NAME THIS SONG! First THREE posts WIN! In the video it says one. I'm changing that! Good luck!
Blog your answer - COMMENT what the answer is to the question!
Sunday, September 30, 2012
A brief video from Mrs. B. :)
NAME THIS SONG! First THREE posts WIN! In the video it says one. I'm changing that! Good luck!
Blog your answer - COMMENT what the answer is to the question!
What kind of learner are you? Click the link below and discover your preferred learning style!
CLICK ME NOW! PREFERRED SYLE OF LEARNING
Define and explain which learning style said that you prefer.
______________________________________ This means ___________________________...
On Thursday we discussed AUGMENTED REALITY. How is AUGMENTED REALITY being used in the classroom. CLICK HERE FOR EDUDEMIC AUGMENTED REALITY *Editor's Note: This is one of my ALL-TIME favorite websites.
After you've read through the article, list the five AR websites that interest you the most, describing them briefly (You may cut and paste the information from Edudemic):
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Choose three of the above websites from above and paste their featured links here:
1. (Name website) (USE LINK BUTTON in BLOG TOOL FEATURE!)
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Of the three websites that you choose to feature, which of them do you find the most beneficial to learning in the classroom with AR? Explain why you choose the site you did! (This is a two step question, answer both parts!)
Take a screenshot of the AR site that you liked the most and paste it here (ask a classmate if you do not remember how to do this - NETWORK!). Save the picture to your H-drive first, the use the BLOG tool PICTURE to post it.
The last think you'll need to do today is check out this link: HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOOD CHUCK CHUCK IF..
Just kidding. After you've looked at the list of TED TALK lectures, list five that you would be interested in viewing in an upcoming class video/discussion forum.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Window Art Assignment
1. Window art introduction.
2. Select small groups (no more than two or three people per group!).
3. Select THEME.
4. Find design your group wishes to use (either picture, or create your own design in on our pixel site).
5. Pull image (either photo, or your own design - save to H drive).
6. Print out design - one copy for me (Mrs. B), one copy for your group!
After you've completed the above assignment (make sure to turn in one copy of your group's image with your names on it to Mrs. B), create the following BLOG on YOUR PAGE:
Blog 11: Window Art Assignment
Post (link) image from postitwar.com (check your page, it allows you to copy this link and then post it on your blog!).
Add your PIC for your window art!
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WINDOW ART LINK
2. Select small groups (no more than two or three people per group!).
3. Select THEME.
4. Find design your group wishes to use (either picture, or create your own design in on our pixel site).
5. Pull image (either photo, or your own design - save to H drive).
6. Print out design - one copy for me (Mrs. B), one copy for your group!
After you've completed the above assignment (make sure to turn in one copy of your group's image with your names on it to Mrs. B), create the following BLOG on YOUR PAGE:
Blog 11: Window Art Assignment
Post (link) image from postitwar.com (check your page, it allows you to copy this link and then post it on your blog!).
Add your PIC for your window art!
{END}
WINDOW ART LINK
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Blog 9: Symbolism and Imagery
FAHRENHEIT 451
Sept. 19, 2012
Define SYMBOLISM
LINK:
DEFINE IMAGERY
LINK:
Discuss three different uses of symbolism and imagery in the book, "Fahrenheit 451." Post a picture of this image with each description.
Fire seems to mean a lot of different things at different moments in Fahrenheit 451. Beatty and his fireman minions use it to destroy. But the woman whose house they burn interprets it another way: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." For her, it represents strength. Montag himself discovers an alternative use for fire at the end of the novel, when he realizes that it can warm instead of destroy. Like that whole cycle of life thing, fire has a constructive and destructive half. And like the books that are burned, each character in the novel is forced to interpret for themselves and confront contradictory perspectives – just like Beatty said about the books.
LINK: FIRE
Sept. 19, 2012
Define SYMBOLISM
LINK:
DEFINE IMAGERY
LINK:
Discuss three different uses of symbolism and imagery in the book, "Fahrenheit 451." Post a picture of this image with each description.
Fire seems to mean a lot of different things at different moments in Fahrenheit 451. Beatty and his fireman minions use it to destroy. But the woman whose house they burn interprets it another way: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." For her, it represents strength. Montag himself discovers an alternative use for fire at the end of the novel, when he realizes that it can warm instead of destroy. Like that whole cycle of life thing, fire has a constructive and destructive half. And like the books that are burned, each character in the novel is forced to interpret for themselves and confront contradictory perspectives – just like Beatty said about the books.
LINK: FIRE
Books: Loss of freedom of speech and the press.
Parlor walls and seashells: Mind control through propaganda.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
First Amendment Template
1.
