Genius Hour

Good Morning Team, 

Let’s share what you learned this morning during genius hour with a brief summary sharing about your topic 

Write your passage in google docs and then post in the thread 

Practical Wisdom

Wisdom 

Good Morning Team,

Watch the Ted Talk Video on Practical Wisdom

https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom#t-10416

Then answer these prompts 

What makes a wise person? 

What traits do they have? Provide an example and tell the story of a wise person you have learned from or learned about.  

Rebound Chapter 10 - The Roller Rink

Good Morning B Squad

Let's review and build onto Chapter 10 from our novel study Rebound

It is later in the evening after Scott, Nick and Gavin have been tossed out from the roller rink. 

It is via a twitter message that Scott is informed about a kid in a wheelchair telling the security guard about boys smoking in the boys room.  The Twitterverse explodes with activity...     

Create and write the evenings Twitter feed of Scott  ( Minimum 12 tweets) and post on this thread 

Check out whats on Twitter

Good Morning Team, 

During the winter break i posted a series of Ted Talk videos on a variety of educational topics

Task:

Go to my twitter page and scroll and look at the videos I posted during the break.  Pick one to watch and then post a response answering these questions 

1) Write a brief summary of the video you watched ( what was its main idea)
2) Tell me three interesting facts or arguments the Ted Talk had 
3) Do you think Ted Talks are a valuable way to learn?  

Best Group Choice and Best Individual Photo

Select the Group you think has the best collection of Photos and explain why and justify why they are your choice.  Be specific in regards to photo quality, connection and relevancy to the book, and overall design.

Aswell select the best overall individual Photo.  Again explain and justify why it is your choice considering quality of photo and overall relevancy and power. 

Share all your responses within this post 

Rebound Evaluation

Great Job C Squad  making composing and editing your Rebound posters!

The end result is some awesome and magnificent posters. 

Let's take a moment to appreciate and evaluate your work and your peers work.

Explore the pictures and answer the following questions and provide feedback on two of the groups pictures. 

make sure you check back on your groups photos and respond to anyone that has commented on your pics

Which ones are the most powerful and vivid? Why do they resonate with you? 

Which one provides the greatest recall for you.  Meaning as you see the picture the story of Rebound rushes to your memory. 

Things to consider when critiquing the photo composition, use of blur, use of lettering, relevance of photo, how telling and specific was the quote selected, realism how well it tells the story of Rebound
Keep the conversations smart and intelligent and without attempts at humour - body language, humour and tone are not easily presented in web chatter.

After we will conduct a poll and vote for The Best Picture of them all and also pick the group that has the Best Collection of 3 Photos.

Rebound Photos Group 1 (A, B, C)

A


B

C

Rebound Photos Group 2 (A, B, C)

A


B

C

Rebound Photos Group 3 (A, B, C)

A


B

C

Rebound Photos Group 4 (A, B, C)

A



B

C

Rebound Photos Group 5 (A, B, C)

A


B

C

Rebound Photos Group 6 (A, B, C)

A


B

C

Rebound Photos Group 7 (A, B, C)

A


B

C

Quotes Wall

Good morning Team,  please place the quote you picked and the explanation for why on this thread there ... don’t forget to also share your quote with the hashtag on twitter 

#80BEEQUOTES

https://m.wikihow.com/Write-in-Calligraphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsGCh1ltFw&feature=youtu.be

Interview Requests

Good Evening everyone please request an interview time from the list provided



Interview Times:

420 - 430 Jamelia

430-440 Mehak

440-450 Marcos

450-500 Kirandeep

500-510 Barunjit

510-520 Julius

520-530 T- Rence

530-540 Janat

540-550 Isabella

550-6 Sahil

6-610 Ravi

610-620 Ramin

620-630 Athena

630-640 Aditya

640-650 Malik

650-700 Avinoor

700-710 Varun

710-720

720-730 Jemima


Friday

830 - Rasheed

9 30 - 945 Roland

945 - 10 Soha

10 - 1015 Ivtegh

1015 - 1030 Daija

1030 - 1045 Sahra

1045 - 11 Servesh

Creativity

Do schools help or hurt students Creativity

Ken Robinson

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

This is a powerful video on the state of modern education.

Ken Robinson a well know advocate of the arts and creativity delivers a funny but powerful plea to shift how we teach to inspire and allow stundents to shine.

Watch the video and then respond to the following prompt:

1.  Do you feel you are creative? How could or does the school give you the freedom and environment to be creative.  Is there any suggestions you would make for the class to allow for more creativity

reply to 3 other students and reply to those that comment on your post 

Power of Quotes

Good morning Squad,

Welcome to the world of blogging

click the link and read and check out this article:

https://www.edutopia.org/article/dos-and-donts-classroom-decorations?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter

This article is about the Do's and Don'ts on classroom design and it highlights a few examples of things that can be done to maximize the student learning environment.

1. Write a summary of the article and highlight one thing you read that you would like to incorporate into our classroom.

Post your response in the comment section of the blog

2. Reply to 3 others students that post in the comments.  Reply with a positive yet engaging reply that agrees or disagrees with the points being offered about how to improve our class.

3. Reply to those that have responded to your post.

Keep in mind that you must conduct yourself and a high and respectful manner on the internet.  Tone, humour and sarcasm are not easily understood or identified in text format.

Rebound Photo Assignment 2017

Great Job 80BEE 2.0  making composing and editing your Rebound posters!

The end result is some awesome and magnificent posters. 

Let's take a moment to appreciate and evaluate your work and your peers work.

Explore the pictures and answer the following questions and provide feedback on two of the pictures. 

Which ones are the most powerful and vivid? Why do they resonate with you? 

Which one provides the greatest recall for you.  Meaning as you see the picture the story of Rebound rushes to your memory. 

Things to consider when critiquing the photo composition, use of blur, use of lettering, relevance of photo, realism how well it tells the story of rebound

Keep the conversations smart and intelligent and avoid the temptation to be petty and insulting.

After we will conduct a poll and vote for the best picture of them all and also pick the group that has the best collection of 3 photos.

1A

1B

1C

2A

2B

2C

3A

3B

3C

4A

4B

4C

5A

5B

5C

Math Challenge

Hey Team,

Check out these math problem and post your complete solutions: