ACE Due dates

ACE 8 A2
April 21: Summary paper (minimum 6 paragraphs)
April 21-April 29: Interview with teacher
May 7: Hard Artifact
May 17: Final project Due
May 17- June 14: Final presentation and peer evaluations.

ACE 8 C2
April 23- Summary paper (minimum 6 paragraphs)
April 23-May 3 Interview with teacher
May 11:Hard Artifact
May 19: Final project Due
May 19- June 11: Final Presentations and peer evaulations.

Digital Citizenship

To what degree do you live online?

Watch the movie Digital Nation.

Answer the questions below for homework.

1. Do computers give us more human connections or less human connections?
2. If you had to write 5 rules for internet ethics and manners what would they be?
3. Do you think teachers should encourage or discourage multitasking?
4. Write a 6 word story summarizing an experience that you've had "living" online. Take a look at some of the stories on the PBS website for inspiration.

Blogger Tour

Blogger Tour

WELCOME TO ACE PART DEUX

Welcome to Ace, where we wear our shoes on the right feet.....where we are going to find, identify with and use our talents to create an amazing project.

Welcome to Ms. Green's Ace Blog!

Welcome to what I'm sure will be a great year! I'll be using this space to keep the class on track. I'll be posting information about what we're doing here and when it's due under schedule.

Parent Letter

Dear Families:

From now to the end of the term, Ms. Green’s ACE class will be taking part in a pilot program designed to help them develop their writing and explore their interests by sharing their writing with a real audience. Students will be using personal Weblogs to post their writing to the Internet.

A Weblog, or blog as they are commonly called, is a special type of Web page that can be created and easily updated using a Web browser. Each new entry has its own date stamp. Each entry has a comments section where visitors to the blog may leave comments for the author.

How it Works

Each week Ms. Green will direct a ACE lesson, helping students explore their interests, timeline a project and build upon their personal intelligence, using Gardner's multiple intelligences. After the lesson, students will explore their individual intelligence through a topic of their choice write an entry for their blog. They may choose the topic, but they need to make use of the skills taught in the lesson to help the craft their program. The emphasis is on the quality of the project. When students are done polishing their work, they will have it reviewed by a teacher.

Students will have computer sessions most weeks to provide them with the time needed to complete their weekly blogging assignment. Students may also work from home. All that is required is an Internet connection and a Web browser. Students are able to save their work as drafts before publishing it to their blog. 

Having a real audience is one of the key components to this program. In addition to receiving comments from their classmates, Ms. Green's students will receive comments from Ms. Green. Parents are also invited to visit the blogs and respond to the writing. Potentially, anyone on the Internet could respond to our blogs, however, it is not likely that the world at large will stumble across them.

Security

This blogging project is designed to minimize risk to your child. The only personal identifying information included in the blog will be their first name. There will be no mention of our school name or our location. Students are allowed to post their interests and opinions, but not their age, email address, photographs of themselves, or other sensitive information.

Assessment

The weekly blog assignments will be part of your child’s ACE grade this term. Students will receive a scoring rubric that explains the expectations for these assignments.  

Resources

- Blogs created by fifth grade students in the USA

http://itc.blogs.com/marcos/

- BBC News article about blogging in a school in the UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3804773.stm

Permission

Before your child may start posting to their blog, we are asking for you and your child to discuss and sign the following form. Please return the form to Ms. Green.

Blogging Terms and Conditions

1. Students using blogs are expected to act safely by keeping personal information out of their posts. You agree to not post or give out your family name, password, user name, email address, home address, school name, city, country or other information that could help someone locate or contact you in person. You may share your interests, ideas and preferences.

2. Students using blogs agree not to share their user name or password with anyone besides their teachers and parents. You agree to never log in as another student.

3. Students using blogs are expected to treat blogspaces as classroom spaces. Speech that is inappropriate for class is not appropriate for your blog. While we encourage you to engage in debate and conversation with other bloggers, we also expect that you will conduct yourself in a manner reflective of a representative of this school.

4. Student blogs are to be a forum for student expression. However, they are first and foremost a tool for learning, and as such will sometimes be constrained by the various requirements and rules of classroom teachers. Students are welcome to post on any school-appropriate subject.

5. Students blogs are to be a vehicle for sharing student writing with real audiences. Most visitors to your blog who leave comments will leave respectful, helpful messages. If you receive a comment that makes you feel uncomfortable or is not respectful, tell your teacher right away. Do not respond to the comment.

6. Students using blogs take good care of the computers by not downloading or installing any software without permission, and not clicking on ads or competitions.

7. Students who do not abide by these terms and conditions may lose their opportunity to take part in this project.

I have read and understood these blogging terms and conditions. I agree to uphold them.

student’s signature:_____________________________ date: ________________

parent’s signature: _____________________________ date: ________________