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7/8 Elective
All readings and assignments for these electives can be found in MOODLE our online classroom.
MAY-JUNE
WEB 2.0 TOOLS
DISCOVER USEFUL TOOLS TO MAKE EVERYDAY
COMPUTING MORE EFFICIENT AND INTERESTING.
APRIL
The next elective offering will be Digital StoryTelling and Photography: A collaborative project with Mr. Fernandes and Mrs. Kenney.
During this elective students will:
Gain an understanding of digital storytelling
Explore online tools for digital storytelling
Compare sample digital stories
Take photographs according to a theme
Edit and manipulate photographs
Create a conversation about these photographs
Present their digital stories
Visit these Digital Storytelling links to find out more!
voicethread.com- a site for creating conversations from photographs.
photostory- a site for creating a video story with your photographs.
Digital Storytelling Tools browse these tools.
JumpCut-video and picture editing: When desktop software is too expensive.
Eyespot- “Mashups with effects, transitions, and titles.
January/February
Keep perfecting your online games! Add music, and lots of fun!!! Look in the shared folder for more sprites, sounds, etc.
Remember to use Moodle if you need help!
You can upload your game to YoYo Games or take it with you on your flash drive.
Please take a few minutes to complete this survey:
Your input is needed!
Your secret Word is: Ellis....
December- Online Games
Log into Moodle for instructions to make an online game
October 8th-November 20th 2007
Welcome to Website Design!
WebSite Design GLE's and Unit Plan
Course Expectations Website Progress Report Calendar
Classwork: NOVEMBER 5-9TH:
YOUR SELF EVALUATIONS AND PEER EVALUATIONS ARE DUE THIS WEEK!
Sign up for your presentation date
Show your business owner your site to evaluate
Evaluations:
Peer Evaluations- 3 are required Business Owner Evaluations
Course Checklist
Website Evaluation
Sites to Learn HTML
Click here for a list of vocabulary words that you should know while working on creating a website:
There are important questions to answer before beginning your website:
Now you need a story board for web site design:
Resources for graphics and an online game maker:
Classwork from first week:
Welcome Back!!!
Welcome to Website Design!
Course Expectations Calendar
Final week Instructions
Click here for a list of vocabulary words that you should know while working on creating a website:
There are important questions to answer before beginning your website:
Now you need a story board for web site design:
Sites to Learn HTML
Resources for graphics and an online game maker:
Website Evaluation
Peer Evaluations- 3 are required
2007-2008
Your bellwork is on the table. We will review the AUP (acceptable use policy), classroom guidelines, and classroom grading rubrics.
2006-2007
7th and 8th grade: Be sure to have a reflection for each artifact. Then customize your portfolio pages. Have you uploaded any artifacts from home? Check the shared folder for artifacts too.
Continue to work on your portfolio by adding more artifacts and writing your reflections. Use artifacts that represent different subject areas and your growth in technology. Access your folder from the server, the shared folder, and any assignments that you have uploaded to moodle to find artifacts.
Moodle
Remember, Moodle is online, so anything you have on your computer at home should also be uploaded as artifacts. :)
This portfolio is worth 1/2 a credit for high school and is required under ED Law 306.42
Old Bellwork
7th grade: YOU must upload healthy skin doc to Moodle!! :)
You are working on two projects: Ms. Pipitone-Using Word to type your stories or Mr. Gough-PowerPoint-events from school, town, state, country, internationally.
Use your time wisely!
8th Grade: the parts of a computer, Part 4
Now it is time to take the quiz!
in moodle you will find the quiz on computer parts. this is the culminating activity for this unit.
the parts of a computer, Part 3
We will define the parts of a computer, identify the parts and their uses, diagram a computer, label the parts, take it apart, and then re-assemble it. FYI You must complete all of the steps to participate in taking the computers apart!
Computer Parts 3-
See Mrs. Kenney for your grade so far for this unit, then check on the board for more directions.
moodle.sau83.org
Complete Healthy Skin, upload your complete document. Check your grade if you have already uploaded. Then go to the current events assignment. All this is done in Moodle.
Go to Moodle and follow directions.
Go to moodle, to sign in use the password on the board, then click on participants and change your password.:)
After you have changed your password, click on TECH and read your assignment for today.
If you have not uploaded your computer parts vocab to moodle, then you must finish it and upload it. Any one who has uploaded it, check for comments and your grade. Make corrections. Anyone who has completed this assignment is now ready for part 2. Go to Moodle for directions.
Linux in Mrs. Diburro's room.
continue to work on your World Cultures Brochures. They are due The week of January 29th-february 2nd. If you are finished, then you may research for science or complete langauge arts work.
1. open a word document and put your name on it. Save it in your folder as: parts of a computer .
2. Go to moodle.sau83.org, 8th grade technology. Follow the directions for the Parts of a Computer; step 1.
Look on your desktop For Sketchup. open it. (do not upgrade it) click on either the brown circle or square. draw the shape, then click on the square with the red arrow. click on the shape you just made and drag the mouse. After exploring the tools, click on the box that looks like it is open. Find a 3d model. Use the help menu when you have a question.
