Project Based Learning

Monday, November 18, 2013

Welcome to the 2013-2014 PBL Class!

This is your class blog on here will be your class objectives and directions for the day. Because it is always available to you I should not hear "What should I do now?" Look at the blog and you will see what do along with the order to do things.


KEYBOARDING: www.keyboardingonline.com
You will keyboard for 10 minutes daily with proper finger placement and keystrokes while your hands are covered, achieving 3 scores of 30wpm with 100% accuracy before moving to the next line.

E-PALS: www.e-pals.com
Please check your e-mail to see if you have any mail. Make sure to reply answering questions with proper spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. NO SLANG! Read your response over and make sure it makes sense.  Ask questions so you can get to know your e-pal better.

THIS IS ME!  Power Point:

Power Point: THIS IS ME!

Students will begin a Power Point Presentation

The PowerPoint will have at least 29 Slides. Students DO NOT change the slide design. All information will be put in 1^st! Pictures, images, graphics are not be added until all the text has been added. Once students  have Ms. Burroughs’ approval you will add graphics, change text, add backgrounds, transitions, timing, sounds and record your voice to at least 10 (ten) slides.

Open Power Point               Insert 29 slides         Add the following information
SLIDE

1.     Name (first, middle and last name intial)

2.     Birthdate and Place

3.     What is the meaning of your first name?  http://www.behindthename.com/

4.    How many people with your name are there in the United States? (First Name, First and Last Name?) • http://howmanyofme.com/

5.    How many seconds old are you right now? Include the date (DO NOT use shift alt d) and time. • http://www.onlineconversion.com/howold.htm

6.    Who shares your birthday (at least 5 people)? http://www.fun4birthdays.com/birthday/index.html

7.     What is your zodiac sign?  • http://www.whats-your-sign.com/zodiac-sign-dates.html -

8.     Tell some interesting facts that happened or around your birthday? http://www.fun4birthdays.com/birthday/index.html 

9.     List other interesting information about your name or birthday • http://dmarie.com/timecap/ and  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do -

10.  Values you  possess (at least 10)

 

List of Values

Accountability

Accuracy

Achievement

Adventurousness

Altruism

Ambition

Assertiveness

Balance

Being the best

Belonging

Boldness

Calmness

Carefulness

Challenge

Cheerfulness

Clear-mindedness

Commitment

Community

Compassion

Competitiveness

Consistency

Contentment

Continuous Improvement Contribution

Control

Cooperation

Correctness

Courtesy

Creativity

Curiosity

Decisiveness

Dependability

Determination

Devoutness

Diligence

Discipline

Discretion

Diversity

Dynamism

Economic

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Elegance

Empathy

Enjoyment

Enthusiasm

Equality

Excellence

Excitement

Expertise

Exploration

Expressiveness

Fairness

Faith

Family

Fidelity

Fitness

Fluency

Focus

Freedom

Fun

Generosity

Goodness

Grace

Growth

Happiness

Hard Work

Healthy

Helping Society

Holiness

Honesty

Honor

Humility

Independence

Ingenuity

Inner Harmony

Inquisitiveness

Insightfulness

Intelligence

Intuition

Joy

Justice

Leadership

Legacy

Love

Loyalty

Making a difference

Mastery

Merit

Obedience

Openness

Order

Originality

Patriotism

Perfection

Piety

Positivity

Practicality

Preparedness

Professionalism

Prudence

Quality-orientation

Reliability

Resourcefulness

Restraint

Results-oriented

Rigor

Security

Self-actualization

Self-control

Selflessness

Self-reliance

Sensitivity

Serenity

Service

Shrewdness

Simplicity

Soundness

Speed

Spontaneity

Stability

Strategic

Strength

Structure

Success

Support

Teamwork

Temperance

Thankfulness

Thoroughness

Thoughtfulness

Timeliness

Tolerance

Traditionalism

Trustworthiness

Truth-seeking

Understanding

Uniqueness

Unity

Usefulness

Vision

Vitality

11.   Career(s) you  want

12.  How you are responsible, respectful, and reliably safe

13.  How you set goals

14.  How you are a team player 

15.  Example of making a good choice

16.  Why an education is important?

17.  What is important to you?

18.  Something you did or do well

19.  Something you’d like to improve

20. Places you want to visit

21.  Places you have visited

22. Adjectives describing how you want people to remember me

23. Hobbies you enjoy

24. Foods you like

25. Family Members (everyone you live with) with ages (except your parent/guardians)

26. Pets

27. Describe HJHS

28. Describe where you live

29. Resources

Once you are done Check Your:
SPELLING
CAPITALIZATION
PUNCTUATION
GRAMMAR
DOES IT MAKE SENSE?

Raise your hand and I will edit your slides.