Beginning the 2nd half of Quarter 1

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday -

Yesterday we began working with Microsoft Word.  Explain 3 reasons why mastering a program like MS Word would be important to your future success in both school and career?

As a second part of today's post, highlight what you enjoyed about our Google Apps unit.  What were your favorite tools?  Anything you would have changed?  Anything you would still like to know more about?

Thanks for your thorough (and, of course, thoughtful) responses!

Mr. Rubin

Shoreline Lake and the End of the First Progress Period!

Good Morning!!  

Part I:  Yesterday we spent the morning and Shoreline Lake in Mountain View as you all know.  Just for the sake of clarification, what was the purpose of that field trip?  Did you enjoy the trip?  What was your favorite moment of the day?  Next year, what would you change about the day?  Anything?  If there is somewhere else or another activity that you think we should consider, feel free to include that too.

Part II:  Can you believe that Friday marks the end of the first quarter progress report period?  That means that for the first time this school year your grades get printed by admin and sent home!  I am sure that all of you want to make sure that you are in good standing in all of your classes and off to a good start!  On the block day this week we will have a study hall.  2 questions.  1.  What does a study hall mean to you?  What would you establish as the requirements for you and your classmates?  In addition, what are some things that you would work on during this time on Wednesday/Thursday?

Thanks for your thorough, thoughtful responses to all of the above and Happy Tuesday!

Picasa is Awesome!

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

This week we focused on the cool tool known as Picasa!!  List 3 reasons you believe that people should be using Picasa.  Please write a detailed sentence for each with the tool you think is helpful and how it can benefit the user!

It's as simple as that.

Thanks!!

More Google Apps to Come!

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!

Over the past 2 days we have had an opportunity to investigate a few more applications that Google offers you for free.  These include "Google Advanced Search," "Finding and Saving Images in Google" and using "Google Translate."  For today's post, which of these tools are you most impressed with?  Which one do you think would be the most helpful for you in the future and explain why?  Think of a time when it would have been incredibly helpful to have a tool like this or think of a specific need you might have where this tool would come in handy.  Elaborate on how it would help!

Thanks!!

Happy Monday and on we go with Google!

Good Morning and Happy Monday -

Before completing your post, please complete lesson 4.2 on Edutyping.  Thank you.

Post: 

Today we are going to move forward with our use of Google!!  Before doing so, however, I would like you to quickly reflect on your experience over the past few days working with GoogleSites.  We will begin with a quick recap of your weekend.

1.  How was your weekend?  What was something that you did that was particularly fun?  Did you have to work and/or did you do any work for school (study, make-up work, homework, etc?)
2.  What is your impression of GoogleSites?  Did you like working with it?  What were some tools that you found easy to use?  Did you find any tools that you thought were difficult?  Would you be tempted to create your own site using Google?
3.  What is the most powerful use for a website?  Instead of me offering any examples, think about how you or someone you know could use a website and how it would help you (or them)!

Thanks for your response ... today we learn more about what Google can do for you!!