Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Blog #5 Test grade due 1/31/17

Neil Gaiman, the author of Coraline and The Graveyard Book , as well as many other books, wrote:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.


...I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

And for this year, my wish for each of us is small and very simple.

And it's this.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

Please REACT to this quote at length, in your BLOG post this month!

Monday, December 5, 2016

Blog #4 test grade due 12/31/16

December is a very special month. It's a time for sharing the warmth of family and friendship. What was the best gift that you ever gave or received. Why? This gift DOES NOT have to be a material item...

Friday, October 21, 2016

November BLOG due November 30, 2016 Test Grade

Please respond to two students' posts as your November entry.  Label them #1 and #2 with your name beside them.  Make sure to thoroughly react to what the students shared with the class.
The responses should each be a thorough 6-8 sentences long.


Make sure to post  your comment under their post as a reply.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Blog 2 Test Grade Due 10/31/16

Let's share and learn together.


Find an article or video that interests you.  Post the video, article or link here to share with your class and comment on why you selected it.  Besides commenting on your own post, you must also  comment on two other posts on the BLOG.  *Total words for the three entries will be ~500 words! make sure to post your article or video in a separate post.

For October, all you have to do it post your article or video and discuss why you selected it.  In November, you will comment on two of the other students' posts. Total words will be 500 for the three items combined.  Worry about quality not quantity.

Alan Alda Split Brain Video

This is a really interesting video showing how a man functions in life with a split brain.  His left and right hemispheres of his brain do not communicate with each other because he underwent a surgery to minimize seizures.