VoiceThread feedback for your book jackets

Keep an eye out on your VT profiles as I've given most of you your feedback on them!

Toonie For Terry

This October 3rd, we will all be participating in the Terry Fox run! A "Toonie for Terry" donation on or before this date will be greatly appreciated. All money raised will be given to the Terry Fox Foundation to support cancer research. Don't forget, 7A!

VoiceThread Feedback for Data Management

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VoiceThread Feedback

Your VT feedback on "The Tower," has been given to you. Make sure you revisit the feedback and apply it to your next task.

Our Thinking Books!

Organizing Our Writing

We've been talking about how we can begin organizing our writing. I want you to begin by looking at these following examples from previous years. Consider the following: 

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of each organizer?
• Have you identified the main ideas?
• Can you access the information in a quick manner?
• Does it make sense to you?

Doing the Detective Work

I think we had a great start to this unit! Remember -- when you're identifying themes and deeper messages in literature, you need to be able to support your ideas with evidence (textual) and expand on your points (schema).

Mackenzie Glen P.S. "Weebly"

If for any reason you've misplaced another teacher's blog address, you can find them all on Mackenzie Glen's weebly site:

http://macgintermediate.weebly.com/

I strongly suggest that you add it to your favourites!

When Conducting a Survey, Consider...

1. How the question is asked

2. Who the question is asking

3. What the question is asking

This can have an impact on the results!

What is Literacy?

We had a really fantastic conversation on what literacy means. It's about communication -- being effective "senders" and "receivers" of information. We're going to teach you to use the tools to think. Not what to think, rather how to think.

And, perhaps more importantly, we need to see "literacy" as something that is happening outside our literacy blocks. Literacy is everywhere!

10 Step Process

How to upload to your online portfolio on VoiceThread:

1. Go to www.voicethread.com

2. At the top right hand corner click "sign in"

3. To upload to your profile hit the cog labeled "menu"

4. From there, click "edit"

5. Hit "upload" to upload a picture or word file from your computer

6. Then click "comment" to either record your voice or to comment

7. Hit the the microphone icon labeled "record"

8. Your computer will ask you if you should "allow" the microphone -- and you     should click "yes"

9. Save after recording

10. And log out!