Friday, January 27, 2012

Welcome

Hi y'all welcome to my blog page.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Weird Sounds in the News

Just some weird sounds in the news... Made me wonder about what is causing it... besides aliens and the fact that it's 2012 and all that crazy Mayan calendar stuff!


Strange thing... I woke up to a "grater like" sound the other night... I thought it was a snow plow... and now I think... it still was a snow plow ...
Listen to the video,  the professor from the University of Saskatchewan explains it... complicated... I  still don't think I understand.... Aurora Borealis... Electro-magnetic fields... I'm far from being a physicist. I need the more simple version!!!



What do you think? Post your thoughts on your kidblog account...

Student Activist Projects

Syria on the Brink

In Current Events you received an article on the protests and revolutionary uprising in Syria that has been going on since last spring. Check out these links to BBC news videos that will help you understand what it's like to live in Syria right now and why people are protesting... as well as the dangers the people face trying to gain freedom from al-Assad's dictatorship regime.

These video links will help give you some background for the Inferencing Questions in your assignment on Syria.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/16662892

Zabadani: The town President Assad does not control

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16663264

Monday, January 16, 2012

Elmo Just Makes Me Happy...

Just check out this video when you are feeling the blues of the cold weather... guaranteed to perk you up!

Current Events Cartoon Assignment on Kidblog!

Choose two cartoons (copy paste link into the URL window) and analyze the message… and or explain the connection to this current event. Post your reactions to the questions, on www.kidblog.org/missiontomakeadifference/

Note that the questions to each cartoon are located below each cartoon link… OR…



Even better… Find your own cartoon for an event of 2011, post it with your own questions, with of course, your own answers too!



A. Euro crisis


http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01356/gable-italy_jpg_1356536cl-8.jpg


Check out the link to the editorial cartoon… What is the event related to it? What’s the author’s message? Post your reaction to this post.



B. Gadhafi


http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01356/jenkins-gadhafi_1356549cl-8.jpg



Who is the person in the cartoon? What does the image mean? Why is he holding a turkey?? What’s the political signifance?



C. Election and the polls


http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01356/gable-bloc_jpg_1356532cl-8.jpg

Who are these men in the rain? Why is one singing and looking happy? Who is this person… (Hint takes place in Canada…)



D. Vancouver Riots


http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01356/gable-vancouver_1356545cl-8.jpg



Who are the barbaric men on horses? How is the Canuck’s “fan” video a training video? For who?? Why is this funny? What happened in Vancouver when the Canucks went to the Stanley Cup playoffs?

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Euro Crisis Infograph Assignment

In Current Events (in December) you received an article called, "All Eyes on the Euro Crisis"

Read the article, complete the "On the Lines" questions, and the "Between the Lines" question

INFOGRAPH TIME!!!!
Then in a BLOG POST or in a GLOG interactive poster, you are going to create an infograph to show the information contained in the news story. So what's a infograph? It is a diagram that uses pictures rather than words to convey information (although occasionally single words may be used to label elements of the sociogram) and symbols, such as arrows, to show the connections among the facts and details.

A good infograph includes all important points, clearly shows relationship among the different points, and is easy to understand.

In your Infograph, you must include responses to the following questions...
1.What are the causes of the Euro Crisis?
2. What is the Euro Crisis?
3. What are the effects of the Euro Crisis?
This will be due January 20th....

REMEMBER YOU WILL NEED YOUR ACCOUNT FOR EDUGLOGSTER.ORG.
http://edu.glogster.com

You and your partner(s) will choose one of the glog accounts to use for your Infograph, then collaborate
after you GLOG, YOU CAN BOTH EMBED YOUR GLOG INTO YOUR BLOG... No really!!! Maybe even create a link from your glog to your blog... Imagine an endless look of your thoughts on the Euro crisis! 
;-)
Stewie

Samples and examples of sociograms...

http://www.mrboll.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/transparency.jpg

http://www.coolinfographics.com/

http://dailyinfographic.com/

So what's up with these infographs??
Infographs are a creative pictorial way to display information. You can create an infographic using glogster... check out the infographs below... now think about how you can create an Infograph using glogster... and honestly... glogster rocks for one more reason... imagine you can even create an interactive element to your infograph... video and music!!
To create images for your infograph, use sumo paint...

http://www.sumopaint.com/home/

* Use Sumo paint to create an image on line and save as a jeg in your pictures, then embed in your glogster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_graphics

