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We Are Righetti: http://wearerighetti.blogspot.com/

Kudos To You: http://kudosblogrighetti.blogspot.com/?m=0

We Are Righetti

As some of you may know, Lukas, Alec, and I have started a blog called We Are Righetti to let he world know (after recent events) how great the students at our school actually are! You can email your story to wearerighetti@gmail.com or contact any of us! Below is where you can learn what we're looking for! 

"As Righetti students we are generalized into a general populous and when a small group of students makes poor decisions we all get made out as those students. The We Are Righetti blog is for the rest of the students to share their stories, accomplishments, challenges, and thoughts to show the rest of the community that we are amazing individuals with our own brilliant stories.  Share your story and show that YOU are Righetti."

As an incentive to produce a masterpiece, 30 (yes, thirty!) Sphinx points for sending in a great, quality story! If everyone sends in a good story, everyone gets points!

Don't be afraid to let your families know and spread the word. 

Happy Holidays
-Victoria

Website info: http://wearerighetti.blogspot.com/

Free points???

Today's the end of the semester, so in the spirit of that comment with plans for over break to get 20 points. First 10 people get points. By the way, I plan to continue doing this, so it helps to check the blog frequently!!!

Emilio has taken my study group's test and put them away everyday when we used them in AP Microeconomics. He deserves points!!

Experiment!!

I wanted to know how many people actively check this blog. So the first 10 to comment to this post with any random fact get 20 points!!!! Game on!

Music people in England- reeeeeaaaaaching out to youuuuuuu in the US of A

I teach music at a university in the UK, and one of my classes joined Nathan playing ukulele in one of Dr. Preston's classes via skype. My students are keen to connect with you guys. They have ideas, but don't really know how to make the direct connections... and I am no good at being a middle man(girl/lady/not-really-grown-up-person) and so I asked Jayce and Omar if I could post and put up a few of their blogs so maybe there could be a more direct link.

From January, my students will be planning and teaching lessons (1-to-1 private music lessons) and it might be fun if some of you were interested in doing a skype with them, or a video exchange, or something - I throw that out to you! It is certainly not required for their course, but has a lot do do with how they might use music in life, would be great for their learning, and hopefully would be fun! All of my students have had police checks before starting their course (because that's what you have to do in the UK to work with any minors)... so they have all been checked out to be decent people...

As for connecting - a couple of the people have blogs -
Pete the guitar player: petemaherguitar.wordpress.com
Rosie who plays organ: chichesterorganist.wordpress.com
Victoria (violinist) victoriaj94.wordpress.com
Others are on twitter:
Victoria (sax): @ToriHands
Jess (singer) @Jess_Bhatty (and here: https://soundcloud.com/jessandlaura-1/stay-with-me-cover )
Andrew (guitar) @woodeywood
Rebecca (clarinet) @beckieboo_94
Harriet (singer) @harrietcarter
Sarah (singer) @SarahHooplah

In the class we have violin, cello, guitar (acoustic and electric), piano, voice, organ, clarinet, sax, flute, and maybe a few more instruments... it is a jolly bunch and we would love to connect. Please feel free to introduce yourself or invite them to join in! I'm happy to connect too if you guys think up any projects. As someone who spent childhood summers in California, and now lives in the UK, I do believe the world is huge, but it is also a small place!

Have a great Saturday!

Review

25 points for Matt and Noah for volunteering to be scorekeeper and MC

10 points to period 4 class for realizing prisoner's dilemma and beating the system by creating one large group.

10 points to Alyssa for remembering to give people points

Everyone Deserves Points for Something...

Everyone basically gains 30 points for Remixing Poetry because as you know, that takes creativity.

Moving rocks with Eric Jackson

Hi I am Michael, yesterday I really needed help and Eric Jackson answered that call.  My family had around 5 tons of small rocks delivered for us to renovate our backyard. He came and helped me moves all of these rocks and he was such a great help. For his hard work I believe that he deserves quite a bit of points for his hours of work. About 50 I believe.

Win yourself an A

The first person to 150 points by the end if the semester wins an A in English from Dr.Preston. Anyone can play to win and everyone should be invited to be an author with the exception of some people in 5th period. Once you accept authorship you will be awarded your first 10 points ( with the exception of 5th period who will win 15 points because they are at disadvantage due to technical difficulties). 

Remember that this is a learning community that shows growth and helps everyone learn collaboratively so who knows maybe if this is a tough race then many of the close competitors will be considered for a increased grade. 

Yosemite Trip Round 2

Hey it's Bree! Haley and I are trying to put together another Yosemite trip for the seniors this year and we need to know a general idea of how many people would like to attend. So if anyone is interested you can contact me via email at breerodriguez97@gmail.com We need around 25 people at least in order to start the paperwork and planning through Naturebridge so let your friends know as well! Thanks :)

Apple laptops

Noah Hernandez (CC'd) can get apple laptops with chargers and Microsoft office 2011 for $150 or less. Considering the software alone retails for over $100, this is a great deal. Email Noah for details. 

noah.ray.hernandez@gmail.com

Update: the more people that contact Noah for laptops the cheaper he can buy them for. He can also get them without batteries for even cheaper meaning they would have to constantly be plugged in to work.

Hey Guys!

