Today is the first day of IT classes for Year 9 - Welcome All.
Our lesson today will consist of:
1. Introduction to the Technology Department - you can revisit the PowerPoint Presentation that we viewed in class here: Welcome to Technology
2. Since we are striving to become the 1st paperless classroom, you will visit the website which will become the "hub" (center) of our work - http://afterclass.tripod.com. You and your parents can find important information regarding our classwork there.
3. A blog is an online web journal/diary. As part of our coursework, each of you will create a blog to serve as a tool during this term. The MAIN purpose of the blog is to reflect on what we did in class that day AND to record any important information.
You will make an entry at the end of each class! Don't forget! I will visit your blog to leave comments and encouragement!
The blog provider that we will be using is: Blogger.com
When we are investigating online, it is important to save the URL (A URL, Uniform Resource Locator, is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet) of any important site that you might want to use when you begin the written part of the project.
Next week I will show you how to activate links for these addresses that will make visiting them again very easy ;-).
4. You will create the blog and reflect on that process. (Was it easy? Was it fun? Will a blog help you later in the year when you are evaluating your own work?).
Remember, we are also trying to become a "homeworkless" classroom so we must work hard each class and manage time carefully.
This is going to be a great class and a great term!
Let's go Year 9!
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This is great info to know.
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