Students may receive up to one point for each completed, accepted, and posted  assignment pertaining to current technology news which can be found at a choice of several web sites listed below. All work must meet teacher set criteria in order to qualify for credit.

 Instructions:

Students are to use their own authenic wording (paraphrasing, summarizing, and giving opinions on) while tyinga narrative related to current technology news. Each submitted piece of work will be sujected to teacher scrutiny for relevance and correct spelling, grammar, and punctionation. Students will be instructed to make any needed corrections before possible posting to the school blog site and receiving extra credit of one point and up to a maximun of 10 points for 10 posts.

Required content required within each submission includes:

• Name of web site visited (i.e. zdnet.com, eweek.com, etc.).
• Date of visit to the web site.
• Subdirectory (i.e. Cool Site of the Day, Tip of the Day, etc)
• Name of the article, story, or topic.
• A minimum of two paragraphs, or longer if needed for clarity (minimum of four sentences per paragraph) typed narrative using your own authenic wording containing:

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      1. A description of the story, article, or topic.
      2. What it does.
      3. How is supposed to be useful.
      4. Your opinion about it.

Choose from one or more of the following web sites in order explore and obtain information on current technology. Hopefully you will find information whch you and your classmates will find interesting. All responses must be school approprite.

• zdnet.com
• komando.com (See links: “Show Picks of the Week”, “Tip of the Day”, or “News”.)
• smartcomputing.com (See links: “Daily Tip Archive”, “Web Log Archive”, or “Computing Dictionary and Encyclopedia”.)
• msn.com (See “Technology” link on the left side of the screen.)
• nytimes.com (See “Technology” link.)
• eweek.com
• techworld.com
• pcworld.com

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