Sign your comments with your URL group name

Your group's name must be signed within your comments or I will not count your comments for a grade.  You must follow directions because I don't have time to cross reference your blogger account name, or your individual names name with your URL.  I need URL group names ONLY.  You MUST follow these directions.

You need to time your rocket launches accurately

I believe that at least one person in every group has a cell phone and most have a stopwatch application.  Use them to time your rocket launches!

17 second launch has been chronicled.

I am thinking maybe we will have only two more launch days since we already have groups who have mastered the project.  Today I witnessed an epic 17 second launch.  It doesn't get much better than that :)

Flip Video Cameras

Here is the new flip video camera.  The power button is on the side of the camera and the usb port flips out on the opposite side.  Just press the red button to record!  When your flipvideo camera icon appears on the desktop, open the files and look under DCIM.  The video files are right in there.

New Blog Post Rubric

Every evening after a class this week your group will be doing a new blog post.  A NEW blog post rubric that states the criteria on which your blog posts are graded has been updated on Blackboard under Homework and Lab Unit Packets in the Unit 22 Water Rockets Folder. Use this rubric to submit the best post possible!  The rubric also includes criteria for your comment(s).  Be sure to sign your group's name in your comments.  This was a problem last time.  I will only be checking for comments for groups within your class period for grading purposes.  Rest assured I WILL be grading for comments THIS Week.

Another section of the rubric is your citations.  You must cite multimedia and information sources that assisted you in designing and building your rocket and blog.  The URL and date at which the information was retrieved is the minimal standard.  If there is an author, title, or date of publication then that should also be included.  Take the following hypothetical example for citing a source.

Freitas, Rockland.  (2009, Nov.)  The Effects of Multimedia Blogs.  Retrieved March 15, 2011, from  http://mrfreitasprojblog1.blogspot.com