8th grade: find Audacity in your start-all programs, open it. Then find singingfish.com. limit your search to mp3 and music. find a song you like-school appropriate-and listen for directions.
Visit this link and find out about bibliographies and MLA format.
Citation Machine
After viewing the page, open the Internet in a second, separate window, then Google Discovery School, choose a page and fill in the MLA format for a webpage. Is any information hard to find?
After bellwork:
8th grade: Cloning yourself into a picture using Corel. :)
7th grade:
Open microsoft publisher to work on your World Cultures brochures. DOCUMENT EVERY PICTURE AND EVERY WORD YOU TAKE FROM THE INTERNET!
Click on the link below and complete the worksheet.
7th grade: When you are finished please go to Microsoft Office 2003 and open Microsoft PowerPoint, explore until I give you directions.
8th grade: When you are finished, open Corel Paint Shop Pro X. You will receive directions on what to do there.
December 1-
Click on the link for Antartica 2006. Click on a date to read the journal entries on the calendar. In a Word document, write a sentence or two explaining what Ms. Elwood is doing in Antartica. With your name on it, print it and put it on the table by the projector. Think of a question you could ask her about Antartica.
Old Bellwork
November 20-30
**1. Open Excel, complete your graph for the ground materials lab then copy and paste it into Word, write a summary which includes the purpose of the lab and your conclusion. With your name on the paper, print to lab_phaser. Pass it in to Mrs. Kenney.
***2. After printing the ground materials work, open 7-8 data in Word and finish graphing the data. Then copy all graphs into Word, put your name on it, print to lab_phaser. Pass it in to Mrs. Kenney.
****There will be a quiz on spreadsheets in your next computer class.
November 6- 15
Open Excel. Begin entering the data given to you. Each word should be in its own cell as a label and each number should be in its own cell as a value.
Complete the survey at: SurveyMonkey. When you are finished, open Microsoft Excel in all Programs from your start menu.
October 18-25
1. Use the White Pages to perform a reverse look-up using your phone number. What did you find out?
2. Now use Google to find yourself on the Internet. Put in your name and see what happens.
3. If you haven't already saved this to your folder on the server, then now is a good time to do it.
Internet Safety Action Plan After completing the sentences print the Internet Safety Action Plan to: Lab Phaser.
October 10-17
Frequently Asked questions about Mrs. Kenney
Old bellwork is below....
Bellwork through Oct 11
Understanding how web sites work
For your bellwork, read this page to learn about hosting, site names and other elements of getting a website posted:
Bellwork through Oct 2
Many of you wanted to learn more about web page design. Understanding this starts with understanding HTML. We are going to start today with bellwork that explains the basics of HTML, then goes on to explain the more complex parts of web design and publishing.
For your bellwork today, please read and do the exercise at the bottom of lesson 1 from this site:
http://www.alternetwebdesign.com/htmltutorial/
When you have finished that, you may look at this page to get more ideas about web publishing:
http://www.lissaexplains.com/basics.shtml
Bellwork Sept 15-22
A good start....
... Get Organized
- Clean up your home folder: Each student has a home folder. To get to it from any computer in the school, go to My Computer and it will be listed under Network Drives.
- Open your home folder
- Create a new folder
- Right click anywhere inside your home folder
- Select New->Folder
- Name the folder 2005-2006
- Move all of your old files from last year into the folder you just created.
You should get used to organizing your documents in folders with names that help you remember what's in them.
- Find the Shared folder: Your grade level has a shared folder. Your teachers may put things in it for you to use for projects. Practice getting to this so that you learn how.
- Open up My Computer.
- In the address bar, type \\Eagles-2 and press Enter. The direction of the backslash is important. Use the key above the Enter key, not the one with the question mark.
- Double click on the Students folder.
- Double click on your YOG folder.
- Double click on the Shared Folder.
If you are working on a project with a friend, you can put items in here that you need to share. Please make a folder for any project you put in here, and label files with something that tells everyone who owns it and what's in it.
- Add a printer: Printers are not automatically added to any machine. You should know how to add them and how to determine what a printer is named.
- Printers are named with this syntax:
<where the printer is>_<what type of printer it is>
So, the Xerox Phaser 8400 in the computer lab is called:
Lab_Phaser8400 - Each printer has a label on it, telling you what the name of the printer is. If you do not know the name of a printer that you want to use, go to it and look at the sticker.
- Add the Lab_Phaser using the directions on the link above called Add a printer under the yellow Resources banner.
- Printers are named with this syntax:
- Practice your typing: During the year, you may have extra time. You can always use that time to work with Type to Learn to improve your typing skills. Then doing this, keep in mind that this is to improve yourself; looking at the keys or using bad form like two fingers will not help make you better at this. Take your time! Make yourself work at getting to be a better typist. Go to Start->All Programs->Sunburst->Type to Learn.