More info on Cornell notes

I am really like the Cornell Notes System for taking notes. If you are still having problmes there are some sites to check out that have more info on the system below. My best advice is to stick with it and try to make it your own. In a nutshell you organzie your paper into thirds: the first 2.5 inches starting from the left is for your cue or your the main idea of that day's notes, the next third or 6 inches form the right of your paper is for the notes themselves, and the last third of bottom 2 inches is for the summary of the day's notes.

The que should be the main idea of the days notes. No more than 2 to 3 words max.
The notes sections is for you to jot down things that are new to you, numbers, dates, lists, directions, definitions, etc.
The summary section is just 1 to 2 sentences that wraps up what the above notes are about.

Resources to check out:
http://coe.jmu.edu/LearningToolbox/cornellnotes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes
http://lsc.sas.cornell.edu/LSC_Resources/cornellsystem.pdf

What are some easier ways to measure distance?

Some easier ways to measure distance are:
~Having longer measuring tools. The longer the tool, the lower you have to count.
~Using bigger measuring units such as feet, meters, or miles.
~Using familiar measuring units. The more familiar the easier it will be to measure.

Flow chart question and answer

Sammie & Vanessa November 1st, 2010

Flow chart question and answer

Question: Is there a simpler way to do a flow chart other than in Microsoft Publisher?

Answer: Yes, there is a simpler way to do a flow chart other than in Microsoft Publisher. In Microsoft Word you can.To get there go to Insert. Then go to Illustrations (below Picture, Clip-Art, Shapes, SmartArt and Chart. After that go to SmartArt. Then 'Choose a SmartArt Graphic' Comes up (don't exit out of it). Then go down to Process. Choose one of the flow charts that are shown. After you have chosen the flow chart you've wanted then click OK on the bottom right hand corner next to Cancel. Type in the steps to your flow chart. Then you have a simpler way to do a flow chart other than in Microsoft Publisher.

How this could be applied in other classes is by someone following directions. For example, in science you have to follow the directions on a lab. Sometimes you have to make it up. But then sometimes your teacher makes it up for you. We also could use it in math to help us remember how to do a problem like when adding integers or numbers.

Issues With Flowcharts

Apars  & Gloria
Tech II
Period 3
10-27 to 10-28
Overcoming difficulties
with flowcharts

What do you do to overcome inaccurate measurements?

You can figure out where they really wanted us to do by using logic. You can think of ways of correcting their mistakes by your own directions. You can also do the whole process yourself and write down your own directions and then refer them to the other person’s directions. If the measurements are different (ex. meters and cm) convert them and then follow the other directions. If the measurement is incorrect, think of the best possible answer and then follow the rest of the directions. Sometimes, we misinterpret the writers directions. Read the directions again and see if you missed anything.

How can you use flowcharts in math?

You can use flowcharts in various ways in math. It is helpful for many kids. They can follow the steps easily through flowcharts because we use kid friendly language. They can understand how to evaluate and solve expressions really fast if they use flowcharts. It’s like a patient teacher that waits as long as it has to till the student finally learns.

Flow Chart problem

Kyle & Cameron 10-27-10

period 3

flowchart question

One problem I have about flow charting is that they can get hard to read if there is a lot of shapes with writing in it because you only have a certain amount of space and if you start squishing them together they get really tiny and putting them going a lot of different ways than it can be hard to read.

An answer to this problem is that you can zoom in by using f9 and or use more of the space of the document so that the steps are spread out and then the shapes can be larger.

Capitalize the letter in the first sentence and you can change the word boxes into shapes because they can be diamonds.-Ray

Change the word size a little smaller. It should be small enough to read.-Chester

Titling your untitled documents

Are you having trouble titling your documents in google docs? Are unable to locate the document you need through the tons of "untitled documents" in your google docs? Then what you need to do is the following.

When you have the document open that you are working on do the following:

1. Look to the top of the doucment to the right of the google docs logo
2. click where it says untitled document
3. When the dialogue window opens type in the name of your doument.
4. Click on ok

Bam you have titled your document.

Tech 1: Typing

Now that we have done 3+ weeks of typing it is time to work on speed. I would like to hear what your goals are for your first speed test this Friday and what your plans are for meeting them.

This is a journal entry so your comments should follow the grading rubric for journal entries use following link to view Journal: http://bit.ly/9jWC7X. Also you need to identify yourself with your first name so you can get credit.

Rough drafts of programs

As you are working on writting your program to the 50 yard line there are some things to keep in mind:

1. What measurement are you going to use?
2. Be descriptive in what you want your robot to do
3. Try out your program (proofread) often to make sure you are on target

What advice would you give to improve this activity. How could you apply this to the outside world?

Flow charting

For those in my tech 2 class we are 2 days in the flow charting and I would like to hear from you about how it is going. In your response what do you think could be done differently and what can you tell me about a flow chart?

No talk to Mr. G day

Now that we have had our first no talk to Mr. Garrett day I would like to have some discussion about how it went. From my point of view things went well. I really liked how most of you found a way to talk with  me as well as talked with each other when you encountered an issue. I know that I need to work on checking my email regularly as well as checking the question annoucement on lanschool. My questions to you are:
1. How could I have done a better job?
2. What ways did you use to communicate?
3. What are some struggles you had?
4. What could you do differently next time?

Sending in assignments

Be sure to title your assignments when sending them in to me. Untitled documents shared with me will not be accepted.

Light sensor

An interesting fact about the light sensor is that it senses things in grey scale not color. Meaning that it doesn't actually see the red and blue ball it sees a dark grey (blue) and light grey (red) ball.

Mr. Garrett out

I will be filling in for Mr. Robinson on Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday. If you need to get ahold of me you may email me, or add a post to the blog.

Battery Charging

It is your responsibiliy to make sure your batteries are charged. When you turn on your robot there is a battery indicator that lets you know how full your battery is charged.

To charge your battery find a charging station for your battery (white small connector, grey large connector), plug in your battery, see if there is a charged on in the charge box. Remember they take about 4 hours to charge.

Lego light sensor

Students working with lego NXT lego light sensors today and struggling with how to use them. This is a perfect opportunity to show them how to use the help menu on the NXT programming progam. Will be interesting to see what they find out and if they choose to share this information.

Along to that end any information that any of you can shed on the subject might be helpful to them and me as well.

Trying out posting from my phone. Also working on planning out our move unit in robotics.

Robots full swing

We are full swing into our robotics lessons now. We have done some lessons on creativity and the basic Lego NXT robotics vocabulary. Students need a good job of mastering these concepts and we will be revisiting them as the semester progresses.

We have started with our demo lessons and will be working on them for the next couple of weeks. In these lessons students are learning the in's and out's of the programing blocks, building, following directions and troubleshooting. From here we will be moving into exploring blocks and senors through a series of challenges where students need to build a robot to complete a specific task.

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