3/21 Drones

Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Drones

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites. 
  

Watch Drone Videos on the Big Screen. 

Why Amazon's drone delivery is growing trickier

Forget delivery drones, meet your new delivery robot

Read:
Maersk just made the first official drone delivery to an undocked ship
Drones Delivering to Ships Is Now a Thing 

Special delivery: Ground drones coming to America

Question of the Day: After reading, A Drone-Delivery Expert write a Blog post in which you answer one or more of the following questions.

• What problems do you think there will be with Drones?
• Why create a network of flying drones at all?
• Is drone technology anywhere close to ready for mass deployment?
• How reliable will drones be?
• What about damage and injury from crashes?  
• Why won't people just shoot them out of the sky?
• Will this work on a large scale?
  

Support your answer with evidence from the texts and videos.

1. Research Drones
2. Write a 100 word or more Blog post. 
3. Include a link to 2 or more sources that you used. 
4. Add the links to your Delicious links.

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.

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Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and capture it in citelighter, then paraphrase it in your own words.  
Word of the Day:

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• Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words. 
• Use complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.   
• Copy and paste the link to the specific Question of the Day? 
  
• Include an Inline Link to Websites.

Question of the Day: 

Part 1
Scratch Assessment  

Pong Download then Upload here Scratch Website

Part 2

1. Post the finished project to your blog.
2. Play and comment about the game on each of your classmates. 
3. Analyze each others work to look for limitations and capabilities in each game and identify how could this Scratch game be used in education for other subject areas.

 Part 3

1. Once the game is developed and published, research methods of copyrighting your program. 
2. Also, research copyright laws to determine the legal resources for infringement. 
3. Write a closing summary about the steps you have to go through to copyright a program and submit this to your blog.
4. Resources:

• http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html 
• shallwelearn.com/blog/scratch-programming-lesson-7-understanding-the-pong-game/

Daily Objectives:  Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.