Thursday, February 7, 2008

2-7-2008 (A Day) Happenings

I welcomed students and took attendance. I checked for supplies, collected any outstanding Student Information and Parent/Guardian Sheets and checked the Communication Vocabulary and Communication Review Questions. Students were assigned to small groups and took 12 point Communication Quiz on the reading. We reviewed the answers and then I presented a PowerPoint on the Communication Theory concepts. During the presentation, students took notes on pages 19-20 of their Communication Packet. We then completed the Drawing Activity, paired-and-shared and discussed the communication process in relation to the Drawing Activity. I assigned the Communication Model Activity and shared an example of a detailed scenario followed by labels of the communication process (sender, message, receiver, feedback and noise). Students spent the remainder of the block completing the Communication Model Activity and/or doing RIF.

Assignment
  • Complete Communication Model Activity. (DUE Monday)
  • Respond to the Communication PowerPoint Discussion blog entry. (Due Monday)
  • Respond to the Communication Drawing Activity blog entry. (Due Monday)
  • If you'd like, vote on the polls.
  • If you were unable to set up your RSS Reader, go to www.netvibes.com and set up your Netvibes account.
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    • Click on Register now on the left side of the screen.
    • Enter your email and create a password.
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    • Click on New Tab and label the tab 8th Grade Blogs.
  • If you were unable to complete, read That's A Lot of Blogs entry. Although you are not required to respond and it is not worth any points, if you'd like to respond, you may. (DUE Monday)
  • If you were unable to complete, respond to the Communication Text Thoughts blog entry. (DUE Monday)
  • If you have not yet done so, return Student Information and Parent/Guardian Sheet. (DUE Monday)
  • Check Mr. Buckley's LRT Blog (www.mrbuckleyslrtblog.blogspot.com) daily and complete any tasks that are added.
  • Bring all supplies to class.
All extra credit assignments are optional.
Mr. Buckleys' LRT Blog--mrbuckleyslrtblog.blogspot.com
Mr. Buckley's LRT Wiki--
mrbuckleyslrtwiki.pbwiki.com
Please remember that all handouts can be downloaded and printed out at http://edline.net/.

2 comments:

Emily A said...

mr buckley i think that you are very orginized and on task thanks it makes homework a lot easier

Jon Buckley said...

Emily--thank you for the nice comments. I'm glad you find it helpful.