CP9: Mr. Bergen

Click here for the 55 Web pages ... blogs, iSpace, and English 9 Hypertext

This is now in REVERSE chronological order so the most recent stuff is always at the top for convenience ... sb 10/22/06

Plan B for getting a BLOG (if your blogger account does not work)

Use Firefox not Internet Explorer
Go to http://edublogs.org/
Or go to http://wordpress.com/
make sure you send to your portfolio your login and password
use a LOGIN such as JADiSpace
use your e-mail address of 10jad@chapin.edu
your URL will be of the form JADiSpace.learnerblogs.org
uncheck PRIVACY box
blog title: Mr. Bergen's CP9

English CP9 Assignment Feb 2007 (Ms. Taylor, Ms. Means, Ms. O'Hara)

Class 9 Things Fall Apart Hyper-Text Explication Task: Your task is to explicate a paragraph, as assigned by your teacher, from Achebe's novel using hyper-links. "To explicate" means to describe in detail or explain the "causes, context, and consequences of a thing." (Wikipedia). To "hyper-link" means to link to another text. You will present your explication electronically, on a Web site that you create. You will work with a partner and have in-class time (two days) and homework time to complete this project.

Here is a sample by Jane Doe ... click here ... you can then use the SOURCE CODE to create your own hyperlinks.html document ("yes, that needs to be the name of the document on your Web account")

Your presentation, then, should be a copy of your Achebe paragraph that includes the following:

hyper-links to your own explications of three words within your assigned paragraph (which you will retype)
hyper-links to the Web sites where you found your information, so that you give credit to your sources (the links should appear within your explications)*
Note: You should make use of at least two different web sites overall.

Criteria for Grading: Your three documents should be ..

clearly and efficiently written
elucidating (i.e., shed light on the meaning of the passage)
accurate

neatly and correctly formatted (links work, book titles are italicized/underlined, quotes are properly integrated, punctuation and capitalization are correct)

List of Web sites:

Achebe site
for background about Things Fall Apart
for Bible concordance
for a dictionary of symbolism
for Oxford English Dictionary ,,, Go to Chapin web site>>>>Library Services>>>>Online Resources (login:chapin; password: w????) >>>>>Oxford English Dictionary
for Harper's Bible Dictionary: ... plan A may not work
Harper's Bible Dictonary ... plan B
Harper's Bible Dictonary ... plan C
cool audio site
Samples from CP9 students? that work!

Assignment A10

I would like you to write a paragraph on your blog page in which you comment on and propose what your real iSpace "area of expertise" might be, and which Class 9 teacher (who knows a lot about your topic) you might choose to be a "reader of your iSpace chosen topic." I will clarify in class. Avoid broad topics and "keep it narrow and specialized." This is due by Friday 12/08. Once you have written your A10 paragraph on your blog, please COPY and PASTE it into an e-mail to TurnIn-CP9 (ML*) and your portfolio.

This week, Mr. Lear is coming to our CP9 class to talk about Java. Assignment A10 must be done as homework outside of class. It is due by Friday 9pm.

-- Thursday 11:24 Class ... we meet in 29 as usual
-- Friday 12:52 Class ... we are meeting in 41 not 39 since video conferencing is going on in 39 for a Middle School class

Martine Courtial-Eisner on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 8:06 AM wrote:
How about something on French impressionism?
Or the French Revolution (more history than language, but interesting...)?
How about something on the French media: daily newspapers for example?
How about research on a French poet or novelist?
Sarah Rutledge-fs on Friday, December 1, 2006 at 3:04 PM wrote:
In Class 9 Dance in the winter term, we do a large unit of American dance history, specifically focusing on black dance in America and what its influence was on jazz dance and jazz music. Some of the people/dances we study are Katherine Dunham, Josephine Baker, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Alvin Ailey, Arthur Mitchell, Chuck Davis, the Juba, the Cakewalk and the Charleston/Jitterbug/Lindy Hop. The girls haven't been introduced to this yet, but we will start in January and they will end up having to do a short paper on the topic of their choice relating to this unit.
Lauren Tartaglia-fs on Friday, December 1, 2006 at 9:40 AM wrote:
Here are some ideas from history:
The influences of the French Revolution around the world
The influence of Marxism around the world
The influence of nationalism around the world
The role of women in the French Revolution
The effects of the Industrial Revolution
The role of women in the Industrial Revolution
Basically, the role of women in any major event or movement is a great topic
Fran Stillman-fs on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 3:47 PM wrote: Here are some ideas from math:
History of Calendars
Mayan Math
Egyptian math
Platonic Solids
Female Mathematicians
Different Number Base Systems
Three dimensional geometry
Connections between math and music
Connections between math and art

