Final Tech Project

Our final tech project has begun, well, it will begin for 7F on Wednesday, 7S started it on Friday. We only have about 9 classes left to get it finished, so rather than letting them choose their own problem to solve as I originally planned, I'm giving them one. They have been assigned groups. Those students who wrote a blog post about whether they wanted to keep their old group or not got what they wanted. Everyone else has been assigned a new group.


They will go through the entire design process, as they did for the last project. Their work will be presented on their group wiki and they are expected to write a personal journal on Kidblog about how their group worked and what they accomplished after each class. A sample wiki has been posted that gives a clear description of what their wiki should look like and outlines the content they should have on each page.


There is no time to waste! Hopefully we won't lose too many classes due to unforseen circumstances, but even if we get all the classes I am expecting, students are going to have to stay on task every class in order to do the best job they can. They've been through this process once now. This time should be easier and faster for them!

Homework - Group Requests

At our last tech class the Grade 7's were all asked to write a blog post stating whether they wish to keep the group they worked on the composter project with or take their chances on being assigned a new group. I sat down today to put groups together for next week's class only to discover that only 5 students from Mrs. Stuckey's class and 3 students from Mr. Forsey's class have done their homework. This is very disappointing. I need to have these groups organized for Monday and with no input from the students, I'm going to have to pick the groups for them.

If they want to have a say in their groups for the design activity that they will be working on for the rest of the year, they need to have a blog post submitted by 8:30 Sunday morning!