Copy
and paste a picture of the first amendment.
2. What source did you
use for the above?
3. Define civil
liberties.
4. What source did you use for the above?
5. When do you feel civil liberties are infringed upon? Can you give another example of "fringing" on your civil liberties?
4. What source did you use for the above?
5. When do you feel civil liberties are infringed upon? Can you give another example of "fringing" on your civil liberties?
Paste a picture to add to your answer
BLOG 8: First Amendment
1. Copy and paste a picture of the first amendment.
2. What source did you use for the above?
Pic First Amendment
3. Define civil liberties.
Civil liberties are civil rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights. Though the scope of the term differs amongst various countries, some examples of civil liberties include the freedom from slavery and forced labor, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to due process, the right to a fair trial, the right to own property, the right to defend one's self, the right to bodily integrity, and the right to keep and bear arms.[citation needed] Within the distinctions between civil liberties and other types of liberty, it is important to note the distinctions between positive liberty/positive rights and negative liberty/negative rights.
4. What source did you use for the above?
Define civil liberties
5. When do you feel civil liberties are infringed upon? Can you give another example of "fringing" on your civil liberties? (for example, at school)
Paste a picture to add to your answer.
First Amendment
First A·mend·ment
First A·mend·ment
NOUN
1. part of the U.S.
Constitution: an amendment to the U.S. Constitution
that forbids Congress from interfering with a citizen's freedom of religion,
speech, assembly, or petition
2. What source did you use for the above?
Pic First Amendment
3. Define civil liberties.
Civil liberties are civil rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights. Though the scope of the term differs amongst various countries, some examples of civil liberties include the freedom from slavery and forced labor, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to due process, the right to a fair trial, the right to own property, the right to defend one's self, the right to bodily integrity, and the right to keep and bear arms.[citation needed] Within the distinctions between civil liberties and other types of liberty, it is important to note the distinctions between positive liberty/positive rights and negative liberty/negative rights.
4. What source did you use for the above?
Define civil liberties
5. When do you feel civil liberties are infringed upon? Can you give another example of "fringing" on your civil liberties? (for example, at school)
Free Speech in Schools
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that the government will not suppress citizens' free speech and expression. Although schools can limit some student speech if it is disruptive to the learning environment, the Supreme Court famously stated that students don't "shed their constitutional right to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Student speech is protected against repression unless the school can prove it has a compelling reason to repress that speech.
Privacy At School
- The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects citizens against unlawful search and seizure. This means that schools do not have unrestricted authority to search students' bodies and belongings at school. The school must have a reasonable suspicion that a school rule has been broken before searching a student's body or property.
Paste a picture to add to your answer.
What's that smell?
Mrs. B has something really stinky in her car! Take a guess to what it might be.
smell·y
(sm l  )
adj. smell·i·er, smell·i·est
Informal
Having a noticeable, usually unpleasant or offensive
odor.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
BLOG 5: 9/11 Remembering
Title blog: 9/11 Remembering
Add 10 pics to your H-drive (your folder) that focuses on the NEW 9-11 Memorial in NYC (you may also include the soon-to-be Freedom Tower that will be completed by 2013). Add your pics to your new blog, then write a one paragraph reaction of your thoughts and feelings about 9-11 (what you've learned perhaps, or discussions in class, discussions at home, etc). Don't forget to publish your blog when you are finished.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
BLOG 6: Civil Liberties vs Airport Scanners
Sept. 12,
2012
Civil Liberties vs. Airport Scanners
Prior 9/11:
*Rules not as strict.
*Easy and faster getting in and out
of airport.
*Kitchen utensils not a big deal.
*We didn’t have full body scanners.
*Safer to fly.
Post 9/11:
*There’s a list that tells you what
you can pack and what you can’t pack.
*It takes forever to get through
security.
*Lots of delays because of security.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Blog 2: 451 Quote
Friday, September 7, 2012
Blog 4: Censorship
1. What is censorship?
Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. It can be done by governments and private organizations or by individuals who engage in self-censorship. It occurs in a variety of different contexts including speech, books, music, films and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of reasons including national security, to control obscenity, child pornography, and hate speech, to protect children, to promote or restrict political or religious views, to prevent slander and libel, and to protect intellectual property. It may or may not be legal. Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and it is frequently necessary to balance conflicting rights in order to determine what can and cannot be censored.
Censorship
2. What is a banned book?
Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times, when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century, book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural, political, moral, and religious orthodoxy.
