Monday, November 24th!

(can you name this university) - clue: it's in California!

Good Morning Sophomores and Happy Thanksgiving (almost)! We are going to continue with the theme we were focused on before our mentor breakfast Friday. There are three parts to today!

• Please complete Edutyping lesson 14.2
• Please respond to the following blog post:
• Below are three quotes about college. Please take a moment to read all three of these quotes. Then, please choose one quote and write 5 sentences describing what the quote means to you and how you feel it represents the importance of a college education to you! 
• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. --Theodore Roosevelt
• A liberal education... frees a person from the prison-house of class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. --Robert Maynard Hutchins
• A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. --Caroline Bird
• Take a moment to share out on the following:
• The two colleges you chose last week and the requirements for entry
• A discussion of the quotes listed above
• A success brainstorm - What are the three most important characteristics or habits that will help a student to be successful in college?

November 18th, 2014, Blog #2

Now that we are awake, we are going to complete a second blog for the day!  Think of this as a brief break in our Microsoft Office Curriculum for you to look into how Thursday at Canada can be beneficial for you!  To do so, please respond thoughtfully to the following questions!

First of all, to respond to the first 2 questions please visit collegeboard.org and click on the College Search tab at the top of the page.  You can be taken directly to the college search by clicking HERE.

1. With no filters selected, how many colleges does this site say are available to you?  What does that number make you feel?
2. On the left side of the page are a number of filters you can select.  Select as many (or as few) as you would like and please find the following:
1. 1 x 4 year college/university located in California that you would be interested in attending following high school.
2. 1 x 4 year college/university located outside of California that you would be interested in attending following high school.
3. How did you choose these schools?  Explain 2 reasons why these schools are desirable to you and 2 reasons why you would ever hesitate to attend these two schools?
4. On Thursday, we will be attending Canada College.  What is concurrent enrollment?  Is that something that could ever help you attend one of the universities that you chose above?

Final thought - I have been teaching for a long time now.  I have worked with a lot of students, met with a lot of parents and had many experiences of my own.  Why do you think so many people encourage you to go to college - especially those people who have a college degree already?

November 18th, 2014 Blog #1

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!

Today you are going to post your final MS Word Assignment - Your Brochure for the Age of Reason.  For this blog post, please complete the following:

1. Please post an image of your final brochure using the snipping tool on your computer.
2. Please respond to the following questions about your assignment:
1. What new tools did you learn by completing this project?  Be sure to list at least 3.
2. What challenges did you run into while completing the project?  Is there something you could do next time to avoid these problems?
3. What other types of documents could you create using the columns, shapes, text wrapping tools that you might commonly see in our society?
3. Please discuss your experience with Microsoft Word:
1. How confident are you with Microsoft Word?  Would you consider yourself very good at using the different tools within the program or not?  If someone were looking for a function, where would you tell them to search?
2. How important do you think that understanding the Microsoft Word program is to your future?  Feel free to refer to this article for an idea of how it could help you!
3. What types of jobs/careers rely on Microsoft Word?  Regardless of the appropriateness of the article, an article recently stated that Microsoft Word is necessary for "Engineering jobs, teaching jobs, broadcasting, just about anything declared 'white collar'."  What does that comment mean to you?

Thanks for your write-up.  Please refer to the next blog post for today next.

Mr. Rubin

Microsoft Word Assignment #6 Posting.

Good Morning - today is Friday November 7th. Our agenda today is as follows:

1. One lesson of Edutyping - Lesson 13.2
2. Completing and posting Microsoft Word Assignment 6 on your blog.  This will require the following:
1. An image of the assignment (take a screenshot of your project)
2. In your blog you will discuss 
1. The purpose of the assignment (what did you set out to do?)
2. What new tools you learned and/or what tools were you able to practice from completing this assignment?  
3. Any challenges you faced? You might want/need to look at the assignment handout to pick these things out.
4. How will you be able to use the tools you learned in this assignment to help you create better work in High School?
3. After completing this assignment on your blog, be sure the assignment is correctly submitted as a Microsoft Word document in Schoology.  This will allow me to be able to see each of the steps you took to complete the assignment and ensure your links work correctly.
4. After all of that is done, you may continue your work on the Age of Reason Brochure for Ms. Bradbury and I.

