Highlights for the week:
- View the BMS Public Calendar for this weeks events!
Monday 17th:
- Part 1) Review
- Read the Weekly Reflection responses from last week. If you don’t see your name, then you haven’t completed it!
- Check your Gmail
- Check your grades for the the 2nd Progress Reporting period (which ends this Friday!). The lowest grade I give is a 6 out of 10, so where you see 6s, you are missing that assignment.
- If you complete a missing grade, please send me an email with the completed assignment number so I can update your grade!
- Check your Gdocs 103 student collection, which should look like this (2.3 and 2.6 aren’t in the list because they are weekly reflections forms):
- Part 2) New
- Explore Google Moon and Mars (which you can open from the top toolbar)
- Use the Layers options on the left of your screen to find your way around mars (and the moon)
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Create a collage of your favorite images in InterWrite, copy to Paint, save as a JPG named M&M and then upload to your Gdocs 103 collection
- You should capture at least 3 images from each (Moon and Mars) for your collage
- Explore the Planet Earth tour in Google Earth using the kml file which you can find in the resources collection in this image:
- Part 4) Through?
- Complete any missing assignments from 2.1-2.6 for Progress Reports
Tuesday 18th:
- Part 1) Review
- Check your Gmail
- Check your grades for the the 2nd Progress Reporting period (which ends this Friday!). The lowest grade I give is a 6 out of 10, so where you see 6s, you are missing that assignment.
- If you complete a missing grade, please send me an email with the completed assignment number so I can update your grade!
- Part 2) New
- Part 3) Do - Today students will analyze and compare a variety of modern, language-related, web-based services by completing the following steps…
- Choose 1 word from this list to enter into Visuwords
- Capture the word-map and paste it into a new IW called ‘Words’
- Save your IW ‘Words’ file in your S-drive
- Choose 5 words starting with different letters from this list to enter into the Wordsmyth Glossary Maker
- Create a glossary of your 5 words
- Capture your glossary in your IW Words file
- Enter the word sincere into Wordnik
- Capture 3 images to add to your IW words file (if images are blocked you may use Google image search in place of Wordnik to search for related images)
- Copy your completed IW page into paint, save it in your S-drive as a JPG named Words1 (which we will use to create a presentation later in the week)
- Here’s an example of a completed Words1 JPG file (reduced size): try the hotspots on this image!
- Part 4) Through?
- Explore any of the 3 words resources from the new section further
Wednesday 19th:
- Part 1) Review
- Check your Gmail for some information for today
- If you complete a missing grade, please send me an email with the completed assignment number so I can update your grade!
- View these weather sites while you’re waiting for class to begin:
- Weather for the next several days… chilly!
- Interactive animated map… great when there are storms!
- Part 2) New
- View this very difficult vocabulary list
- How to create your 5 word quiz
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Challenge your teachers: Use the very difficult vocabulary list to create a 5 word quiz using the Wordsmyth Quiz Maker
- Copy your Quiz and paste it in a new email
- Send the email to another teacher that you would like to test (add a copy to me so I can see your quiz)
- In the subject line, you can paste this if you like: Try this 5 words quiz!
- In the body of the email, you can paste these direction if you like: Please reply to this email with your highlighted choice for each word! Thanks for trying this!
- Create your own Words Help Spreadsheet: Open your Gdocs 103 folder and choose Create New – Spreadsheet for you to record your words and definitions (so you can grade your teachers’ responses later)
- Name your spreadsheet My Words List and make your spreadsheet look like this (you can view this example in the 103 Student Demo collection):
- Enter the 5 words and definitions from your Teachers’ Quiz into your spreadsheet using Wordsmyth (the glossary maker will help you do this quickly and easily!)
- Part 4) Through?
- Explore the very difficult vocabulary list
- Explore this words site from Anna: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/ (Thanks Anna!)
Thursday 20th:
- Part 1) Review
- Logon to your Gmail for info on these topics: Yearbook Covers and Teacher Vocab Quiz responses
- Check the weather for the next several days
- Part 2) New
- View an example of the presentation (found in the 103 Student Demo collection) which you will begin creating today. Here’s how you create a new Presentation in your Gdocs 103 Collection:
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Create a new Presentation in your Gdocs 103 Collection
- the title should be: 2.7 My Words
- choose a background which you have created for all of your slides
- on slide 1, insert your Words1 JPG from Tuesday (it should be in your S-drive)
- Complete your My Words List spreadsheet from yesterday (it should have 5 words and definitions in it)
- Copy the words and definitions from your My Words List spreadsheet
- use what you’ve copied to design a Wordle or Tagxedo
- capture it with IW
- copy to paint and save it as a JPG to your s-drive as wordcloud
- insert your wordcloud image on slide 2 of your 2.7 My Words Presentation
- check to make sure your 2.7 My Words Presentation is in your Gdocs 103 Collection so I can see it
- Part 4) Through?
- Discuss Yearbook cover and explore galleries for ideas
Friday 21st:
- Part 1) Review
- Check your Gmail
- Check to make sure your Gdocs 103 folder has the 5 assignments with numbers (in the red box in this image):
- Part 2) New
- Complete the 2.8 Weekly Reflections Form #8
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Complete your 2.7 My Words Presentation assignment from yesterday and make sure it’s in your 103 collection so I can grade it! (It should look something like this)
- View todays’ video collection
- Part 4) Through?
- Explore galleries for Yearbook Cover ideas
