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                                    WHAT WE  DID TODAY

SUMMARY

    During the double block session today, we got into our genius hour groups to work on our Genius Hour projects. For Genius hour projects, we looked over our plans, and started working on our PowerPoint, I-movies, or posters.

Learning Intentions

From doing Genius Hour projects, we can learn about whatever what you are researching on, improving our presentation skills by presenting our projects, improving our teamwork collaboration, and our planning skills.

Reflections

I think doing Genius Hour Projects are important to us by improving our presentation skills which is needed in the future for other presentations, plays, and skits. It can also improve our planning skill which is needed for our future projects. Team collaboration is needed for group projects.

Homework Reminders 

Our homework for today was to get further for our novels, and work on our genius hour projects, which are due in two weeks. Also you must finish your novel within less than two weeks

Homework tips

For our genius hour projects, you should let your friend or other peers to proofread it and let the Ms. Lees edit it too. Also you need to get feedback from 3 -5 peers.

Group Posting

Summary

 

             Today, Ms Lees put up her projector and she typed some helpful suggestions for our group posts on the big projector screen. As we discussed together, she explained to us how we should write our posts. She also explained to us that we can improve by checking other posts on different blogs. Then she also asked us what we think a good post is supposed to be and what bad posts are. To work on that, we all moved in the computer lab. Ms Lees handed us these worksheets with a general understanding of what our posts should contain. In the other side, she wrote ratings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for posts and told us to go online, visit some group blogs which was found in Ms Lees Blog, and give criteria for each ratings. She allowed us to work with a partner from our group posting blog. Then after that, it was all work block and we left for lunch, after finishing the sheet.

 

Learning Intentions

 

             We learned so much about our posting. Ms Lees explained to us what a great post was, how it should be done and what bad posts are. Since we went to different  group blogs and rated how good or bad the 5,4,3,2,1 posts should be for ourselves, we have a way better understanding about how to make our own posts good. This was a lot of help for us now that we know how to post better and improve on certain parts. Now that we have the group posting criteria sheet, it is easier for us to post and also, to do a way better job on it!

 

Connections/Reflections

 

              I think what we learned today will help us write better, being specific and detailed in our paragraphs. Also, we can take a look at other people's writings and learn from them as well. As Ms Lees said, when we share our work with other people, we want to make it as best as possible and we are really excited for it, too. We want to make it as perfect as possible. Therefore, we look at other people's work, get suggestion from them, try to use a thesaurus and be lots more detailed!

 

Homework Reminders

 

               The worksheet about post ratings should have been finished today, so I guess for people who finished, they don't have to do that. We should check Ms Lees's Blog alot and look at all the new updates. AND YOU MUST FINISH READING YOUR NOVELS WITHIN 2 WEEKS.

 

 

Homework Tips

 

             If you want to improve on your writings, you can google certain parts of your writing and get more and more ideas. So the next time you write, your writings will be so much improved, detailed, and of course, creative! Also when you post, make sure there are no grammar or spelling errors. Try to be neat and perfect. When you read your novels, try ti stop each chapter or two and summarize it in your head to get a clear understanding of what's going on in the story. You are free to write them down in your notebooks too!

 

What We Did In Class Today

SUMMARY~

          At the beginning of class today, we took our seats in our novel groups as usual. We all resumed with reading our novels, and a few people acutally traded theirs for a different one once they were finished. We read our books in silence for quite a while, until Ms. Lees told us to put them away. Then, she showed us a video: http://eportfolio.uidaho.edu/ to help us transform our FH Learn blogs even further, into our ePortfolios.She explained very thoroughly on how to set this all up, and she even showed us how to do it. We were then allowed to pair up or get into a group of 3, and do so one by one. But, we were having quite a few problems. Since we all wanted to go on the same website at the same time, it didn't work properly. Once we did what we could, it was nearing the end of class, so we logged out of the laptops, and left for our next class.

LEARNING INTENTIONS~

          Today, we learned new skills on our FH Learn blogs, including how to set-up our headings and sub-headings. I think we did this so that our blogs would be more organized by the end of the year and nicely put into categories, since we will probably also be using our ePortfolios for other things as well. It would be much easier than having all our work mixed up into one giant category, and not being able to find any previous work with ease.

CONNECTIONS~

    I think the skills I learned today in Humanities will be useful in other classes too, because maybe they will require me to post something or keep track of something on my ePortfolio with ease because of the categories. I may also want to blog on my own time, and the skills i have learned would come in handy.

