Category: BDSS

Reminder Service

Remind.com is a service that I will use to send email and text notifications to students and parents.

To subscribe, please follow the directions in the relevant document:

Administrivia

Day 1

  • Locker assignment (period 1 only)  
  • Log in!
  • Land Acknowledgement
  • Tech permission form [GC]
  • Bring your headphones to school! (you’ll need them to listen to tutorials) [GC]
  • I’m not your teacher — I’m your facilitator and a co-learner… (discussion)
  • Class Rules: Respect, respect, respect! (that’s it!)
  • Log into Chrome | Sync Bookmarks & Extensions
    • Multiple IDs (personal and DSBN)
  • Google Classroom (you must log in with your DSBN account)
  • Introductions | Grade 12’s, also see me for other instructions.
  • Network Overview
    • Create class folder in M Drive and subfolders for each unit
  • Bookmark for Success!
    • GC View All
    • GC Stream
    • DSBN Gmail
  • Filename Convention (for Google Docs/Classroom and assignments where you do not have a dedicated handin folder for yourself) [GC]
    • Initials_DocumentTitle
    • Assignment in Classroom: Submit a text file containing your favourite quote. Be sure it uses the filename convention described above.
  • Reminder Service + [GC]
  • Pre-course Questionnaire + [GC]
    • Note: some students may be asked to brainstorm as a group before submitting content for the “Is there anything specific you hope to do or learn in this course?” section. You will be advised if this affects you.
  • Course Overviews (independent reading) 

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

  • Email Lists + (may no longer be necessary now that we are using Google Classroom) 
 
Old Material:
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Introducing Yourself

Students, look for the assignment on Google Classroom.

Teachers, see my blog post about this assignment here.

3-209 Lab Bookings (archived)

This page is no longer being maintained. The material below is for archival purposes only.

If you wish to book the lab please see the main office for instructions.

Room 3209 is available for bookings period two this semester. Please contact me via email to book.

Please, no food or drink for students visiting the class. Ask the students to push in all chairs when leaving and take any garbage with them. Do not let them disconnect any of the mice or keyboards (they must stay plugged in the back).

Please have enough work for the students so they aren’t playing games. If they are finished their daily assignment, please have an additional assignment ready for them.

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BDSS – New House System and Day 1 Alternative Schedule

From Mr Miller:

We will be creating a colour house system with our students this year. We will be dividing students into 16 colour-named groups (houses) with approximately 32 students, and 2-3 teachers, per group. The purpose of the groups is to grow our school spirit, and provide a means by which to facilitate intramurals, competitions, collaborative work and connections with students in an exciting and meaningful way. The system was suggested and designed based on feedback from students and staff on what could be done to make our school better.

To promote this system, and allow houses to have time together, we will be running an alternate schedule on the first day: Continue reading “BDSS – New House System and Day 1 Alternative Schedule”

Contact Me

This page is no longer being maintained as I am no longer at BDSS. The material below is for archival purposes only.

If you wish to contact me, please visit my new site here.

Where Can You Find Me?

Beamsville District Secondary School, 3rd wing (back of the school), 2nd floor. The address is:

4317 Central Avenue
Beamsville, ON
L0R 1B0

Semester 1

Pd 1 – BTT1O/1K ICT In Business
Pd 2 – prep period
Pd 3 – TEJ3E/3M/4M Computer Engineering Technology
Pd 4 – TGJ2O/2K/3M/4M Communications Technology

All classes are in room 3-209.

Semester 2

Pd ? – ICS3C/3U/4C/4U Computer Science
Pd ? – prep period
Pd ? – TEJ2O Computer Technology
Pd ? – SHSM Admin

All classes are in room 3-209.

Contacting Me

  1. You can email me directly at pbeens@gmail.com or peter.beens@dsbn.org, or
  2. Fill in this form and I’ll get back to you!
 

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Course Evaluation Form

Students, the end of school is near! Before you leave, please do your best to fill in the course evaluation. I take your submissions very seriously, as your feedback gets used to make my courses better for future students.

As a convenience, I am also embedding the form here: