Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that deals with a current urban development issue. Your presentation should be five to seven minutes in length and should:
• Clearly define and explain the issue you are addressing
• Present either through a “sell”/justify a position approach or clinically discuss several positions
You may use the site below to assist you in preparing your presentation.
http://www.actden.com/pp/
See the Presentation Rubric in the pick up box on the network for the evaluation methodology.
Presentations will begin shortly after this week’s lab time.
The following are potential topics. Others may be considered but must be approved by the instructor.
New Urbanism - What is it? What does it look like? Where is it taking place?
http://www.newurbanism.org/newurbanism/sitemap.html
Evaluate the proposal referred to as “Victory City”.
http://www.victorycities.com/
Discuss strategies for Downtown revitalization.
http://www.solutionsforamerica.org/viableecon/downtown-revitalization.html
http://www.examplesof.com/society/urban_renewal.html
Examine and discuss efforts to reuse “Big Box” stores that are no longer in operation.
http://www.bigboxreuse.com/
Debate whether or not sports facilities assist positively in urban renewal.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000300
http://www.naiop.org/foundation/ares07mixeduse.pdf
http://www.ualberta.ca/~bhumphre/papers/pfm2003.pdf
http://www.informedesign.umn.edu/Rs_detail.aspx?rsId=2265
THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Chapter 15 Essay
After successfully completing the first essay, you have been assigned another in class essay. This particular assignment made use of the material in the textbook from Chapter 15. The essay question for this assignment was as follows:
How have past treaties failed to meet the needs of First Nations people?
Make sure you can identify which specific sentences accomplish each of the objectives outlined above for both the introductory paragraph and the body paragraph.
IF YOU WERE NOT IN CLASS TODAY, MAKE SURE THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETED FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,2011 AND HANDED IN DURING PERIOD 1 OR 2 IN THE CLASS. IF NO ONE IS PRESENT, SLIP YOUR PAPER UNDER THE DOOR.
YOU WERE TOLD YESTERDAY WE WOULD BE WRITING THIS ESSAY. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO GET IT DONE. IF YOU FORGOT YOUR TEXTBOOK, MAKE A TRIP TO SCHOOL. THE BUILDING IS GENERALLY OPEN IN THE EVENING FOR NIGHT CLASSES.
How have past treaties failed to meet the needs of First Nations people?
Make sure you can identify which specific sentences accomplish each of the objectives outlined above for both the introductory paragraph and the body paragraph.
IF YOU WERE NOT IN CLASS TODAY, MAKE SURE THIS ASSIGNMENT IS COMPLETED FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,2011 AND HANDED IN DURING PERIOD 1 OR 2 IN THE CLASS. IF NO ONE IS PRESENT, SLIP YOUR PAPER UNDER THE DOOR.
YOU WERE TOLD YESTERDAY WE WOULD BE WRITING THIS ESSAY. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO GET IT DONE. IF YOU FORGOT YOUR TEXTBOOK, MAKE A TRIP TO SCHOOL. THE BUILDING IS GENERALLY OPEN IN THE EVENING FOR NIGHT CLASSES.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The Essay
Over the last number of days, you have written an in class essay and you have been working on the objectives for each part of the essay.
The essay is due Thursday, November 3, 2011
Below is a summary of the class notes for this section:
The essay assignment typically comes in two forms -- a question or a directive.
for example:
What is the most important characteristic required to be successful in school? (question)
Discuss the most important characteristic required to be successful in school. (directive)
The most important thing to remember when writing the essay is to make sure you understand the question and answer the question directly.
Below you will find the objectives we discussed for the introductory paragraph (in order of importance - NOT appearance):
1. Answer the question (thesis statement)
2. List of supporting ideas (evidence which will serve to prove your thesis)
3. Introductory statement (this is the first sentence in your essay)
Next, you will find the objectives for the body paragraphs (in order of appearance):
1. Topic sentence (from your list of supporting ideas and relates to thesis)
2. Supporting details (logically prove why the thesis is true... between 5-7 sentences)
3. Transition sentence (make the connection from the present supporting idea/topic to the next supporting idea/topic)
Finally, the objectives for the conclusion are as follows:
1. Restate the thesis
2. Expand on the thesis (original thought)
The essay is due Thursday, November 3, 2011
Below is a summary of the class notes for this section:
The essay assignment typically comes in two forms -- a question or a directive.
for example:
What is the most important characteristic required to be successful in school? (question)
Discuss the most important characteristic required to be successful in school. (directive)
The most important thing to remember when writing the essay is to make sure you understand the question and answer the question directly.
Below you will find the objectives we discussed for the introductory paragraph (in order of importance - NOT appearance):
1. Answer the question (thesis statement)
2. List of supporting ideas (evidence which will serve to prove your thesis)
3. Introductory statement (this is the first sentence in your essay)
Next, you will find the objectives for the body paragraphs (in order of appearance):
1. Topic sentence (from your list of supporting ideas and relates to thesis)
2. Supporting details (logically prove why the thesis is true... between 5-7 sentences)
3. Transition sentence (make the connection from the present supporting idea/topic to the next supporting idea/topic)
Finally, the objectives for the conclusion are as follows:
1. Restate the thesis
2. Expand on the thesis (original thought)
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Homework for Wednesday!
Write the five to seven sentences of supporting ideas for the second paragraph of the essay we are working on in class.
Test For Unit 3 On Deck!
We have now finished the review for Unit 3. Be sure to have your Unit 3 chapter questions ready to hand in on the test day!!!
The test will be Thursday, November 10, 2011.
The test will be Thursday, November 10, 2011.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Read! It's Gud Fer Yer Brayne
Unit 4 reading was assigned today. Pages 161-236 are to be finished by Tuesday.
That means we might have a quiz...
Maybe. Perhaps. It's possible. Could be. Kinda a chance. Never know. Sort of likely.
So take my advice...Don't be a goat.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Unit 3 Long Term Project
Today and Wednesday, you were introduced to the Unit 3 Long Term Project. You will be expected to pick a topic out of Unit 3 approved by me and prepare a web-authored, research-based presentation. The presentation must include images, and links to at least eight web-based sources of information and contain 2500 words. THE PROJECT IS DUE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15.
In future days, I will lay out some more specific parameters and a scoring guide to direct you in your work. However, for now you just need to be thinking about some topic possibilities and immerse yourself in the web design tutorials we have done.
What follows is a summary of what we did and what you need to know:
You learned about the basic structure of an html document at the site below:
http://www.ironspider.ca/basic_html/structure.htm
Remember, each web page you create will be made up of html code. The process for making a web page involves two applications -- a simple text editor (Notepad) to DO or write the page and a browser (Explorer) to VIEW the page.
To create a web page, simply complete the following steps:
1.Go to the Ironspider site above.
2.Scroll down and copy the html code in the box at the bottom of the page.
3.Open Notepad and paste the html code you just copied.
4.Add your own text and other html elements in the title tag and the body.
5.Save in Notepad in your My Documents folder, BUT REMEMBER to change the file extension to .html
6.Go to your My Documents folder and open your new html file to view it.
7.To update or make changes, remember to save in Notepad and reload in Explorer.
Key Things We Learned ...
•To make a hypertext link (your page to a website) use the tag structure at the link below...
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#hyperlinks
•To make a hypertext link (your page to another one of your pages) use the same structure as to a website, but simply put the name of your html file in between the quotation marks where you would have put the web URL...
•Remember, to do the hypertext link as described above, you need to have two html documents that you have created! You learned how to insert an image onto your web page by using the IMG SRC tag. See the link below for a detailed description of your options in working with an image.
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#images
•You also learned you could make the image clickable or a hyperlink by inserting the image tag in the area where you would normally put text for a hyperlink.
Below you will find some helpful tutorials:
http://www.2createawebsite.com/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
This one is good for reviewing some of the do's and don'ts of website design...
http://www.homesteadconnection.com/WebSiteDesign.html
In future days, I will lay out some more specific parameters and a scoring guide to direct you in your work. However, for now you just need to be thinking about some topic possibilities and immerse yourself in the web design tutorials we have done.
What follows is a summary of what we did and what you need to know:
You learned about the basic structure of an html document at the site below:
http://www.ironspider.ca/basic_html/structure.htm
Remember, each web page you create will be made up of html code. The process for making a web page involves two applications -- a simple text editor (Notepad) to DO or write the page and a browser (Explorer) to VIEW the page.
To create a web page, simply complete the following steps:
1.Go to the Ironspider site above.
2.Scroll down and copy the html code in the box at the bottom of the page.
3.Open Notepad and paste the html code you just copied.
4.Add your own text and other html elements in the title tag and the body.
5.Save in Notepad in your My Documents folder, BUT REMEMBER to change the file extension to .html
6.Go to your My Documents folder and open your new html file to view it.
7.To update or make changes, remember to save in Notepad and reload in Explorer.
Key Things We Learned ...
•To make a hypertext link (your page to a website) use the tag structure at the link below...
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#hyperlinks
•To make a hypertext link (your page to another one of your pages) use the same structure as to a website, but simply put the name of your html file in between the quotation marks where you would have put the web URL...
•Remember, to do the hypertext link as described above, you need to have two html documents that you have created! You learned how to insert an image onto your web page by using the IMG SRC tag. See the link below for a detailed description of your options in working with an image.
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#images
•You also learned you could make the image clickable or a hyperlink by inserting the image tag in the area where you would normally put text for a hyperlink.
Below you will find some helpful tutorials:
http://www.2createawebsite.com/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
This one is good for reviewing some of the do's and don'ts of website design...
http://www.homesteadconnection.com/WebSiteDesign.html
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