ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Students, please, every single time that
you have to answer a questionnaire either in class or at home, and there are
multiple choice questions included in the assignment, I require from you to answer
those questions with the letter that you chose as correct response followed by
the complete content of the response chosen under that letter. Understand that
the only situation in which you are not required to do that, I mean, where you
can only answer with the letter corresponding to the response of your choice,
is when you are completing a Scantron Form, or any
other multiple choice test like the Baseline Assessment test, Interim
Assessment Tests, EOC (End of the Course) Tests, etc.
For being the beginning of the school
year and not having specified this to all my new students, I graded all the
answers with letter only as complete answers. From any assignment due on
08/29/13 or after, I will consider the answers that show only a letter as
incorrect answers.
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The gradebook shows an assignment
entitled Lab Safety Contract signed completed. It does not count for a grade.
To interpret the grades that appear under that assignment follow this rubric:
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The grade A means that the student
complied and submitted the completed document
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A grade of F means that the student
submitted it, but the most important information requested is missing (like the
signature of the parent/guardian, or the parent/guardian e-mail address in the
personal info form
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A grade of Z means that the student has
not returned the form yet
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ON 08/22/16 we start classes at 7:20 AM. I hope to see you on time
at room 247. Make your best to be in class already sitting down before the bell
rings.
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Take
advantage of these free tools available for you.
Keep
these websites among your favorites:
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Brightstorm.
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Our
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Some
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The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a
not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing
a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
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All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't
matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler,
principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien
just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials
and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
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VideoLectures.net.
Exchange Ideas and Share Knowledge. VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access
educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished
scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like
conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many
fields of Science. The portal is aimed at promoting science, exchanging ideas
and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not
only to the scientific community but also to the general public. All lectures,
accompanying documents, information and links are systematically selected and
classified through the editorial process taking into account also users'
comments.
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The ones that have access to an iPad, iPhone, or iPod
touch may download for free the Application entitled “ITUNES U”. This
application gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and
other schools – plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free educational
content – right on your ipad, iphone,
or ipod touch.
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Help
yourself. Spend less time on social networking and games. Spend more time
tutoring yourself on whatever subject you need to improve at school, whatever
subject is related with your future profession, and whatever you like, even if
it is not so related to your future profession. Knowledge is power.
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If you
know any other free educational source that should be listed here, please, let
me know it as soon as possible in order to inform all my students, colleagues,
parents, and the public in general. Send me an e-mail at: mailto:S.Pagani@dadeschools.net
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Thanks
a lot in advance.
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In any research paper that you will do for this class, please,
do not forget to include the references following the APA style of citation
rules.
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You may use the following link to help yourself on this matter: http://www.citationmachine.net/index2.php
, click on the APA link at the top left corner, and
choose the type of media source that you need to list in your preferences, enter
the required information, and click submit. In the screen will appear the
correct way to list that particular source in your references (Which you can
highlight, copy, and paste in your references. Please, list them in
alphabetical order). Under it will appear the way in which you should cite part
of the information on that particular reference in the text.
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If you prefer to visit a website with descriptions on the APA
citation style, you can go to:
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Be aware that now you can
receive any alert on your smart phone 24 hours a day and 7 days a week about
your child grades and attendance. Clink on this link and learn how to do it: https://dadeschools.eduvision.tv/default.aspx?q=3SfVi13wT7TgR81xmmFODQ%253d%253d