Archive for the 'Assignments' Category
Blogging Ideas
A week of blogging… Monday Mashup Using a photo from a friend or a photo with the right CC license, make a mashup using a cool editing program. Then publish it on your blog. Don’t forget to share with the original owner what you did and properly attribute the photo to the original owner too. [...]
Doing the Stuff
Imagination. I love the new commercial for Canon on creativity, imagination, and contributing. You can view it here. Here’s another inspiring one from Apple–Think Different. On November 23, we are going to have a “genius hour”–a time for you to imagine and do whatever you want! Gary Stager shared ten things you can do on [...]
Local History Glogs
After a unit on local history, eighth graders visited a harvest festival, celebrating pioneer life and spirit on the prairie. They have created glogs showing what they learned. Click on the images to see their blog post.
Week 4 Blog Work
This week’s blogging challenge is about curating or organizing our online information. I thought this picture was funny because it shows how disorganized we can be with hardware. Our digital world can be disorganized too. Today we will take some steps to be more organized in your blogging world. Congratulations to Matthew, Ashley, Brittany, Melissa, [...]
The Raven
Seventh graders have been reading and studying ballads. We are now reading “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. This post is a homework assignment for them. Here is a new video to follow along with as you read “The Raven” for homework this weekend. (Sorry, I couldn’t find a good copy of The Simpson’s version, [...]
Way to go, Bloggers!
Congratulations to these Krebs’ Class Bloggers who were featured on the “Visit These” blog page this week. Molly, Ryan, Allison, Crystal, Abby If you don’t know how to get on the visit page, ask one of them. Congratulations to Nicole and Brittany whose blogs were recommended by other students. Everyone Mr. Heinrich asked us to [...]
Declaring Independence
Read through the slides and see how far you can go, reading the introduction to the Declaration of Independence.
Shape Poem – What do you envision?
Our next poetry assignment is to create a shape or picture poem. You can use paper, magazines, construction paper or any materials really. It can be any size. Please be creative and inspired! You can also create it digitally. Here are two digital examples. For a digital version, you can use Glogster, Word, Draw, or [...]
Leave Your Blog URL When Visiting Others
Here are step-by-step instructions for leaving your URL in a comment. First, open a new post and call it “playground”. This is one you will not post, but it will remain in draft form, a place to practice. On your practice page, write a message about your blog in Visual view. Something like: My blog [...]
Blogging with Mrs. Schueder
OK, blogger geniuses! Stay busy and make me proud. Here are the assignments you should finish by the end of the period today. Finish your avatar if you haven’t already. Register for the blogging challenge. Leave a wish on the Wall Wisher. Ask Matt, Brittany, Abby or Melissa if you need help. Your wish won’t [...]
