Week of Apr 11th–Apr 15th

Highlights for the week:

  • TEKS for this week – 1 (C&F), 5 (B&C), 8 (A,D&E), 12C

Monday 11th:

- Part 1) Review

  1. All grades have been entered.  Logon to your grades to see what your report card would look like if it was handed out today!
  2. If you are missing anything (grades marked with a ‘5’, you can still complete it to raise your grade, but you must send me an email with the completed assignment number!)

- Part 2) New

  1. Explore background images in G-Docs shared ‘Background Images’ folder to use with animations or other projects.  If you would like to request a specific background, please send me an email with a description of what you need.
  2. View the Pivot 10 competition files (in your G-Docs view folder) and consider making one of your own to add to the collection.   Name your animation “pivot 10” and upload it to your 103 folder (to make it easy to locate and add to the shared collection)
  3. Try using Paint and Windows Movie Maker to create an animation (some of you have made these before in Video Tech class for instance).  To add your creation to our shared collection, name your file “wmm 10” and upload it to your 103 folder
  4. Here are 2 G-Docs which will explain more about using Movie Maker and PowerPoint to create animations.  (If these links below don’t work, logon to Google Docs and look in the View folder for your class)

- Part 3) Do

  1. Work on pivot animations or try animating with Movie Maker or PowerPoint

- Part 4) Through?

  1. Complete any missing assignments for the 5th 6 weeks grading period

    Tuesday 12th:

    - Part 1) Review

    1. All grades have been entered. Logon to your grades to see what your report card would look like if it was handed out today!
    2. Please read your Gmail for important information for today!
    3. If you are missing anything (grades marked with a ‘5’, you can still complete it to raise your grade, but you must send me an email with the completed assignment number!)

    - Part 2) New

    1. Try this diagram creator website again (it has supposedly been unblocked): http://www.diagram.ly/

    - Part 3) Do

    1. View the Pivot 10 competition files and consider making one of your own to add to the collection. Name your animation “pivot 10” and upload it to your 103 folder (to make it easy to locate and add to the shared collection)
    2. Try using Paint and Windows Movie Maker to create an animation (some of you have made these before in Video Tech class for instance). To add your creation to our shared collection, name your file “wmm 10” and upload it to your 103 folder.  There’s a new example of one of these called ‘Thanks.wmv’ in the Pivot 10 competitions folder for you to look at.
    3. Here are 2 G-Docs which will explain more about using Movie Maker and PowerPoint to create animations. (If these links below don’t work, logon to Google Docs and look in the View folder for your class)

    - Part 4) Through?

    1. Complete any missing assignments for the 5th 6 weeks grading period
    2. View these Best of March National Geographic Photos (which would make awesome pivot backgrounds!)

      Wednesday 13th:

      - Part 1) Review

      1. All grades have been entered. Logon to your grades to see what your report card would look like if it was handed out today!
      2. If you are missing anything (grades marked with a ‘5’, you can still complete it to raise your grade, but you must send me an email with the completed assignment number!)

      - Part 2) New

      1. Make a screencast of a pivot and add sound to it (check the remove audio block when you export)
      2. Find sounds on the BISD portal (to download your file, right click on sound and choose ‘save target as’)
      3. Find sounds on Office Clipart Online Search
      4. Make a sounds folder in your S-drive to save your sounds collection for later
      5. Open Windows Movie Maker to add your Pivot screencast and sounds

      - Part 3) Do

      1. Make a screencast of a pivot and save it as an avi file
      2. Use Windows Movie Maker to create a movie of your Pivot with sounds added
      3. Continue working on Pivot 10 competition files

      - Part 4) Through?

      1. Complete any missing work for the 5th 6 weeks (you have only 3 days left to complete work!)

        Thursday 14th:

        - Part 1) Review

        1. All grades have been entered. Logon to your grades to see what your report card would look like if it was handed out today!
        2. If you are missing anything (grades marked with a ‘5’, you can still complete it to raise your grade, but you must send me an email with the completed assignment number!)

        - Part 2) New

        1. View these unusual animal photos (which might make great Pivot backgrounds)
        2. View this Windows Movie Maker Tutorial Video.  (There’s a copy in the view folder for your class period if you need to refer to it again)

        - Part 3) Do

        1. Continue working on Pivot 10 competition files
        2. Use Windows Movie Maker to create a movies of your Pivots with sounds added
        3. Upload all creations to your 103 folder

        - Part 4) Through?

        1. Complete any missing work for the 5th 6 weeks (you have only 3 days left to complete work!)
        2. View these unusual animal photos (repeated from above)

          Friday 15th:

          - Part 1) Review

          1. Check your Gmail for todays message
          2. Logon to your grades to see what your report card would look like if it was handed out today!
          3. If you are missing anything (grades marked with a ‘5’, you can still complete it to raise your grade, but you must send me an email with the completed assignment number!)

          - Part 2) New

          1. Video clips for today
          2. View the most recent Pivot 10 files

          - Part 3) Do

          1. Complete the Weekly Reflection Form
          2. Complete any missing assignments for the 5th 6 weeks grading period (Last Day!)
          3. Continue working on Pivot 10 competition files
          4. Use Windows Movie Maker to create a movie of your Pivots with sounds added
          5. Upload all creations to your 103 folder

          - Part 4) Through?

          1. Make a screencast to teach something to others (like the volcano screencast above)
          2. Check out the Media Shows from this Week!

            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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