D/1 -- Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Bolebruch's Class --  Nature Works (Day 4) --Almost FINAL DAY
More groups (Habitat and Invasive Species) presented to their classmates.  While not presenting the other students were active listeners during each presentation.  Some students asked questions related to the presentation. 

•  Next Time: Nature Works Final day -- Last group will present ( Coloration).  Students will reflect on what they experienced during this group project through written expression.  Students will use a word processor to create a paragraph about what they experienced.  Some of the questions to ponder will include:

1. What would you do differently?
2. How did each person (including yourself) in your group contribute?
3. What worked well or not so well during this project?
4. What should Ms. Reid do differently?

Faulhaber's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 4)

Students continued working with their partner or by themselves to collect info about their assigned county for this project.  Students, who had previously started creating their PowerPoint, continued to work on their PowerPoint.  When the other students finished collecting all of the need info, they started creating their NC County PowerPoints. Students learned how to add the URL's for their sources to their PowerPoint slides.  Students learned how to save their PowerPoint slides as jpegs.

•  Next Time:  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Blackwood's Class -- Practicing Basis Word Processing Skills (Day 1)
Reviewed centering, applying bold and italics, color, font, size and underlining. Students candy bar story file from the shared drive.  Saved candy bar story to their home directory.  Follow written directions to format O'Henry story.

• Next time:  Edmodo access and registering