Graphing & Scaling 101

Today in class we worked online with the graphing website again. We made a graph and an online document and published it. This is that published page.

Crappy Graphs Day C:

Today we fooled around with a crappy graphs website.
Here is a link to mine.

This is my graph! Whoop Whoot!

And here is my kid's graph ... even better!

Quiz on Webquest

Today in class we made a quiz through google documents based on our webquest information.

The following is a link to my quiz.
Assessment

RubiStar!

Today we had to make a new account with rubistar.
This is an online program that allows you to search for rubrics and edit them to represent the project that you are grading. It also allows you to search within their database for a rubric that may fit your perfectly.
This is actually pretty cool and saves a lot of time!

Here is my rubric I made to grade the kids' shadow boxes.

RUBRIC!

Webquest - almost there!

Here is the link to my current webquest. Although, I know it isn't finished and needs some editing to be done. But the editing will be done by the end of next week too! I would love some comments on mine though on where I am right now.
What makes us Unique?

Jing

With jing, we are going to be able to work with image capturing and screen casting! This is going to be kind of cool!
Article
Jing C:

New Account.... again!

Today in class we made a new account again but this time for an online source called Prezi. It's a presentation machine so that we can make other multimedia presentation rather than Powerpoint that is from the 1980's I guess.

Prezi Whoop Whoot!

With Prezi, we learned how to use the Zebra Wheel and it helped us to do Image Capture and Screen Casting! Pprezi is actually probably my favorite video presentation program we have used!

What Make Us Unique? on Prezi

Embedded Presentation

Starting the Week with Photostory

1. MPS represents Microsoft PhotoStory
2. Photo Story 3 is a subsistution for Powerpoint. It is a program that allows people to make a motion picture effect and you can download it online.
3. The file type for Photo Story is .wp3.
4. When exporting it would be .wmv.
5. In Microsoft Photo Story
6. With Windows Media Player
7. Yes, and it is very advanced compared to Microsoft in such a way that you can choose what part of each slide shows up during the beginning and end of the transition along with choosing the transition and time.
8. You can change the red eye, the colors, turn the picture, crop the pictures, etc.
9. You can adjust the motion and duration settings in Photo Story 3.
10. To save powerpoint slides as images, you simply go to save as and change it to jpeg.

My Photostory C:
Yep, and that's a wrap!

Webquest Information

A good webquest has detailed instructions yet has broad enough directions that the students can be creative. The webquest should allow students to show their creativity through technology. The students should be able to stay interested in the porject and stay busy and just the minute it begins to get boring, the project should be finished.

1. What makes each classification of animals unique?
2. How are animals classified into each specification?
Student Role #1: Mammals
Studnet Role #2: Amphibians
Student Role #3: Reptiles
Studnet Role #4: Birds
Student Role #5: Fish
Within your classification you must find the following information:

• Is your classification warm or cold blooded?
• Where does your classification live?
• How does your classification breath?
• What does your classification look like (fur, scales, etc.)?
• How does your classification reproduce (live-birth, eggs, etc.)?

Each role must research the information on their classfication and make a shadow box to describe each of the characteristics.

The group product will be the shadow boxes themselves and also the students will have to participate as a team to finish a flow chart against other group in the classroom. Also, each group must present the shadow boxes as a group, not individually.

Lesson Number 1

My first lesson is going to help the students understand the difference between living and non-living organisms. This lession will also differentiate between plants and animals.

The students will also begin to understand how to use graphic organizers in this lesson and the organizers will become more and more difficult as we get deeper into the unit!

Headache Wednesday

Today in class we looked back at our website and tried to be sure that we had our standards as subpages. Then we jumped over into the Intel site and looked at the different types of questions: essential, unit, and content. The paperless class became paperfull today C: yay! I love to write (tehe!)

Ha Ha Ha! I just shamed you in writing C:

It's Hump Day!

Today in class we:

 

1. Watched a girl in our class go sledriding from the homepage C:
2. Edited our Google Site.

• Entered an Introductory Blurb.
• Added a new page to our Google Site to see the Content Standards.
• Included the state standards.

