1. Rebel Mouse and Storify
Kadeem, Akash, and Jared- Patriots Rebel Mouse
Manny, Andrew, and Amanda- Chipotle Rebel Mouse
Jocelyn, Emily, and Jose- Boston’s best food Storify
Sarah, Jen, and Damien- Halloween Storify
Ms. Goldsberry- MA State Election Rebel Mouse
Post-it reflection time: Please write down any observations or opinions about your experience with Rebel Mouse or Storify, and then use the iPad to digitize your Post-it.
2. Join me in class ONLINE this afternoon!
From 4-7pm you can join my Harvard Graduate School of Education class about online learning!
If you participate, you will receive significant extra credit. I will boost your quarter’s grade. For example, a B+ to an A- or a B- to a B.
You can participate in 1 of 3 ways:
Join the online class
a. Join the class by going to this online Hangout. You do need a Gmail account to participate. You can easily sign up for one for free in advance at https://mail.google.com/ if you don’t already have one.
To earn the extra credit, you should join and participate for at least a half an hour and you must write a very brief overview of your experience and give it to me on or before Thursday. I also must see you online to know you were there!
Contribute to the conversation on Twitter
b. If you can’t make it during class time, are a bit shy, or have technical issues, I will also offer extra credit if you tweet on Wednesday. You can follow along with the Twitter discussion at #t509massive. If you tweet, you must use that hash tag so you are part of the discussion and so I know you were there! You can follow the action on Twitter on this webpage (see sidebar on right) and can tweet from there, too, as long as you’re logged into Twitter.
To earn the extra credit, you should write at least three tweets, either responding to another tweet or posting your own, and you must write a very brief overview of your experience and give it to me on or before Thursday.
Build a Storify
c. If you can’t make it during class time, are a bit shy, or have technical issues, I will also offer extra credit if you build a Storify of tweets from Wednesday’s class. You can grab tweets from #t509massive. There should be plenty there to work with. If you do this activity, there should be a point to the tweets you’re curating. They should tell some kind of story and not just be a random mix of things. To receive credit, please send me a link to your Storify, which should be completed before Thursday’s class.
Tech issues or other problems?
If you have issues joining, or try to join after the class begins at 4pm, feel free to shoot me an email at agoldsberry@gmail.com at any time Wednesday afternoon/evening.
Quarterly Exam
You will begin your quarterly exam today. You will be fixing a messed up webpage, which will test your ability to use HTML. You are encouraged to use the following resources to help:
Fix This
You are going to fix the following code. Replace the incorrect code with the correct code.
To start, open a new, blank Notepad or Notepad ++ file. Copy and paste the following code. Then begin correcting the code. Don’t forget to delete the quotation marks and add them again in Notepad.
<! DOCTYPE html>
<head>
</head>
<title>This page title is in the wrong place and needs to be moved</title>
<body bgcolor=”yellow”>
<!– Please change the background color –>
</p>Is this paragraph code correct?<p>
<h1>Is this headline correct?</h2>
I want to be on my own separate line! I want to be on my own separate line, too!
<image src=”mustang1.jpg” />
<!– Please fix the image code above and replace the current image with one of your own –>
<p><a link=”http://www.medfordpublicschools.org/”>Something is wrong with this link to the school website</a></p>
<!– Please fix the link above, there is something wrong with it –>
<p><strong>Just some bold text in a paragraph, right?</p></strong>
<!– Something is wrong with the order of the HTML tags above –>
<em><p>This text is italicized!</p><em>
<p>Someone help me, I don’t want to be italicized!</p>
<ul>
<li>bullet list item</li>
<li>bullet list item<li>
</li>bullet list item</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>numbered list item</li>
<li>number list item</li>
<li>number list item</li>
</ul></ol>
</body>
</html>
Do This
After you have fixed the code, make sure you save the file correctly as a webpage. Then open it in Firefox.
Remember favicons? Please create a favicon for your webpage by going to http://favicon-generator.org/. Then insert the appropriate code (see the HTML Challenge document for the code and steps).
Extra credit:
– Embed a video on your page (YouTube or another video site)
– Add a weather banner to your page
– Add something else you think of to your page
Done?