We survived our first week!

Phew!  We made it through our first week of Virtual Learning!  I have seen such amazing work being done on your food trucks already. For those of you who have had a chance to join me during my office hours, thank you!  It helps to see everyone, and hear about the things that you have been working on.

I have a couple of important things to share with you today;

1. As a follow-up to Mr. Becker's announcement, we WILL NOT be switching classes when the quarter ends.  You will be staying part of Digital Literacy until we return to in-person school.  You may have questions about this, and I am happy to answer all of them!

2. You will have the entire week after spring break to work on your food truck.  If you happen to finish before, you will only need to work on your daily warm-ups for Digital Literacy.

3. After our Food Truck project is finished, we will start a Digital Days Documentary project which I will explain when we return from break. 

Thank you to everyone!  You have taken a new situation, and made it work.  Have a great break.  I hope that you can enjoy some time outside.  Let's all hope for nicer weather!!!

Happy first day of Virtual Learning!

Good morning and happy first day of Virtual Learning!

I hope that everyone is feeling good about the work that they will be doing this week.  I have had a few common questions that came up over the weekend that I wanted to address today.  The first, can we work in groups on our Food Truck projects?  The answer is, yes, absolutely!  The Food Truck Project was originally meant to be a group project, one in which we practiced our best Global Collaboration skills. If you would like to, and feel comfortable with the technology, reach out to a classmate using Google Hangouts, share your template with each other and find a way to collaborate. You can also work alone if you would like. 

The second question is when the quarter ends.  I have had several questions about this, and the last day of our quarter is April 7, the Tuesday after our scheduled Spring Break.  On Monday of that week, I will be sending you the Google Classroom codes to join your next class, and on Wednesday, you will start that class for the 4th Quarter.  There will be more information on this later.

As some of you remember, I have three chihuahuas.  My favorite is George, and I have started to make memes using funny pictures of him.  Below is the first of many!  

Virtual Learning and our Joke of the week

I know as a teacher and a mom, much of my time lately has been spent worrying about the many changes that we are facing as a community, school and country.  As your student's Digital Literacy teacher, my job is to make the virtual learning that we will be doing as stress free as possible. I will be posting answers to common questions here on my blog, but also  know that I am available for questions during my posted office hours of 9-10 am daily in 

Google Meet and by email throughout the day.  

My office hours are pre-scheduled, and your student will be able to follow the link that I will share in Google Classroom to access me during my office hours each day. Additionally, all of the classroom work that I will be sharing will be through Google Classroom.  Your student has been using Google Classroom for my class since the beginning of the quarter, and will be using the same classroom for virtual learning.  

On Thursday, I will be introducing our final project for Digital Literacy.  The last day of the quarter is two days after our scheduled Spring Break.  The students were working with different types of Coding last week, but because of equipment that we were using that we no longer have access to,  we will be ending our Coding unit and grades will be based on the wonderful work that your students have already done on their final projects. 

The final project for Digital Literacy is a Food Truck project. Students will be using the Design Process to plan and create a Food Truck concept.  The slideshow that I have shared includes videos and examples.  It may take several days to work through the entire slideshow.  I encourage you to think together on the concept, logo and menu items for your student's food truck!  Sharing ideas together will make the project more fun.  

Again, please let me know if you have any questions about anything-I am here to support you and your student throughout this entire process. 

I always post a joke of the week in my classroom, so instead of having our joke on our whiteboard, I will be posting our jokes here!  This week's joke:

Why is March the most popular month to use a trampoline?
Answer: It’s spring-time!

I said I posted jokes, I didn't say they were funny...stay safe and be well!