Following Up on Our Academy Check-In

Good Morning!!  I hope you woke up on the right side of the bed and have a bunch of energy today because some of you have your work cut out for you :)  While some of you may have already noticed, I left a number of assignments with no grade in the grade book before the progress reports were due - I'll explain why live in person today, however, those blank spots have now been filled in with a "0" indicating that the assignment has not been completed.  Today is your one and only day (90 minutes) to complete and submit those assignments.  Some have been on Schoology since the first day of the semester (I don't just post these assignments for fun) and they are still incomplete.  I have a feeling that some of you have completed these assignments but perhaps you have not successfully uploaded them to youtube and posted to your blog.  In addition, for each post, you must at minimum respond to the following questions:

1. what did you enjoy about this project?
2. what new tools did you learn from completing this project?
3. what challenges did you face as you worked on the project?

For today, here is the protocol -

1.  Find an assignment in Infinite Campus with a "0".  If the assignment is marked with an "M" for missing you may not make it up!
2.  Complete the assignment.  You can complete it using the link provided, type your responses into an email or even hand write your responses and turn it in - whatever is easiest for you!
3.  Any assignments submitted electronically, you must also complete a post it note with your name and each assignment completed.  You will hand that post it note to me at the end of the class period so that I can then check what assignments you have successfully completed.
4.  Once you have completed all of your assignments for my class, this time can/should be used to:

• Complete any/all work for your other classes

This time is dedicated to you and should be taken full advantage of!  Today is a study hall - you should be sitting in your assigned seats and should be working quietly and on your own.  I will not accept assignments from the first few weeks of school after today so assignments not completed in class that are marked with a "0" should be completed by midnight tonight.  Yesterday, some students were having trouble exporting their Flash assignments using quicktime.  If this is a problem for you, you can also export the assignment using windows (.avi) and then upload that file to youtube.  Each assignment, however, should be posted on your blog and then it needs to be noted on a yellow sticky note and handed to the substitute teacher.  Worst case scenario, if you cannot get the file on youtube, export it from Flash as a .swf file and email it to me at crubin@seq.org.

If you have any questions, concerns, etc. please be sure to email me during class so that you can move forward with your assignments and be successful!

Thank you in advance for an outstanding work period.  I will have your new, updated grades by Tuesday of next week!!  I also want to highlight that you and your 4th period classmates have work to do!  As of today I have the following grades in my grade book:

• 8 students currently have an F
• 2 students currently have a D
• 6 students currently have an C
• 5 students currently have an B
• 3 students currently have an A

With that said ... lets get to work - and please, as much as you want to help your classmates, focus on YOUR OWN work first!!!!