Keyboarding Posture

•  The screen should be 18-30 inches from your eyes, or about an arm's length.


• The top of the monitor should be at eye level because the eyes are at their most comfortable position straight ahead but slightly downward.


• The knuckles, wrist, and top of the forearm should form a straight line.


• The elbows should form a 90 degree angle


• Feet should be flat on the floor.


• You should change your sitting position at least every 15 minutes.

Facebook Privacy Settings

Be aware of your Privacy Settings when using Facebook. Set your preferences to protect your information.

Once logged in look in the upper left corner and click once on Account, then click on Privacy Settings



Select each area individually to check the settings with "Connecting on Facebook"



Select each area individually to check the settings with "Sharing on Facebook"



Select each area individually to check the settings with "Apps, Games and Websites"



For more information click on Contolling How You Share and read the sections to better understand how information is dis

Internet Monitoring Software

K9 Web Protection (recommended my middle school for laptops)

Webwatcher

SniperSpy


Spector Pro

Spytech SpyAgent

Spy Agent

How facebook is reshaping college admissions

Safeguarding Children - Websites

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/
www.connectsafely.org
www.stopcyberbullying.org
www.ikeepsafe.org
www.netsmartz.org
www.isafe.org
www.webwisekids.org
www.childnet-int.org
www.csriu.org

Cyberbullying

Watch BrainPop Cyberbullying and create an Animation-ish depicting what you learned.

Words to consider:

Cyberbullying
Rumor
Harassment
Impersonate
Anonymous

Blog Badge

1. Create a new post
   
   [caption id="attachment_1972" align="alignright" width="154" caption="Challenge Blog Badge"][/caption]


2. Insert an image


3. Browse to Student Group Work\LS\IT Upload


4. Select the file called Student Badge.PNG


5. Click Insert into post


6. Click on the HTML tab


7. Copy all the code


8. Paste into a text widget under Appearance-Widgets


9. Save


10. Check your blog see that it works.

Delete the post

Got Green?

Taipei American School
Geo Week
April 18th-22nd, 2011

Join the GEO Week and Earth Day celebrations next week by wearing colors and giving voice to Green Values.

Green Club is selling a T-shirt created by a collaboration of student artists who used original motifs to communicate values in the living of a green life. Please support their fund raising efforts in order to help animals and people in need.

We need your help:

• 
  
  Kindly help each other remember to wear the color of the day


• 
  
  T-Shirts go on sale in the lobby on Tuesday for NT300 and they will be on sale throughout the week


• 
  
  Celebrate with us by wearing the Got Green? Geo Week t-shirt on Friday, April 22nd

Have a healthy and happy EARTH week,

The Green Team

Blog Challenge

Here are the tasks you need to complete. Remember you do not need to do them all. Only the ones you feel comfortable with.

Go to the Challenge Yourself to Blog to find out more details about what you need to do.

Go to Mrs. Gorneau’s blog to find out how to complete a challenge. Use the Search widget to find what you need. (Google Translate, Avatar, Clustr Map).

Email me if you need help.

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Items you can have on your blog for the challenge:

1. About Page (no personal details-last name, address, phone number) – Pages - About

VISUAL LOOK

1. Changed Theme (must allow widgets….Goodreads)


2. Header (source cited) if theme supports one     - Appearance-Header    (text widget)


3. Background (source cited) if theme supports one  - Appearance-Background    (text widget)

Categorize and Tag all posts. You might want to create a category for Blog Challengeand add the posts that are relevant to that category.

WIDGETS

1. Tags (2 per post) (Tag widget)


2. Categories (1 per post, Not uncategorized)     (Categories widget)


3. Links  (FOSS Science, Math Connects, etc…)     (Links widget)


4. Avatar     (Blog avatar widget)


5. Goodreads     (HTML Javascript Adder widget)


6. Clustr Map     (text widget)


7. Google Translator     (HTML Javascript Adder widget)


8. Comments (10 people, 10 different countries, from: Challenge Blog)


9. Get your badge and add it as a widget (text widget)

POSTS

1. Write a post about your favourite colour and include at least three images. (Copyright and caption)


2. Write a post about a global activity you have taken part in


3. Write a post in another language


4. What is a digital footprint?


5. Write a post about why students and classes should visit your blog.


6. Write a post about the importance of tags and categories


7. Miss W needs to find her way to your community


8. Where in the world would you like to find your way to?


9. Add a Wordle, ToonDoo, Your own images, create an image (paint program or similiar)

OTHER

1. Create a poll


2. Create a slideshow or gallery of avatars or images



Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover

Anatomy of a Landfill

Follow the Waste Stream

Roscoe's Recycle Room Fun Facts

EcoHouse Game

A Day Made of Glass by Corning

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5th Grade Test Taking Vocabulary

Go to the Spelling City link to practice vocabulary.

Mystery Photo

[caption id="attachment_1907" align="alignnone" width="358" caption="What am I?"][/caption]

I took this photo at Taroko Gorge. Can you tell what it is?