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Christel Holland
Welcome to Algebra I
Good morning class! Welcome to Coach Holland's Algebra I class. This year, we will be implementing more technology into the classroom. One of the ways that we will do this is to incorporate blogging into the lesson plan. On my blog, you will be able to find lessons, assignments, tests, etc. Each one of you will set up your own blog and use it to complete assignments and submit your work. 
Week One
You will find information for this class on my blog.
The first issue that we will address is classroom rules.
1. All rules in the student handbook will be enforced.
2. Be respectful.
3. As soon as you enter the classroom, get your notebooks out.
4. Treat all calculators and other technology with the utmost care.
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Introduction
This is my blog. I will be placing instuctional materials here for you.
Rules for uploading to a blog:
Use image composer
300 x 200
or
200 x 300
This is the max size for graphics.
Apple compatible MS compatible
Movies .MOV .WMV
Sound MP3 . WAV
No issue with graphics, use .jpg for pictures and photos and use .gif for charts and graphs
Blogs in plain English - www.commoncraft.com/blogs
value added comment - correct grammar, politeness, respect, copyright laws, etc. the blogs are not a chat rooms.
Post the text instructions with each movie teaching a concept.
Need audacity software to do sound never go past a -12
You can use 30 seconds of any song over 3 minutes long ( 10% or 30 seconds whichever is shorter) as long as you credit the producer, songwriter, and artist. For movies, 10 to 20 second clips.
Use audio to expand text instructions.
Atomic learning - 30 sec or 1 min videos on anything that you want to know about technology applications.
AverVision 3 - load the software - click record(the camera), record, click stop(the camera), save to desktop, download to blog with paperclip, saves as an .avi
Ispring takes powerpoint and narration and makes them uploadable, saves is as a .swf(shock wave flash)
diigo will allow you to edit websites. Students can edit your blogs so that you can improve them.