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Based on my own experiences and seeing my cousins who just graduated HS this year, students taking AP classes tend to hang out with each other.[/quote]
As an AP teacher I can assure you this is correct for most students, not just your cousins. Oftentimes AP kids will play the same sports together and tend to date other AP kids.
When my own kids are old enough for high school I’ll want them to be in AP classes just so they’ll hopefully have a better peer group.
ParticipantI use both Dropbox and Google Docs but I use them for different purposes.
I primarily use Google Docs to collaborate on “word” – style documents with my colleagues (other teachers). We use it to share lesson plans and work together to create assignments. The biggest benefit is that we can add information to the document at the same time. This is helpful when we have meetings together. Rather than one person being the note taker, all of us can contribute different parts at the same time.
There is also a chat feature you can use if you are all logged in to the document at the same time.
I tend to use Dropbox for two other reasons. The first is to keep any non “word” -style documents that I need to share with other people. Just last week, four of us (2 teachers and 2 admins) had to create one presentation. Myself and the other teacher taught the admins how to use Dropbox so we could share the PowerPoint and not worry about emailing the most recent version back and forth to each other.
A PowerPoint in Google Docs wouldn’t work as well because the formatting changes. However, in Dropbox, if two people are editing the file at the same time it will save two copies to the folder. This can be inconvenient.
The second thing I do with Dropbox is keep many of my personal files (mostly lesson plans) there because it works so easily between my work and home computers, my iPad and my phone. As someone mentioned above, it looks just like another window on your computer. The app for the iPhone and iPad is just as easy to use. (but there are issues with saving docs from iOS devices to Dropbox. It can be done, it just takes an extra step).
I am also using both of these with students with a reasonable amount of success. Using these tools with students is an ongoing process.
That being said, here is a shameless promotion of my own referral link – http://db.tt/qn5HhAs
This is probably more information than anyone really wants but if anyone is interested or has more questions feel free to PM me. I’d be happy to help.
ParticipantI used to rent the house next door to my landlord. We got along well and I believe I was a good tenant.
One thing that can be good for the landlord is that I felt like I should always be on my best behavior. I didn’t want him to see me having a big party or keeping the house a mess.
Participant[quote=walterwhite]Stupid rule;
incentivized kids to take supereasy classes in 12th grade.[/quote]
It really depends on the school. I have a student right now who wanted to drop my AP class. He asked Cal Poly SLO if he could (his first choice school). They told him his acceptance was based on the senior class schedule he told them he was planning to take and they wouldn’t guarantee admittance if he changed it.
But it does happen a lot. My AP class is only a semester. Last semester I had about 55 AP kids total. This semester I was supposed to have the same but only have 30 because so many dropped it.
ParticipantThey base admission on 10th and 11th year grades. However, they will revoke admission if 12th grade is too low. I believe for most UCs it’s a minimum 3.0 senior year.
The real bummer is that it might not happen until the summer when the colleges finally get final transcripts from high schools. I know one kid who didn’t find out until he drove with his family from San Diego to UC Davis that his acceptance had been revoked.
The other kid was expecting to go to SDSU. At least he didn’t have to drive 9 hours to find out the bad news.
Participant[quote=AN]
Unless they have change it up (do you have data to support the 10-11 grades statement?), 9th grade grades also count as well as your senior year grade (you have to submit your transcript after you graduate. So if you completely slack off in 12th grade and get F’s, I’m sure they’ll reject your acceptance.[/quote]
The part about grades in 12th grade is very true. Twice I’ve seen kids have college acceptances revoked because of poor grades during the second semester of senior year.
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ParticipantI’ve used JtR’s flooring guys for carpet and I was very happy with the whole experience.
ParticipantI’ve used JtR’s flooring guys for carpet and I was very happy with the whole experience.
ParticipantI’ve used JtR’s flooring guys for carpet and I was very happy with the whole experience.
ParticipantI’ve used JtR’s flooring guys for carpet and I was very happy with the whole experience.
ParticipantYou guys should check out his TED talk – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk
He talks about using his program in a public school. I believe this is the first year so they don’t have any data yet to use for comparisons but it looks promising.
ParticipantYou guys should check out his TED talk – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk
He talks about using his program in a public school. I believe this is the first year so they don’t have any data yet to use for comparisons but it looks promising.
ParticipantYou guys should check out his TED talk – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk
He talks about using his program in a public school. I believe this is the first year so they don’t have any data yet to use for comparisons but it looks promising.
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