IP30 – March 16: I was tricked into thinking spring was here! (now on with the show)
Good morning!
Today is the last period to finish up term 3 projects for the Term 3 report card. If you are done all of your projects, please help with proofreading the first 32 pages of the yearbook, which I will submit to Friesens as soon as possible. There are some essential photos missing (such as an src picture, team pictures for jr girls volleyball and for some curling teams), and any help with these is greatly appreciated. Otherwise, the options may be to leave them out of the final book, pay a late submission fee, or have the final printing delayed by a few months.
Also, if there are any cookbook recipes to type up, that would be the next thing to help with. If there aren’t any available, another information processing task has to do with adding descriptors/key words to photos in the online yearbook program. This would allow us to see at a glance how many times a certain person shows up or if someone is left out. Please see Mr. Stinson how to do this.
Thank you for the short discussion about ipods yesterday. For the time being, I am continuing to allow discretionary use of personal mp3 players in this particular course, with the following considerations.
Rather than ask everyone to completely refrain from using them at all times, I need you to use the following as your guide:
In this class, listening to personal music may be acceptable during tasks not requiring listening, reading or writing skills. For example, photo-editing an image, or experimenting with the design of a page layout.
-Use mp3 players for listening to personal music only occasionally, and with permission. If the task you are doing for the next few minutes fits the previous points and you feel like some background music would be nice, then ask if it is okay, and the response from me will likely be positive. If it is not the appropriate time or you find yourself not making progress with the viewing task, then it’s time to put the headphones away.
In the end, the instructor is the one who needs to make the call on what is appropriate in the classroom or lab, and what is not, but it helps if everyone understands or at least accepts the call.
PS Thanks for the feedback on building computers. I will be meeting with people this weekend about this, and hope to have it arranged for after the Easter break.
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There is a certain time when Ipods, MP3 players, etc are not appropriate, and there is a certain time when they can be. I don’t think the problems with music during classtime is as much a class problem as it is select students own problem. As long as you don’t abuse the system everything is fine. I do think that a large majority of our class follows the unwritten quidelines of when to use your Ipod and when not to. Yes, there are exceptions, but they should not be allowed to wreck something for everyone. This reminds me of when we were younger and a few people would act stupid in class so everyone in the class would have to stay later. Is it fair to prosecute everyone when only a few people are guilty of committing a crime? Do we all have to be punished? All it does is make me want to kill the classmates who have ruined it for everyone else.