Supplemental Learning - Getting Started

It's great to connect with you all to continue our learning journey throughout the remainder of the semester.

I will be sending you weekly tasks to complete. I will be sharing weekly blog posts each Monday morning ☀ that will outline your work for the week. You will be provided with one week to complete each set of tasks.

Teacher feedback will be provided throughout the remainder of the semester. Keep in mind - your academic grade can not decrease from your March 13th grade. If you do the work - try new things, show quality in your assignments, and engage in discussion, you will be awarded with a higher grade. We will have a "self assessment" in June where you will be able to assess yourself - what grade do you think you deserve?

Please complete the following to prepare for our first Monday morning blog post:

1. Create your own blog.

You will be creating a blog that will serve as a publishing platform. Everything you do form now until June will be uploaded on to your blog. Your blog is also where you will receive feedback from myself and your classmates.

You have freedom as to what blogging site you wish to use. I suggest you use wix.com - however, you can choose something different if you prefer (example: wordpress.com).

You also have freedom as to what your blog looks like. Be creative. Choose the layout that best represents you. Choose colours and photos that appeal to you. All I require is that each blog provides you will room to write and create. Also - make sure you choose the free version, as you are not required to pay for anything.

Blogs are wonderful learning platforms as they provide you will an opportunity to be a published author.

Once you have created your blog, please go to my forum: https://sgreghayes.wixsite.com/website/forum and comment the link to your website to the available thread.

2. Create a Twitter account.

If we are going to be published authors, we may as well share our progress with the world! During the remainder of the semester, there will be times when you will be required to "tweet" your writing out to share - the hope is that you will connect with other writers and authors.

If you already have a Twitter account, and you are comfortable in using it, please do so.

If you wish to create a new Twitter account for educational purposes, feel free to do that as well.

When your Twitter account is ready to go, follow @Sgreghayes on Twitter, and post your Twitter handle to my forum: https://sgreghayes.wixsite.com/website/forum in the appropriate thread. This way, we will be able to stay connected as a class.