A final parting before the holidays.

Sorry I'm not feeling so well -- and had to head home to rest my cold. Here are the details for today's class.

6th Grade Information Technology

Overview for Friday, December 19, 2008 1:30 – 2:25

Important note: Please send your Emerging Technologies PowerPoints to the PVT folder; we will have to wait until January to present.


TASK 1: Student Blog Entries (40 minutes)
Students should go to their blog and write an entry titled
* My plans for the holidays
• Do not enter personal information (specific hotels or last names)
• Have a peer proofread before posting.
• Mr. Woodward will grade your posts.


TASK 2: Student Responses to Blogs (15 minutes)
Students should visit their partners’ blogs and one other and comment on any additions.

Again, check for spelling and grammar and have someone proofread before posting.



TASK 3: MS Assembly (last 20 minutes)
By 2:30, the students should be in the theater, seated for the final good-byes and singing a few carols.



Helpful Links (where you can get to see resources. )
• Visit to the BBS to see this document.
• Mr. Woodward’s Blog: http://inextricablyinterwoven.blogspot.com/
• Mrs. Glavan’s Blog
http://libertyglavan.blogspot.com/

Commenting on Posts

Today in IT class, we saw a picture of Mrs. Glavan's class from Liberty Junior High. We are working with them, and were assigned partners. Our students were required to respond to two posts which were written by the students from Liberty Junior High.

We should also have two posts completed on our blogs. One telling about ourselves, and the second reflecting on what we've learned about our emerging technology.

When we return in January, we should be ready to begin our wiki exploring what the world will look like in 2020.

Introductions

Today in IT class, our students wrote a brief introduction to share with our colleagues in Illinois.

Hopefully this biographical information will be the beginning of budding friendships and students' realization that, indeed, we are inextricably interwoven.

The friendships and collaboration that could come out of this project will hopefully have a good impact on the students and their understanding of technology.

Emerging Technologies

In 6th grade IT, we are exploring Emerging Technologies. Working in partners, our class of Digital Natives are pretending to be immigrants from an ancient land. What are these wikis, blogs, cell phones, video games, and flash animations?

Where did they come from and where are they going?

How have they changed, and what will they be like when our sixth graders graduate from University in 2020?

Check out their posts to summarize their reflections.