1. After finishing our Internet Safety unit last week, I hope all of you have gained a better perspective and appreciation for all the negative things that can happen if you are not careful and smart about what you do online! The Internet is a great tool, but you must also be wary of those who use it to harm others. Living in Geneseo affords us a certain amount of
shelter (the feeling that nothing "bad" can happen to us) - but I would recommend you keep in mind that those who abuse the Internet don't care who they attack, they just want to attack someone. Stay safe online!
For this week, you have a discussion post to
Edmodo that you need to make that is directly related to your Internet Safety project. Please post an original response to the following writing prompt (notice how this is in yellow - all discussion prompts will be seen in yellow on the blog from now on):
What do you feel is the most important aspect of Internet safety? Why? Explain your answer in detail.
Remember that you are to post an original response to this discussion question, and then you must also post at least 1 reply to 2 different classmates (that's a total of at least 2 replies - but replying more than twice is perfectly ok!). When you reply, challenge the person you are replying to to defend what they have written. Does their reasoning for stating what is the most important aspect of Internet Safety make sense? If not, reply by giving examples of why your experience is different and ask them if your experience changes their mind. Ultimately - challenge them to defend what they have written!
Your original response and 2 replies are due by
Friday, Sept. 23.
(notice how that due date is in red - that will continue on the blog so you can tell when the due date of a specific assignment is)
2.
Vocabulary - If you are on the list for defining this week's vocabulary words make sure that you get
your definitions done before class on Wednesday. If you need to meet with your group, do that today and decide who is doing what. That should take your group all of about 2 minutes (at most) to figure out. Remember to post your definitions to the wikispaces vocabulary page for your specific hour.
We will have a Vocab quiz over Vocab list #2 (Hardware #2) on Friday, Sept. 23rd.
3. We will be learning several new keys this week. They will include the B (left index/1st finger), the Y (right index/1st finger), the M (right index/1st finger), the X (left ring/3rd finger), the P (right little/4th finger), and the V (left index/1st finger).
4. Blind Assignment - we talked about doing this two weeks ago and just ran out of room to include it in what we were doing. We will do this for
practice on Tuesday of this week, then next week we will do this for a grade. This is the type of assignment that tells me who is using the correct fingers and who is not - those who don't use the correct fingers usually do poorly on this assignment. Therefore, if that describes you then you may want to start using the correct fingers!
5. Correct fingers assignment #2 - We did the first one of these a couple of weeks ago. This is an assignment that you will do and be asked which finger is used on which key.
We will probably do this on Wednesday of this week - and it will be graded.
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We will also have a technique grade this week.
7. Formatting activity #1 - towards the end of the week we will be doing our first formatting activity. We will have quite a few of these throughout the semester. These are activities that will help you learn more about how to use Microsoft Word and Excel (most of them are for Word - only 1 or 2 are for Excel). These will be in-class activities that will guide you through a series of steps to learn a particular skill, or set of skills, in Word or Excel.
This will be due on Friday, Sept. 23.
8. Have you posted to the What I learned.... page on your class wiki? Remember, the class with the most posts wins a reward at the end of the quarter!
9. Have you posted to the FAQ page if you have a question?
