My name is Jeff Harris, I teach Focus, Web Design, and Gaming at Snohomish High School.  I try to design my class so an average student will barely finish all of the work in class, if they attend every day.  If you are unable to finish for any reason, please make arrangements to come in before school, after school, or during panther period.
This year, I want to focus on enforcing the cell phone/mp3 player and game/network usage rules.
For violating the cell phone rule, I'll have to take your phone/mp3 player (or simm card if you prefer for cells) until the end of the period, next until the end of the day, next to your administrator with your phone/mp3 player.
For violating game playing rules and/or saving game playing or music files or executable files on the network drive, I'll warn you, next lock your computer and call home, next have you off the computer for a week, then refer you.
Enforcing game/network usage rules are important because students using the network space and/or Internet will slow down the network for the entire school district or reduce space and increase hardware costs for the district without an educational benefit to anyone. Individually, many students will get so distracted they won't know what was just covered or will skip their work or rush through work. It is very difficult to pick and choose who can play games. I can't realistically say John Smith can play games but Sue Smith can't because it will appear I favor John.
Cell phones/mp3s have caused students to tune out completely and miss things that are covered early in the class, updates, and work time.
If you turn in an assignment from one week to two weeks late, I’ll give you 70 percent of the grade, for two weeks through five weeks late, 50 percent, more than five weeks, just 10 percent.  I need you to check your grades often and let me know if you see any problems, and let me know within a week.  I call out missing work often and update the grades often, so please work with me to avoid problems.  I am going to have to stick with the schedule above if you don’t let me know if you see a problem, because it is unfair to everybody who gets their work in on time and checks their grades for me to not do so.
In Web Design, please keep in mind it is commonly expected that it takes as long to fix and diagnose problems with web pages as it does to write the original web pages. Lately, some students have made web pages that don't work, and have tried to hold me responsible for fixing these problems. I am generally willing to help, however it is impossible to quickly fix some problems that come up. I wasn't there when the problem was created, which makes it more difficult to figure out what caused the problem. Also, if I were to fix your problems your web pages, I would be robbing you of the opportunity to learn how to fix your problems, and would reduce your motivation to avoid problems.
Usually the web page problems come down to files being saved in the wrong spot, perhaps a web page being opened that isn't the same one being edited. With Flash, students often put in many items and delete partial items, or there are problems with students working on the wrong layer.
Please be considerate of your classmates, yourself, and Mr. Harris. Please don't talk so loudly that it keeps others from working or concentrating. Many students will not say something like, "your extremely loud talking is distracting me." I also ask that you be considerate of anyone giving a presentation, even me, and I'll do the same and expect others to do so.
I try to have a short presentation nearly every class day, I try to make it quick, then students start working on a project. I ask that you listen to my short presentation and try to work through the examples that come up on the overhead. It is tough to recreate what was covered on the overhead when students who followed the presentation have questions, so please be considerate of everybody's time.
Games and video usage have become a big problem that I need to focus on this year.  I have to be consistent with game use, to avoid the perception of favoritism and to avoid making it nearly impossible to enforce the rules by having to determine if people are caught up, games are not allowed, videos other than Gaggle Tube is not allowed.  I’ll warn you once, then email your parents with an FYI to your administrator, then give you a detention the third time, a referral the fourth.  The administrator will decide what will happen the fourth time.
I'll call or email home anytime I think it will help my class or you to become more productive. I'll email grades home often, usually after about 3 weeks until near the end of the semester.
Don’t use a flash disk or floppy disk in class without talking with me first, even if it is just to print out an assignment.  I reserve the right to ask you to open the disk so I can see what is on the disk.  My fear is the flash disk will have games or software on it that might damage the computer, or other student’s assignments.
Feel free to email me at jeff.harris@sno.wednet.edu with assignment questions. I prefer you turn in work to the share drive. If you can't due to a legitimate reason, and need to email it to me, email me at both my school email listed above, and at jawharris@gmail.com. I only check this email when I have been emailed saying that a student emailed me an assignment.