ICS2O1: Daily Log
2011-04-13: Day of Pink is the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, and Homophobia in schools and communities. Day of Pink organizers invite everyone to celebrate diversity by wearing a pink shirt and by organizing activities in their workplaces, organizations, communities, and schools.
Have you ever seen a friend hurt because of discrimination? Have you been hurt yourself? Discrimination comes in many forms including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, agism, and anti-Semitism—just to name a few. These social diseases create barriers, bullying, harassment, hate, and violence. No one should have to experience the negativity created by discrimination. Day of Pink is more than just a symbol of a shared belief in celebrating diversity—it’s also a commitment to being open-minded, accepting differences, and learning to respect each other.
The Toronto District School Board supports anti-bullying through a Board-wide call to action, urging every school and every staff member and student to join the anti-bullying campaign by wearing pink on Wednesday, April 13, to show our support against bullying and for tolerance. (Image and abridged text from Day of Pink; additional abridged text from TDSB. All retrieved 2011-04-11.) Photos from past weeks appear in the Daily Log photo archive.
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2011-04-20: [Guest Teacher.] Last of two days on partnered research assignment. Homework: Daily blog. Completion and online posting of assignment.
2011-04-19: [Guest Teacher.] First of two days on partnered research assignment. Homework: Daily blog. Substantial progress against assignment.
2011-04-18: Independent work on assignments. Distribution of term-1 marks. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-15: Return and review of quiz. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-14: Quiz: count and sum of positive integers. Remediation. Independent work on repetition. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-13: Remediation. Independent work on repetition. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-12: Quiz return and review. Remediation. Independent work on repetition. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-11: Remediation. Independent work on repetition. Quiz: accumulating rainfall. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-08: Remediation. Independent work on repetition. Counters and accumulators. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-07: Remediation: sources of data, selection assignment 10. Independent work on repetition. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-06: Past-work remediation. Independent work on repetition. Binder checks. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-05: Quiz return. Selection remediation and independent work on repetition. Binder checks. Homework: Daily blog. Repetition assignments.
2011-04-04: Return of quiz. Quiz: Gather the principal amount of a loan and a monthly or annual interest rate, and display the interest owing for one year. Repetition: counter, sentinel value, loop, exit, when. Homework: Daily blog. Read Program control: Repetition. Modify demonstration program to correctly accept input values less than 1.
2011-04-01: Celebration of the successful completion of the OSSLT. Homework: Daily blog. Catch-up as required.
2011-03-30: Selection assignments: last work period. Homework: Daily blog. Get a good night’s sleep in preparation for the OSSLT.
2011-03-29: Quiz: Mean of two integers. Review of Selection assignment 8. Peer review of assignment 9. Homework: Daily blog. Revision of Selection assignments in light of today’s review.
2011-03-28: Quiz review. Selection assignments. Review of Selection assignment 7. Homework: Daily blog. Revision of Selection assignments in light of today’s review.
2011-03-25: Quiz: When do classes start today? Questions arising. Selection final quarter. Homework: Daily blog. Progress against last quarter of Selection assignments.
2011-03-24: Questions arising. Independent work on Selection assignments. Homework: Daily blog. Assignment 6: What happens if menuChoice is neither 1 nor 2? Continued progress against Selection assignments. Prepare for quiz tomorrow.
2011-03-23: Questions arising. Independent work on Selection assignments 1–5. Homework: Daily blog. Continued progress against Selection assignments.
2011-03-22: World Water Day! On-board review of Independent work on Selection assignments 1–5. Homework: Daily blog. Continued progress against Selection assignments.
2011-03-21: Happy 5th birthday, Twitter! Return of Super-power Autobiography marks. Independent work on Selection (I) assignments. Homework: Daily blog. Progress against Selection assignments.
2011-03-11: Review of Input assignment 10 and revision to guard against division by zero. Whither Studio 218? Homework: Daily blog. Catch-up as required. Sleep much and eat well!
2011-03-10: Your website is your website. Collection of Input assignment 10. Boolean expressions. Homework: Daily blog. Read Selection (I) and begin Selection assignments.
2011-03-09: [Guest Teacher.] Work on partnered research assignment. Homework: Daily blog. Prepare to study Selection tomorrow.
2011-03-08: International Women’s Day! [Literacy: return of news articles.] Final day for completion of Input assignments. Homework: Daily blog. Bring printed assignment 10 to class for marking.
2011-03-07: Input assignments. [Literacy: submission of news article.] Homework: Daily blog. (Near) completion of Input assignments so that we can begin a new topic on Wednesday.
