Remember: The point of this assignment is to see what you KNOW. But you are not expected to know any of this. This is only a tool that I will use to adjust what I teach, how I teach, and the pace at which I teach.

Good luck – and be honest!

For you AP students who haven’t completed this yet – please do so by 8/31.

RRISD College Night – Wednesday, December 3rd at McNeil High School

RRISD will hold its annual College Night for 10th, 11th and 12th grade students and their parents on Wednesday, December 3 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at McNeil High School, 5720 McNeil Rd. in Austin. More than 70 colleges and universities will be represented and students will have a chance to speak with representatives about applications, student financial aid and much more. Also, Colleges’ and Universities’ Office of Students with Disabilities will be available to answer important questions about applying, testing for and requesting accommodations for students with special needs.  (RRISD College Night is the successor event to  Williamson County College Night, which had been held at RRHS in recent years.)

Have a blessed and enjoyable Thanksgiving!

After you’ve watched some parades, eaten some turkey, watched some football, and taken a nap – set some time aside to study for your test on Tuesday!

Best of luck

Here’s the PowerPoint from Friday. Don’t forget the homework that’s due Tuesday of next week

Use the PowerPoint to study, take notes, and review. According to the schedule, the next test will be September 24th/25th so start preparing. I’d like to see SOMEONE get a 100 on this one! Use the link below, or view the PowerPoint below to study. You will need Flashplayer to view – download it here.

Foundations of American Government PowerPoint

It’s been a few days since MrOsman.com launched and I’d like to catalog most of the changes and updates that have been made.

1. Most importantly, I now have a favicon in the url bar! (Top left of the url, it’s an O)
2. A Contact form/page (with captcha capabilities)
3. The ability to individually print each post (this will be very useful with hw assignments)
4. The ability to individually e-mail each post (this may not work)
5. Social networking links set up to encourage discussion outside of the classroom
6. A ‘News’ page set up with several RSS feeds. This page could use some work, but it’s a start.
7. Users have the capability to sign-in (so they can post) through a specifically designed Registration Portal
8. MrOsman.com is accessible via PDA and iPhone!
9. Spam protection software is installed
10. The ability to comment on posts will expire after 150 days. This will prevent some spam, but also prevent any unmoderated commenting.
11. Establishing a way to contact all users via e-mail at once.
12. User polls are available in widget format and embedded in posts/pages.
13. Consolidated all Links pages into one ‘Links’ page, while the three subject pages are hidden
14. I think I have decided to finalize this theme.  I’ll keep beta testing it though to figure out if there’s anything wrong with it!

A few things that I would still like to add in the next couple of days are:

1. Figuring out what to do about the ‘Notes’ section ((I think I’ll use DocuWiki and the dw2wp plugin to install it all on the WordPress platform)
2. Upload PowerPoints in .ppt and .pdf format
3. Tweaking the ‘News’ page?
4. Events calendar?
5. Avatars?
6. Quotes widget?
7. A better favicon?