Highlights for the week:
- View the BMS Public Calendar for this weeks events!
- Tip: Use ctrl+f and enter the date (like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.) to jump quickly to the Blog entry for today!
Monday 6th:
- Part 1) Review
- Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
- Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
- Click on the link to the BMS Public Calendar at the top of this page
- Find the dates when these 2 things occur
- What day this week is our Early Release Day?
- What is the date of our next Student Holiday?
- Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): Our Early release day is ___ and our…
- Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
- Checkout these Animal Tracks Images from msnbc.com
- Part 2) New
- Introduce Sumopaint (view Intro, Symmetry, and Shapes clips)
- …which you can use to create effects like these:
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Begin experimenting with Sumopaint
- Explore the Sumopaint Symmetry and Shapes tools
- This week we’ll be using IW to capture these 6 sumopaint effects
- Symmetry (screencast)
- Shapes (screencast)
- Sphere (screencast)
- Ice cube (screencast)
- Text Transform (screencast)
- Image (screencast)
- Here are some Sumopaint links which might help you (also on right-side panel)
- Sumo Paint
- Sumo Paint Help Topics
- Sumo Paint Tutorials
- Sumo Paint YouTube Channel (should work at home)
- Save your IW gwb file as 6Sumos to your S-drive until it’s completed
- You should complete effects 1 & 2 today (Symmetry & Shapes)
- Eventually we will uploading the collection of 6 effects to your Gdocs 103 Student Folder as 6Sumos
- Part 4) Through?
- Checkout these images from the SuperBowl
- …or these Super Bowl Commercials
Tuesday 7th:
- Part 1) Review
- Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
- Tomorrow is an Early Release Day (and the UIL fieldtrip!) so your classes will all be much shorter
- Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
- View these images and think about ways in which they are similar and ways in which they are different
- Use your daily warmup form to list 2 ways these are the similar and 2 ways they are different
- Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): These images are similar because____ but they’re different because ____
- Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
- Checkout this gallery of Sumo Paint Creations (like this one)
- Part 2) New
- Discuss the warmup for similarities and differences (link)
- View this image for similarities and differences
- Complete this form to quietly record your ideas (so you don’t give them away)
- View the ideas you come up with as a class
- Introduce Sumo Paint 3D and Distortion tools (view screencasts)
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Continue experimenting with Sumopaint
- Explore the Sumopaint 3D and Distortion tools
- Save your IW gwb file as 6Sumos to your S-drive until it’s completed
- You should complete effects 3&4 today (3D effect & Distortion)
- Eventually we will uploading the collection of 6 effects to your Gdocs 103 Student Folder as 6Sumos
- Part 4) Through?
- Now this is cold! Read more about Europe’s current deep freeze here
Wednesday 8th: Early Release Day & UIL Field Trip!
- Part 1) Review
- Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
- Here’s the Early Release Bell Schedule for today
- Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
- Please answer these 3 questions in your warmup for today (hint: the answers to these questions are in part 3 of today’s Blog entry!)
- What are you supposed to name your Sumopaint collection file?
- What type of file are you to save it as?
- Where are you supposed to put it so I will be able to grade it?
- Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): My collection should be saved as___ , the file type should be ___ and I should upload it to ___
- Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
- Checkout these Nikon Small World image contest winners (like this example of a blade of grass)
- Part 2) New
- Explore the Thinkmap form results from yesterday
- Add our last two Sumopaint effects to our collages (view screencasts of transform tool & image effects)
- Here’s an example of a plastic edge effect
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Continue experimenting with Sumopaint
- Explore the Sumopaint transform tool & image effects
- Once you have completed your collection of 6 effects, paste it into paint, save it as a jpg file named 6Sumos and upload it to your Gdocs 103 Student Folder!
- Part 4) Through?
- Explore the Southernmost point in the continental US in streetview
- …or this Northernmost point (images only)
Thursday 9th:
- Part 1) Review
- Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
- Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
- Scan the Thinkmap form results from yesterday
- Find your favorite observation that you hadn’t already thought of
- Send me that idea in the warmup form using a complete sentence
- Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I thought this was a great idea: ____
- Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
- Checkout this article with images from the Mars Orbiter
- Part 2) New
- View screencast ‘Mars in Google Earth’
- View a Sumo Carnation on our BMS Website Slideshow like the one which is attached to the email which I sent you all
- Creative Challenge: Add a carnation (or a bouquet of carnations) to your completed sumopaint collections (watch screencast)
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Complete your 6Sumos collection and add a Valentine’s Day Carnation (or Carnations) to the center of it (like this image below):
- Remember to upload your completed 6sumos with flower collection as a jpg file to your Gdocs 103 Student Folder so I can grade it!
- Part 4) Through?
- Explore Mars in Google Earth!
Friday 10th: Folder checks every Friday! Monday is a Student Holiday!
- Part 1) Review
- Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
- Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
- View the Animal Tracks images for this week
- Tell me which slide number you liked best and what you liked about that slide
- Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I liked slide ___ because ___
- Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
- Checkout these new Animal Tracks images for this week
- Part 2) New
- Gdocs folder check. Your folder should look like this 103 Student (Demo) folder:
- Part 3) Do - Today students will…
- Complete the Week5 Reflection Form
- Complete your 6Sumo (with carnation) collection, save it as a jpg file and upload it to your Gdocs 103 Student Folder
- View the Friday Video Collection for this week
- Part 4) Through?
- Continue to explore Mars in Google Earth!
