Week 3 Google Classroom
After this week, I will go back to the Monday to Monday schedule of work to be done. By Friday, Week 1 and Week 2 assignments should be completed and TURNED in to me. These are : the Athens and the Washington Google Earth assignments : the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Mark Twain assignments :Typing for Accuracy #5 Three assignments will be ongoing: I will be posting a document to record your reading slips. I fear that waiting to turn them in will result in lost slips. I would have collected your 3rd reading slip today. Do not TURN in. By now, you should have logged into Typing Club at least 40 minutes. Please consider 10 minutes for each week forthcoming. Your Learning at Home blog will now have a writing prompt and you will have 2 days to complete it. In addition to the prompt, feel free to record any special events or happenings. You should probably spend at least 10 minutes for each prompt. These assignments due on Friday: BLAST:Facing Challenges. You have to skim the 5 articles I have given you. Your BLAST must cite at least one of those sources with a quotation. The BLAST is due on Friday and should tke 15 minutes to read and write and the reviews should be done on Monday and should take another 10 minutes. Learning At home blog: Your writing prompt is What are you missing about school? What don't you miss? This should take between 10 and 20 minutes Ancient Olympics video and questions The video, multiple choice questions and writing questions should take about 20 minutes
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Our Google Meetings have been fun and productive with questions answered and a great time to connect with Cosmic Camels. At this point, all the work assigned in the first 2 weeks should have been completed, but that is not the case for everybody. I will not be posting new assignments until Wednesday. Of course, your 3rd reading slip is due on Wednesday and your Learning at Home blog and Typing Club - now there should be 30 minutes logged in - are on going. This is why I am not posting new assignments. Yet. While I would say most students have started this work, there is a significant number who have not. We were told that these assignments would not be graded in the first couple of weeks, but now that we are approaching our new timeline, they will be graded and you will have to complete the work to get a passing grade. This is what I mean: Athens tour - 16 not started Museum of Fine Arts - 19 not started Washington - 22 not started Mark Twain - 15 not started Typing for Accuracy #5 - 11 not started Journal/Blog - 15 not started Blast : Handwashing - 11 not started In addition, some of the work that is "done" has not followed directions. For example, the Blast assignment was to skim the 5 articles I gave you and to use at least 2 of them to quote in your blast. Only 4 students actually did this. Four actually did the assignment. Ironically, some of your parents have asked me to give you more work. I would ask you to do the assignments I did give you in a more thoughtful way. I have seen the most creative slide shows from some of you! I would say that some of you spent a few hours on just that Uber slide show using pictures and video and voice. You were SUPPOSED to spend a few hours on that assignment! It was not meant for you to finish in 40 minutes! Unsubmit your work and tweak for perfection! Add more sites in Athens! Add pictures! Type out the titles for the exact artifacts in Boston! Write in your blog! Read! Do Typing Club! Do the grammar for Typing for Accuracy #5! Describe the artifacts at the Mark Twain Museum! Add pictures and descriptions to your slides in Washington! Do the assignments! This is the message that I have left for students this week in Google Classroom. I will also be inviting parents to join the classroom so that you can monitor assignments and know what is expected each week. Let me know if you have any questions!
I have created 4 assignments for you this week. The goal is for you to do ALEKS, and TRY each of the other 3 assignments. I have left you lots of instructions within each assignment, including some instructional videos. Please be sure to follow all of the directions carefully. You'll get the hang of it. It might be helpful to have the directions open in one window, and your math/science book open in another window. I know my mouse is awful for doing math; I'm working on it! I am waiting for a "pen mouse" to come. We'll see how it goes! The 3 lessons will be due Thursday this week (ALEKS still Sunday) so that we can have a Hangout on Friday and talk about what worked for you guys. I'm very interested in hearing your feedback! We are all new at this, and I'm sure it'll take some time to get it "just right." Specifically, I am curious to hear if it was easy for you to follow the directions, easy to navigate the attachments and books, and how long each assignment took you. At this time, it is still not clear if the rest of the closing will be "review only" material or if we will be allowed to offer new material. Either way, I imagine that the lessons will look something like this. My thought would be to have 2 math lessons and 1 science lesson per week. The math lessons might be regular lessons OR LearnSmart. Same with science. I haven't shown you the science LearnSmart yet, but I will in the coming weeks. I am not sure how ALEKS will fit in after this week. Again, your feedback will help. Last thing... please encourage your friends to get online and participate in the activities that we are working on. For these first 3 weeks, assignments are not really graded, but beyond this week expectations will be changing. Again, I don't have all of the information yet about what things will look like starting April 6th, but I think participation will be necessary to receive a passing grade for term 3. Some people are completing very little so far. We've got to stay strong and tackle this together! You can send me pictures of what you are doing to keep yourself busy during this historic time!
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