Other great sites on Infographics...

https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/infographics/links

Check out, "Little Red Riding Hood" Infographic Movie
http://vimeo.com/3514904



I like this one below... (of course!)
bottled_water

Xmastree-Candidate

Map of Online Communities Infographic

Senior Improv Dates for Games and Practices

Ice Improv – Game Schedule 2012



* Please note that the first team listed is the Home Team.
* We drivers who have CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECK completed to drive to the AWAY GAMES.
DESHAYE GAME SCHEDULE

Game 1 - Wednesday, January 18th
Deshaye vs. St. Matthew


Game 2 - Wednesday, January 25th CANCELLED
St. Catherine vs. Deshaye (AWAY)


Game 3 - Wednesday, February 1st
Deshaye vs. St. Marguerite


Game 4 - Wednesday, February 8th
St. Gabriel vs. Deshaye (AWAY)

 
Game 5 - Wednesday, February 15th
Deshaye vs. St. Dominic


Game 6 - Monday, February 27th
St. Dominic vs. Deshaye (AWAY)



FINAL TOURNAMENT TENTATIVE DATE AT MILLER HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE
Wednesday, March 7th (other teams to be announced)

Bibliography Writing

To use the awesome on-line citation websites for creating a Bibliography, go to the "Good Websites" page of this blog....

To further assist you with information that you need in creating a Bibliography, go to...
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_bibliography_worksheet.pdf


Below are standard formats and examples for basic bibliographic information recommended by the Modern Language Association (MLA). For more information on the MLA format, see http://www.mla.org/style_faq.




Basics


Your list of works cited should begin at the end of the paper on a new page with the centered title, Works Cited. Alphabetize the entries in your list by the author's last name, using the letter-by-letter system (ignore spaces and other punctuation.) If the author's name is unknown, alphabetize by the title, ignoring any A, An, or The.


For dates, spell out the names of months in the text of your paper, but abbreviate them in the list of works cited, except for May, June, and July. Use either the day-month-year style (22 July 1999) or the month-day-year style (July 22, 1999) and be consistent. With the month-day-year style, be sure to add a comma after the year unless another punctuation mark goes there.

TO MAKE THINGS EASIER, ORGANIZE YOUR WORK USING THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES...


BIBLIOGRAPHY (MLA Format)



Audio

Books

Reddick, Lawrence D., Crusader without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper, 1959.

Databases

Encyclopaedias

Videos

Websites

"Martin Luther King - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 10 Jan 2012 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Battery." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1990.

"Best Batteries." Consumer Reports Magazine 32 Dec. 1994: 71-72.

Booth, Steven A. "High-Drain Alkaline AA-Batteries." Popular Electronics 62 Jan. 1999: 58.

Brain, Marshall. "How Batteries Work." howstuffworks. 1 Aug. 2006
http://home.howstuffworks.com/battery.htm.

"Cells and Batteries." The DK Science Encyclopedia. 1993.

Dell, R. M., and D. A. J. Rand. Understanding Batteries. Cambridge, UK: The Royal Society
of Chemistry, 2001.


"Learning Center." Energizer. Eveready Battery Company, Inc. 1 Aug. 2006
http://www.energizer.com/learning/default.asp.


"Learning Centre." Duracell. The Gillette Company. 31 July 2006
http://www.duracell.com/au/main/pages/learning-centre-what-is-a-battery.asp.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Yummy math euro problems

http://www.yummymath.com/wp-content/uploads/Euro.doc

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Rewind 2011 Big Events

Top Events of 2011

What were the key events of 2011? Which ones made the biggest impact? Was it a natural disaster? Economic disaster? Political revolution? Scientific mind blowing event? according to you, which one made the biggest impact on people?

Using the sites below to guide you, decide which event had the most impact? Research, why the event occurred. What were the causes? What happened exactly? What were the effects? Not just on people, but on other elements too.... Governments, science, countries, economies...
--- Be sure to use a Cause and Effect graphic organizer to guide you. An example will be provided on this blog and in class.

Finally, create an Infograph to help persuade your peers that the event you chose was the greatest, most influential event of 2011. To create your Infographto, go to Eduglogster.com... Remember, you will need to access your account information from Ms. SM.

Finally, link your glog to your kidblog account so that others can check it out. Be sure to do a trial run to ensure that it works.

