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March 22: Refer to Edmodo site for instructions, downloads, uploads, and polls this week.

March 19: Ahhh! Finished with the airplane! Feels great, right? I wanted to introduce you all to Edmodo. It is an online site, with some similar characteristics to wikispaces. Some say it has the look and feel of facebook, but on an educational level. I'd like for you all to log on and create an account, then use Edmodo to make discussion posts. Check the page on the side to get the directions for how to log onto Edmodo. READ THE DIRECTIONS!!! there's a code you need to get into the class I have set up for you! The rest of your assignment is in Edmodo, waiting for you to read! P.S. Someone please help Elyse create a wiki account. she's never been on here before.

March 12: [|CMAC] came for a visit! Check out the photos from their presentation!

March 1: click on the following link and take the survey: Technology Survey Then, log on to Inventor and view the Inventor Tutorials. After you have viewed all tutorials, complete the requirements on your packet.

February 18th: Welcome back! Given the 2 day week, I've decided to show Digital Nation. You will be taking notes as you watch the two part series. Write down what you learn (statistics), questions you have about anything you see, and how this pertains to you. We will be creating a wikispace page about Digital Nation, using our notes. We will also focus our wikispace page on how we use tech in our daily lives. (one page of notes per day is a reasonable amount)

For those of you looking for online access to the documentary "Digital Nation" ....here's the link.

February 12: 1. complete work from Feb 9th, 2. choose 10 vocab words from Lesson 3 that you are not familiar with and define them on __**your**__ **__wikispace__** (not email) 3. email me journal response: what we did this week and why you think we're learning it. gillespie_a@ ccsdistrict.org

February 9th: Two things to be accomplished to day: 1. Air racer finished. race 3 times, average your distance for the air racer challenge 2. read article on internet hacking school in China. Respond using discussion board.

February 3: Lessons are as follows:

1. finish up remaining presentations 2. discuss design process 3. email me link to your wikispace page so that I can see that you've added pages as requested 4. start lesson on drawing and views

So........assignments for Tuesday Feb 2 are: 1. thumbnail sketch in your engineers notebook 2. wiki page with design process steps listed and explained on it 3. wiki page navigation set to show all your wiki pages on side bar (you should have made another page for vocab yesterday)

BEFORE assignments can be done, you MUST check out 1.6 Drawing and Design Process. Follow the directions!!!!! If you need help with creating the wiki pages and editing navigation, Mr. Voshal IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE BUILDING TODAY who knows how. ask him nicely! Mr. Elliot IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE BUILDING TODAY who knows about the design process and thumbnail sketches. If you get stuck ask him when you see him. However, if you follow 1.6 you should be fine!

Some of you are doing very will with the discussion posts. Others are not. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE MYSTERIOUSLY MISSED DISCUSSION POSTINGS, OR FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL SOMEHOW BE MYSTERIOUSLY ABSENT ON DAYS OF PRESENTATIONS....THIS IS FOR YOU! TONIGHT (TUESDAY) THERE WILL BE A SHOW ON PBS CALLED 'DIGITAL NATION" AROUND 9PM. WATCH THE SHOW AND SHOOT ME AN EMAIL SUMMARIZING THE MAIN POINTS OF THE SHOW. Email can be sent from school Wednesday, if you don't have internet access from home.

See you all Wednesday, my little darlings!