How Do You Find an Octopus???

Oh. My Gosh. This is sooo funny. I had no idea an octopus would commandeer a coconut shell to live in, let alone pick it up and run away with it!

Octopus snatches coconut and runs

Goin' Fishin'

How cool is this?

These are the deepest fish we can find.





Do you know where the Santa Fe Trail ruts are out towards Wilsey? They are five miles from town. This is how far down in the ocean these fish live.

I Want to Go Here

Feeling stressed out by finals?

Just need a break?

Really like to watch fish swim by?

This the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. Well worth the four and a half minutes you will (repeatedly) watch this.

Incredible New Pictures from Across the Pacific

The Daily Mail has a story and accompanying pictures of a pod of sperm whales chowing down on a giant squid. As you may or may not know, giant squid are rarely seen, so this is extremely exciting for the scientific community. That and they are just really cool pictures!

Moby Dick comes to life

The Water Cube

The pool in Beijing's Olympic Water Cube is 50% deeper and 25% wider than other Olympic pools. How could this have contributed to the large number of broken records in 2008? Answer as a post in your own blog with references to yesterday's lecture.

When you have the time

You can customize your blog in lots of ways. Here are some basic instructions as to how to do this.
1. Go to Google type in “Blogger templates.” You will get many, many sites that offer customized settings for your blog.
2. Choose one. Spend the next few minutes (or in my case, day and a half) and find a template that you love.
3. Select this template and find the button that allows you to download the file. Save it to the desktop. If it is saved as a zip file, unzip it.
4. It is ALWAYS a good idea to back up your blog before making any major changes like this.
5. Open Blogger Dashboard and choose “Layout”.
6. Click on the tab that says “Edit HTML.”
7. Browse for the template file and click on upload.
8. If all goes well, you should have a new look to your blog. Note that some widgets will not convert when you change your template, so you might have to go back and add them in again.

Since I'm Gone...

Okay everyone. Time for a regroup.

Since I'm going out to run around the lake today, we are going to catch up and forge ahead. Each of you need to check your email for the blog sections that you need to finish. GET THESE DONE TODAY! If for some reason, you have not emailed me yet...um...do that first.

A couple things about your posts and comments. These are essentially writing assignments. And as such should contain a good amount of information. Be sure you are writing a minimum of one paragraph!

Once you get those items checked off, you need to do today's assignment. Go to one of the following sites and choose a current ocean event. Describe the news. This does NOT mean copy and paste the article. This means describe in your own words. Then, write a reaction to the news. Why is this newsworthy? How does this affect you? (Yes, it does.)

Underwater Times
The Ocean Channel
Sea Web

Good Luck and behave for Mrs. G. Or I will give her permission to come after you.

My Intelligences

Oooookaaaaaayy...
So, I took the Multiple Intelligences test. My music smart was low. That was totally expected. I can't carry a tune to save my life. Linguistics was really high, a little higher than I thought. Logical, intrapersonal and naturalistic...right where I thought they might be.

The shocker came with the Interpersonal. This is how I interact with other people.

I scored lower on it than I did on the music.

I am a teacher.

With low interpersonal skills.

Any thoughts???

When You are Finished...

Hey, great job everyone getting all set up in Google world. If you haven't heard, gmail is being cranky right now, so be patient. If you can't send me an email right away, you can do that later. The other applications in Google don't seem to be affected, so just keep plugging away with those assignments.

I am gone today for cross country, so you have Mrs. Tischauser as your sub. Obviously, if you are reading this in class, you know that you will be working in the library. Today you will finish all the Google stuff you started yesterday.

When you have finished your Multiple Intelligence test, add a new post to your blog. The last question on Tuesday's currents lab will be your text. This is a summary of what you have learned in this lab. A conclusion. It should be well thought out and show that you understand how ocean currents are related to global wind patterns.

Once you have that posted, you need start following your classmates' blogs. You will need to talk to them and locate their blog. Anyone who started following me yesterday is now being followed by me and that blog is posted on the right side of the class blog. You can get to those blogs from there. At the end of the hour, you should be following 13 blogs, plus any outside ones you found yesterday.

Your assignment today is to make a comment on two of your classmates' blogs about their conclusion. If the conclusion is perfect, write that. If it lacks a bit of information or draws the wrong conclusion, point that out. This is constructive criticism. Do not write anything in the comments that you would not want written in yours.

You will be graded on your original post as well as the two comments you have made on your classmates' blogs. Spelling, grammar and punctuation are a part of your grade, so pay attention to what you are doing.

Should you accomplish all of THAT. Mrs. Tischauser has a Nike Shoe Lab for you to do.

To Know Yourself...

The Burning question that I would like you to answer in your blog is........


What type of learner are you ?

To answer this I would like you to take the Multiple Intelligences survey linked below. Record your scores in the different learning styles in a new post in your blog and write a short reaction to the results. Do you agree? How can this help you in your classwork?

Multiple Intelligences Test

Welcome

Welcome

This is a test.

This is only a test.

I am writing out instructions on how to create a blog.

Please don't ask me why there is nothing here :)