3rd Post

What a great 4th of July! I hope everyone had a great day and got to spend time with their families. I spent the day with my family at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. At night, we barbecued and lit off a lot of fireworks. I hate the clean-up, but loved the show.

This week I have been trying to finish up the small parts of my Unit. I would like to have it all done by the end of this week. Last night, I completed a new scavenger hunt. I did not do the first scavenger hunt for my unit, so I had to make a new one. I made it as a review of skills needed to do an advanced search on Google (4 NETS for Better Searching techniques). I also made a quiz to assess my students knowledge of the same searching techniques on Google. Both items have been added to my UOW http://poster.4teachers.org/view/feature.php?id=196185.

Later this week, I will try to make 3 worksheets to help guide my students through different phases of the unit. I will also try to make a rubric to score my students presentations.

I no longer have any group work to do as my group turned in the paper last week. I would like to thank all of my group member as they were all great to work with and very organized. It sure made the experience easy.

Thanks,
Seth Ryser

2nd Post

Hello Everyone,
I hope everyone is finding the work easy and not to time consuming.

I like to be ahead in my work, but my brother was back in town from L.A., CA last week, so I spent most of my time finishing. The trip was a success as we were very successful catching walleye, northern pike, and perch. As usual though, Untied Airlines delayed his flight home so he could not catch his connecting flight. This caused him to leave 12 hours later at 4:30 in the morning. Man I really hate getting up early to drive to the airport.

Since I slacked off all week, I spent most of yesterday reading through the discussion boards and making my E sheet and Hot List. I forgot that I was going to need to use my E sheet for my curriculum unit, so I wrote it up as a review of websites that the students are teaching themselves. I had to change my directions and calender a little to get it all to fit, but it will be a nice addition to make sure the student know what they are supposed to do when using the websites.

The hot list was easy to make as I am revamping a project I already do. I already had a lot of good websites to use. I did do a little research and found 5 more though.

Well I have to go to work soon, I hope everyone finds the work easy this week.

Thanks,
Seth Ryser

Blog Post #1 - The Start

Hello Everyone,
This is the first time I have every done anything with blogs. I unfortunately don't find writing as a hobby for myself, but I feel this experience might make me more confident in trying to make my own classroom blog.

The experience of making this blog has been very good. All of the information needed to make the blog is very clear and easy to understand. I like that the blog has premade templates for those of us with little artistic ability. I also like that all of the categories are separated into nice logically ordered sections.

Good luck everyone with class. I will blog again at the next assigned interval.

Seth Ryser