TECHNOLOGY SAFETY

Today is Monday, September 20, 2010

Technology is such a wonderful thing, however, it can also get some people into trouble. On the other hand, if you are taught how to use technology in a safe way, then it should not be a problem. Today's activity involves watching a short movie about protecting your information online. I would like you to find the short 3 minute video on the left-hand side of this blog called "Protecting Your Information Online in Plain English" and then I would like you to respond to this posting and include three important things to remember about putting your information online.
Click on the comments word below and leave a comment with your g-mail account information. As always, have a great day, and happy blogging!

SECURE PASSWORDS!

Good Morning...Today is Sunday, September 17, 2010
Today's video is about secure passwords...

Passwords are essential to using the Web and criminals have become very good at guessing them. This video teaches the risks and how to create a secure password and keep it secret. Includes points on:

• Common risks related to passwords
• Creating a secure password
• Keeping your password secret
• Risks of using shared computers

Please click on the video below and after you are done watching it, please leave a sentence or two below under comments to tell me what you learned.
As always...happy blogging!

http://www.commoncraft.com/secure-passwords-video

PARTICIPATION IN YOUR STATE GOVERNMENT

TODAY IS MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2010
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE? PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME CHANGES TO GOVERNMENT POLICIES ON GLOBAL WARMING, OR OFF-SHORE OIL DRILLING...
WHAT I WOULD LIKE YOU TO DO NEXT IS FOR YOU TO IMAGINE ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU COULD ENSURE THAT DELAWARE'S SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES VOTE THE WAY YOU WANT...
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED IN CIVICS CLASS TO GET IN-TOUCH WITH YOUR STATE GOVERNMENT. PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS POSTING AND SHARE AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT WAYS TO GET YOUR "VOICE" HEARD...
AS ALWAYS...HAPPY BLOGGING!

Constitution Whiz Kid!

Good Afternoon Social Studies Bloggers!

Today is Wednesday, May 12, 2010 and today's posting is about becoming a Constitution Whiz Kid! The last two class lessons have focused on the Amendments to the Constitution. Amendments are additions or changes to the Constitution. Today, I would like you to take a little trip down the "interactive Constitutional timeline" and then come back to today's posting and tell me about some new and cool information you learned from today's journey.

Here are the directions: click on the link http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/flash/cw.html As soon as your interactive timeline loads and begins it will read the preamble. Listen and read through the preamble on the opening screen. When the Preamble stops, proceed to the the date 1791 on the timeline and begin looking, listening and exploring what was happening during the time the Amendments were being added to the Constitution. You will need headphones for this activity...and Please, remember to come back to today's posting and leave a comment. You should re-read today's posting before leaving your comments! Blog onward soldiers...

T.G.I.F.

Good Afternoon Bloggers!

Thank goodness it is Friday...Today we will continue working on changes in QD and total demand. Please take out the demand packet 3-1 and 3-2 and your red pen so we can discuss and correct it. Before we get started I would like you to take this little pre-test on demand and email me your results and then after we correct the homework, you will return to this posting and take the test again and see if your results are different. After you email the results of your post-test, come back to today's posting and leave me a comment about what you learned over the last two days from working with demand curves.

Lastly, have a freaky Friday, work hard and always do your best!!!

Pre and Post Test Link here http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/popup.php?lesson_number=550&flash_name=em550_interactive4.swf

DEMAND SHIFTERS!

Good Afternoon Bloggers!

Today is Thursday, March 18, 2010

Today's agenda is as follows:

Period 7/8- Civics/Economics

1. Please take out your notes on NON-PRICE FACTORS THAT MAKE A DEMAND CURVE SHIFT (in your interactive notebook).

2. Please take out your homework ACTIVITY 3-1 TO 3-2 (pgs. 25-30) on DEMAND

Please take a few minutes to read over the notes in your notebook and then click on the link at the end of the posting and begin reading over the lesson called "Demand Shifters" that you will complete alone and together with your teacher.

