What is Spot?
A social learning environment built especially for TGS. A mashup of a social network, classrooms, wikis, online photo albums, calendars and to-do lists, Spot is the collective software backbone of TGS. Students, faculty and staff meet in this virtual space to research, produce, publish and discuss.
Spot Stats
| Blog Posts | 3734 |
| Photos | 11808 |
| Spot Videos | 463 |
| Bookmarks | 1382 |
| Rubrics | 57 |
| Groups | 114 |
| Complete To Do's | 22223 |
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What is TGS Reading?
Fahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury
Present Shock
By: Douglas Rushkoff
Ishmael
By: Daniel Quinn
Screw It, Let's Do It
By: Richard Branson
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
Latest Blog Posts
A Collection of Viewpoints, Overlooking 9/11's Twin Towers
By Isaac Forsland 4 days ago Comments (1)In our Global Studies class, us tenth graders have been trying to define what American identity looks like today. Recently, we’ve been looking at this through the lens of the events and stories on September eleventh, 2001....September 11th 2001
By Tiana Seger 4 days agoSeptember 11th 2001 Nine eleven was a tragedy where 4000 people died in the plane crash on the twin towers, according to the USA, was a terror attack from Arabs, but other sources, such as Loose Change: An American Coup, a documentary by Dylan...9/11
By Paul Schmidt-Engelbertz 4 days ago Comments (1)9/11: The attacks of September 11, 2001 On Semptember 11th 2001, two hijacked airplanes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center, one plane crashed into the Pentagon and one targeted the White...newMedia Marvel: Merlin Kauffman
By Lindsay Clark 5 days agoMerlin joined the period 6 eleventh graders in newMedia Lab on May 20, 2013. In his short presentation, Merlin talked about his early exposure to the world of technology, his entrepreneurship starting in high school, and his perspective on investing...
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Latest Videos
Exchanging Euros
By Paul Schmidt-Engelbertz 4 days ago
Length: 0:00:19 Plays: 4A short video about how easy it is to exchange and use the Euro all over the world.Using trigonometry to measure a really, really tall building
By Lindsay Clark 17 days ago
Length: 0:04:31 Plays: 4Video Visualization
By Liam 22 days ago
Length: 0:01:43 Plays: 9This Video is a narrated and visualized section of my uncle's poem "The Manufacturer of Time".Student intro to Digital Portfolio online course - April 2013
By Julie Lindsay 26 days ago
Length: 0:05:26 Plays: 15This video is aimed at Grade 11 students starting the course in Spot, April 2013.
