Monday April 6th Update and Outlook

Good Morning, Happy Monday!

I apologize for my absence over the past two weeks, mainly the fact that there was not consistency with the sub in my place.  That is unacceptable.  There are certain things that may not have been clearly communicated and, while frustrating, it is clear that, at miniumum, it was made clear you were to be working with the website codeacademy.com.

With that said, you are responsible for completing the 5 Unit "Make a Website" program in CodeAcademy.  This will be due on the Friday before Spring Break meaning you will have 2 full weeks to work on this still (plenty of time).  While there were blog posts and edutyping requested of you during my absence, I do understand that this may not have been clearly communicated.  With that said, each of you who posted a blog during my absence will receive 5 extra credit points for each day you posted.  You may not go back and make these up.  They were either posted during the weeks of 3/23-27 and 3/30-4/3 or they were not.  As for Edutyping, although you were also responsible for a lesson of edutyping each day, again, I recognize this may not have been clearly communicated.  For that reason, I wish to make it clear that you will have until next Friday, April 24th, to be completed with Unit 2, Lesson 9.2.  That would be one lesson for the 8 days I was gone and 2 lessons over the next two weeks.

Finally, for today's blog post, please respond to the following:

1. How was your weekend?
2. How have you been doing in school, academically, over the past two weeks?
3. What struggles have you had? What areas have you been doing particularly well in?
4. What was your impression of codeacademy and making a website?  What challenges have you faced?  Successes?
5. How well did you use your time during my absence?  Be honest!!  Were you here everyday?  Focused? Working hard?  Could you have been more on task?

Thanks for a thorough, thoughtful response.  Glad to be back!