Assignment A9 (after Thanksgiving) in class

Previous spreadsheet skills covered: using formulas, using the & symbol, formatting text, using the magical "bottom right" spot to replicate patterns
New spreadsheet skills needed for this exercise: how to graph data, how to do percentage increase, how to format text as currency, how to generate a sequence of years
Create a SS for this problem intended to get each student doing a financial projection which is sometimes called a financial model. Barbara's job pays $20,000 in 2005 with an 8% raise per year. Carol's job pays $25,000 in 2005 with a 6% raise per year and Donna's job pays $30,000 in 2005 with a 4% raise per year. Please include a paragraph in your spreadsheet that demonstates wrapping and merging (like this one) and do the projection for each year from 2006 to 2033. Please make the headings colorful and angled at 45 degrees. Please include a graph.
Click here for sample.
Send the attached file with subject of A9 to both TurnIn-CP9 and your portfolio
Please do not work with a partner on this one

Assignment A8: Next Phase of CP9 (Oct 30 to Nov 23)

Click here for http://www.newseum.org which gives you the FRONT page of 400 U.S. and international newspapers
Here are topics in the news (Darfur, NY Governor Election 11/7/06, Congressional Election 11/7/06, Clinton/Obama Election 2008) for all of you who are "almost adults and much closer to age twenty than age zero" ... for each topic, you are to use your iSpace Web page to create a section of information, thoughts and actions
The speaker who came to Chapin on Wed 10/25 was from IRC which has a Web site of www.theirc.org
Ms. Moy ("remember her ;-) from Middle School") has a lot to say to her about her time as intern for IRC and what she thinks you should be doing

Click either graphic for part 1 (11 min) or part 2 (6 min) for streaming quicktime (mov)
Or click here to download the full 17 minutes in MP3 format for your iPod perhaps (m4a)
the book Ms. Moy mentions is "They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky" by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng & Benjamin Ajak ... click here

IMPORTANT CP9 Survey due by end of Monday 10/23/06 ... 9pm

A4 ... is your blogger Web page working and is it on this Web page, tested to work on gatornet.chapin.edu/~techmsus/cp9/2006-07/bloggeraccounts.html? Answer: ???
A5 ... have you messed around with Audacity and sent in a sound file either to audio.chapin.edu or to TurnIn-CP9 and your portfolio? either is fine and yes this can be with a partner Answer: ???
A6 ... have you made an iFlash stack of cards for one of your Class 9 classes and send it to TurnIn-CP9 and your portfolio? This cannot be a partner activity Answer: ???
A7 ... have you created your iSpace Web page and used one of the templates in our CP9 Wiki section to make the page work? Your login is your 3 initials (e.g. JAD) and your password is your special word (e.g. Yankees2000) Answer: ??? WebPage Guidelines ... have you looked thoroughly at this gatornet.chapin.edu/~techmsus/WebGuidelines? if not, please DIN ("do it now"). Thanks! Answer: ???

please copy and paste the above section and send to TurnIn-CP9 (ML*) and Portfolio by end of Monday ... please be honest, something I have valued in our relationship since way back in 2003 when most of us had CP6 in the first LIP class. I have not given you deadlines to finish all of these things yet, so no one is in trouble ... relax! I am trying to get all these things done by end of this week, Friday 10/27 for all 55 of you Remember that there are tips, instructions and hints on each item on our CP9 Web page It is usually hard to get more than one thing done during a CP9 class and so you may need to get 1 of these done at home or at school outside of class ... sb

Assignment A7: your iSpace Web page

Using your 3 initials as your login and your "special word" as your password, you can now begin making your iSpace Web page
The templates for iSpace.html for your WEB FOLDER is now in the CP9 Wiki section of Public Conferences
There are several templates including a very cool one by Mr. Lucey using CSS ("cascading style sheets"). You can choose the one you want and change your mind later.
To use a template, you copy and paste it. Then you go to your Web Publishing Folder on your Web account and Create a New Document. You paste it the template and rename the document as iSpace.html. If you are using the OLD version of First Class, the Web Publishing Folder is called Home Page. If your 3 initials and your special password, please send me an e-mail or see me in class and I will fix for you ... sb

Assignment A6: iFlash

The iFlash Web link is now on the main Current Students Web page
It contains a sample CP9 iFlash Quizzer that I made
Please submit an iFlash sample relating to one of your current classes. It needs to have at the least 33 cards. Send to TurnIn-CP9 and your portfolio