Sources:

http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/video

United nations video
Good Magazine

Reuters
http://www.blogger.com/goog_2130961986

YouTube - United Nations year in review 2011

Maps of the world video of 2011 in 60 seconds

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F%3Fgl%3DCA%26hl%3Den&hl=en&gl=CA#/watch?v=b8iTKG72xhs

Map of 2011 Key Events...
http://www.mapsofworld.com/events/year-2011/
You can vote for the top event from the site via Twitter!

Google's Top Searches Video
http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/

Google's Top Ten Lists - Global Searches...
http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/home/showreelsbbc.do#showreel=15230698
What can we infer about what was important to people of different continents and nations?
http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/


Yahoo's year in review...
http://yearinreview.yahoo.com/2011/blog/7055/2011-a-choronological-look-back/


How did Canada impact the world in 2011? See CBC and learn how....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/12/19/f-canada-influence-world-2011.html


CBC Rewind
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_National/1242568525/ID=2183101287


Rex Murphy 's Rant - The original man of The Rant... Oh I love this guy! He really makes you think... and laugh!
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_National/Rex_Murphy/1275870718/ID=2179208803


Bob Macdonald's look at Science and Technology
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_National/Technology_&_Science/1275187183/ID=2180052105


Discover top new stories
http://news.discovery.com/human/weirdest-stories-2011-111209.html

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Class Book "shelf"

Rate what you've been reading!
Stewie's Stellar Book Group

Join our class book group! Rate books you've read, and make suggestions of what we should read. I'm looking forward to your pics!

My Favorite Books

These are my favorite books, create your own bookshelf and embed the info with a widget on your kidblog.... Try rotates me of your favorite books this year first....


Class Book Group at Amazon

http://www.shelfari.com/groups/92838/about

Class Bookshelf for Book Discussions at Amazon

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Teen Dystopian Books for the Holidays

Like Dystopia?? Well I tweeted some fellow teachers and this is a list of the books recommended for teens. I have only read the one with stars...
Hunger Games * (One of my favourites)
Life as we Knew It Trilogy *
Chaos Walking Trilogy... (Saw at Chapters, I think this one looked good...)
House of Scopians
The Black Hole Sun
The 11th Plague  (Also saw at Chapters, this one looked really good too.)
Incarceron *(Jake recommends... and it is good)
Adoration of Jenna Fox
Ender's Game * (pretty good)
Delirium
The Limit
Frozen Trilogy
Enclave
Maze Runner Triology*
Unwind,
Ship Breaker
City of Ember *
City of Sparks
Wither
Awaken
Gone Series * (can get a little dark)
The Giver * (This one is okay... seems boring after reading Hunger Games)
Divergent * (LOVE)
Matched * (Love)

If you like Twilight you will like...
City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass...

Monday, December 19, 2011

French Comic Life Evaluation Criteria


Rubric will be based on the criteria. Refer to the criteria below when completing your comic.

1. Content - French only!

a) What's happening in each panel.Be specific and fairly descriptive.

b) Speech bubbles / thought bubbles must be included for characters thoughts and interactions.

c) Use phrases that you understand (refer to the booklet, use dictionnaries, use google translator sometimes...)

d) Comic must relate to a day in the life of a character.
2. Layout
a) Use Comic Life or Word (word might be more challenging) - You can download a free trial version for home (note that there are less "bells and whistles" than at school) try it before the holidays to make sure it works for you.
b) Use a variety boxes with text boxes that explain what's happening.
c) The title slide must introduce your comic and who it's by ("par" means by)
d) Grade 6's: 8 panels minimum, Grade 7's: 12 panels minimum
e) For colour copies print at home...with PARENT PERMISSION... Please note it may use lots of ink!!!    OR Print in black and white and colour in pencil crayon (feel free to add images or accents to words)


3. Mechanics
Watch spelling, punctuation and capitalization .... Be sure to REVISE AND EDIT!
Grade 6's - use the resources I gave your to help with conjugating. (It's all preconjugated).
Grade 7's are expected to demonstrate more ability in terms of grammar conjugation.... Use the resources I gave you, as most sentences are preconjugated.
Grade 8's are expected to demonstrate time (A 7h00...)  in their comic as well as more descriptive panels. Include adjectives and more narration panels or speech bubbles.... BASICALLY JUST "MORE"...

ALL DUE FOR ALL FRENCH CLASSES... JANUARY 16TH!!!