August 15, 2024

Week 1 - Course presentation

CLASS OBJECTIVE:

To show the syllabus presentation, the rules and the evaluation criteria for Technology class, to inform the studentes the behavior expected from them and the way they'll be graded during the course.


CLASSROOM LAYOUT

  1. Students can't come into the lab with their backpacks, so they'll leave them in the place indicated by the teacher.
  2. Computers will be assigned to each student and remain off until the teacher indicates.
  3. The attendance list will be verify and correct if neccesary.
    


IDEC ACCOUNTS
Once again IdeC students will have personal user names and password, we won't have a shared Windows account to turn on the computer anymore. In order to use your private account you'll have to create a safe password, write it down in your daily planner (agenda) and follow the next instructions.
  1. Turn the computer on and wait for Windows to ask for your user name.
  2. Type your student number starting with an A. For example: A12345
  3. Type the next generic password:
  4. The system will ask you to change the password. Type your new password.




GOOGLE ACCOUNT

Students will turn on the computers and open their Google account.

Important informations for new students
  • Teacher will provide the temporary password to open the Google account.
  • This temporary password must be immediately changed to a personal password.

Before continuing, all students must have their personal account open to switch google language to english.




GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Students must open Classroom service to check if all the invitations from their teacher have been accepted.
  • For new students, teacher should make a brief explanation of how Classroom operates.




COURSE PRESENTATION 
  1. Briefly, recall the topics covered in previous courses.
  2. Indicate that the =IF() function from spreadsheets will be taken as a reference to start with the third grade course.
  3. The main topic in third grade will be PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, to create solutions for simple problems through the use of programming codes. Examples: Raptor, PSeInt, Python, HTML, Scratch, among others.



CLASS BLOG PRESENTATION 
As many know, in this class we use a Blog to give you information and instructions for every topic, so we recommend that you take note of the next web address.


Open the blog because the Internal Rules of the Class and the Evaluation Criteria will be read.





HOMEWORK
Both documents, class rules and evaluation criteria, must be printed and pasted in the first page of Techno's notebook.