Wednesday, January 4th

[3Allisha]

Today we stared by talking about how to do our daily blogs. He told us that we have to do a daily blog every day, even if it's a holiday. If we don't have school all we have to do is write "no school." Daily blogs are worth 2 points each. Our first website grade is going to be worth 80 points. 20 points for our personalization, 20 for message board posts, 20 for daily blogs, and 20 for our assigned blog. We began talking about extra credit. If you're in the top 10 top members on the sight you get 3 extra credit points, and if you're in the top 11-20 you get 2 extra credit points. Other ways to get extra credit is to make a video, or interview someone. You can get up to 25 points for doing this. If you comment on someones blog 10 times, and you email Mr. Bruns the links you can get 2 extra credit points. He told us about what are semester test i going to be like. Our semester test is going to be worth 16% of the grade. The first thing we're going to need to know is, the causes and effects of the Great Depression. I think I'm going to start my semester blog as soon as we have all the information on the first topic. The last thing we're going to do this year is a big project over either the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's. Mr. Bruns went over some of the classroom rules, we're supposed to be positive and be respectful. He wants us to be responsible. He gave us rules on the computers. We need to make sure to get the computer in the right spot, and to stay off of other sites. Thereare 8 skills that we work on most days in this class. Problem solving, research, writing, speaking communication, collaboration, critical thinking, reading, and technology. After all of that we got our first assigned blogs, oh great. Our blog discussion will start on Monday. Our side of the room has the causes of the stock market crash. This is semester test question number one. I have number 11 which is Children suffer hardships. As soon as we got our assignments class was about out. "One thing you're gonna find in the 1930s is they had a lot of dam projects." -Bruns. **class cracks up** :)