Wednesday, August 29, 2010

Week 1, Day 3
Objective: SWBAT (Student will be able to...) understand morning procedures, begin doing bell work in the appropriate format, and work with Web 2.0 tools.

1. Open Google Docs/Google Drive
2. Open 1st Six Weeks Bell Work
3. Make a copy of the 1st Six Weeks Bell Work
4. Move it into the folder/collection titled "Bell Work"
5. Read all of the formatting directions on the 1st Six Weeks Bell Work
6. Respond to this prompt for today's bell work: Write about what you did over Summer Break.
7. Fill out this Student Information Form (this will be a daily grade 100, 50, or 0)
8. Create an account with Shelfari.com
1. Go to www.shelfari.com
2. Click Register
3. If you do not have an amazon account, put in your email address and click "do not have an amazon password"
4. You will be asked to type your name
5. Re-enter your email address
6. Choose a password
7. Re-enter your password
8. Click "create an account"
9. You should now be able to log-in
10. In the search bar, type in "Avalos" and then click the drop down box for "groups"
11. Hit "search"
12. Click on "Mrs. Avalos's English Class" group and toward the top of the right hand side you will see a button that says "Join"
13. Click "join"
14. You may also add me as a friend, if you wish
15. Put your log-in information in your Usernames and Passwords document
9. Create an account with FreeRice.com
1. Go to www.freerice.com
2. At the top, click "Sign Up"
3. Enter a username (that you will remember!!!!!!)
4. Enter your Godley email address (firstnamelastname@student.godleyisd.net)
5. It will send you an email to your Godley email address aka Gmail account
6. Check your email
7. Click the link in the email for one-time log-in
8. Select a password
9. Re-type your password
10. Click "save"
11. Log-in
12. Once logged-in, click "groups"
13. Search for "Avalos"
14. Join my group
15. Begin playing in my group
1. **NOTE**EVERY TIME YOU LOG-IN TO FREERICE.COM, YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE PLAYING IN THE AVALOS GROUP.  OTHERWISE, YOU WILL NOT GET CREDIT IN MY CLASS FOR THE RICE YOU EARN.  We will use freerice.com quite often.  Please make sure you remember your username and password.  Also, I will be holding ‘contests’ between classes and offer extra credit periodically.
2. In other words, it must have YOUR USERNAME at the left and MY GROUP NAME on the right.
16. Fill out this quick form so that I will know what username goes with which person.  
17. Put your log-in information in your Usernames and Passwords document
10. If there is time, left you may add books to your Shelfari account, or play on Free Rice