Good morning patient students

Hello dear 3rd hour students,

Thank you for your patience and understanding with the school and your third hour learning. I realize that our situation is not ideal, but I thank you for making the best of the situation. I appreciate your willingness to forage into the world of technology and literacy. I want to review for you what you have achieved thus far and been assigned. I also want to introduce your next project and lay an outline for tasks to come.

Step 1: Establish a blog and compose an introduction post so that I may know you a bit better. Be sure that I have your blog address so I may begin reading it regularly. I will comment on your posts when I read them.

Step 2: Create a video on Animoto.com that introduces you to me in a stylish, tech-friendly way.

Step 3: Head to vark-learn.com to take the questionaire. Once you have completed the learning assessment, please post a blog that responds and reacts to your results. Were you surprised by how you were described as a learner? What reinforced your own self-awareness?

Step 4: Establish an account at Flickr.com and begin to plan a dream trip that spans at least 5 days in length. Include pictures on Flickr of your trip, making sure to highlight tourist spots, places you'd eat or stay and the many sights you will enjoy in that city/country. Be sure to include concise and detailed descriptions with each photo so I feel like I am reading a visual journal of your trip. Your dream trip should be comprised of at least 20 photos and narrations.

Step (Objective) 5: Jazz up your blog. I'd like you to add links and websites, songs and details to your blog that personalize it and make it user friendly.

Objective 6: Head to postsecret.com and read the various images there. Then, on your blog, respond to what you see and explore on a personal level why people maintain secrets and why we reveal them. What are the benefits to honesty and candor? What are the drawbacks? What reward is there to revealing a secret if it is done so anonymously?

Please blog daily about this and that. I hope this lays a more substantive template than our sporadic conversations allow for. I hope that this gives you something concrete to return to for direction. Have a terrific day!