Interim Report 1

       English class has been a great course so far.In English class this year it's a little different because we are doing all of our assigned assignments on blogger I have experience with blogger because in my grade 7 class we used blogger to write about different topics and , we commented on each other's blogs so that classmates could give you positive and negative feedback about your assignments. For grade 10 English its's similar but in addition we are using another website it's called Edmodo and that's were we can find assigned homework and due dates for assignments it's a new website for me but I am liking it so far and now I know very well how to use it. We haven't learned that much yet because it's only been 3 weeks into the semester but we have done a blog posts about A Literacy Term, Extended Metaphor, The Myers & Briggs Personality Test which is a test where you have to answer a bunch of questions and then for the results you get 4 words that describe and they also have a paragraph about your personality, jobs that suit your personality and famous people that have the same personality as you I have never done or heard of the test before but I enjoyed learning more about my personality and myself. 

        But when it comes to that repeated question all parents ask what is my child's grade ? our teacher and now I have started to believe that if we would just go to school to get grades , and then our parents rewarded or punished us for getting good and bad grades then what are you learning at school ? That's why our teacher is letting us choose our grade so we can highlight our achievements and failures and give an accurate percentage that we both can agree on so we won't be getting a percentage or grade just yet because we feel we need some more time to complete more assignments and to define our strengths and weaknesses. But when we as a class complete more assignments and have assignments to compare what we did to others work that's when the most accurate time to self asses and get feedback from the teacher and my classmates. 

         But parents can also get the group code to join and look at our edmodo page and what assignments are assigned. Also it's great to have our class paperless because for one thing it saves lots of paper from being used then trashed or recycled it also teaches us new ways to use technology for educational reasons because you have to admit you would rather be on your phone then to use a paper and pen and do questions from a textbook. Using technology blogger and edmodo is so much more helpful too because you can read other peoples blogs and comment and then you can compare your post to theirs and if you see something that you like and you want to add it , you could write rewrite something similar in your blog as the teacher says ''it isn't cheating it's learning '' and even if that means learning from your classmates. Another reason why I really like blogger is you can write as short or as long of blogs you want , because there is no word count like twitter it's somewhere where you can share your assigments and different aspects and thoughts publicly and then class mates or friends can give you suggestions on what you can do to improve. 

     In conclusion technology isn't just to use for Facebook , Instagram, or Twitter you can also use it for learning and I like how technology is great way to interact in a positive and educational way and I'm glad our English class is using it. !