Have a thrilling Thursday!!http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=550&page=student

FRIDAY, MARCH 12,2010

T.G.I.F EVERYONE!
Well, we made it through the first week of DSTP's and we're still smiling so I guess it's safe to say they weren't so bad!
Before discussing today's agenda, some water cooler issues...
Congratulations to Chris Malave and Shavonte Harris for the awards won in Professional Leadership of America.
Don't forget to eat right and get some rest before Monday and Tuesday's DSTP testing days!!!! The schedule is 5/6,7/8 (testing) and 1/2,3/4 in the afternoon!
Now for Today's agenda:
1. Discuss and correct S/D packets
2. Record notes in interactive notebook
3. Finish correcting Ch 3 pgs. 36-41 (Economics Textbooks)
Have a great day!

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010

GOOD MORNING BLOGGERS...HOW ARE YOU TODAY? TODAY IS TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010. I AM EXCITED BECAUSE TODAY IS MY DAUGHTER'S FIRST LACROSSE GAME. SHE PLAYS DEFENSE FOR CABRINI COLLEGE AND HER FIRST GAME IS TODAY AT HAVERFORD COLLEGE IN PA. BE SURE TO LEAVE A COMMENT AND TELL ME SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE EXCITED OR HAPPY ABOUT TODAY...THEN RETURN BACK TO THIS POST FOR TODAY'S AGENDA!
PERIOD 1/2-CONTEMPORARY CITIZENSHIP
1. PERMISSION SLIPS FOR DEL-TECH
2. DISCUSS DSTP SCHEDULE
3. FINISH ARTICLE ON "TWITTER" AND COMPLETE TWO DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.
4. WORK THROUGH "23 THINGS BLOG"...SOME OF THE THINGS YOU WILL ALREADY KNOW!
5. YOU WILL NEED ABOUT 3 OR 4 NOTECARDS!
6. TREAT THE COMPUTERS WITH GENTLE, LOVING, CARE...PLEASE!
PERIOD 3/4 and 7/8-CIVICS/ECONOMICS
1. PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR Ch 3 CONSUMERS AND DEMAND ANSWERS ,YOUR TEXTBOOK AND RED PEN SO THAT WE CAN MAKE CORRECTIONS.
2. PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR CALENDAR SO WE CAN WRITE DOWN THE DSTP SCHEDULE
3. WE WILL COMPLETE A TEEN BIZ ARTICLE TODAY FOR HALF THE PERIOD AND THEN THE SECOND HALF, CORRECT OUR WORK ON SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
4. TAKE YOUR VOCABULARY NOTECARDS OUT AND REVIEW THE DEFINITIONS TO YOURSELF IF YOU HAVE ANY FREE TIME.

MONDAY MARCH 8, 2010

GREETINGS SOCIAL STUDIES BLOGGERS....


TODAY IS MONDAY MARCH 8, 2010


WE HAVE A BUSY WEEK...WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IS MATH DSTP FOR 9TH AND 10TH GRADERS...WE WILL GO OVER THE SCHEDULE TOMORROW AS TODAY I WILL GO TO A MEETING AFTER SCHOOL...


TODAY'S AGENDA IS AS FOLLOWS: (please find your class period and read your agenda only!)


PERIOD 1/2-CONTMEPORARY CITIZENSHIP


FRIDAY WE BEGAN READING THE ARTICLE IN TIME MAGAZINE CALLED "HOW TWITTER WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE LIVE"...CLICK HERE TO SEE AN ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html


At the same time we were in our google docs, filling out a graphic organizer...Before,During and After. We will have two big questions to answer at the end of the article and then we will practice using Twitter in a way that is educational and perhaps even professional. Notebooks were turned in on Friday and not all of them are finished being graded, therefore, you will need to leave them again when the bell rings.


Before we get started with today's lesson, please post a comment (remember to use your initials) and tell me what you remember from the article that we read on Friday...Have a great day!

