Okay, so pretty much everything we did yesterday had to be done over today. The problem is that many of the classroom flash drives have disappeared. That means that work saved on those flash drives can not be accessed. As with any problem, there is a solution. Today we went through the steps of how to save our work to moodle. This means that anything we save to moodle can be accessed from any computer with internet access. Along with doing a step-by-step demonstration, Mrs. Scales gave us a copy of the directions written out to keep in our English Binders.

Saving and Uploading Work to Moodle

Type your assignment in Open Office word on a classroom computer or open a document you have saved on a flash drive.

Use the pull down menu under File and select Save As
Give your file a name
Select the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP option
Save your file in My Documents
Close your file

Log onto Moodle
Select Upload Your Files Here from the top Weekly Outline section
Click on the Browse Button
Select your file in the My Documents and click on open
Now your file name will appear in the box are beside the Browse button in moodle
Click the Upload This File button below the file name.

Now your file has been saved on Moodle.

Downloading from Moodle

Log into moodle
Open Upload Your Files Here
Find your file and open it
When your file opens it will be a “Read Only” file.
Use the pull down menu under File and select Save As
Save your file in My Documents (Not the TEMP file that is comes up showing)
Give your file a name (you can use the same name or if you want multiple copies of the file at different stages you can add a number to the file name)
Select the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP option

Now you can work on the file. When you finish working on the file follow the same instructions to upload your updated work back to moodle.

Everyone must have an update file saved to moodle of their essay even if they are using a flash drive to carry their work back and forth from home to school.

We were also reminded that even though we didn’t get to play jeopardy as a review today, we will still have a root word test tomorrow over the first 15 root words we have had in class.

The root words we will be tested over are:

Arch – ruler, principle, or first
Bio – life
Crat, cracy – rule or government
Geo – earth
Graph, gram – to write, or something written
Log, logo, ology – word, thought, speech, or study of
Meter, metry – measure
Micro – small or tiny
Mono – one or single
Phono, phon – sound or voice
Peri – around, near, or about
Scope – watch, view, or examine
Tele – far away
The, theo – God or a god
Therm – heat