Books can be restricted by an outright ban or through less overt forms of social or political pressure. One formal method is a legislative prohibition of certain subjects and texts being taught in schools, including Tennessee's 1925 law proscribing the teaching of evolution in schools (which led to the Scopes "Monkey Trial"). In Epperson v. Arkansas (1968), the Supreme Court invalidated a similar law in Arkansas. Informal banning, which John Stuart Mill considered even more pernicious to liberty, also occurs. During the McCarthy era, many college instructors dropped communist and socialist books from courses due to informal pressures.
Another method of book banning occurs through postal and customs restrictions. The federal government has prohibited the importation and interstate shipment of obscene works since the middle of the nineteenth century, most famously by the so-called Comstock Act (1873), which is still in effect in modified form. Since 1960, literary works dealing with sexual themes have enjoyed strong First Amendment protection, but before this time the U.S. Post and Customs Offices banned classic works such as Ulysses, Leaves of Grass, Tropic of Cancer, and God's Little Acre. Only after a federal court extended First Amendment protection to D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in Grove Press v. Christenberry (1959) have works with literary merit been assured of escaping federal censorship.
Book banning also prominently takes the form of removing books from libraries or other sources. During the 1950s, the banning of liberal and left-wing books was widespread. In the last decade, censors have targeted such allegedly "politically incorrect" books as Huckleberry Finn and Lolita. Traditional moralists have continued to single out books dealing with controversial social and sexual subjects, including teenage sexual exploration, such as in Judy Blume's Forever, homosexuality in Michael Willhoite's Daddy's Roommate, and racial tensions, such as in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In 1982, the Supreme Court heard a case where a school board removed Slaughterhouse-Five, The Naked Ape, and Soul on Ice from the school library for being "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy." The Court ruled in Board of Education Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico that books may not be removed if the decision to do so is motivated by disapproval of the viewpoint expressed in the book.
3. List 5 banned books or challeneged books - Add book covers.
Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. It can be done by governments and private organizations or by individuals who engage in self-censorship. It occurs in a variety of different contexts including speech, books, music, films and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of reasons including national security, to control obscenity, child pornography, and hate speech, to protect children, to promote or restrict political or religious views, to prevent slander and libel, and to protect intellectual property. It may or may not be legal. Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and it is frequently necessary to balance conflicting rights in order to determine what can and cannot be censored.
Censorship
2. What is a banned book?
Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times, when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century, book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural, political, moral, and religious orthodoxy.
Books can be restricted by an outright ban or through less overt forms of social or political pressure. One formal method is a legislative prohibition of certain subjects and texts being taught in schools, including Tennessee's 1925 law proscribing the teaching of evolution in schools (which led to the Scopes "Monkey Trial"). In Epperson v. Arkansas (1968), the Supreme Court invalidated a similar law in Arkansas. Informal banning, which John Stuart Mill considered even more pernicious to liberty, also occurs. During the McCarthy era, many college instructors dropped communist and socialist books from courses due to informal pressures.
Another method of book banning occurs through postal and customs restrictions. The federal government has prohibited the importation and interstate shipment of obscene works since the middle of the nineteenth century, most famously by the so-called Comstock Act (1873), which is still in effect in modified form. Since 1960, literary works dealing with sexual themes have enjoyed strong First Amendment protection, but before this time the U.S. Post and Customs Offices banned classic works such as Ulysses, Leaves of Grass, Tropic of Cancer, and God's Little Acre. Only after a federal court extended First Amendment protection to D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in Grove Press v. Christenberry (1959) have works with literary merit been assured of escaping federal censorship.
Book banning also prominently takes the form of removing books from libraries or other sources. During the 1950s, the banning of liberal and left-wing books was widespread. In the last decade, censors have targeted such allegedly "politically incorrect" books as Huckleberry Finn and Lolita. Traditional moralists have continued to single out books dealing with controversial social and sexual subjects, including teenage sexual exploration, such as in Judy Blume's Forever, homosexuality in Michael Willhoite's Daddy's Roommate, and racial tensions, such as in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In 1982, the Supreme Court heard a case where a school board removed Slaughterhouse-Five, The Naked Ape, and Soul on Ice from the school library for being "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy." The Court ruled in Board of Education Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico that books may not be removed if the decision to do so is motivated by disapproval of the viewpoint expressed in the book.
—Donald A. Downs
Banned Book Definition3. List 5 banned books or challeneged books - Add book covers.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Blog 3: Rob Legato/Awe
Today in class we watched a video from TED.com. It featured Rob Legato, a special effects camera guy who has worked on movies such as HUGO, APOLLO 13, and TITANIC. Rob explained how camera angles set a movie shot and helped set the tone in a movie, creating overall human emotion and attachment.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Blog 2: 451 Quote
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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