As you can see above, I tried to design a 9 week sketch of what I wanted to introduce my students to.  In this case, here is my 9th Grade Computer Literacy Class's overview for the 1st 9 weeks.  I had to do this for almost all of my classes, but it gave me reference point of what we could accomplish this 9 weeks.  As Im create my weekly plans, I look at this overview to see where we are going.  Anyway, these timelines made it a lot simpler for me to plan.

If you haven't noticed, my 10th Grade Yearbook Class started blogging.  Two of my students claim to be addicted already.  At least one of them is already trying to make money by using Google Adsense in his blog. If you would like to see some of these blogs, please look at the links on the right.  Already, my students have learned how to do the following:

The idea behind all of this Blogging is that the students will be presenting their perspectives on the school this year.  Keep checking back to this blog, and reading the students blogs as well as making comments on them, so that they are encouraged to keep on trucking....

My 9th Grade Class is fast at work, creating a brochure for the school.  I am very impressed with their knowledge of Microsoft's Word and their ability to use the different graphic capabilities therein.

Here's an image of Ellie Turner's brochure.