Week of Jan 17th–Jan 21st

Highlights for the week: 

  • Begin   

Monday 17th:  Holiday!

Tuesday 18th:

- Review

  1. Agendas out and copy yellow
  2. Turn-in G-Apps permission forms.  Starting this week MISSING FORMS will lead to Parent Contact and then lunch detention and finally ISS unless there’s a green highlight by your name in the Assignments Track Sheet (which means you already have an account).   It is critical for this class that you get this form turned in!
  3. View the student reflection comments from Week 2
  4. View grades from 1st 2 weeks (logon here)
  5. Check the Assignments Track Sheet

- New

  1. View student screencast of how to create a Pivot monster
  2. How to save screencaptures from OneNote to a Pictures Folder in your S-drive
  3. How to use Lookup Function in OneNote to find definitions (and other resources like web searches and Thesauri)
  4. How to create a photo collage using Photovisi.  View the BMS Homepage Collage.

- Do 

  1. If you don’t have one already, create a new folder called pictures in your S-drive
  2. Save the photos from your OneNote Screencaptures page to your pictures folder
  3. Create a photovisi collage using the photos you were supposed to collect.  Here is the original assignment: 
    1. Add 2 screencaptures from each of the following to the Screencaptures page
  4. Download your collage and save it to your S-drive pictures folder as Practice Collage
  5. Add a new page to your OneNote ‘My Screencaptures and Drawings’ file and name the page for a topic you choose (like sports, food, fun, travel, pets, games, or special topics like space, the oceans, Google Earth locations, etc).
  6. Begin collecting screencaptures on your topic which we will use to design another photovisi collage

- Through?

  1. View Happy Birthday Message
  2. Retake the Power Words Vocabulary Quiz to raise your grade if you like
  3. View the 2010 Year in Space slideshow

Wednesday 19th:

- Review

  1. Agendas out and copy yellow
  2. Turn-in G-Apps permission forms.  Starting this week MISSING FORMS will lead to Parent Contact and then lunch detention and finally ISS unless there’s a green highlight by your name in the Assignments Track Sheet (which means you already have an account).   It is critical for this class that you get this form turned in!
  3. Check the Assignments Track Sheet

- New

  1. View the Incredible Music Machine and discuss web content validity
  2. View Word Lens Application demo clip
  3. View some Photovisi background examples

- Do 

  1. Test logon to your Google Apps account (using the same logon information you use when you start your computer at school)
  2. Open your S-drive pictures folder and make 2 new folders inside of it named ‘backgrounds’ and ‘collages’
  3. Open the Paint application and create a few backgrounds to use with Photovisi.  Save your backgrounds to your S-drive backgrounds folder.  Experiment with screencaptures as backgrounds (for example, try a fireworks screencapture as a background)
  4. Try SumoPaint to create additional backgrounds
  5. Upload your backgrounds to photovisi and upload some pictures from your pictures folder to see how your backgrounds look
  6. Save your new practice collages to your S-drive collages folder

- Through?

  1. View this Animal Tracks Slideshow from Jan10-17
  2. Retake the Power Words Vocabulary Quiz to raise your grade if you like

Thursday 20th:

- Review

  1. Agendas out and copy yellow
  2. Turn-in G-Apps permission forms.  Starting today MISSING FORMS will lead to Parent Contact and then lunch detention and finally ISS unless there’s a green highlight by your name in the Assignments Track Sheet (which means you already have an account).   It is critical for this class that you get this form turned in!
  3. Check the Assignments Track Sheet

- New

  1. View Google Demo Slam Epic Docs
  2. View Chrome Speed Test
  3. Demo We Feel Fine (Help)

- Do 

  1. Logon to your Google Apps account
  2. Create a folder in Docs named ‘103’ and share it with me:  bmercer@bastrop.isd.tenet.edu  (Help)
  3. Upload Thanks from your S-drive to the ‘103’ folder (so you will be able to share it!) (Help)
  4. Screencast at least one (more is optional) cool effect or technique you learned with sumopaint so we can learn from you!  Name your screencast ‘sc2 sumo’ and upload it to your G-Docs/103 folder
  5. Complete 3 (or more) Photovisi collages and download them to your S-drive/pictures/collages folder
  6. Create one final (graded) collage which includes your 3 (or more) collages from step 4 and name it ‘My Collages’.  Here’s an example: Photo Collage Demo
  7. Upload your ‘My Collages’ file to your 103 folder in G-Docs (or save it to your S-drive/pictures/collages folder if you can’t access your Google Account)

- Through?

  1. Continue experimenting with sumopaint.  Upload your coolest creations to your G-Docs/103 folder.
  2. View the Census of Marine Life Slideshow

Friday 21st:

- Review

  1. Agendas out and copy yellow
  2. Turn-in G-Apps permission forms.  MISSING FORMS will lead to Parent Contact and then lunch detention and finally ISS unless there’s a green highlight by your name in the Assignments Track Sheet (which means you already have an account).   It is critical for this class that you get this form turned in!
  3. Check the Assignments Track Sheet

- New

  1. View student work example screenshots
  2. The making of Chrome Speed Test
  3. Excerpt From RSAnimate Drive

- Do 

  1. Logon to your Google Apps account
  2. View ‘This Semester at a Glance Prezi’ to give you some ideas for the weekly reflection form
  3. Complete the Reflections for the Week Form
  4. Retake the Power Words Vocabulary Quiz to raise your grade if you like (missing quiz grades for 2nd– Chynna, 5th- Brian, Nick, 6th- Chris, 7th- Kylie, Michaela, Payton)
  5. Complete 3 (or more) Photovisi collages and download them to your S-drive/pictures/collages folder
  6. Create one final (graded) collage which includes your 3 (or more) collages from step 3 and name it ‘My Collages’.  Here’s an example: Photo Collage Demo
  7. Upload your ‘My Collages’ file to your 103 folder in G-Docs (or save it to your S-drive/pictures/collages folder if you can’t access your Google Account)  (Help)
  8. Complete your Screencast of at least one (more is optional) cool effect or technique you learned with sumopaint so we can learn from you!  Name your screencast ‘sc2 sumo’ and upload it to your G-Docs/103 folder

- Through?

  1. Continue experimenting with sumopaint
  2. Play 3D Chess

Additional Help and Information:

  1. YouTube How-to Videos for this class
  2. G-Apps How2 Videos
  3. Prezis
  4. TED talks (browse TED talks list)
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