Biddle’s Blog

We are in testing season. Oh wait! In Kentucky, that’s all year long now!!

Algebra II, English 10, and U.S. history students took End of Course Assessments this week.
Socialnomics students made QR codes for a website of their choice. Next, they made one for a book of their choice. We will be helping Mrs. Gifford make QR codes for library books. We are hoping that students will be able to scan them to learn more about the book.

Students have taken a look at how web pages are created with HTML. Avatars were created online. Warmups were done using the front pages of newspapers across America and other Internet sites.

Using iMovie, the Internet, and PhotoBooth, students learn how easy it is to make a movie from still photos and video footage. They also learn to edit, extract sound, and add sound, music, transitions, and other special effects.

It’s time for nine weeks tests which are semester exams for semester classes like mine.
Here’s the schedule:
3/7 5th and 7th
3/8 2nd and 6th
3/9 picture day
3/12 1st and 3rd

HCHS celebrated Mardi Gras(Fat Tuesday) on Wednesday for a couple of reasons. We weren’t in school on Monday and we didn’t want students to forget the activities and the KOSSA test was Tuesday. Students wore green, gold, purple, and some wore masks and costumes. They collected beads, fleur-de-lis, coins, and other items to earn points for their classes. The sophomores won the first ever Voodoo Spirit stick. A. Gray and K. Armstrong won trophies for the best costumes!!

Students will use the Internet to find a top 3 list of something that interests them, like the top 3 teams who have won the most Super Bowls or World Series. They will create a PowerPoint with action buttons, pictures, designs, animations, bullets, and graphs. They will use Excel to make a pictograph. This assignment hopefully helps those who have never created a PowerPoint. It may teach all of them about creating action buttons and pictographs.

QR codes are just fun and easy. It will be nice when the day comes that students can use their own devices to read these throughout our school.
Will that ever happen?

There are so many free web tools out there. It’s hard to keep up with all of them. If you just want to have some fun, try smyface.com.
For some help with a bibliography, use easybib.com.
Want to create a short story but aren’t artistic? Try storybird.com!!

Students made their own infographics  using Word’s draw tools and examples from the Internet. Look for a link to these soon.