LEARNING LOG~Jan.10/2012

What we did today

Today was a fun, peaceful and challenging day! First thing in the morning we started with Geography Challenge. Ms.Lees gave us a package which had 9 rounds. The rounds were about mind mapping, locating and labelling, food,transportation etc...! This took pretty much the whole entire block.

Learning Intention

The learning intention today was to see what we know about the world. Though we didn't learn some of the questions it was nice to see how much knowledge we had. I didn't think that I would answer some of the questions. It refreshed my memory :)

Connections/Reflections

The Geography Challenge was quite challenging. Some of the questions were quite difficult. I didn't even understand some of them. If you don't know the answer at all it's always good to guess. There is no right and wrong answer. This is a good way to get our smart "brains" working ;)!

Homework/Tips

- If you haven't finished your pathway notes finish them at flex on Thursday
- Look over the rubric for tomorrows double block
- Finish your portfolio at flex on Thursday
- If you aren't finished your paragraphs I suggest you should finish because tomorrow we will be doing some editing
- You may want to skim through your novel
GOOD LUCK TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE GEOGRAPHY CHALLENGE TEST ON THURSDAY! WISHING THE BEST TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow Trevor will be having the honour posting on double block:) Good luck!
******I know my learning log was a little short but we didn't do much in class********

Learning Log- January 9, 2012

Learning Log ~ January 9, 2012

What we did today:

Today was a peaceful day that was quite enjoyable actually!

We started out with a few rounds of Geography Challenge. There was one particularly interesting one called “It’s Party Time!” about different festivals and celebrations all over the world. It was kind of fun to see what we got right and wrong although my best score is 4/10 from an earlier round. After, I think, three rounds of Geography Challenge we forged ahead and got right to Concept Mapping/Mind Mapping.

We all had to copy down notes about the criteria, the organization, and reasons why they are useful graphic organizers. Ms. Lees then handed out a few sheets, two consisting of a web evaluation rubric (how we will be marked and what we will be marked on) and a peer evaluation rubric for Wednesday when we edit a friend’s rough draft of their paragraph. But we’ll be talking about that some other day in class .

Why we did what we did:

We did what we did today because somewhere along the line, we will actually have to use this stuff!! Seriously! Anyway, we did our Geography Challenge for the actual Geography Challenge that we will take tomorrow... bright and early !J

We took notes about important details that we needed to know so that when it comes time to start our book group webs, there will be no surprises if we didn’t get our desired marks. These webs are very important. Not only are they quick way to organize info, but it also helps us to make connections with the information that we’ve gathered.

Working in our groups helps us to boost our communication and collaboration skills, getting us more comfortable with talking to our friends and acquaintances (I think Trevor has already mentioned this in one of his posts). By collaboration, I mean problem solving peacefully, giving constructive criticism, having a fair distribution of work, being open minded, and working as a team. Remember that there has never been an “I” or “U” in team, and there never will be!

Connections and Reflections:

I usually start with reflections first, but today I thought I’d shake it up a bit J Here I go!

Having social/collaboration skills will help us later on in life, especially when we enter into the “real world” and we start working. Bosses are obviously not going to look for the biggest grouch to make the whole office grumpy with a storm cloud on top! Although they may be persuasive in a way, that’s not the type of leader that they want. They want somebody who is capable of influencing their colleagues for the better instead of the other way around.

I think it’s really good for our class to be able to practice our social skills in this manner because there’s usually at least one person that you sort of know. These types of activities just make it easier for everyone to get to know each other better, faster!

I used to be a really shy person up until high school, I guess I just realised that I couldn’t live in my own bubble with my own friends forever. It was always sad to find out that my friends weren’t in the same classes as me, but it’s a good thing that other people were more friendly, outgoing, and willing to make new friends than I was. I hope this social trend continues for me!

Homework:

© If you really want to, you can study for the Geography Challenge, it’s tomorrow by the way!

© Ms. Lees said to look over the web rubric for Wednesday.

© If you haven’t finished your portfolio you should go to FLEX which is on Thursday, or contact Ms. Lees to schedule a different time if you can’t make it.