It's Erica Paculan,  I just wanted to welcome myself as the new author. If you guys have any suggestions on anything all you guys have to do is comment below and we'll try to make it happen. Any scholarship/college/internship/programs interested in will be posted here. After all, sharing is caring. This is student run, so suggestions basically make this machine run.

Recruiting Staff Members

Need: Scorekeeper, editor (2), senior editor, uploader (2), encoder (3), moderator (2), authors (unlimited)

Administrators: Jayce and Omar

Newest Author This Week: Victoria

Members are definitely going to be recognized! If you want a position, fill out the contact form at the top of the page.

Job Descriptions:

Scorekeeper: Keeps up with tabs and give points to people in the OPSL group.

Editor: Makes edits based on mistakes, facts, outlines, etc. on following drafted/published posts on the 5PH1NX blog.

Senior Editor: Lead editor, and is chiefly based on true corrections (of above)

Uploader: Video finder who adds in clips/short videos based on current/coherent posts to enhance detail

Encoder: Practices coding; makes pages look flashy and accessible; builds a foundation to the project. (Hey, Computer Science people, here's your chance to be functional in operating a website.)

Moderator: Sub-admins to keep in check of order according to whatever they think is right and tidy.

Authors: Writers of the blog with the power to speak their mind and assess to anything substantial in their lives. There are no rules, there are no guidelines, you as the author can make up anything with potential, fortitude, confliction, accomplishment, collaborative, competitive, etc.

Administrators: 2015 OPSL 5PH1NX Project starters/creators, spots taken; manage website as a whole.

Danielle Saves Books! Fahrenheit 451

Danielle gets points for representing Fahrenheit 451 and preserving life by saving books!

Help Us Come Up With A Score Guideline?

I don't want to be bias, picky, "be nice to, to get points" guy for you peeps to gain points. That's why we should all come with a score guideline. Again, I don't want to be picky about what topics you must have and what points they are assigned to, but please comment or go to the forums (under the thread "Scavenger Hunt Ideas") with ideas about which stuff should really count as points. Ideas can overlap too and don't be embarrassed to pitch in ideas. We can't do this alone!

Also, I was astonished to see Erica's post about why Lupita should gain ten points for basically being an awesome person and attentive blogger. I like that and I think we should comment positive things about people's blogs. Everyone deserves the easiest 10 points ever by doing so. Post about other people's blog on your personal/English blog because you know you're awesome as well.

Become a 5PH1NX author now!

Become part of the staff by being the writer who is committed to something other than the course work. If you are still worried about your grade, don't worry about it here.

Please email Jayce (swoopsjay@gmail.com) or Omar (omardominguez1@msn.com) or to 5PH1NX (sphinxproject2015@gmail.com) to become an author of the project by sending your email address. We will take as many people as we can, heck we'll accept 10,001 potential authors.

Again, check out the administrators blogs:
Jayce's Blog (http://jaycedopefresh.blogspot.com/)
Omar's Blog (http://omard123.blogspot.com/)

Where you at?

Leadership Board as of 1:40pm 1.Hikaru 2.Kurt 3.Shanaya 4.Joey 5.Alexus

What if there is no "They"?

The students that got locked down in period 6 discussed the lock down and got to thinking what it would be like to work in an environment with "they". No authorities or institution to make this place feel so much like a prison. They discussed how we would interact and how this class could run without Mr.Preston always being in front and teaching. This is a new generation and teaching has to evolve like the time has. So what is the next step in public education going to be and can schools survive without "them".

Joey would of been a GOD...

30 years ago Joey would have been a god with his 5g of data in phone. Back then one Gig of memory was worth $300,000.

So let the games begin

This site is made to build a learning community out of a game, it is ever evolving and is subject to change but as for now this game is controlled using the scoreboard. You can get points for any thing and everything. So do worthwhile and share it. Get enough points to get yourself a decent grade but don't just play for the grade play to learn and start that conversation. During period 6 we have given away points for anything from just small acts of kindness to saying something cool in class. Anyone that can get to 150 points will be given authorship for this blog. That gives you control to post anything, control to the scoreboard and overall control to enhancing your learning. So share and give us any reason to give you points.

Let's Start Trending

A few days ago, something so obvious, so vague, so simple, and so "really internet, it's not a big deal" trend started to view one teen as the center of social media. #Alexfromtarget started trending on Twitter by no apparent reason. I don't know why this guy is so famous, but he is now and deserves it... I guess.

It takes a lot of people to get something trending and I was thinking that with the ideas we input together, we can make it work. Heck if this works because of an Instagram pic, sheesh we might have to take the alternative of profiling "beautiful" people (Disclaimer: Not putting anyone down, no hate to anyone in general). I'm pretty sure we can show the world that this group can be nothing but magnificent students who only learn from doing the impossible, or better yet the possible as long as we do. 

#Hashtags4Days

Sharing Authorship

Instead of always switching to the host email of the 5PH1NX Project, authorship will extend to everyone of the Open Source Learning Group if you provide your email by emailing to the 5PH1NX email, (sphinxproject2015@gmail.com).

Join the excitement!

It Begins

Everyone in the OPSL group 2015 are allowed to control whatever it is on this site. It can be anything and take in consideration from the forums. Ideas are meant to be shared. Edit and post on the blog to enhance your creative expertise. Make it tricky, awesome, and entertaining.

If you find discouragement on what to put, talk it out with your classmates at the forums and discuss the wide range of ideas to make this senior fun.