Week of Oct 11th – Oct 15th

Highlights for the week: 

  • Begin introducing Gmail and Google Docs.  It is critical that you turn in your Google Applications permission form in order to participate! 

Monday 11th:

- Review

  1. Look in your S-drive folder and make sure there’s a folder in there named this exactly: screencasts
  2. Make sure you turn in your Google Applications permission form!  There was another copy attached to your 1st 6 weeks grades.  That form must be turned in for you to get a school email account and to be able to use many of the new features offered by Google for Education!

- New

  1. Checkout the new Student Submitted Links sections on the right-side panel near the top.  Those links will help you to search for colleges for your Glogs.
  2. As a class, watch this iPad light painting YouTube clip
  3. Today we will introduce 2 quote search tools and 1 new wordmapping tool called Visuwords.

- Do

  1. Use one of the 2 new Quotes Tools (new in the tools section) to find 3 positive quotes that you like.  (Try searching terms like change, growth, education, family, happiness, attitude)
  2. Send me your 3 quotes using the Questions or Comments Form.  You can enter all 3 in one form.
  3. Use Visuwords (also in the key sites/Words section) to create a visual wordmap of the term ‘Browse’.  Click ‘Fill Browser with scalable Visuwords’ to see a larger version which you can zoom into.   There’s a How-to video clip on Visuwords in my J-drive/Screencasts folder to show you how to use this tool if you need it.
  4. Open your OneNote Practice file (in your S-drive) and capture your Visuwords wordmap of the term ‘browse’ on a new page called ‘Visuwords’.
  5. Create 2 other Visuwords wordmaps (you choose the words) and add them to your 1N (OneNote) page.

- Through?

  1. Make sure you have added the new folder in your s-drive called screencasts and drag all of your screencasts (sc1, sc2, sc3, sc4) into that folder.
  2. Complete the screencast of your College Glog and save it in your S-drive screencasts folder as sc5.  In your screencast must say and show these 3 things: 1) the name of your college or university, 2) the city and state where it is located and 3) at least one detail of what your Glog looks like.
  3. Logon to your Google Apps account and see if you can get to your Gmail or Google Docs pages.
  4. Check out these free educational game sites and send me your recommendations using the Share Websites Form.

Tuesday 12th:

- Review

  1. Questions on Quotes or Visuwords assignments?

- New

  1. View this clip on The Internet of Things by IBM, which shows how devices are being connected together to provide information and improve efficiency.
  2. Open and use Google Sky
  3. View IW demo file

- Do

  1. Make a new folder in your S-drive called Interwrite.
  2. Copy the Sky IW file from my J-drive/Today folder into your new Interwrite folder.
  3. Open Google Earth and switch to Sky by clicking on the planet at the top.
  4. Open the Sky IW file and follow the directions.  Make sure you have the advanced toolbar (with the camera) loaded.
  5. Be sure to save your Sky IW file when you’ve finished!

- Through?

  1. Browse Google Moon and Mars (try Fly Along Mars Tour)
  2. View the Google Sky Website
  3. Watch this Marine Life slideshow (an MSNBC slideshow. Details: The Census of Marine Life has issued its final report on the 10-year effort to document the diversity of the world's oceans. More than 2,700 scientists cataloged 28 million observations of new species as well as old favorites.
  4. Check out these free educational game sites and send me your recommendations using the Share Websites Form.

Wednesday 13th:

- Review

  1. How to delete unwanted slides and add new pages in Interwrite (J-drive/bmercer/today/Screencasts)
  2. View list of students who have turned in Google Apps permission forms.  If you are not on the list, please turn in a form!  If you think you’ve turned on in already, but you’re not on the list, let me know and I’ll check on it for you).

- New

  1. Watch this Project Natal (Microsoft Kinect) demo of interactive technologies
  2. Watch Google Mars tour (there’s a copy in my J-drive today folder if you would like to see it again later)
  3. View the Google Sky Website and the Chandra Observatory catalogue of exploding stars (for those who like space imagery especially)

- Do  (I’ve added screencast demos for each of these steps in my J-drive/today folder… if you need to hear the instructions again for any of the steps, use those clips to help you!)

  1. Copy the SkyTour kmz file from my J-drive/Today folder to your desktop and open it.  When Google Earth opens, be sure to put it in ‘Sky’ mode.
  2. Open the Sky file in your S-drive/Interwrite folder and add a new ‘last page’
  3. Change the new page background color to the color of your choice (anything but white)
  4. There are 8 stops in the SkyTour.  Capture an image from each of the 8 stops and put them on the new Interwrite last page (step 2 above)
  5. Copy the Mars in Google Earth video clip (2 minute clip) from my J-drive/Today folder to your desktop and then open it.
  6. Explore some of the features of Google Mars which you saw in the clip.
  7. Use the comment form to tell me what you liked best and what you liked least about our visits to Google Sky or Google Mars

- Through?

  1. Try Google Moon (and at home you can watch this YouTube explanation of Google Moon)
  2. View the Google Sky Website and the Chandra Observatory catalogue of exploding stars
  3. Watch this Marine Life slideshow (an MSNBC slideshow. Details: The Census of Marine Life has issued its final report on the 10-year effort to document the diversity of the world's oceans. More than 2,700 scientists cataloged 28 million observations of new species as well as old favorites.
  4. Check out these free educational game sites and send me your recommendations using the Share Websites Form.

Thursday 14th:  

- Review

  1. View list of students who have turned in Google Apps permission forms.  If you are not on the list, please turn in a form!  If you think you’ve turned on in already, but you’re not on the list, let me know and I’ll check on it for you).
  2. Yesterday Step 7 results

- New

  1. Watch Thrust SSC clip
  2. Watch 1000MPH car development clip

- Do

  1. View list of students who have turned in Google Apps permission forms.  If you are not on the list, please turn in a form!  If you think you’ve turned on in already, but you’re not on the list, let me know and I’ll check on it for you).
  2. Complete Step 7 from yesterday (those with 2 or 3 checkmarks may skip this!)
  3. Take this Quiz on Interwrite
  4. Begin working on a Space Glog with your favorite images from Google Sky, your Sky Interwrite file (in your S-drive), or using images from the Google Sky Website or the Chandra Observatory catalogue of exploding stars.

- Through?

  1. Watch this Marine Life slideshow (an MSNBC slideshow. Details: The Census of Marine Life has issued its final report on the 10-year effort to document the diversity of the world's oceans. More than 2,700 scientists cataloged 28 million observations of new species as well as old favorites.
  2. Check out these free educational game sites and send me your recommendations using the Share Websites Form.

Friday 15th:  

- Review

  1. View list of students who have not turned in Google Apps permission forms.  If you are on the list, please turn in a form! 

- New

  1. Learning from Sherman the Shark
  2. Chrome Speed Test
  3. The making of Chrome Speed Test
  4. Explore Google Moon

- Do

  1. Watch the clips in the New section as a class
  2. Complete Space Glogs

- Through?

  1. Explore Google Moon
  2. Check out these free educational game sites and send me your recommendations using the Share Websites Form.

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