A New Day; A New Year

Welcome, MLK Freshmen!

For many of you, I mean, Welcome Back!

Today was a half-day for students. As such, classes were only about 20 minutes long. Give the constraint on time, there are many class resources and documents that will be delivered on Friday (our first full day) 8/7.

So what did students do today? After I stumbled through my new rosters, I introduced my website (if you're reading this, you already know.)

Also, we had a brief discussion about this: 

Some students could correctly identify this as a QR code. Fewer could competently elaborate on what this artifact's function is, and how it works.

The point is that, if a student possesses a smartphone, I encouraged them to seek out an app (free) that would let their cameras decode the information in the square.

• Android Users: Look for the program QR Droid in the Google Play Store. It might be easier to open the Play Store in your mobile device.
• Apple Users: A student recommended the app Qrafter, which appears to do basically the same things, and is available in the App Store.

Over all of today, only one student actually scanned and decoded this QR in class. Surprise: it's a link to the 9th grade Supplies list. Which I will have hard copies of on Friday.

Word on the street is that this is Tax-Free Weekend.

Finally, as class wound to a close, I asked students to take out their Agendas and write down their HW. Almost no one had an agenda. It was depressing. So get one.

HW:

• First Day Packets are due back to 1st period teachers ASAP.
• Write Tidyman an Introductory Email