Lessons on On-Line Safety

Hello! Today Mr. Hogue's class and Mrs Cobb's class had different lessons. Mr. Hogue's class did a lesson on safe passwords and then took acuity post test for quarter 2. Mrs. Cobb's class had a guest speaker, mr. Hodgson, from the Office of Information Technology at Notre Dame. He spoke about on-line safety. Both classrooms were sent home with handouts to give to their parents. Tomorrow the lessons will be flip-flopped.  Mr. Hodgson sent a paper that has a few links for you to check out. One of them is important site where Facebook users can go to so they can learn all of the new Facebook settings implemented a few months back. The goal is to protect your personal information. Monday we will continue with our work with renaissance players.

Renaissance Players - Continued

Today classes were moved into their "category" groups to discuss the impact their group (players) made on the Renaissance. If any student did not have their data charts complete, they did not get a signature and have not reached the C level performance for this unit's assessment. Monday will be the last day to complete this for full credit. because we are moving on to the next level as we work toward a Socratic Seminar discussion on Tuesday. That will be the B-A+ level of the assessment. Thursday and Friday will be dedicated to Internet cyber safety, safe passwords, and the Quarter 2 post Acuity test. The results from this assessment will be compared to your pretest results taken at the start of quarter 2. Do you best.

Renaissance Player Research

Hello! Today we completed research for the Players of  the Renaissance. Students will need to come tomorrow with their handout completed with 3 sources (see attached). Students used their devises and the laptops in the classroom to work today. Students also talked about what was necessary to do tonight to complete the assignment.

Foggy Monday

Hey! Welcome to the two new groups for the second semester. Your notifications should clear up once I archive the other groups. We will be using the same system as before in that we will take your Edmodo scores and transfer them as needed to HAC. Your Edmodo totals will not necessarily be the same as your HAC grade.
Tomorrow will be a BYOD day. So, bring devices if you have them if your parents are OK with you bringing them. We will continue our research and be mixing Cobb/Hogue classes to pull this off. With the additional devices in hand it should be easy to do. You will have one more class period only to gather your three required sources of information. If you want to do some more research at home, that is fine but not required at this time. If you get little done tomorrow, that might be a different story altogether.
I am requesting parent participation in this the second half of the year. So, please have your parent sign up using the "parent" code associated with your code. If your parent does not wish to follow along and or receive the email updates, that is fine. I will be sending out instructions how to connect if you are uncertain how to do it.
Have a great foggy Monday evening.

TGIF, Again

Wow! It seems like I just typed TGIF yesterday. Hey it's Friday. Today we reviewed the Reading Notes and fielded questions concerning the assessment on Monday. Actually, I don't know about Mrs. Cobb but I did not have very many questions about it. Don't forget to prepare. You can check the January 23 post for the study tips and the January 15 post for the text book pages.Those post dates are for Edmodo, of course.

Also, if you would like to follow your child's notifications by email all you have to do is join your child's parent group and go to account settings. You can check off the box according to what you want to happen. By checking the box for email and entering the same you can get an email every time I post. How great is that? You can check more boxes depending on your level of interest.

Thursday

Today students completed their visit to Renaissance Florence. Tomorrow we will review for the assessment on Monday. You should read the study tips from the last post and come with questions on which you may need clarification.

Wednesday Already!

Back to school after an unexpected break. Today we continued work visiting Florence. Most classes completed 4 stations out of 7 total. We should come close to completing the rest tomorrow.

*Assessment Tip: The chapter 29 assessment is on Monday

Study tips:

*The Reading Notes blank pages are on post January 17th and the chapter 29 text pages on post January 15th.

*The C level will contain the vocabulary terms and questions about the "players" of Florence. Each Reading Notes section has the players and their work.

*B-A+ level will contain questions whose responses may be found in your Reading Notes responses. I would suggest that you back up your Reading Notes with an understanding from the text and when we review the correct responses in class on Friday that you add any incomplete notes to yours. Two questions are review items from last week and are about vocabulary terms.

*Both levels are multiple choice.