Week of Sep 26th–Sep 30th

Highlights for the week:
  • This is the last week of the 1st 6 weeks, so please make sure all assignments are completed by Friday in all of your classes!
Monday 26th:
- Part 1) Review
  1. View Week 4 Reflections
  2. Check the tracking spreadsheet to see if you have uploaded your MySumo.jpg file to your Gdocs 103 folder. Remember, the file should be saved as a JPEG file type!
  3. Check your Gmail and Gdocs 103 folder using Firefox
- Part 2) New
  1. View student examples slideshow for Open House
  2. Download and view part of a Screencast from the Help Collection in Gdocs
  3. View How to create a Wordle from a block of text
    • Explore menu options
    • View word counts
    • View custom color schemes
- Part 3) Do
  1. Complete and upload your MySumo collection
  2. Explore this Top 100 Speeches website to find the text for a Wordle
  3. Create a Wordle from part (or all) of a speech
  4. Capture it in IW and save it to your S-drive as ‘Wordmaps’
  5. Create a fun Wordle using appropriate words of your choosing and save it to your IW Wordmaps collection
  6. View this example of a Wordmaps collection
- Part 4) Through?
  1. Make a Sphere or a cube in SumoPaint out of one one of your Wordles and save it to your Wordmaps IW file
    Tuesday 27th:
    - Part 1) Review
    1. Check your Gmail (in Firefox) for a copy of a message which I sent to all teachers about what we will learn to do today
    2. View this Wikipedia article on Rainbows. Click on each of the 7 colors and see if you can find the hex color code for each color (we will need these codes for today)
    - Part 2) New
    1. Use the Advanced Wordle page to create a Rainbow Wordle
    2. How to create a Custom Wordle creator spreadsheet in Google Docs
    3. Use the Color Scheme Designer to get hex codes for your custom Wordles
    - Part 3) Do
    1. Create a Custom Wordle creator spreadsheet in Google Docs
    2. Use the Advanced Wordle page to create a Rainbow Wordle
    3. Make another advanced Wordle using your own words, weights and colors
    4. Add both Wordles (the Rainbow Wordle and your personal custom Wordle) to your IW Wordmaps file in your S-drive
    5. Your IW Wordmaps file should look something like this after today’s work
    - Part 4) Through?
    1. Explore this site for creating Rainbow Birthday Cakes
      Wednesday 28th:
      - Part 1) Review
      1. Check your Gmail for a message which I sent to all teachers this morning
      2. View this list of emotions and find some that you feel for today’s Wordle
      3. Explore this site at home sometime (video demo today) www.wefeelfine.org
      - Part 2) New
      1. View a demo of the site ‘We feel fine’
      2. View these spreadsheet functions which might help you with your assignment
        • the Concatenate function as another way to combine cells
        • how to copy and paste a block of cells
      3. View these advanced Wordle functions
        • how to make Wordles with phrases
        • change the background color
      4. How to use the Color Scheme Designer Color lists tab to copy color codes
      - Part 3) Do
      1. Create a Wordle with the following questions and your own answers.  Add a few other words as highlights and change the background color of your Wordle.
        • How are you feeling today?
        • (add your own answer in a shade of the same color)
        • What's your favorite time of the day?
        • (add your own answer in a shade of the same color)
      2. Add your Wordle to your IW Wordmaps file on your S-drive
      - Part 4) Through?
      1. Add Sumopaint effects to your Wordmaps (like in the Gmail from part 1 above)
        Thursday 29th:
        - Part 1) Review
        1. Check your Gmail for 2 messages which I sent earlier this morning
        2. Check the 103 Student (demo) folder to see examples of everything that should be in your 103 folder by the end of this week
        3. We will be using Internet Explorer for everything we do on the web today!
        - Part 2) New
        1. View Tagxedo Demo (work through example together using 308 Today)
        - Part 3) Do
        1. Create a Tagxedo image map of your own and add it to your IW collection
        2. Complete your IW Wordmaps collection (read your Gmail about what it should have and where to save and upload it for grading!).  It should look like this:
        Wordmap Project Demo (small)
        - Part 4) Through?
        1. Experiment more with Tagxedo!
        2. Check the 103 Student (demo) folder to see examples of everything that should be in your 103 folder by the end of this week
          Friday 30th: Last Day of the 1st 6 Weeks!
          - Part 1) Review
          1. Logon to your Google Docs and check your 103 Student folder to make sure you have these files uploaded to it:
          103 Gdocs Contents
          - Part 2) New
          1. Complete the reflection form for this week!
          - Part 3) Do
          1. Please complete any missing assignments for this class!
          2. View assorted video clips
          - Part 4) Through?
          1. Try making your name in words using Gzaas to IW to Paint to Tagxedo!  Here’s an example which I sent to all BMS teachers this morning:
          103-TGIF in Words
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