Week of Oct 4th – Oct 8th

Highlights for the week: 

  • Hopefully this week we will begin working with our Google Apps accounts which involves our new student email and collaborative documents capabilities.  We will also begin our 2nd 6 weeks grading period.
  • Wednesday will be an early release day.  You can find the early release bell schedule in the right side panel of this blog in the Bell Schedules section.

Monday 4th:

- Review

  • Open and follow a kmz file in Google Earth
  • Use IW to capture images on the current page
  • Use IW with GE even thought there are some software conflicts
  • Creating a Glog: remember to use your student ID (lunch code) as your user name and the password from your logon file in your s-drive (which you open with Word)

- New

  1. Create a Glog of your favorite College, University, Trade School, Distance Learning Campus, or other learning institution or practice.  Check out these example Glogs from USC, UT, and Penn State University. Click on the ‘College Glogs’ text in our showcase Prezi to view the new Glogs (click on the images to go to the Glogs).

- Do (numbers 2 & 3 will be the 1st graded events of the 2nd 6 weeks)

  1. Complete your kmz local and extreme places tours
  2. Create your own kmz tour with at least 5 places
  3. Complete your GE1 IW assignment (to capture 5 images on each screen green, blue and orange) from each of the 3 kmz files (one of which you make)
  4. Work on your College Glog

      4th Period Robotics Class

  1. We will not be building today!
  2. Watch this TED talk on how the 6th sense device was developed on your laptop
  3. The remainder of the class you may spend on your laptops

- Through?

  • Check your grades and complete any missing assignments
  • Improve your Glogs
  • Explore other Google Earth tours here
  • Add links to cool tours or other sites here

Tuesday 5th:

- Review

  1. Last chance to complete missing work and raise your 1st 6 weeks grades!
  2. View updated College Glogs here. (Click on the word Glog on each poster to go directly to the Glogs for sounds and animations)

- New

  1. View this Glog on bullying (post a comment here on whether or not you feel that bullying is a problem on campus and why)
  2. View this demo on our school address
  3. Attempt to logon to your Google Apps account here (using your computer logon info)

- Do

  1. Check your grades and complete any missing assignments
  2. If you have a Google Apps account, send an email to me (at this address bmercer@bastrop.isd.tenet.edu) that says your email works
  3. Complete your GE kmz tour of 5 places
  4. Complete your GE1 IW assignment (to capture 5 images on each screen green, blue and orange) from each of the 3 kmz files (one of which you make)

- Through?

  1. Watch this TED talk on how the 6th sense device was developed on your laptop
  2. Complete or improve your college Glog

Wednesday 6th: This is an early release day.  Here’s the bell schedule.

- Review

  1. How to use the comments form (for the Bullying Glog feedback)

- New

  1. After the quiz, we will try a new link to get to your new Gmail accounts

- Do

  1. Take this Quiz (Use your First and Last name in the top window, and your lunch code for ID)
  2. View results of Bullying Glog comments here (includes a copy of the bell schedule for today in case the other links don’t work for you)
  3. Try this link to access your Gmail account

- Through?

  1. Continue improving your college Glogs (6th period: Kenneth use so3j9 + lunch code and 7th period: Zach use s10c3 + lunch code)
  2. Watch this TED talk on how the 6th sense device was developed on your laptop

Thursday 7th:  

- Review

  1. Discuss quiz questions

- New

  1. Try this link to access your Gmail account
  2. If the link works, compose an email to bmercer@bastrop.isd.tenet.edu

- Do

  1. Retake or complete quiz
  2. Add an email contact
  3. Create and share a G-Doc

- Through?

  1. Continue improving your college Glogs

Friday 8th:  

- Review

  1. There were a couple of problems with the quiz we took yesterday, so everyone who took that quiz will receive full credit as a participation grade.  However, it is still possible to receive a zero if you do not take that quiz!
  2. View this Prezi on our quiz questions and discuss any of the questions which you are uncertain about. 
  3. We will be using screencast-o-matic today and taking a brief quiz on how to use it with today’s assignment.
  4. View an example screencast in the J-drive/bmercer/Today folder called sc5 demo which demonstrates what you are to record today.

- New

  1. Read the next section (Do) and then take this Quiz on using Screencast-o-matic and what to do with it today.  Your quiz will be scored immediately and you will see your grade as well as the correct answers to the questions right after you take it.  You may take the quiz repeatedly to receive a higher grade if you choose to.

- Do

  1. Make a new folder in your s-drive called screencasts and drag all of your screencasts (sc1, sc2, sc3, sc4) into that folder.
  2. Create a new 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. There’s a link to Screencast-o-matic in the Tools section of this Blog
  4. You must set your screencast resolution to 800x600
  5. Remember, there is an example screencast in the J-drive/bmercer/Today folder called sc5 which you may look at to help you!
  6. Although your College Glog will not be graded (because they all look good to me!), your screencast recording of it will!

- Through?

  1. View our updated College Glogs Prezi which has 15 new College Glogs added to it.
  2. Complete or improve your own college Glog.
  3. Take the Review Quiz on Using 308 Today if you haven’t already done so.
  4. Retake today’s quiz if you didn’t pass it.
  5. Watch a Tammet Video clip (as a class)

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