Being Sure to Post your Project and Provide a Reflection!

Good Morning.  Today we completed our final assignment for our Google Site, please post a picture of your site that includes your homepage and show your site navigation.  For each project this year, it is important to me that you are able to discuss the following.  We obviously won't be posting something everyday this year, but there are times when we have shorter assignments and regardless I want you to be able to think about (1) the purpose of a project, (2) what you learned from completing it, (3) new tools that you are now more familiar with or possibly didn't know before and (4) what you liked about the project/any challenges you had!

Please be sure to take the time to do this following each project we post.

Creating a Google Site and adding a Calendar, adding an online quiz and adding a video!

Good Morning and Happy Friday.  Today you are officially 12.5% of the way through the school year.  For the assignment we just completed on Google Sites, please post 3 pictures (one of each page) and respond to the following questions:

1. What was the purpose of this project?
2. What did you learn from completing this project?
3. What new tools did you learn and how could they help you (or someone you know/people in your community) with your everyday life (school, work, home, family, etc).
4. What did you like about the project and what, if any, challenges did you face in completing the project

That's it!  Happy Friday again and have an amazing weekend!

Submitting Your Blog Address

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!  Today we are going to continue posting our assignments to the web with the Google Form you just completed.  Here is what I would like you to post:

• 1 image of your completed form as it would be seen by someone taking your "quiz."  You can simply open the form and take a screen shot of the whole form using the snipping tool.  
• 1 image of the responses you gathered from your form.  Everyone needs to have a minimum of 3 people take their quiz.  When you go to your drive and view the responses, you may also take a screen shot of this.
• NOTE: You may submit just your image of the responses in Schoology.

Once you have posted these images, please discuss this project. What did you learn and how could knowing how to create a form like this help you, your family or community members.  In addition, what did you like about the project and what, if any, challenges did you face in completing the project.

After completing the blog, please click on the link below and complete the attached form with your blog address.  Be sure that you send me the link to your actual blog.  It should look something like: chrisrubin.blogspot.com.

http://goo.gl/c5C1mV

Thank you and have a great day!

Revisiting our Academy Community Building Trip!

Good Morning and HAPPY MONDAY!!  Yup!  It's Monday again!  Today we are going to begin the day by discussing our fieldtrip Friday!  Thanks to everyone who got their permission slip in by our departure day and time and joined us on the adventure!  A few questions to think about today:

1. Discuss what you took away from the guest speaker Peter Castelano.  What was your impression of the journey he described?  What did you learn from him and what do you think you would do either the same or differently in your life?  Why?
2. San Gregorio Beach!  What did you enjoy most about our trip?  Is there anything you would have changed?  Had you been to San Gregorio Beach before?
3. We call the first trip of the year our community building trip.  We usually pick a destination where we can have a relaxed day and give our students an opportunity to get to know each other.  Did you get to know any of your classmates a little better?  Learn something about them, just hang out with someone new, etc?  
4. What do you think of community?  What would be a good definition of the word "community."  Why is a sense of community so important and how do you think a "community" feel could help you be successful at M-A and in life?  How is a community feel established?

Thanks for your thorough, thoughtful response!  Once done, please complete lesson 5.1 on edutyping and then we will get started together shortly.

Posting your Projects for the World Wide Web

Good Morning and Happy Thursday!  It wouldn't be any fun if we created these assignments and never were able to show them to anyone!  Today I am going to ask you to take a moment and post your work to the web.  Each assignment needs to be converted to an image (if it isn't already) and I would like you to post your projects.  They can be posted in one blog post for today but you need to answer the following questions:

1. Please give a brief description of each of the projects posted.
2. What did you learn from each of the projects and from completing these assignments
3. What new tools did you learn and how could they help you with your everyday life (school, work, home, family, etc).  You could also talk about how this could help your family or community members.
4. What did you like about the project and what, if any, challenges did you face in completing the project

Please make sure that the following projects are addressed:  

• Using a Template in Google Drive
• Composing Mail, Attaching a File, and Organizing Messages in GMail.
• Creating a Google Calendar and Adding Events.

This blog post, your edutyping (through lesson 4.2) and our Google Calendar should be completed today ... the rest of the time is yours.  Spend a little time focusing on your other classes, check SchoolLoop or take a moment to read something of interest to you.  Remember, Quarter 1 Progress Reports come out next Friday and since we're off campus tomorrow, you want to be caught up on all your work!

Today is September 9th!

Good Morning!  Today is September 9th and the unveiling of the new iPhone!! This event gathers a lot of attention worldwide and, according to experts, won't disappoint anyone today!  Today we will kick off our class period by taking a moment to focus on the announcement of the iPhone 6 (or will it be called that?!?!?!).  Please watch the following video (http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Bigger-screens-expected-with-introduction-of-5742712.php) and respond to these questions:

1. What do you think of Apples decision to possibly release two different phones?
2. What are some of the newest features of the iPhone experts are expecting Apple will unveil today?  When do they expect the iPhone will be available for sale?
3. What is another product Apple may unveil today?
4. What was one thing that was interesting to hear about the shipment of the new iPhone?
5. What is a Sapphire screen?
6. How do you feel about Apple and how would you rank them among the most powerful technology companies in the world?  Why?  How does their success/failure affect our local communities?

Thanks for responding thoughtfully to all of the questions above.  We will get started as a group shortly!  http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Bigger-screens-expected-with-introduction-of-5742712.php

A Minimum Day Reality Check

Good Morning and Happy Friday ... wait ... wait ... Happy MINIMUM DAY Friday!!  I hope you have something fun planned!  I also figured that while we are just getting rolling with the school year, perhaps you want to take a little time during this second extended weekend in a row to think about your future ... please take a moment and respond to the following questions.  We will go around the class shortly and you will have a chance to share the following:

1. Pick 1 (only 1) college or university you are interested in attending and explain (briefly) why.
2. What is your GPA?  What is the minimum GPA to attend this school?
3. Do you believe that you can get into this school?  Why or why not?  Be honest and be realistic!

That's it ... simple as that!  We'll discuss as a group shortly! 

9/2 - A Great Labor Day and Reflection on Capturing Video Friday

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!  Welcome to a relatively short week here at school.  To get back in the swing of things, today's post has two parts.

Part I:  How was your 3 day weekend?  What was the most fun thing that you did?  Describe this "highlight" of your weekend.  What was fun about it, who was with you, etc.  In addition, did you do any work over the weekend?  Schoolwork? Other work?  Are you looking forward to being back at school this week?  Why or why not?

Part II:  Going back to our class period on Friday, what did you think of the filming experience you had.  What went well?  What challenges did you face.  Describe in detail some of the challenges you and your partner faced as you completed this task.  Finally, and obviously you have not seen your video just yet, but how do you feel it went overall?  Did you get good footage or could it have been better?

Thanks for your thoughtful response!  Once you have finished this blog response.  Please look for the ipad with your video on it.

Thanks!