2011-03-04: Input assignments. [Literacy: write a news article describing the class’s process for deciding how to select an SLC class representative.] Homework: Daily blog. Good progress against Input assignments. Print literacy assignment for submission on Monday.
2011-03-03: Input assignment 4. [Literacy: iPad 2 news article.] Homework: Daily blog. Complete literacy assignment and Input assignment 4. Make good progress against Input assignment 5.
2011-03-02: [OSSLT preparation.] Independent work on Input assignments. Homework: Daily blog. Progress against the assignments.
2011-03-01: Input from the keyboard: prompts, get, tokens, colon-star option, multiple values. Homework: Daily blog. Re-read Concepts: Input. Code, debug, and run program fragments. Begin Assignments: Input.
2011-02-28: Primary and secondary storage. Variables. simpleAverage program. Homework: Daily blog. Follow the model of simpleAverage to (1) calculate the perimeter and area of a rectangle given its length and width, and (2) calculate the change due from a $20-bill given the purchase of three taxable items.
2011-02-25: [Guest Teacher.] Partnered research assignment. Homework: Daily blog. Prepare to study Input on Monday.
2011-02-24: Review of work assigned for Friday. Data and datatypes. Some independent work on character graphics. Homework: Daily blog. Ready your best behaviour for tomorrow’s Guest Teacher. Prepare to study Input on Monday.
2011-02-23: Review of work assigned for Friday. Data and datatypes. Some independent work on character graphics. Homework: Daily blog. Ready your best behaviour for tomorrow’s Guest Teacher. Prepare to study Input on Monday.
2011-02-23: Briefing on expectations for Friday. Structure of the programming unit. Programming vocabulary. Some independent work on the programming unit. Homework: Daily blog. Read Letter to Guest Teacher. Complete Output assignments.
2011-02-22: Introduction to programming with Turing. Homework: Daily blog. Read Programming subsite Concepts 1–3. Install Turing IDE.
2011-02-17: Last autobiography work period. Homework: Daily blog. Wait for the Wikispaces e-mail message announcing that the peer-marking database is ready, then mark your classmate’s assignment and follow the marking instructions.
2011-02-16: Practice peer-marking of Super-power autobiography. Homework: Daily blog. Refine autobiography.
2011-02-15: Trial peer-marking of Super-power autobiography. Homework: Daily blog. Correct deficiencies identified by peer marking; bring questions to class.
2011-02-14: Happy Pink Triangle Day! Blog stuff: Proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization are all required for your public face on the Web; none of these is optional. Correct spelling and formatting of dates. Colour and contrast choices. Modification of posting dates. Hyphens not to be used as substitutes for colons and em dashes. Distinction between e.g. (for example) and i.e. (that is). Independent work on site. Homework: Daily blog. Validated site on Web. Peer marking begins tomorrow.
2011-02-11: [Guest from Guidance Department.] Wiki stuff: ensure Blogs name is a link; ensure e-mail address has been confirmed; set notifications as desired. Homework: Daily blog. Validated site on Web.
2011-02-10: Introduction to cascading style sheets. Reference to word-processing guidelines. Homework: Daily blog. (Simple) validated CSS live on Web.
2011-02-09: Explanation of the structure and placement in the directory structue of Victoria Windsor’s homepage and Validation Man’s autobiography. Absolute and relative addresses. Homework: Daily blog. Conversion of name into link on our wiki’s Blogs page.
2011-02-08: [Gallery of Choices.] Questions arising. Independent work on Super-power Autobiography assignment. Homework: Daily blog. Two validated webpages: the homepage of home directory (ex: Victoria Windsor’s homepage) and a super-power autobiography (ex: Validation Man!).
2011-02-07: Questions arising. Links to student blogs from our wiki Blogs page. Revised directory structure to mirror the remote webserver in Parksville, BC. Use of an FTP client to transfer files to the webserver. Homework: Daily blog. Attempt to place a validated webpage in the Super-power subdirectory of your live website.
2011-02-04: Questions arising. HTML + CSS = almost what you wanted: a speedy introduction to coding a webpage from scratch! Homework: Daily blog. Attempt to create a validated webpage (don’t worry about the content; that can come later). Remember that the Discussion forum of our class wiki is available if you have questions or concerns.
2011-02-03: Happy new year and welcome to ICS2O1! Introduction to teacher and class. Homework:
- Review our class website with your parent/guardian, especially
- this Daily Log
- the Evaluation Policy
- the Acceptable Use Policy
- Complete the Wikispaces assignment.
- Preview the Super-power Autobiography assignment for tomorrow’s class.
- Create an account at Blogger and post an entry describing your thoughts and feelings about
- what you did in today’s class
- what you accomplished as homework
- anything else you’d like to say about today’s class or our course