TODAY'S HOMEWORK~

     All that was for homework today (due tomorrow), was finishing making the headings and sub-headings for your FH Learn blog/ePortfolio. The labels for them can be found on the home page of Ms. Lee's blog: http://leeshum8.blogspot.ca/

HOMEWORK TIPS AND REMINDERS:

     To help you complete the homework with ease, please refer to Ms. Lee's blog (linked above^). She has put many links and tips for completing the homework that are very helpful and will allow you to finish sucessfully. Also, don't forget about the Pathways notes. Those need to be finished sooner than later...
Read your novels in your spare time as well!!!

That's all for today ;)

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Learning Blog Post

What we did in class today

For the first about 15-20 minutes we began our class in our Novel Study book group, where we spent this time doing silent reading for our Novel Studies. After reading the books that we were previously assigned to, the laptops (MacBooks) were brought in and we partnered up in groups of 2-3, and we were to create e-portfolios using our Fhlearn blogs, and make a new page for Humanities and subcategories there. We watched a video that explained how to do so as well. This lasted until the end of the class. 

Purpose

The purpose of doing the e-portfolios today was to know where to keep our assignments if we believe that there was a chance of loosing them-we could post it on the blog. Also, this will keep us more organized for future projects and planning.

Reflection

I think the skills we learned today will possible benefit us in the future by, for instance, if we have another class that requires us to do the same skills we learned today, or if we make our own WordPress accounts. Also, the silent reading helped us get further in our books, so that we won't get too far behind (if we didn't read it in our own time) at the last minute.

Homework

Today's homework was to create pages and menus for our e-portfolios. If you forget how to do so, go onto Lees Hum 8 and follow this link. Also, we need to complete the note taking for Pathways as soon as we can, and we need to continue working on our Genius Hour projects. We also need to read our novels, and try to complete them in about 2 weeks.

Tips

If you need help with homework, I suggest asking Ms.Lees or another classmate or going on the blog for help, especially for technical issues. Also, I suggest reading the novel and doing Genius hour (and don't forget to log your progress!) as well, even though these do not have a due date. This will make sure that you don't have to push all your work to the last minute.

WHAT WE DID TODAY!!

Today in class we got into our novel study group to talk about what we think we are going to learn. For example, what the religion of the people in the book, how they live meaning what they eat, their typical day and why they did that. With the information our groups came up with we made a web and handed them in to Ms. Lees. Also after we finished with our webs we got into our groups for our group blogs. We worked on a work sheet that was about how our group thinks we are doing with our blog and decide as a group what we were good at and what we wanted to improve on. We were also told that if we have not finished our notes we had to come in at flex tomorrow to work on it. we were also givin the opertonity to sign out one of the Pathways text books.

WHY WE DID THIS

I think we got into our novel study groups to talk about thye book because it will help with the social study part of Humanaties. It also is cool because we by reading the book and discusing it together will help us learn about what it was like in that time and place. I think it was also to peak our intressed in the book so we have more fun reading it and by drawing the web it helped us develope  stratagies on working with others and web drawing. I think that we completed the work sheet in our blog groups because us deciding as a group what we need to improve on and what we are doing will help us with our blogging skills. Sometimes discusing with a group will help you notice mistakes that you did not see yourself.

HOMEWORK

Today our only homework is complete your notes that we were working on in class. In case you are not done yet you can sign out a Pathways text book or come into flex tomorrow.

TIPS

Flex tomorrow is at eleven twenty in Ms. Lees room if you need extra help. That's all for tonight :p

WHAT WE DID TODAY!!

Today in class we got into our novel study group to talk about what we think we are going to learn. For example, what the religion of the people in the book, how they live meaning what they eat, their typical day and why they did that. With the information our groups came up with we made a web and handed them in to Ms. Lees. Also after we finished with our webs we got into our groups for our group blogs. We worked on a work sheet that was about how our group thinks we are doing with our blog and decide as a group what we were good at and what we wanted to improve on. We were also told that if we have not finished our notes we had to come in at flex tomorrow to work on it. we were also givin the opertonity to sign out one of the Pathways text books.

WHY WE DID THIS

I think we got into our novel study groups to talk about thye book because it will help with the social study part of Humanaties. It also is cool because we by reading the book and discusing it together will help us learn about what it was like in that time and place. I think it was also to peak our intressed in the book so we have more fun reading it and by drawing the web it helped us develope  stratagies on working with others and web drawing. I think that we completed the work sheet in our blog groups because us deciding as a group what we need to improve on and what we are doing will help us with our blogging skills. Sometimes discusing with a group will help you notice mistakes that you did not see yourself.

HOMEWORK

Today our only homework is complete your notes that we were working on in class. In case you are not done yet you can sign out a Pathways text book or come into flex tomorrow.

TIPS

Flex tomorrow is at eleven twenty in Ms. Lees room if you need extra help. That's all for tonight :p