Week9: Mar 5th–Mar 9th

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 5th:

- Part 1) Review

  1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
  2. Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
    • Try this pattern memory game and send me your score at the end.  You do not need to enter your name! 
    • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): My score was ___
  3. Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
  4. Checkout this sketchpad site: http://www.williamfawcett.com/websketch/ 
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- Part 2) New

  1. Watch the Google Presentations Demo Slam to see an example of what’s possible with this software!
  2. Learn how to add animations and transitions to a Google Presentation 
    • View demo presentation (also in your Gmail)
    • In this demo presentation, you do not need to include the tan background slides or the red text and arrows… they are for instructional purposes only! 

- Part 3) Do - Today students will…

  1. Start creating your animations and transitions presentation called 3) AnTs 
  2. Here is the list of slides to add to your presentation today.  All slides must be numbered! 

- Part 4) Through?

  1. Checkout these amazing scrolling panoramas

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    Tuesday 6th:

    - Part 1) Review

    1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
    2. Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)

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      • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): This means ___
    3. Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer 

    - Part 2) New

    1. Introduce and practice with this Kaleidoscope Painter 
    2. Review the screencast-o-matic introduction video 

    - Part 3) Do - Today students will…

    1. Practice using Screencast-o-matic to practice recording either of these 2 things: http://screencast-o-matic.com/ (remember to click the run button when it appears!) 
    2. Finish creating your 3) AnTs presentation 
      • Make sure your presentation has 3 slides like the Demo presentation below
      • 3) AnTs (Mr. Mercer) demo presentation (also in the 103 Student Demo folder)
    3. Make a screencast of your 3) AnTs presentation using http://screencast-o-matic.com/ (remember to click the run button when it appears!)  

    - Part 4) Through?

    1. Checkout more amazing panoramas

      Wednesday 7th:

      - Part 1) Review

      1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
      2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like after today: 
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      3. Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
      4. Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
      5. Checkout this ascii generator (turn words and phrases into characters) 

      - Part 2) New

      1. Use IW to help you solve this maze (save the IW page with the maze and the one with the solution for the new presentation which you will be making)

      - Part 3) Do - Today students will…

      1. Create a new presentation called Just for fun and add these slides:
      2. Record a screencast with audio which explains how to add Word Art and Animations to a slide in Google Presentations (to help you remember how to do this in the future!)
        • Save your screencast as 5) How to add Word Art and Animations to slides and upload it to your Gdocs 103 student folder
        • Here’s a link to my example screencast (which is also in the 103 Student Demo folder)

      - Part 4) Through?

      1. Checkout this panorama of the World’s Tallest Mountain

        Thursday 8th:

        - Part 1) Review

        1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
        2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: 
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        3. Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
        4. Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
        5. Checkout another maze to capture and complete using IW

        - Part 2) New

        1. Review all Gdocs student folders for completeness (use the screenshot above or open the 103 Student Demo folder below to compare with your folder)

        - Part 3) Do - Today students will…

        1. Complete assignments 1-5 and the Just for Fun presentation in your Gdocs folder
          • Here’s a link to the 103 Student Demo folder with examples of everything you should have:
        2. View the Friday video clips selection a day early (since I won’t be here to show them tomorrow)

        - Part 4) Through?

        1. Checkout this panorama of Hawaii

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          Friday 9th:  Have a great Spring Break!

          - Part 1) Review

          1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
          2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like:
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          3. Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
          4. Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
          5. Checkout this image ;) 
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          - Part 2) New

          1. Checkout the weather forecast for spring break in the image below

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          - Part 3) Do - Today students will…

          1. Please complete the Week9 reflections form
          2. Please add the following slides to your Just for Fun Presentation 
            • Slide 4: A Kaleidoscope Painter creation (http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html)
            • Slide 5: The solution to another maze from this site (please don’t copy and paste one of their posted solutions!)
            • Slide 6: Choose your favorite warmup game from this week, practice it, capture the score page of your highest score (using IW, paste it in paint as a jpg) and upload it onto slide 6
            • Slide 7: Create a have a Great Spring Break slide (with animation) using any appropriate  tools or background images that you like
            • View my example Just for Fun Presentation with these new slides in it (if you have trouble with this link, it’s also in the 103 Student Demo Folder)
              • http://goo.gl/v5bTz
              • This image shows all 7 slides from my example presentation numbered in bright green

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          - Part 4) Through?

          1. Checkout this message for you!
          2. Here’s another Panorama for you! http://www.airpano.ru/files/Iceland-Waterfalls/start_e.html

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