20k223 Teacher Survey

New York State Department of Education has selected our school to complete teacher web surveys. Each grade 8 teacher is the school should complete a survey.

20k223 Grade 8 Teacher Survey

If you have any questions, please email or see Mr. J. Sorocco

Grade 8 Survey

Can you please take this survey. Read the questions carefully and take your time.


Grade 8 survey

Thank you

Mr. J. Sorocco

लेट'स क्रेअते

Let's use paint and wordle.net to create a graphic for our opening page on wetpaint.


Launch paint

All Programs -> accessorites -> paint

Minimize the program for now.

Lauch www.wordle.net. Click create. Type your first name and some positive adjectives to describe yourself.

Now we are ready to use the print screen function.

ग्रेट वर्क

Let's take a time out.

Go to this site:

Tetris Online

ग्रेट वो

623 and 713 Assignment for April 29

Good Morning,

I will be on jury duty today. If you have any questions, please email me at jsorocc@nycdoe.org.

Continue gathering digital pictures from Google Earth. Get pics which are representative of Brooklyn. Try to get a pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge, the old Williamsburgh Savings bank building (1 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, New York), parks, roads, buildings with fire escapes, and stores.

Create pages and import your pictures in your Wetpaint wiki. Use Brooklyn1, Brooklyn2 etc to name the pages.

Extra: Find the city or town where your parents may have come from and save some pics. Find a city in another country that interests you and find some pics for your webpaint wiki.

Mr. J. Sorocco

उनुसुअल Pictures

Build a wooden bridge


Do you like cupcakes?

The World's Extremes

Class 611 April 2 assisgnment

Class 611

Good Morning. Go to the NASA site http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html. Collect images of the nine planets. Save each image to a folder in my documents called NASA.

Launch Powerpoint and create a nice project entitled, "The Nine Planets of the Solar System".

I will be at a meeting. If you have questions email me at jsorocco@nycdoe.org. If you have extra class time, take a look at your how the market works account. howthemarketworks.com Take the time to sell or buy stocks.


Mr. Sorocco

Class 623 April 2 Assignment

Class 623

Good Morning. Go to the NASA site http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html. Collect images of the nine planets. Save each image to a folder in my documents called NASA.

Log on to your Animoto.com account and create a slide show. Using the text icon in the menu entitle your project the "Planets of Our Solar System.

I will be at a meeting. If you have questions email me at jsorocco@nycdoe.org.

Turn down the speaker volume on your computer. Use appropriate music for your slideshow.

While your animoto slide show is saving to your site, take a look at your portfolio at howthemarketworks.com

Mr. Sorocco

Let draw using Imagination.


Online collaboration

Let's Create a wetpage wiki

Let's go to the wetpage site to sign-in and create a wiki. Use your first name followed by 223 as your username.

Let's download some free sounds for our wetpage at Soungle.com

Stocks to Invest in for a Cleaner World

Company Stock Symbol

ABB LTD ABB
AMERICAN STANDARD
Suntech Power STP
Plug Power PLUG
Composite Technologies CPTC
Zoltek ZOLT
Starbucks SBUX
Honda HMC
Tesco TESU
Alcan ALE
S.C. Johnson
Applied Materials AMAT
Johnson Controls Inc JCI
Excelon EXC
ABB LTD. ABB
AMERICAN INT'L GROUP, Inc. AIG
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. HMC
Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT
BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA BNI
COVANTA HOLDING CORPORATION CVA
EXELON CORPORATION EXC
FPL GROUP, Inc. FPL
General Electric GE
INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER IRF
Itron, Inc. ITRI
JOHNSON CONTROLS, Inc. JCI
SunPower Corporation Class A SPWR
SUNTECH POWER HOLDINGS CO., LTD. STP
TENNECO, Inc. TEN
TRINITY INDUSTRIES, Inc. TRN
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION UTX
MCDERMOTT INTERNATIONAL MDR

Adult English Learning Activities

Read and listen to a story about a Central America Festival for Families

Learn and listen to everyday words

Let's create an individual stock portfolio

Begin at howthemarketworks.com You will have $10,000 of play money in which to invest in this stock market game. We are only going to invest in companies that contribute in some way to improving the environment.

क्विक Start

Numbers quiz and more

दोवंलोअदिंग Images

MTA Trip Planner

MTA Transit Trip Planner

Use Hop Stop to get transit directions


Picture Quiz learning numbers

Click Pictures to Hear Pronunciation

Listening Test

Match between Picture and Writing

Adult Education

Picture Questions

Let's create a Wikispace together

A wikispace is our place on the Internet where we can express ourselves and store some of our work.

Click here to get started.


Hello. My name is first name only. I live in New York City, where I attend a middle school. Currently, my tech class is participating in the SMG2000 online stock game. We are only investing in companies that are committed to making this a cleaner planet.

Somw things that we can do to make this a cleaner planet are:

Let's continue review English words.

Choose the correct spelling

Word Pictures

What is the name of the animal?

January 27

I will be at a meeting today. Please take a look at this assignment. If you have a question email me at jsorocc@nycdoe.org

Let's look at the templates provided in the program Inspiration. Go to

all programs

Inspiration 8

When the program opens on your computer, choose Templates. Open a category - language arts, science, social studies, or planning. Click you choose to open. If you don't like the way it looks, go to templates and pick another one. Take your time; look for the template that interests you.

When you pick a template that you like start typing your answers to favorite questions into boxes.

Favorite Animal
Favorite Comic Book Hero
Favorite Song
Favorite Color
Favorite Pair of Sneakers
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Cold Cereal
Favorite Television Show
Favorite Fruit
Favorite Video Game
Favorite Book
Favorite Web Site
Favorite Search Engine (This is used when browsing for information on the web)
Favorite Place:

"Green Companies"

25 STOCKS TO INVEST IN A CLEANER WORLD




HOW ABOUT THESE COMPANIES?

Zoltek (ZOLT) a manufacturer of carbon fiber. Currently used in the blades of super large wind turbines. Soon to be used in cars to make them stronger, lighter and more fuel efficient. With dozens of other energy saving uses in the future.

Composite Technologies (CPTC) a manufacturer of the largest wind turbines (the D8.2) and of very high efficient electric transmission cable to save energy.

Plug Power (PLUG) a manufacturer of fuel cells which in the near future will be used to power cars with hydrogen and will only emit water vapor. They also will will be producing natural gas home energy units which will heat homes and produce hydrogen used to fuel your fuel cell car.

Zoltek is profitable, the other two are not. All three have potential for explosive growth. Good luck!


Starbucks SBUX
Whole Foods WFM
Suntech Power STP
Pacific Ethanol


10 Green Giants

Voki Lesson

Copy and paste this into Word and make changes.

My name is ________________. I attend an intermediate school in Brooklyn, New York. At our school every student in the school has their own computer to use throughout the school day.

My favorite school subject is ________________. My favorite color is ___________, and my favorite day of the week is _____________________. I speak Engish and ______________. When I growup I would like to become a __________________.

January 12

Winter Quiz

Cross Word Puzzles

Animals Foods and Drink

January 7, 2009

Happy New Year


Audi Concentration Game. (Family Members)

Audio Concentration Month of the Year

Do you know your colors in English