23 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
Everyone should have received at least two e-mails from me today. One from my e-mail address and one from Learnboost with login information. Learnboost is where you can check your grade in the class. If you didn’t receive one or both of these check your spam folder. If nothing is there then it probably means you didn’t fill out the student survey and I don’t have your e-mail information. You will have to contact me.
*Periods 1, 3 & 5 should have received three e-mails today. The two mentioned above and one regarding HW.
21 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
I want to thank all the students who have thus far followed my directions. You all rock! Seriously, there are little things that I have to do at the beginning in order to get the blogs going and keep them going. When you do your part, it makes my job just a tad easier. Thankfully the majority of you followed the check list and took care of business.
Unfortunately there are a handful of students that did not. I’ve just deactivated a bunch of blogs for various reasons. If yours is one of them do not e-mail me, come see me so we can fix it.
There are a great number of students (especially in period 2) that haven’t taken care of all the things I asked for. This will hurt your grade. It’s your grade, please take care of business. If you don’t understand you need to ask.
19 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
If you post your blog and the time is off. Sign in and from your dashboard go to “settings”, “general” and you can fix the time. It should update your blog immediately.
18 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
Sadly I’m already having issues with students not following simple directions. I set aside this weekend to take care of all the technology related “stuff” that I have to do AFTER your survey and permissions are submitted. There is a lot of work that goes on to get student names in my gradebook and e-mail lists. I had also planned on adding all your blogs to my RSS reader. Okay, I understand about the blogs & missing explanation videos. That’s not a problem.
HOWEVER, more than 1/2 of period two and five have not completed the survey and a good many more students from my other classes have not completed it as well. The only class that at first glance appears complete is period six.
THIS IS A PROBLEM. I cannot do what I need to do until everyone has submitted their documents. Remember, I have given VERY little homework out these past 2 weeks so that this could be handled. I’m rather peeved right now because not only does this mess with my plans it also effects the students who handled business and got their stuff in.
The survey COUNTS as a grade. If you did not complete it by the due date you WILL receive late credit.
Now I cannot update e-mail lists, nor can I start working on the gradebook until next weekend. I had shut down the survey, however I will re-open it. Just be aware that you will receive late credit. And if you don’t fill it out I can’t add you in my gradebook! So please get it done!
Oh, and because I can’t get the e-mail lists together this week it will be even more important to check this site each night for any important announcements.
15 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
I’m sorry if there’s any confusion about the RSS reader. Maybe I can do a mini lesson in classes next week. Until then…
If you want to add scribe posts (comments) into your RSS reader copy & paste this into your reader program: http://lahaiseslair.com/comments/feed/
If you want to add my site posts into your RSS reader you can just copy and paste this into your add subscription area: http://lahaiseslair.com/feed/
15 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
1. I’ve ditched the forum. Your new place to post the daily scribe is under each periods “tab”. Just paste it in the comment and hit submit. I think this is a “cleaner” way to go anyway.
2. My screencast videos have vanished from the site. I’m working on getting them up ASAP. Hopefully tonight, but if I have to remake them it will be tomorrow.
3. The calendars seem to have also disappeared. I’m working on that issue first. Please check back often, but it should be fixed by tomorrow (Friday).
4. If you registered for a blog and you can’t find it that’s because I deactivated a few due to students not following instructions.
5. Due to some confusion I’ve renamed the Bi-WR “tab”/assignment to Blog Info. Hopefully this makes more sense. I’ve also updated the instructions so please take a peek at that page.
11 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
This is an EXCELLENT little clip about what blogging is really about. This is what I’ve been trying to get across to you all this week. Maybe Mr. Sullivan’s words will resonate with you more than mine. BTW…notice one of your vocabulary words? 
08 Sep 2011
by PLahaisein Uncategorized
Because many of you don’t know what a good scribe post looks like I am setting up a blog with scribe examples. Please note that you want to do more than a simple outline of what happened in class. Think “if I were absent today what would I need/want to know”. This thought should be your guide when it comes your turn to be the daily scribe.
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Everyone should have received at least two e-mails from me today. One from my e-mail address and one from Learnboost with login information. Learnboost is where you can check your grade in the class. If you didn’t receive one or both of these check your spam folder. If nothing is there then it probably means you didn’t fill out the student survey and I don’t have your e-mail information. You will have to contact me.