The window for completing the student surveys is ….. August 29-September 15!
- DJI Drone
- CoDrone
- Robot Dog
- Smart Home Kit
- I found these club packs (as of now, it is showing 12 available) on Amazon. Each of these packs has 10 microbits and the price of the pack is showing $285. BBC MICRO:BIT Micro:bit v2 Go Club 10-Pack – Batteries and USB Cables Included https://a.co/d/bPvjYHL
- Cutebot (ASIN B081ZSCZTV)
- Vilros BBC Micro/Bit v@ Basic Starter Kit (ASIN B08WR4X7P9)
- NIMH AAA batteries ASIN B0915GQKVD
- Tenergy Premium PRO Rechargeable AAA Batteries, High Capacity 1100mAh NiMH AAA Battery, 4 Pack Rechargeable Batteries. Amazon Listing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0915GQKVD Regular Price: $6.99. Business Volume Discounted Price: $5.59 (20% discount). Important note: this listing and price is for a pack of 4 AAA batteries. If customer needs 2,000 AAA batteries, then the customer only needs to by 500 units of this ASIN B0915GQKVD.
- Battery Chargers for AA & AAA Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries (Ni-MH) With USB Port ASIN B07TGT9D98
- Tenergy TN474U 4-Bay NiMH/NiCD Battery Charger with LCD Display and USB Input, Portable Charger for AA/AAA NiMH and NiCD Batteries. Amazon Listing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TGT9D98. Regular Price: $12.99. Business Volume Discounted Price: $10.99 (15.4% discount). Quantity: 500 chargers
Micro:bit cutebot is a small programmable Bot designed for educational purposes for teaching programming. Go on the wonderful learning session with Dr. Iqbal where he covers hands-on Cutebots activities to teach programming, logic, and computational thinking. Teach your cutebot to stop its motion when an obstacle is in its way. Then build on the radio lessons from the Micro:bit session to make the cutebot a full-fledged remote-controlled vehicle with turn signals and horns. Woo-hoo!!
Link of makecode: MakeCode for Micro:bit
Session Slides: Summer-2023-Cutebot
Cutebot information: https://www.elecfreaks.com/learn-en/microbitKit/smart_cutebot/cutebot_car.html
- is non-stop writing.
- can move from topic to topic.
- is writing more than you think you can.
- is not censored; that means don’t worrying about spelling, grammar, and mechanics.
- is not worrying about how good the writing is.
- is keeping your pen on the paper and writing even if you do not know what to say.
- is writing that is not judged or graded.
- is a way to explore.
- is a way to improve thinking.
- builds fluency.
I was really fortunate to work closely with Peter Elbow since 2010. His impact on the teaching of writing is more impactful than words can say. Here is an excerpt about Freewriting if you would like to read more.
Name:____________________________Date:______________Block:___________
Ms. Franklin English IV
Revision occurs after you have a complete piece, although revisions occurs at all stages.
Match what you have already written with what you now wish to say.
Create out of the two a new piece that suits their present purpose
Revision never stops
The First Draft: Reseeing or Rethinking: changing what a piece says, the paper’s “bones.”
- You may realize it doesn’t say what you want it to say.
- You may crumple up what you’ve written and want to throw it away (actually keep in your portfolio but you don’t have to use it)
The Second Draft: Reworking or reshaping: changing how a piece says it, or changing the paper’s “muscles”
- You are satisfied with what you are saying, but not with how you said it.
- Working on “how” tends to mean thinking about readers: thinking about how your thoughts will be read or understood by people other than yourself.
- Feedback from readers is very useful at this level.
- One of the most common kinds of reworking is to improve clarity—clarifying sentences or transitions or whole paragraphs or changing the order of things, adding an introduction or conclusions and some transitions or getting rid of ideas or suggestions that seem unnecessary now.
- You may need to leave out parts that you like but that just don’t belong anymore.
The Third Draft: Copyediting or proofreading for mechanics and usage: checking for deviations from standard conventions, or changing the paper’s “skin.”
- This is what you do right before you hand something in.
- At the least, it is finding typographical errors.
You probably need to do these three levels in this order.
**borrowed from Elbow and Belanoff’s Being a Writer
**Natalie Goldberg makes a similar reference to in Writing Down the Bones.