Archive for October, 2008

Vista Class October 27-31

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Monday and Tuesday, the students will be  finishing the ThinkQuest Research Projects.  On Wednesday we will start a unit on Microsoft Excel that will include graphing, setting up a budget, creating an order form, averaging test grades, and creating a data base.

thinkquest.com workshop

Monday, October 20th, 2008

There will be a thinkquest.com workshop on Monday Ocotober 20 at 2:30 PM is the KRMS Computer Lab.

October 20-24 Vista Class

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Students will be working on thinkquest.com research projects everyday this week.  The instructions for this project have been posted on the students thinkquest sites.

October 13-17 Vista Class

Friday, October 17th, 2008

This week students will continue working with differentiating between bogus and non-bogus websites.  We will examine www.martinlutherking.org, a white supremecy website on Martin luther King.  We will also look at the relative merits of  Wikipedia.  On Tuesday and Wednesday students will use Refdesk and Google to complete an Internet scavenger hunt.  Friday will be an [...]

October 6-October 10 Vista Class

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

There will be NECAP testing everyday this week. On Tuesday, the class will choose between bogus and non-bogus websites from a list of actual sites.  There will give reasons for their decisions.  On Wednesday, the class will begin using on-line searching techniques and start an Internet scavenger hunt.