Room 118

I am really good at keeping New Year’s Resolutions. In the beginning, that is. Then I start to get lazy. Well, I swear that I won’t get lazy this time around. New term, new students, clean classroom – what could possibly go wrong?

The only thing that I have to do right now is prepare for the first day. My LMS is up and ready to go – I even have all of Week One’s journals ready to go! The only two things that I have to do are rewrite the First Day Survey and get new folders for my classes. I don’t think I’ll get the folders by tomorrow. It’s 7:30 on a Sunday night now, so I think I’ll put that off until Tuesday. Besides, I don’t know if there will be a schedule change that might mess up my color coordination.

As a backup, I’ll post my old first day survey here just in case I don’t get my e-Instruction one working. It’ll be ready to go on Tuesday, though. I loved that survey.

A few new things that I am trying out this term:
1. I’m bringing back my folder system to keep all of our paper assignments organized.
2. I am keeping a discussion board on LMS that lists every activity that we do on a daily basis. You can ask questions and I can answer them!
3. For every grade that we do, there will be a drop box on LMS. That means if I take a class participation grade, you will need to post a message in the drop box. I promise I am doing this for a real reason – I had so many students who ended up getting zeros as “locked grades”. If you have ever had this happen to you, you know what a pain it can be.

Term Three Dates:
January 26th – First day of Term Three
March 9th – 13th – Spring Break
Last Day for Term 3: April 3rd

I do not yet know the dates for the Final Exams yet, but as soon as I know them, I will post them.

See you all soon!