Ninth Workday

Welcome back from Spring Break!

Now is the time to really buckle down and refocus on your project. You need to be reading your book, gathering additional data/information, writing and obtaining approval of your interview questions, completing the interview of your expert, writing about your interview, and moving toward your own stated project completion goal. All of these are what you need to reflect on in your blog.

Our project completion date is May 11th - that is six (6) weeks from now! You can plan into your schedule some time to work on your TED-style presentation during lab time the last few weeks. We will be examining TED talks models soon!

Blog Grade!

Your blog will be graded this week. Here are the minimums if you missed them from the "Fourth Workday" post.

Blog posts should be: 2 substantial paragraph minimum reflect on the progress being made toward your project's goal reflect on how your selected book is guiding your learning gather information from other print and electronic sources cite all information (as well as images!) (and a reminder) well edited There should be eight posts as of today. The score will drop for posts which were not on time, but get as many done as you can if you skipped any!

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What grade will you earn?
For each blog post you will earn:
1 point if it is present
2 points if it meets minimums (see above)
2 points if it was on time
Points are added to a 60 minimum.
You will earn a 55 if you have a blog but there is no content.
You will earn a 0 if you have not created a blog or notified Mrs. Newman of the URL (do so at: "First Check In").

Example: A. Student posted one blog post on time (2 pts), wrote six posts total (6 pts), and four posts met minimums (one didn't include an image credit and one was not two paragraphs and had several spelling and grammar errors, 8pts). A. Student has therefore earned a 76 (60+2+6+8).

Seventh Workday

Reminder that the mid-point blog grade is coming soon! Check your packet.

Sixth Workday

You should be well into the first stages of your project by now. You should be reading your chosen book and planning your interview of an expert.

Remember the old saying:

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