Math Parent Quiz

As part of your E-Portfolio you are expected to teach your parents Grade 8 Math.  This is the Parent Quiz that you will be giving to them.  Make sure you know how to do these questions.  You want to be smarter than your parents:D

Heads up 7-up Deadlines for the week.

cc licensed flickr photo shared by super.heavy

Did you ever play the game? I did... remember it well:)

Be prepared to do homework this week.  You have some outstanding work that needs to be done at your e-portfolios and at your 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Google Documents. 

You will be given time on Friday to work on the Questions in Math and Mrs. Wilson and Ms Hay are giving time this week too.

E-Portfolio Update Work to be done before Spring Break!

Your Math and Language Arts sections of your E-Portfolio are now finalized.  You can find the instructions at the following places:

• Language Arts (16, 17, 41 only 73 you need to talk to Mr. Mclean)
• Math

Follow the instructions and email questions to chris (dot) harbeck (at) gmail.com.

Important things to note.

Math

You will be doing a parent quiz with your parents.  They will do the math.  You will teach the math.  I have selected 5 questions from your text for you to do with your parents.  You will then use your blogging and others blogging to teach your parents the content necessary to complete the question. To copy the parent quiz questions go to the link and paste them into your math section. 

Language Arts

For Language Arts some of the pictures are on the server.  I will point you in the right direction during class so that you can make a voicethread.  Be sure to make a voicethread account and be ready to upload what is necessary.

The E-Portfolio work is due on Friday March 26th 9:00

Using Creative Commons "CC" Images at school in your assignments

It is important for us to use material in our presentations and movies that we have permission to use. Today's lesson is about using creative commons images.  You are going to learn how to search for images that you can use in your 2 Minutes to Make a Difference, your blog posts and your e-portfolios. 

Let's start with flickr.  This is a site where you can find many images.  Most of the images are not usable because they do not have a cc license.  There are many pictures that you can use and let's figure out how to do this.

Using Advanced Search at Flickr.

1. Go to flickr.com
2. Search for a keyword or topic
   
3. Once you have searched and received a result click advanced search
4. Scroll down till you see USE CC
   
   
5. Now when you return to your image search you are searching images that you are allowed to use.
   
   

 Saving the image
 To save an image it is important to do a few things.

• Save the image to your desktop
• You now need an attribution.  This is a way of giving the photographer credit.
• cc licensed flickr photo by nyominx: http://flickr.com/photos/nyominx/156249167/ is how you create an attribution. It has three parts

1. cc licensed flickr photo by nyominx: http://flickr.com/photos/nyominx/156249167/ This is the name of the person who took the photo.
2. cc licensed flickr photo by nyominx: http://flickr.com/photos/nyominx/156249167/  Is the link to the photograph on flickr. 
3. Every photo you use needs to have this attribution.

 Here is your assignment....

 Go to your e-portfolio.  You are going to use photos to create your name. 

• Start your flickr search.  
• Search for "letter C" or what ever your name starts with. 
• Choose all sizes
• choose Square 75 by 75
• Right click on the image and copy image location.
• Go to wikispaces and edit your e-portfolio page
• Right at the beginning you need to paste all of your letters in
• Don't for get to create the attribution cc licensed flickr photo by bigbluemeanie: http://flickr.com/photos/bigblue/317961215/

 

Remember to always to use only images you are allowed to use.  Good luck and have fun.

E-Portfolio Self and Peer Evaluations

Tomorrow in your Math and LA classes you will have the opportunity to self and peer evaluate your portfolios. These evaluations will be part of your mark on your portfolio. Here are some extra things you can have at your portfolio.

Phys-Ed
At Flickr I have put up 2 x-cross country meets and all the volleyball pictures from city championships. You can add those pictures to your portfolio.

You can also find pictures of volleyball there.

Student Led Conferences and Electronic Portfolios

A few final touches for your portfolios. Please make sure you have all of your core subjects done by Monday. Math, Science, Social and Language Arts all have been explained to you.

Please make the following changes...

Change the Heading Literacy with ICT to Student Reflection leave the text as Heading 1.
Under Student Reflection please add and answer the following questions.

1. Two things that I have done well this year are: (the examples can be from any subject)
2. Two areas that I need to improve are: (the examples can be from any subject)
3. My goals for the rest of the year are (the examples can be from any subject)
4. My goals for beocoming a better learner

Also in this section please include a (Heading 2) Adult Response. Have your parents type in answers to the following

Dear, ________________
In looking at your work, I would like to compliment you on:


I can help you reach your goals by:


_____________________

Please add your Social presentation to your Social Studies Section.

You also need a section called Movie or 2 Minutes to make a Difference. In this section please have the following

• Link to your Pay It Forward Blog Post
• Embed your Google Presentation
• Link to your Essay For your Movie

Thank You and have a great weekend. All of this is to be completed by MONDAY :)

Adding Fractions and E-Portfolio Work

E-Portfolio Update

Please remember to have your e-portfolios done. You need to have your math and LA done by tomorrow. If you can not screen capture please use a text link. In other words please type in the text and then link the text to your work at the blog or other web page.

Please add another subject at your portfolio. Call it Movie and make it Heading 1. Under the Movie heading please add your google presentation and essay. You will need to publish your google presentation. You will get some code and it will look like this...

iframe src='http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?docid=df5nsmnp_3gbszn6d6' frameborder='0' width='410' height='342'>

Presentation will look like this



You then need to add a link to your essay. Please publish your essay and get the link from Google Documents.

Thanks

Here are the slides for today's class on Adding Fractions.

Adding Fraction1

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Here is the ustream of today's lesson.


Please remember to have your e-portfolios done. You need to have your math and LA done by tomorrow. If you can not screen capture please use a text link. In other words please type in the text and then link the text to your work at the blog or other web page.

Your next movie working day will be Wednesday afternoon.

Thanks

More E-portfolio Work

E-portfolio update....

Social Studies
If you exported your Social Studies Photo Story to .wmv they have been uploaded to spmath at Youtube. If you have not exported them you will need to use the machines in the library and export them to the appropriate folder on the J drive.

To embed them at the wiki you will need to use the embed tool (looks like a tv) click on video and paste the embed code into the appropriate box.

Language Arts
I have uploaded all of your photos of the Hockey Sweater to flickr.
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You can download your picture from flickr or use link to it using a url. At flickr click on your picture. Then right click and get the image properties.


What you need is the location. Hilite all of the http beside location starting with http://farm4.... This is the url that you will need at the wiki site.

At your portfolio you can use this url to add a picture. In your portfolio select image and then paste the url into the last box on the image window that says Insert external image by url.


During your first term I took photos of you in Practical Arts. You can find the pictures here.



They would look great under your Practical Arts section. Add a picture and a description of what you were doing.

Have a great day. Make sure to do a voicethread. It needs to have your math solutions, some social studies pictures and anything else that would be valuable to your parents.

Electronic Portfolios Day 3

Here are your notes from today's class.

Portfolios 3

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Electronic Portfolios Day 2

Here are the slides for today and the new problem to be put into your portfolio.

Portfolios

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Here is a ustream of today's class.

Here is the problem from today for your eportfolio.


Please complete the following work in your notebooks. We will post it later to your eportfolios. Make sure that you get your 2 Minutes to Make a Difference work by March 12.

Homework March 2

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Here are two examples of how your magazine could be placed at your portfolio.

Scribd

Jeanine's Magazine

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