June 23/26

Year 8 - we are crossing the finish line.

Today you should have your final photostory uploaded to your blog.

Today you should work on (and hopefully finish) your Evaluation.

June 16/19

Year 8 - The sun is shining and you are rested from last week's holidays. Let's stay focused and try to finish our project by Thursday! That would allow you to have time to explore the www your way!

A. Comment on your finished photostory. In the text error free? Are you happy with the outcome?
• Is the movie error free?
• Evaluate the product against the Design Specification. Does the newsletter meet the design specification? Explain.
• Are you happy with the outcome? Explain
• Look critically at your final project. If you had the opportunity to change something what aspect would you change and why?
• Did you encounter (have) any problems? Refer to your “process journal/blog” for details.
• Comment on your own performance throughout each stage of the project (investigate, design, plan, create, evaluate).
• If you had the opportunity, would you change anything? If yes, what aspect would you change and why? Refer to your “process journal/blog” for details)
• How could you use PhotoStory 3 in the future?

B. Product Analysis - Student will solicit feedback from others.
• Student will produce a list of 5 questions and post them to the student blog to solicit the evaluation of 5 others (classmates, parents, friends, teachers). Answers should be included on the blog post as comments.
• Analyze the feedback

June 12

Quiet on the Set, Year 8 - You should be recording by now. This is the fun part.

June 9

Year 8 - We are lucky and meet both times this week (Monday and Thursday). This will give us plenty of time to work on your project. You should be at the CREATE stage by now.

June 5

Happy "Environment Day - 2008" Year 8

According to Wikipedia, "World Environment Day (WED) was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. WED is hosted every year by a different city and commemorated with an international exposition through the week of June 5."

Here is a link to the UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) which offers a wealth of info: http://www.unep.org/wed/2008/english/

Then continue with your Create!

June 2

Year 10 - Looking into the future is always fun.

Check out this link to hear what "those in the know" have predicted for the year 2058: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/365088_future30.html?source=rss
Take 10 minutes and make a prediction in your blog about the future.

Then continue with the StoryBoard or start the Create portion of your project.

Now, let's look into YOUR future for June.
June 6 - Create
June 9 - Create
June 12 - Create
June 16 - Evaluate
June 19 - Evaluate