Create a new blog post. Write about your experience using Scratch this week. Answer the following Questions. Then embed your finished scratch project.
1. What was your project about? 2. What were some of the challenges you had? 3. What did you feel successful about? 4. Did you like using Scratch? Would you use it again? 5. Give instructions on how to use your project (do you click on the green flag, press the space bar, click on a sprite, or what). We've spent a little bit of time working with Diigo this week....and hopefully you got a chance to see it in action and form an opinion on it. You may love it, you may totally think it's a waste of time! Here's your assignment for today:
3. If you are feeling ambitious, embed your Coggle from yesterday (if you made one) into your blog post. See the video here for instructions. You'll feel like a Technology JEDI when you do it! Reading online can be tricky - lots of words! And where do you take notes if you're expected to type something in Google Docs or create a presentation? Diigo offers a solution that we're going to try out today. It lets us highlight important information on a page online and saves it to a library with the website, a link and any images we might want to save, as well. Let's try it out - I'm going to ask you what you think - if notetaking with Diigo is something you think might be useful or if you like the 'old-fashioned' pencil and paper method of taking notes better. There is not right or wrong answer!
1. Mrs. Hurlbert will walk you through getting Diigo as a Google Chrome extension. Make sure you're in Google Chrome! 2. Go to www.diigo.com We'll set up your Diigo account together - it will become part of Google Chrome and your Google Drive account so you'll have access to it whenever you log into google drive. 3. Mrs. Hurlbert will demonstrate how to use Diigo - highlight, take notes, look over what you've saved in the 'My Library' section. (If you forget, or if you want to go back and review how to do it, go to these video tutorials.) 4. This next step might take a couple of days. We did some exploration about the Underground Railroad last week. Today I would like you to check out some safe houses that existed during this time period. Go to this website: Aboard the Underground Railroad: List of Sites Step 1: Choose a Site to learn more about. Click on it. Step 2: Use Diigo to highlight important information or save pictures from that Site. You may even want to click on more links that are offered to you to get more information. Step 3: Choose two more Sites and repeat steps 1 and 2 for each one. Step 4: When you have taken notes in Diigo on at least 3 Sites, check them off in 'My Library' and Send To [email protected] Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and not just because of the pie! I love that we spend the entire day with family, and we make sure we think about all of the things we are thankful for. There is so much to be grateful for! What are you Thankful for this year? Click on the 'Comments' section to post a response. When you submit, check out the link below:
Fun Thanksgiving Day games can be found here: http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/thanksgiving/games.php The Underground Railroad was a well-organized system of escape for slaves in the United States. It was not a train, and it was not a tunnel system under the ground.
1. Click on the link to play the simulation called The Underground Railroad: Journey to Freedom 2. Pay attention to the Point Of View of the journey - it is told in the second person - that means you! 3. Notice what people help you along your way. 4. Think about the decisions you make. 5. Write a new blog post in Blogger and answer the following questions Here is a rubric so you know how your response will be graded.
1. If you did not get the chance to set up a blog yesterday, do so now. Grab a friend who created their blog yesterday so they can sit with you while you do this. Follow these instructions:
2. Fill out the Survey here - make sure you type in your CORRECT BLOG ADDRESS!!! If you can't remember, go to Blogger, click on 'Technology Work' and you will see your blog address under the Page Statistics graph. 3. Go to Blogger. Log in if you need to. Go to Technology Work. Click on the Orange Button for 'New Post.' Help a friend if they need help; ask a friend if you need help!
4. Title your post "First Blog Post". Answer the following questions in paragraph form.
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