Dearborn Schools Acceptable Use Guidelines

Please read these rules and understand that we will be following them absolutely.
Please return the signed parent letter in order to proceed with on-line activities.

Course description and standards and benchmarks are posted on the main “Mrs. Elliott Computers” Web Page.

Recommended supplies:

• Earphones will be quite essential and can be bought at a dollar store. It will be important for students to have them for accessing tutorials on-line, editing and downloading music or movies. Because we will use them every day, they will be locked in a cupboard here in room 222. Do not bring your “good” headphones.
• 2 music CDs to import into iTunes. These must be legally purchased CDs with no offensive language in the lyric. I will have a few CDs in class for students who do not have music cds. This music will be used for future projects. CDs will go home after they are downloaded into iTunes.
• personal flash drive is recommended but not required. They can be found in many stores or online for around $10. Flash drives are essential for moving content from one computer to another.  I will supply a small number of flash drives for students who are unable to bring one.
• Students will be taking photographs for class. They may choose to use a camera from home with your permission. It will be locked in a cupboard in the computer lab (room 222) until the project is complete. Students may NOT use cell phone cameras.

Activity 1: “Ways to Find Information Independently”

Directions for assignments are in iLearn

Due Friday, Feb. 6. If you are not happy with your score on this activity, you may complete it after school in the lab, at home, or at the library using the links to Atomic Learning on this page. Ask Mrs. Elliott for the Username and Password. (Thanks to Mr. Shader at Bryant for this activity)

6+1 Writing : Copyright and Internet Ethics.

Directions for writing assignment are in iLearn

Links to Ethics articles

• http://www.boiseschools.org/cybersafe/ethics.html
• http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf

Double Check ilearn for flash swf movies

Double Check your Bellwork posts. Remember you earn points for bellwork.

The Big Project is due Thursday, June 7.

Watch the movie and answer these questions. Restate and use a complete sentence.

1. Why did people help the robot?
2. Have you ever helped someone you didn’t know? Who was it and what did you do?
   

Designer Kacie Kinzer explores what technology can reveal about empathy and cooperation. So she built a Tweenbot, a cardboard robot equipped only with cuteness and a flag that says help me to elicit help from passersby. With the help of 29 strangers, the tiny robot crossed NYCs Washington Square Park in just 42 minutes.

This has been a fun and challenging semester for all of us. Please help me to make this course even better for Lowrey students next semester. In the discussion box below, please submit the answers to the following questions. Restate the question in your answer and use complete sentences.

Please be honest. If you wish to remain anonymous, change your name in the name and email boxes before you submit.

1. What have you learned in this class?
2. What have you enjoyed about this class?
3. How did using the blog impact your learning?
4. What should Mrs. Elliott change about this class? Why is this important?
5. What would you tell your friends about this class?
6. Would you like to take a different computer class next year? Why or Why not?
7. What does every formula begin with?
8. Complete this sentence. “Never press the…”
9. What is the best way to use information from the internet on school projects?

Answer these questions yes/no.

1. I feel smart and able to succeed in this class
2. Mrs. Elliott is willing to help me
3. The assignments have clear instructions
4. The grading is fair
5. Mrs. Elliott wants me to succeed
6. What I am doing in this class is challenging
7. Mrs. Elliott listens to me
8. I have choices in this class
9. I feel important in this class
10. The class is interesting
11. The class is fun
12. I know that Mrs. Elliott cares about me and is here to help
13. I believe that what I am learning here will help me in the future
14. I can redo assignments until they are correct
15. I believe this class is worthwhile

Bellwork March 28

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity

http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

attached version is edited for visual content and length

1. What is the main idea of this video?
2. What do students need to know?
3. Why does the author say creativity is important?

John Philip Sousa thought the new ways to listen to sounds would be bad for creativity and culture.

1. What is the main idea of this video?
2. How did the changes in code from HTML to XML impact our ability to share information?
3. Why does the author say we have to rethink Copyright?

Click to view attached video – wait a while – it takes a long time to load.

5 minute video – edited for visual content

Larry Lessig 1

Watch and take a position

Was John Philip Sousa right?

Write a paragraph. The topic sentence should state Sousa’s argument. Then present 3 ideas that could weaken it.

Larry Lessig part 2

Lessig part 2