order of events above.
