Don't forget to take advantage of your opportunities for extra credit. You get five of these per 9 weeks. For each newspaper or magazine clipping that has anything to do with a geographrical topic, (such as: current events of foreign countries, earthquake news, geographic expeditions like mountain climbing, climate stories, world religion, maps, etc.) you will earn 20 pts. Five of these over the course of the nine weeks gives you an extra 100. The other opportunity is to bring postcards in from around the country and the world at large. Again, for each postcard you bring, you earn 20 points toward an extra 100 for the nine weeks. You may also do a combination of the two to earn the points.
Make sure that you bring your book to class tomorrow. We have some vocabulary work to do. In addition, I will give each you your first rubric for the first scrapbook page on Map Parts. You will have a hard copy for your notebook, and I have also pasted a copy at the bottom of the Homework page. Can't wait to see how these turn out!
I will be staying after school on Tuesday & Thursday till 3:30 for anyone who needs to finish up their scrapbook.
Check the syllabus! There's a vocab test on Friday.
Hope you had a good weekend and I'll see you all tomorrow.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Voki Problems
Most students' Vokis are saying incomplete. After you create your voki and publish it, you must go to the top and "approve" it. Then, and only the, can I see it, and you use it. I'm loving what I see so far!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
I Have Just Discovered Voki !!
Do you see my new avatar to the right of this screen? Click on the play arrow and hear my new Voki avatar speak to you. Voki is a program that is being used by over a million teachers around the world, and is changing the way we can learn. You create your own avatar from hundreds of choices in Voki. Then your teacher assigns you a concept to explore and after you have done the research, you tell us all about it through your avatar. You record your voice, and your avatar looks like it's speaking for you as we hear what you have recorded. This is too cool! An entire class can be assigned different components of a concept, then we put all the small pieces together and see the big picture as we listen to each avatar! I can't wait for us to try this out!!! I just purchased a year-long subscription for our team....Get used to the Yorkie over there; you'll be seeing her quite a bit with new messages!
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