Period 7/8- Civics/Economics
In class on Friday we completed the following assignment in the Economics Textbooks:
Make vocabulary notecards for the Words To Know on pg. 33
Read pgs. 33-36 and complete 1-3 on pg 36
Read pgs. 36-39 and complete 1 & 2 on pg. 39
Read pgs. 39-40 and complete 1 & 2 on pg. 40
Read pgs. 40-41 and complete 1-4 on pg. 41
1. Please take out the notecards you made, the answers to the questions and your red pen so that we can discuss and correct.
2. You will need 3 new notecards to add three more vocabulary words to our pack.
2. We will then finish correcting the S/D packet pgs. 41-43

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010

Greetings Social Studies Bloggers!
Today is Thursday, March 4, and I think we are actually going to have a full week of school without any snow-day interruptions...ya-hoo!!!!!
Today's agenda is as follows:
Period 7/8- Civics/Econ:
1. The Scholastic Reading Inventory (online reading test) must be given to all 10th graders in the building. You already took it in the beginning of the year and now we must have you take it again so we can see if your reading scores are improving. We will go to the library to take it b/c it is not on the computers in the classroom. It should only take about 20 minutes or so. We will then return to the classroom!
2. When we return from the library, we will review Demand Notes pg. 29 of interactive notebook, correct s/d packet pgs. 41-43 (using your red pen or in google docs.)
3. H.W.- What is Supply? packet pgs. 47-52. This is a continuation of the s/d packet that we just finished correcting. Write answers in complete sentences as necessary.

Monday March 1st, 2010

Today is Monday, March 1, 2010
Welcome to the first day of March. I hope everyone enjoyed their three day weekend...it seems we have been having a lot of those lately! Let's hope that March does not bring us a lot of snow and bad weather. Now for some water cooler items: progress reports are due by the end of the day Wednesday, therefore, you should be checking your hac account to see how you are performing in your classes. Remember that you still have the second half of the marking period to improve your grades...so let's kick it in gear and do our personal best! New calendars are given out today...let's concentrate on keeping our binders organized and remember to keep bringing your materials to class everyday!

Today's agenda is as follows:

Period 1/2- Contemporary Citizenship- Continue working on "The Federal Government" packet, pgs. 13-18. Collect pgs. 13-15 by the end of the class, if not finished, it is to be finished for homework! We will end class by looking at our "blog" notecard and writing down the url for Ms. P's Social Studies Blog (which is this!) Tomorrow we will spend some class time learning more about Blogs and how creating one will help us in school and the workplace!

Period 3/4- Civics/Economics-Continue discussing and correcting "Take Another Look" packet pgs. 30-35 about the product and resource market. Set up interactive notebook, pg. 29,(the next input page), for notes on Consumers and Demand, although we may not get a chance to start the notes...H.W. for tonight is read and complete Supply/Demand packet pages 38-43, making sure to explain your answers as necessary! This packet includes a case study on Domino's Pizza and how s/d relates to real-life! Enjoy!

Period 7/8- Civics/Economics- Check papers given back and file in our binders under the correct heading. Continue discussing and correcting "Take Another Look" packet pgs 30-35. Set up interactive notebook for notes on Consumers and Demand and continue with desurfsup scavenger hunt, part 1 or part 2! H.W.- Read and complete S/D packet pages 38-43.

Let's end today's blog entry with a quote...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
— France, Anatole
Please click on the comment line below and type in your initials and then write a few sentences about what this quote means to you...

Thanks and Blog Onward Soldiers!!!!!!

Global Studies Review Information Packet

Friday, January 8, 2010
T.G.I.F.!!!!
Today is Friday, January 8, 2010...our final exam is only a few days away...you will need notecards and markers today, as you will click on the link below and read, review and make notecards from certain information. Click on the follwing link to see the review sheet of useful information that your teacher has provided...http://docs.google.com/View?id=dr54ntj_95dtggq6vk
Please work diligently today and every day as we approach our last week of Global Studies!!!