© If your paragraphs aren’t complete, finish them up! You need an outline for the last two. If, by any chance, you are stuck for a topic you can refer to your heart map.

© You may want to take a refresher and skim through your novel once more.

I’m really not sure if there’s any more, if there is please comment and enlighten us.

The generous honour of posting tomorrow has been bestowed upon Shanese. I wish you luck, you’ll do great!!

How to add label when posting

Step one put label before posting

then finish this and post!

If you have posted and forgot to add a label do this

Step one

go to edit post from your www.blogger.com/home (dashboard)

Step two

select the boxes for the posts that you wish to add to ONE PARTICULAR LABEL not all the ones that you want to add different labels to

then use the side bar named LABEL to acess the one you added to labels

sorry about the bad pictures

Please use labels.

please use labels so we can look and acess the posts easier I will post how to do it in a separate post. the posts we have are "Learning Logs, Other, Other blog stuff, Post order discussions"

Learning Log Friday January 6th

What we did:Today the class was in the library and we had to do reviews of how well other people (in your blog group) do on posting.Then we wrote down all the post we made and all the comments you have posted on other peoples posts.Then we all got in groups (the groups were the people who had the same book as you)and got web of different topic's ,two people got green card and two would get yellow.The people with the green would write down positive things about the web and the yellow would write negative things about the web.

Why we did it:

We did the reviews of the blog posts because,First the teacher needs to mark us and second to see how yourself and other do on the blogs so you can get better at writing the learning logs.The propose of the webbing thing was to get people to share more of there idea's and to get better at group work.

Connections/Reflections(by Fredrick, this is just a sample so you know how to write this, please do write your own Trevor)

I thought that the first part of our class, which was the blog critique, was productive for me and my group. We got through all of our critiques and the quality of the work was quite good. However the second part of class was not quite productive as we got quite off task and we did not get much done. I will leave the connections to you Trevor

homework:

post on your blogs(if it's your day)

Learing Log. Jan.4

What we did
Today in the first block, we started with the Geography Challenge practice rounds. We did 3 rounds on Canadian history,and world “people and places”. Some of the questions were quite hard. Next we finished viewing the video on history of the Middle Ages and take notes while watching it. It was a twenty minutes video and in it we learned about the early, high, and late Middle Ages. After that, we looked at our blog criteria because some of the recent blog posts were not up to standard. During second block, we went to the library to critique and look at our blog’s consistency and quality. First, we looked at who posted when, and who commented where. Next, we had to pick out two posts by
each of us. Then we had to critique it based on the criteria given in the previous block. We (in pairs or group of three) had to mark it out of five and give five reasons for that grade given.

Learning Intentions
We did the Geo Challenge to prepare us for the Geo Challenge that is coming up in two weeks. It also broadens your knowledge.We looked at the video because it introduces us to the new unit in history. It was also to practice our note taking skills. We looked at the blogs to refresh our memory of the criteria and to let us think about whether we have been following it or not. We checked for consistency because if someone in the group missed a lot of work then they can catch up. The critiquing was to let everyone know where they are at and what they should work on. It also lets the better bloggers to show and explain to those who are not as confident in the blogging how to write the post better.

Connection/Reflections
I think that today was quite interesting
day. First the Geography challenge was quite challenging yet fun as did not fail after trying, though I have never heard of some of the questions, especially Canadian history because I was not in Canada for three years. L These questions are actually quite useful because they tell you a
lot of interesting facts that I’ve never knew before. The video was an interesting one though it was quite quick and I had to rush through some of the points. The blogging part of our day was easy but time consuming because we had to really think about the five reasons. I am quite happy about the fact that our group is mostly consistent with our posting and commenting. Blogging is a really good way to share your ideas on the internet with everyone, not just your friends. It also lets other people look at your ideas and comment on them, whether it is agreeing or disagreeing.
Homework

post!

Posting

Hi everyone.... I guess you probably noticed but i think we don't have today's (January 3) post. I single handedly gave this blog 4 views tonight! :)
Anyway...... what is the normal order for posting Fred? i noticed the little text box on the side bar.
Is there anyone who hasn't done a double block post yet?