Friday, August 22, 2008

History of Engineering

Guten Tag [German for "Good Day"]

After the PowerPoint, answer the following:

1) Describe what you think might have been the greatest invention of all time (not including the last two hundred years).

2) Describe an instance when you have invented anything or found a solution that has been useful to others.


We may want to check out the following links

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/Activities/ancientdr.html


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In the beginning...

We're going to start off the day by making sure that you can post comments to this blog...

I'm going to allow anonymous posts so that you don't have to get the Google account we spoke about yesterday.

Take a moment to answer the question from yesterday's blog while I set up.


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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Welcome Back

This is the POE blog page.

Check this page daily for assignments, resources, 'n other shtuff.

We're going to go here for classroom policies.

Your homework for tomorrow is to create a Google account so that you can post future comments to this blog. To get credit for your first assignment, you must post a comment answering the following question.

Who is your favorite inventor? Why?


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