Flex Time Sep 24

Hello students -- many of you seem to be using your flex time as intended: complete the notes & questions assigned in class, develop your various projects, read & reflect, and look through the media or online content that has been posted for you.

The next step is to start building in "accountability." -- being responsible to yourself and each other for the work that is required in a course of study at school (or any kind of work, for that matter). Over the next week, you need to choose a format for your assessment portfolio. This is the place or space where you put examples of your work from class, descriptions of what you have done, and evidence of your learning. Some other ways we'll keep accountable include: group and seminar check-ins, tests or verifications, project benchmarks, and this blog.

To be accountable for today's flex time, I would like each of you (the ones not on the leadership retreat, anyways) to leave a comment below with a very brief description of what you did today that is connected to our Language & Landscape program. Remember, you should not identify your personal info. Example: "added refs to my geography project, finished 1E & 1F notes, started a new book (Paper Towns), and signed up for Dropbox" - Marcy B

Today's "Flex" recommendations are as follows:

• write about what you are reading
• complete all questions & notes from lessons 1A-1F ("verification" test on Wed., Sept 25th - tomorrow!) -- if you are missing any you can get them under the Links section to the right
• last chance to complete your environmental/geographic issue research
• continue looking at options for digital (online) portfolios and perhaps settle on your choice
• all done? get ready for our next unit by watching some or all of this National Geographic video about the structure of the earth

Note: you can find all of the blog posts connected to Flex time by clicking flex in the Labels section to the right. Review these periodically to make sure you are up to date.