The Big Day Has Arrived!

This Thursday will be a big day.  Grade 7 students will be receiving their iPads.  How exciting!  We have a couple of little pieces to complete and we will be there!  Please make sure you have completed the following little pieces:

• You have successfully logged in to iTunes using your school/professional Apple ID
• You have accepted the Cisco Meraki invitation which is sitting in your Gmail inbox

Before getting iPads, you will work on a scavenger hunt of one of your resources this year.  Please look for this assignment in Google Classroom.  You will find your own copy of this BIS Website Scavenger Hunt, and will need to turn it in there as well.

During class two this week; this will be the only class for many of you as we did not have school on Monday, you will complete the 21st Century Skills Pre-Assessment on the Learning.com website.  Do you remember your log in????

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ILT Scavenger Hunt

image link:  http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/hunt/hunt002.shtml

MCAS has most definitely turned our schedule upside down!!!  One of my classes will be meeting this week without me in another lab as the modified schedule has me double booked!!!  I wouldn't want my students getting frustrated with trying to edit with a substitute in a strange lab so I have something else for you to do instead.  Ms. Sweeney had a great idea (once again) and shared it with me.  She created a "Scavenger Hunt" for her students to complete.  This scavenger hunt is a review of some computer skills we have worked on this year.  Just in case you are a bit rusty, there are some links to resources and reminders throughout the process.  Next week some students will be finished with their podcasts while other classes are needing a bit more time; so they will be doing this activity during class one.  Please read carefully, think, and then do!!
Follow the steps in order.  I will try to think of a "prize" to share with those of you who complete this hunt successfully.  Have fun!!!
Mrs. White's Scavenger Hunt

If you should finish this scavenger hunt and there is still time left in class, please do any of the following:

• Work on your own blog-you should have at least 4 good posts by now.
• Complete the "Student Blog Information Survey" if you have not yet done so. Be sure to click on the correct link for your ILT class.
• Check out some of the new posts in your Google Reader.
• Clean out your pdrive
• Clean up your Google docs and Gmail

(You are NOT to play games on line or on your workstation.   This would not be using your most effective effort strategies!!!)