Digital Portfolios

Today is the official first day of your Digital Portfolio project. This is a long term project that will take us through most of the remainder of the school year. It is important to keep up with the daily tasks to ensure you are done in timely manner. Follow the link below for detailed instructions.

Digital Portfolios

Digital Portfolios

For those of you who are done...

You will start constructing your digital portfolios. The first tasks are as follows:

• sign up for a Weebly account
• begin going through your writing from 8th Grade and exporting them to PDF documents

On Weebly...

make pages for:

• About Me
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Digital Literacy
• Phy Ed
• Art
• Band/Choir

Do not publish website.

Task List for The Week

Both Days
Type to Learn (10 minutes)
Place your room into Google Earth (then place in 2013 Public Folder)

Due Friday
Latitude/Longitude Problem
Complex Area Problem
As the Crow Flies Problem

When you are finished...
Watch Online Safety Videos
Animoto

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day 2009

Follow the links below for additional information regarding Earth Day.

Calculating Carbon Footprint
Earth Day History

Online Safety

Today we will start our series on digital safety. The videos you will watch today are meant to be an overview of the topics we will address throughout the last weeks of school. Topics discussed will include the following.

social networking

• myspace
• facebook
• twitter
• bebo

cell phone safety

• texting
• pictures

YouTube

• watching
• posting
• subscribing

identity theft

• passwords
• personal information
• unsecured networks

Videos

• Profile Penalty
• Post-to-be-Private
• Terrible Text
  

Google Earth/Sketchup Integration

After you complete the Latitude and Longitude and the Complex Area Problem assignments, you will be challenged to export your room to Google Earth. Our goal is to export all rooms to a parking lot at Walt Disney World in Florida.

Good Luck

Latitude & Longitude

Use Google Earth to complete the form below.

Latitude and Longitude