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November 16-November 20

What do you have left for grades?

1. You will receive a hundred point grade on the quality and quantity of your blog comments.

2. You will receive a final blog evaluation which will count as two test grades.

Your Final Blog Post Should
-Answer your essential question in detail
-show that you are an expert on your subject
-Be video
-Must be highly planned out
-Be of high quality and not done at the last minute

November 9 - November 13

Hey everyone,
only 5 more classes left. You need to make a video post as a culminating post that will ultimately answer your essential question. This is a heads up for you. This final post will count as 2 blog assessments. You have no time limit as your video can be as long as you want. For your final video, it should be something that could appear on channel 7.


Also, don't forget to comment on each others posts. Most of you need to do more commenting.

5th Period Controversy

Controversy of 5th Period from Dan Wolotsky on Vimeo.

A Good Essential Question:

Yoda – A
Your essential question:
-can not be answered in a few sentences
-requires you to become an expert on your topic
-seeks an understanding of something that matters to us
-has several “right answers”
-shows that you have good background knowledge of your topic
-focuses on a specific aspect when possible
-inspires debate

Flavor Flav - B
Your essential question:
-can not be answered in a few sentences
-requires you to become an expert on your topic
-seeks an understanding of something that matters to us
-shows that you have good background knowledge of the topic

Solid Citizen - C
Your essential question has two of the following attributes:
-can not be answered in a few sentences
-requires you to become an expert on your topic
-seeks an understanding of something that matters to us

Not There Yet - D
Your question does not require in depth research and can be easily answered. Your question does not matter to you as you just want to get this part of the assignment done. To answer your question, one could spend a few minutes on the internet and be done.

Work Work Work

I will be giving your blogs their first grades over the weekend. Today, you will receive a lesson on making an essential question for your blog. You will receive a grade for your essential question based on the rubric I share with you. You can change your grade on the essential question if you make a better question. Your essential question is due Tuesday October 27. Your essential question must be posted somewhere on your blog.

Also, today you will self-assess using this rubric on your prowess at using RSS feeds.

Work 10/19-10/23

So, what do you need to do?

1. By Thursday you need to have everyone's blogs in your reader. You could add a folder to your reader. Check the Voicethread below for more info on that.


2. By the end of Thursday you should have already made your first blog post. You should also be commenting on each others blogs. Your comments could include:
-advice for making the blog better
-suggestions for future blog entries and research
-comments on the blog post itself

3. Your First Blog Post.

4. There are still only 3 Flip Videos on Walking on Hot Coals. I am going to be giving out zeros soon.