Week 1 - Course presentation

CLASS OBJECTIVE:

To show the syllabus presentation, the rules and the evaluation criteria for Technology class, to inform the students 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 FOR NEW STUDENTS

IdeC students have a personal user name and password for thier network accounts. 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
Now everybody must turn on computers in order to open Google accounts. Try opening Gmail, using the next format.

Important informations for new students:

• Your teacher will provide you with the temporary password to open your new Google account.
• This temporary password must be immediately changed to a personal and secret password.

Before continuing, all students must have their institutional account open because we're going to switch google language to english.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Students must open Google Classroom (http://classroom.google.com) to check if all the invitations from their teachers have been accepted.

• For new students, teacher should make a brief explanation of how Classroom operates.

COURSE PRESENTATION 

1. Briefly, your teacher will recall the topics covered last course.
2. He'll Indicate that 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. Some examples: Raptor, PSeInt, Python, HTML, Scratch, among others.

CLASS BLOG PRESENTATION 

As many of you know, in this class we use a Blog to give you information and instructions for every session, 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 readen.

HOMEWORK

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