Hey, thanks!!

A Check-In with your Mentor

While you will be meeting 4 times this year with your mentor, the partnership can be helpful on a number of levels.  You will obviously have a chance to reflect on your academic progress and set short and long terms goals with this adult.  In addition, it provides an opportunity for you to maintain a professional relationship with an adult in the community.  Today I am going to ask you to write an email to your mentor.  You want this email to be well written so that it is a positive reflection of you as a young adult.  Below are the requirements I would like you to consider as you complete this.

1. You must BCC (Blind Copy) Mr. Rubin at crubin@seq.org when you send the email.
2. You must follow the format below
3. You must take a screen shot in SchoolLoop of your current grades using the snipping tool
4. You must double check your document for spelling/grammar errors.

Dear Ms. Daniels,

(INTRO)

• Thank you so much for taking the time to come and meet with me in October and for offering to work with me this school year.  

(BODY)

• I wanted to email you and tell you how I have been doing since our first meeting.  
• include accomplishments you are proud of so far this semester
• include challenges you have had and how you plan to improve in your other classes

(BODY P.2)

• By the next time we meet I plan to ... (1-3 goals you have established either on your own or with your mentor).

(CONCLUSION)

• I look forward to seeing you on Friday, November 21st.

Thank you so much for your support.

Sincerely,

Chris Rubin

Blog Post 10/28

Good Morning - today is Tuesday October 28th.  We are just 3 days away from the end of October and Halloween.  Today we are going to spend our time on the following:

1. One lesson of Edutyping - Lesson 13.1
2. Posting Microsoft Word Assignments 4 & 5 on your blog.  You may submit both assignments in one blog.  This will require the following:
1. An image of each assignment (take a screenshot of your project)
2. In your blog you will discuss 
1. The purpose of the assignment (what did you set out to do?
2. What new tools you learned and/or what tools were you able to practice from completing this assignment?  
3. Any challenges you faced? You might want/need to look at the assignment handout to pick these things out.
4. How will you be able to use the tools you learned in this assignment to help you create better work in High School?
3. After completing this assignment on your blog, be sure each of the assignments are correctly submitted as Microsoft Word documents in Schoology.  This will allow me to be able to see each of the steps you took to complete the assignment.
4. After all of that is done, you may use the time to check SchoolLoop and work on any assignments for your other classes.  A reminder that after this week we have 3 weeks of school before Thanksgiving and then 2 weeks of school and Finals.  If you're doing great in your classes, GREAT - keep it up for just a few more weeks.  If you're not doing so great in your classes, NOT GREAT - you need to turn it around starting NOW!

Hey, thanks!!  

Posting MS Word Assignment #3 - Creating Tables

Today I would like to make sure we have posted assignment #3.  As a reminder you are going to post this assignments in two locations.  On your blog you will have to submit this assignment as an image. Take a screenshot of your project.  Please take a screenshot of the main page of the document.  In your blog you will discuss what you were working on while your audience is able to see the image as an example.

On your blog, you are responsible for responding to the following:

1. What was the purpose of the assignment (what did you set out to do?)
2. What new tools did you learn or what tools were you able to practice from completing this assignment?  What were some of the challenges you faced? You might want/need to look at the assignment handout to pick these things out.
3. How will you be able to use the tools you learned in this assignment to help you create better work in High School?

In addition to posting on your blog you must also post these assignments in Schoology.  In Schoology you should post your final version as a Microsoft Word document so I am able to see each of the steps you took to complete the assignment.  Again, please simply go to Schoology and upload your original Microsoft Word document.

Once you have completed your blog, please complete lesson 11.2 in Edutyping.

Thank you!