Play Voices of Youth’s game about HIV/AIDS by clicking HERE. Next, answer the following questions in your blog:
1. What is this game about?
2. Explain some of the choices you made and what happened as a result?
3. Why is a game like this important?
I read an interesting blog post yesterday about Bella and Edward from the Twilight series. It claims that they’re in an abusive relationship. Read the post by clicking HERE and answer the following question:
Are Bella and Edward in an abusive relationship? Why or why not?
Now that you’ve created your alien, it’s time for you two to talk with one another. Please copy and paste the following conversation into your blog and fill in the blanks:
Alien: Hello Earthling. Thank you for conversing with me.
You:
Alien: May I ask you a few questions?
You: Ofcourse!
Alien: I have never been to earth before, can you tell me a little bit about it? What are some beautiful and interesting places I should visit?
You:
You: What is your planet like?
Alien:
Alien: You humans seem like you’re very angry with eachother. I watched people walk down the street and most people didn’t even look at eachother! Why is that?
You:
You: What’s it like on your planet when you walk around?
Alien:
Alien: Why does your home country go to war with other countries?
You:
Alien: It seems to me that what you call “marshmallows” are the best thing to eat on your planet. Why do you not eat these every day?
You:
You: What do you eat on your planet?
Alien:
Alien: It seems to me that you do not treat earth very well. I see people throwing their trash on the ground, cutting down forests, and burning dirty coal to make electricity. Why do humans not care about earth? Is anyone doing anything about it?
You:
I was walking down the stairs at 188 today and saw that someone had made a stupid scribble on the clean green wall. It made me think of an old saying I’d heard:
It’s easier to destroy than to build.
In your blog answer the following questions:
1) What does this mean?
2) Where have you seen this happening?
3) Why is it important to fight against this?
In the past couple of months, you’ve used Kidspiration and SketchUp to show what you’ve learned about Earth habitats and alternative forms of energy. Let’s now pretend an alien has come down to earth to have a conversation with you. Before you begin the conversation (next assignment), lets create the alien. Click HERE for directions.
In our last assignment, we created a future habitat that would be greener and include alternate forms of energy (wind power, solar power, and fry oil.) But unless you have access to heavy-duty machinery, it is unlikely you can create these habitats right now. In this assignments, you’ll learn something you can do right now. It’s called Flower Bombing.
1. Watch this Slideshow about Flower Bombing:
2. Now, make a flower bomb and take a picture of it using Photo Booth (Ask Mr. Lahana for the materials.)
3. Finally, write a blog post in which you describe where you will be throwing your flower bomb and why. Please include the picture of your flower bomb.
1. Now that you’ve created your habitat of the future, it’s time to put it on your blog. Before you post it, make sure you’ve drawn parts of the habitat yourself (not just downloaded the models). Click HERE to see an example of an excellent habitat.
2. When you’re finished with your SketchUp habitat:
a) choose FILE –> EXPORT –> 2D Model.
b) choose “.jpg” and click “export”.
c) Log into your blog and load the image onto a post by pressing the “add image button”.
d) Give a short explanation of all the parts of your habitat. Click HERE for an example.
Well, Halloween came and went and I’ve noticed that no one gets really scared anymore. What does scare you? On your blog, list 10 things that still scare you. Then, choose one of them and write about it. Click HERE to see what scares Mr. Lahana.
Here’s the truth: this school is not rich, our students are not rich, and our teachers are not rich. We have the technology here at the Island School because we take the small amount of money we have and use it to buy it instead of other things. Not all schools spend their money on technology and we are lucky to have computers. As you know, our computers are shared by many people and they are an important part of our learning community.
But there is someone greedy out there.
That person has chosen to steal a laptop from the Island School community and it’s not fair.
Please write a blog post to that person and tell him/her why what they have done is so wrong.
*** Anyone who gives me information leading to us finding this laptop will receive a $$Reward$$
Many of you have been dissatisfied (unhappy) with your snapgrade in tech. It’s not too late! I will be giving all your blogs one more look-over on Sunday, November 8th. If you add something to your blog before Sunday, make sure to email me at llahana188@gmail.com to let me know. Here’s some advice on how to get an A:
–> Write some poetry! 2 of your assignments ask you to grab a picture from flickr and write a poem about it.
–> If you have a post that’s almost done, publish it! It’s better to get some credit then none. If you don’t know how to publish your Kidspiration, Slideshow, or SketchUp– ask Mr. Lahana!!!
–> Comment on other students’ blogs. You get extra credit for that.
–> Pick a creative writing idea from HERE and write a blog pot.
