Make sure you have your agenda planners, binders, and iPads daily. You will be using your files1 server daily as well – you will organize it by classes for the current calendar year.
All assignments will be uploaded and presented on your ePortfolio for grading and feedback. Missing work will not be graded, and impact your class grade – late work will be accepted when it is completed and presented on your ePortfolios. It is your responsibility to tell me when you have late work that needs to graded.
Fall term is old news, bring on Winter term! Make sure you have your iPad synced to 4J Secure and your email! Come to class prepared with materials, and familiarize yourselves with the online course syllabus for classes you are taking.
Assignments, classwork, and homework are updated daily and weekly on the in-class Agenda board, and here online. Use your agenda!
I’m looking forward to parents and community members coming through my labs tonight to check out the awesome work students are doing here at Cal Young.
– See how students prep and produce the live broadcast for the daily announcements in our broadcast studio.
– Watch 3D design and printing take place in the “Maker” section of our tech lab – 6 3D printer stations will be printing student work, and there will be student guides to demonstrate the design and printing aspect of a 3D production environment.
– The CY Media Pros will be set up to show their commercial media production work for past and current work in my adjoining lab space – check out the giant MondoPad they use for work flow and production evaluation. Some of the CY Pros will be on hand to discuss their work.
All students who take classes in the tech lab are welcome to grab a laptop and show off their work to parents and friends!
Use my instructional blog to view assignments and resources for all of my classes. Students will need to use this site to stay current with course work, and find helpful materials and instruction for how to use their ePortfolios.
6th, 7th, and 8th grade students will find resources for iPad instruction in the iPad menu section.
All of my classes will be watching Spirited Away and engaging in course specific activities to start the new term. Click below on the link to Spirited Away resources.
All students at Cal Young will have ePortfolios using WordPress as the web based software to do this. Returning 7th and 8th graders should all have theirs set-up, some in better shape than others. Please reference the ePortfolio section of this blog to meet student ePortfolio set-up expectations and assignment posting requirements. Students will be give instruction on how to do this.
I’m looking forward to another great year working with students developing their creative and technology skills. We’ve added 6th graders to the mix of students taking electives at Cal Young – I love it! We’ve also added 3D Design classes taught by myself and Rick Bliss.
As with any start to the school year, things can move very quickly and the ramp-up can get a little hectic. I have lots of updating to do to this instructional blog – please hang in there as I get classes, assignments and resources updated. Check back often!
I’m really looking forward to leading an ePortfolio workshop for 4J faculty. We’ll cover basics on how to work with students to set up ePortfolio blogs using WordPress – all 4J students and staff have WordPress blogs, so the mechanism is in place, just need to show folks how. I’ll also make a pitch for teachers to create instructional blogs using WordPress. Fun!
Had a great time showing CY staff the ease and utility of using WordPress instructional blogs, and the benefit for students of using WordPress ePortfolios.
Check Julie’s instructional blog that she set up the after the workshop! Excellent.
You’re in great hands with Leslie. She knows my curriculum very well, and knows many of your students as well. I teach Arts Management graduate students in the A&AA School at the University of Oregon on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Hence, the reason I am not here to meet you. There will be other opportunities.
Leslie has given you a handout that has all of my contact information on it along with descriptions of the courses I am teaching. Please know that I am accessible anytime either by phone, email, my blog, or making arrangements to stop by.