Assignment A5: Audacity and audio.chapin.edu

There is an assignment for you on audio.chapin.edu that involves Audacity and the FIO song from 2003 and the new release from 2006 in Spanish! You can learn about Audacity and download it using the iPod Web page .... audacity can be downloaded from http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Please do NOT try to make an MP3 file using audacity ... use the feature to save as a WAV file
If you cannot figure out how to make your WAV file into an MP3 file, the plan B is to send in via TurnIn and Portfolio
Here is the lesson on using iTunes to make an MP3 file ... drag the WAV file into iTunes, e.g. A5JAD.wav ... now see if a menu choice says CONVERT TO MP3 ... if it doesn't then use PREFERENCES and ADVANCED to make it burn or import to MP3 ... once converted to MP3, you will have TWO files that say A5JAD ... if you quite iTunes and search for A5JAD, you will find the folder where the MP3 file lives and you can drag it to your desktop for uploading to audio.chapin.edu

Assignment A4: Starting the week of October 3rd

Please send in this exact code so that I can link to your Web page to TurnIn and Portfolio with subject of A4

JAD ... click here to see my blogger Web page
Click here for other blogger accounts

Assignment A3: Starting your iSpace blogs (the week of Sept 25)

Click here to review the standard Web guidelines for students ... these apply to our CP9 iSpace blogs
First, create an account at http://www.bloglines.com that will be your "aggregator for compiling RSS feeds" ... please use your new e-mail address (e.g. 10JAD@chapin.edu) and your special word from last year's Web pages as your password ... Jane Doe created a bloglines account with a login of 10JAD@chapin.edu and password of 127??????? ... you will be asked to validate your account and what subscriptions you wish to start with (please do not choose more than 3) ... send a note to TurnIn-CP9 (ML*) and your portfolio that says that you have created a bloglines account with login of 10???@chapin.edu and password of ?????
Secondly, click here for info on how to find RSS feeds which are now everywhere
Thirdly, go to blogger.com to create your blog Web site ... Jane Anyone Doe has already done so and her tips include: user name of Chapin10JAD ... password to match your special word from CP8 Web page ... e-mail address of 10JAD@chapin.edu ... name of blog to be 10JAD ... change archiving to be daily ... reminder that you can alter your blog via www.blogger.com but that others can see your Web page via 10jad.blogspot.com ... remember that you use www.blogger.com to create your blog page which is very different from www.bloglines.com which is your aggregator ... to complete this portion of the assignment, send a note to TurnIn-CP9 (ML*) and your portfolio that says that you have created a bloglines account with login of 10???@chapin.edu and password of ????? using the same SPECIAL word
Click here for how to program your blogger.com blog page to have the option to function as an RSS feed
Click here for how to aggregate others blogs onto yours ... I will be aggregating all of your blogs onto my bloglines page
Click here for info from Greenhill School in Dallas TX including info about audioblogger.com
Click here to access audioblogger.com

Assignments A1 and A2

Our First Class WIKI is within Public Conferences on GatorNet ... only disadvantage is that when one person is in, everyone else is locked out ... assignment A1 is open this WIKI by going to Public Conferences and answering the two items next to your name ... follow directions at the top involving sending to TurnIn-CP9 and your portfolio
Do the 2 assigned SS exercises on this Web page which includes samples ... Exercises ... one is A2part1 .. one is A2part2 ... send as attached file to TurnIn-CP9 with cc to portfolio ... for any function such y = 3x -5, plot 33 data points in the format of (a,b) ... create a SS to find out when the F temperature is the same as the C temperature (Fahrenheit and Celsius) ... the formula is F = (9/5) C + 32 ... column A must be the Celsius temperatures from -100 to 100 ... column B must be all the Fahrenheit equivalents ... column C must be WORDS to indicate SAME or not SAME

Links that we began the course with in September 06

Click here for our Web page guidelines
Click here for CP9 05-06
Click here for the iSpace Web pages 05-06
Click here for the CP9 blog (Fall 2006) ... password start with 127 and has 10 bytes
Click here for the CP9 bloglines Web page ... password start with 127 and has 10 bytes
Click here for the CP9 wiki (Fall 2006)
Click here for the Wayback Machine on www.archive.org
Click here for a vocabulary page on wikis, blogs and RSS feeds

notes with EB Wed

the Web site is https://history9-10.wikispaces.com/ ... click here
the login is historyEaststudent
the password is coldEndwar
yes, case sensitive
click here eventually to see the History 9 to see the specs to the girls working in groups
this course is over 90% of the Class 9 girls plus a few Class 10
the assignment will be given out probably May 18th
all editing in firefox not safari
avoid two people editing the same page at the exact same time
always keep a backup of whatever you type in your portfolio
how to edit a page, including spacing, fonts, text color
adding/deleting links, audio or video clips like from youtube
how to view/post comments when they save their changes
how to view/post discussion comments

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