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May 16, 2016

Monday, May 16, 2016

Learning Goal
I am learning to
Select an appropriate media text to communicate my ideas;
Produce a media text for a specific audience and purpose;
Create a plan to act on my self-assessment of my media creation skills.

Read and track your thinking (journal, post-it notes)

Review Media Text Rubric once again. Use this to guide your work.

What do you need to do next?

March 30, 2016

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Learning Goals: Set your own personal learning goal. 

You can write down what you will do/accomplish in class, but you must then connect that doing to learning.

1. Reading your novel (if you have not yet finished the first third of your book)
2. Writing about your thinking—-notes or prompts or stickies

– Planning your build in Minecraft/other
–Minecraft install
– Peer Edit/ Revise and post book review to Goodreads group
– Copy and continue adding evidence and comments to Learner’s Tool Kit (Due today!)
–Add Learner’s Toolkit to Sesame
– Add comments to D2L – What is reconciliation? Ideas for planning/building
– Research notes and annotations from your first independent article
– Quizlet – practice vocabulary
– Update tracking sheet

March 23, 2016

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Google Hangout: Minecraft and Ideas for Building

Learning Goals
I am learning to
-use a variety of listening strategies to understand information and ideas

You will all be listening with a purpose. Have your Listening Assessment handy. This will be due after the discussion.

Our first round of prompts will be

  1. What is your vision for reconciliation in your future? What will this look like?
  2. What will you build or craft (in Minecraft or outside of Minecraft) that will represent this vision of reconciliation?
  3. Does this vision connect to one of the calls to action? If so, please explain the call to action in student-friendly terms.

After we’ve heard from everyone I will explain the set-up of our Minecraft world. Then, we will go back around and ask students the following:

  1. What is one connection you made between your vision and another groups vision of reconciliation?
  2. Do you have any ideas or thoughts on how we should set-up our world?

Lastly, I will ask each class to suggest one “norm” for our Minecraft community. One thing we need to all keep in mind while building together.

With remaining time, you will read and write about your reading.

March 22, 2016

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Learning Goals

  • make inferences about what I have read today
  • stay on topic during a small group discussion
  • describe my learning using appropriate activities I have completed in the course;
  • reflect on my strengths and my next steps.

We will begin today with our reading routine: read, track your reading, and write using one prompt from our bookmarks.

While you read, I will begin our assessment conferences. I will be interrupting some of you during your reading and again during your conversations about reconciliation.

At your tables, talk through the following questions and then, write your responses in your notebook.

Thinking about Reconciliation

  1. What is your vision for reconciliation in your future? What will this look like?
  2. What will you build or craft (in Minecraft or outside of Minecraft) that will represent this vision of reconciliation?
  3. Does this vision connect to one of the calls to action?

Be ready to consider the following tomorrow

 
  1. What is one connection you made between your vision and another groups vision of reconciliation?
  2. Do you have any ideas or thoughts on how we should set-up our world?
  3. Suggest one “norm” for our Minecraft community. One thing we need to all keep in mind while building together.