Applying our study skills to the 21st century web 2.0! If we are not prepared be to wrong, we will never come up with anything original. Sir Ken Robinson
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Go over Biome & Wiki Rubric papers. Due date for this project is 3-12-10. Please write it down in your planner now. TODAY
1. Form groups of 3
2. Choose biome from "hat"
3. Choose a group name
4. Fill out the Biome Chart (one per group)
5. Go to The Biome Wiki and create your biome page. Each group does one Biome.
6. Decide on which job each group member will do.
Note: You will create a wiki page off the main wiki I give you.
You will be using the resources you find in Diigo.
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Finish your Studycasts, upload to podomatic, and embed on your blog (only 1 group member must embed, but indicate screen names of all group members)
If you get done, Go to Whyville, locate and play The Skater & Spin Game. I challenge you to answer the question, "How do skaters get spinning so fast?" by playing the game. Post answers on your blog.
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Join the Diigo group from yesterday
Tell Angela Maier on your blog:
1. How your assignment went
2. What you are learning this week in Study Skills
An 'A' quality post will include a hyperlink and 3 tags with the 1-2 paragraphs (or more if you like)
Near the end of class check your blog for comments, comment back, and on Jacklin's.
Form groups of 3 to do your Science chapter 6 Studycasts
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Take a look at Cornell Notetaking we will use this method next week, so bring a writing implement, lined paper, your ears, and your brain.
[Ms. Maier wrote this] Smiles can energize, connect, relieve, affirm, acknowledge, celebrate, and show someone else in this world they matter.
@cnansen shared this story with
Ms. Maier: I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree.The last class I had to take was Sociology. The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with.
Her last project of the term was called "Smile." The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions. I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway, so, I thought this would be a piece of cake, literally.
Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, and I went out to McDonald's one crisp March morning. It was just our way of sharing special play time with our son. We were standing in line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back away, and then even my husband did. I did not move an inch ... an overwhelming feeling of panic welled up inside of me as I turned to see why they had moved.
As I turned around I smelled a horrible "dirty body" smell,and there standing behind me were two poor homeless men. As I looked down at the short gentleman, close to me, he was "smiling". He said, "Good day" as he counted the few coins he had been clutching.
The second man fumbled with his hands as he stood behind his friend. I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue eyed gentleman was his salvation.I held my tears as I stood there with them. The young lady at The counter asked him what they wanted. He said, "Coffee is all Miss" because that was all they could afford. (If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy something. He just wanted to be warm).
Then I really felt it - the compulsion was so great I almost reached out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes. That is when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every action. I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray. I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot. I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue eyed gentleman's cold hand. He looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, "Thank you."
That day showed me the pure Light of God's sweet love. I returned to college, on the last evening of class, with this story in hand. I turned in "my project" and the instructor read it. Then she looked up at me and said, "Can I share this?" I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class. She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings and being part of God, share this need to heal people and to be healed. In my own way I had touched the people at McDonald's, my husband, son, instructor, and every soul that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college student. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn:
UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.
Your assignment: Smile with unconditional acceptance at friends, loved ones, and strangers. Be ready to tell Ms. Maier the results of your smiling on your blog.
:-)))'s to all of you from Ms. Maier.
Write an 8-10 sentence paragraph on the topic. After writing a rough draft on your blog, edit your work for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors.
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RSS --> Choose an article from your RSS that resonates with you. Write a quality blog post-I'm looking for no less than 5 paragraphs - 6 points available for this assignment. (Forget not thine hyperlink and tags)
Check your blog for comments and comment back.
Comment on Jacklin's.
Spend your remaining time completing your story. Your story is due January 22nd!
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Dr. King fought successfully to have the Civil Rights Act become law in 1964. These laws helped us move toward ending segregation and many of the societal situations that deny equal opportunity to minorities.
The key to economic opportunity for those trapped in poverty is a good education. Most of the poor are trapped in neighborhood schools that lack the facilities, learning resources, and qualified teachers that are found in successful schools. Without the foundation of education, poverty becomes a reoccurring cycle that traps these students within the same cycle that affected their parents and grandparents.
You are privileged young men and women. You attend a private school with highly-qualified teachers, many resources, & are receiving a state-of-the-art education.
Figure out the economic cost per day. How are you showing, or not showing, that you value that $ which is paid on your behalf? Write a blog about it. I am expecting 3RDFs, hyperlink(s), and 3 tags. (current cost per year is $4679.00)[until 9:15am]
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I learn along with other people at BCA and some of them are called students and some of us are called teachers but those definitions are more and more blurred - we are all learners here!
