Tag Archives: Technology

10/11/2016

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Continuing the topic of technology, each class was paired up to brainstorm over unintended consequences of smart technology that exists today.

Possible technology included: 3D printers, touch tables, flying cars, military “iron man” suits, digital tattoos, self-driving cars, smart glasses, wireless electricity, Cicret bracelets, night vision contacts, Cubic, jetpacks, hoverboards, intelligent locks, Smart Things Hub, and sound cloaking devices. Because this is a collaborative assignment, you can see what other groups found out about the technology and look at it yourself – lots of people were really interested in digital tattoos.

Then, I gave you some flex time to work on the assignment from yesterday and any other assignments that you are missing while I showed you guys some VR technology!

brandon

 

 

9/12/2016

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So, my gradebook was up-to-date as of 9:30 last night. That means if there is a mistake, fill out the “Grade Mistake(s) in Skyward” form for me so that I have everything in writing.

 

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Please make sure that it’s a legitimate grade (as oppose to late work just not having been graded yet). If you don’t fill this out, I will not be able to fix the mistake.

Some other issues I addressed today:

  • The Beo-Boast reflection – you can still do it. It’s a small red link in the Blackboard drop box
  • Drop boxes in Blackboard, even if you did an assignment on paper
  • In order to access my Google documents, you have to have your KISD Google account as your default email account. What does that mean? Log off your personal email account, make sure your school email is logged in and working, and then you can log back in to your personal account. Please, stop sending me requests to access documents and surveys with your personal email account. Use your school email. I don’t know who pOOKiEBear1995@gmail.com is and I am not going to track you down, Pook.

So today, we created a text structure of how we are going to organize our essay and then we started writing it.

chaos-text-structure

The rough draft will be due tomorrow. Aim for about 500 words. If you are really submitting this, I’ve been told it has to be between 350-650 words.

I am going to focus on three things when grading it:

  • Content – is this vague or specific? Did you manage to address the prompt appropriately?
  • Diction/word choice – this needs to be a mature and academic
  • Tone – this should be an academic and mature tone

One thing to think about is that even though word choice affects tone, what are other things that affect the tone of the essay?