Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Week 7 Day 2

Some other classes still have their team presentations, and we are very fast compared to them. So we have another tech time for today!

1. There was too much sunlight in the room, so Mr. Rick had to close the curtains. The thing that he forgets is to turn on the lights, but that's alright.


After that, everyone wants to know what the Team Presentations scores are, so Mr. Rick wanted to read it out loud. Some don't want to know their score, so their scores aren't read out.


This is the raw score, where the scores are not the final one. Mr. Rick has to grade it on a curve, which means we get additional scores too boost the ones we have now.

After that, Mr. Rick has to say something to us. He tells us stories of a few people.


There was a class where there were many negative energy of students misbehaving. There was this girl who is nice and not misbehaving and who are with nice friends. Because Mr. Rick needs to pay attention to the misbehaving students, he didn't pay attention to this girl. So her scores are not that great. But when she were given time to study herself, she did very well.

There is another story about misbehaving students. There was a gang that couldn't do good in their scores, and were jealous of the ones who could. So anyone in their class who gets good scores would treat them badly and called them names. Another student wanted to do differently. He studied well and got good scores. During the graduation, this student was called names by the gang who couldn't do well. But this student did very well at his scores.

Mr. Rick also told us another story that we should always remember. It is only an illustration. One day there was this Mexican who went to a store to buy crabs. When he went in the store he saw many baskets of crabs that are alive. Most of them were covered with something to let them stay in the basket, but one basket full of Mexican crabs were not covered. He asked the shopkeeper why that basket is not covered. The shopkeeper replied that other types of crabs, when one escapes can bring others along with them and all would escape. But for Mexican crabs, when one escapes, the others pull it back inside the basket to prevent it from escaping. That is why the basket was not covered.

These stories tell us a lesson. We should influence others to be good, so everyone will also be good.

Okay now... Tech Time!.


Again, tech time is free time on the computer, but you are not allowed to play games, except the ones that Mr. Rick recommends. (Plus earphones or ear wires are not allowed) We are asked to open Schoology to go to the links that are the educational games. Because of everything electronic here doesn't work (except the AC) there is no computer. Even the speaker wires are cut! So Mr. Rick tells us to play by ourself, using the given link in Schoology. The group is enjoying the games.


The game is called "Walk the Plank". After trying to fix everything, Mr. Rick finally got the projector to work. But there are no sounds because the speakers don't work as the wires are cut and broken. But here it is...


Actually, here is a better picture.


And this will happen to the teacher if you win.


There are two types of the game. Mr. Rick played each twice. These educational games can help you learn for the exams that are coming up.

Everyone is enjoying their tech time. Then, it is time to go home. Next week is a big thing, it is our IT based exams!


2. What we can do better everyday is to pay attention to the teacher who is in front and stop being busy with ourselves. and next week are the IT based exams, I hope everyone will study well, and... Good Luck!

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