Good Class Today!
P.S. My breakfast bar was delicious! Te he!

The Hardest Day of the Week!

Today is Monday and in class we went over what each student was going to do for his or her project.
I wanted to enter a link to my website for my project:
Animals: What Makes Us Unique?

Thank you!

Project Subject

I'm sorry I am just now putting this up but my computer was messed up this weekend and I could fill out my blog but then when I tried to publish it, the Internet wouldn't allow me to do it.

I am going to do Third Grade Science and the classification of animals.
Animals:  What makes us unique?
Then I would compare where particular animals live, what physical characteristics particular animals hold that help them survive, and use these to decide what classification the animal would fall under.
S.C. 0.3.2.3.

Sorry again this is so late!

Unfortunately Monday

Today in class we:

• Looked over an undergrad research project.
• Viewed a few Intel Ranking Projects (I got to pick who's we looked at C:)
• Bookmarked Global 21 and the Teaching Standards.
• Started Module 2 in Intel.

TGIF C:

Today in class:

1. We created an Intel Teacher Workspace.
2. I created a link in delicious for the active CSO's!
3. Then we used the Visual Ranking Tool, to make an assignment for students in the grade level we hope to teach.
To do the activity, you will need my ID, Team ID, and password.

My ID is SamanthaRae160
Team ID's are 1, 2, 3
The password for all teams is 1234 (no matter what team you're on!)

Student Sign In!

Lemon-Lime or Cola?

Scenario: Two glassesa re each filled half-way with soda- one with cole, and the other with lemon-lime. A small amount of the lemon-lime is reomoved from the glass and put into the cola glass. The glass is stirred thoroughly so that the lemon-lime is completely mixed into the cola. Then the same amount of the mixture is removed from the cola glass and put back into the glasss with the lemon-lime.
Question: After the soda has been exchanged, is there more cola in the lemon-lime glass or more lemon-lime in the cola glass?
Answer: After the soda is exchanged, there would be more lemon-lime in the cola glass than there would be cola in the lemon-lime because there was already lemon-lime in the cola and then an additional lemon-lime was mixed in.

Taxonomy Homework

Click the Presentation link below to see my taxonomy homework.




Samantha

Introductory Video

Today in class we made an introductory video about ourselves.
It's all me C:

The First Day of the Love Month

Today in class:

1. We were introduced to the Intel Teach Program.
2. Applied for Animoto accounts as educators... ooooo.
3. Started working on Module 1 of the Intel Teach Program.

• Ranked the ISTE NETS T in order as a group (Group 3 rocks C:)
• Did the Self-Efficacy Exercise.

Good day in class C:

P.S. I think no class on Friday!

Storgae Issues

Four places you can save electronic documents are:

1. Through google documents -

• Pros:
• Anytime you have Internet Access you can get to it.
• Cons:
• If at some point you don't have Internet access you can't locate it.

2. A Network Drive (here at Fairmont it's the U-drive) -

• Pros:
• You can access it anytime you are logged in to the network it's saved to.
• Cons:
• If you aren't connected to the network then you can't access it.

3. On the C-drive (My Documents, Desktop, etc.) -

• Pros:
• You don't have to be on the Internet to get to your documents.
• Cons:
• If or when the computer crashes, all your documents are gone!

4. USB or Jump Drive -

• Pros:
• It's inexpensive and you don't have to be connnected to the Internet to use it.
• Cons:
• They are easily lost and can break.

These are four ways to store electronic documents and why each are helpful and why each can be stressful.

Published a Webpage

Today in class we:
1. Set up a chat in gmail.
2. Added contacts in gmail.
2. Made a document on Microsoft Word and saved it to the desktop.
4. Then we uploaded it to Google Documents.
3. The fun doesn't stop...we went even farther and made that document a web page.

Here's my webpage.

1/25/2010

Today in class we:
1. Entered our Gmail E-mail's into a Google Form for you.
2. Talked about our senior activity some.
3. Signed up for a delicious account.
- Here is the link to my delicious account: http://delicious.com/sbartlett160 -

Thanks - Samantha.

Link to homepage.

I am now editing my post.
This is the link to the homepage 2201.