308 Today: Week17: May 7th

Highlights for the week:

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Monday 7th:

- Part 1) Review

Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!

Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like:

Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)

Review this pattern memory game and send me your score at the end. You do not need to enter your name!

http://www.proprofs.com/games/pattern-memory/

Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): My score was ___

Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer

- Part 2) New

Create a pivot animation which shows what might happen if gravity suddenly reversed itself (things that normally fall would float to the top of the animation window and things that normally float like balloons would drop to the bottom)

Capture at least 5 key frames from your animation and design and integrate them to your Prezi

View my example Prezi to guide you as you add captures and links from each of the following animation tools

http://prezi.com/l7knb0ut4v_n/33-my-animations-mr-mercer/

Artpad at http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

Stickman Animation at http://www.drawastickman.com/

3D Sketches at http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sketch/

Pivot (should be on your desktop)

- Part 3) Do - Today students will…

Create a pivot animation showing what might happen if Gravity was turned off and save it as an animated gif file called 3) Gravity to upload to your GDocs 103 Student Folder.

Here’s an example animated gif:

Begin creating a My Animations Prezi like the example below

My Animations (Mr. Mercer) on Prezi

- Part 4) Through?

Further explore any of the following animation tools

Artpad at http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

Stickman Animation at http://www.drawastickman.com/

3D Sketches at http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sketch/

Pivot (should be on your desktop)

Tuesday 8th:

- Part 1) Review

Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!

Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like:

Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)

Try the scene memory game again (it’s easier now!) and send me your score in the warmup!

http://www.proprofs.com/games/scene-memory/

Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I scored ___

Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer

- Part 2) New

Add slide 10 on Scratch & Screencast-o-matic to your Review Key Sites Presentation. It should contain the following 5 links and information:

A link to the Scratch homepage: http://scratch.mit.edu/

A link to the Screencast-o-matic homepage: http://screencast-o-matic.com/

A link to 308 Today week 10: http://308today.blogspot.com/2012/03/week10-mar19thmar-23rd.html

A picture of your draw a letter program (here’s a link to my example draw a letter program which you can download and try)

A picture of either a draw a shape program OR any other program that you’re proud of! (here’s a link to my example draw a shape program which you can download and try)

Here’s a link to my slide 10 example:

http://goo.gl/mdHos

View a larger size image of the directions below here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Scratch%20dbPublic/Slide%2010%20directions.png

- Part 3) Do - Today students will…

Add slide 10 on Scratch to your Review Key Sites Presentation

follow the directions in the New section above

Continue working on your My Animations Prezi assignment from yesterday

- Part 4) Through?

Experiment with the Scratch Program. Make something cool, screencast it running, save it as Cool Scratch and upload it to your 103 Folder

Wednesday 9th:

- Part 1) Review

Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!

Tonight is the end-of-the-year awards ceremony (6:30pm at the PAC)! Here’s a map link: http://g.co/maps/cj6jd

Looks like rain for the next few days:

Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like after today:

Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)

Solve this Rebus puzzle and send me the solution or your best guess!) Click here for a larger view

Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): This means ___

Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer

- Part 2) New

Use Screencast-o-matic to make an animated gif of your favorite Scratch Program (that you made) and upload it to your GDocs 103 Student Folder as 4) Scratch

link to Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/

look in the 103 Student Demo folder for my example

View updated Prezi Links Form info (step 3 in Part 3 below): http://goo.gl/bjo3E

View the get directions map links to the awards ceremony tonight or the Six Flags field trip Friday at this link: http://goo.gl/taY9i

- Part 3) Do - Today students will…

Complete slide 10 on Scratch of your Review Key Sites Presentation

here’s a link to my example: http://goo.gl/mdHos

…and here’s a link to the picture of slide 10 with directions: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Scratch%20dbPublic/Slide%2010%20directions.png

Use Screencast-o-matic to make an animated gif of your favorite Scratch Program (that you made) and upload it to your GDocs 103 Student Folder as 4) Scratch

Continue working on your My Animations Prezi assignment from Monday

here’s a link to my example: My Animations (Mr. Mercer)

…and here’s a link to a full size image of my example Prezi: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Prezi/My%20Animations%20Prezi.png

Add a link to your My Animations Prezi to the Prezi Links Form

http://goo.gl/bjo3E

- Part 4) Through?

Try creating your own Rebus Puzzle like the example below, save it as a jpg named Rebus and upload it to your GDocs 103 Student Folder

Thursday 10th:

- Part 1) Review

Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!

Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like after today:

Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)

Try this number sequence memory game and send me your score at the end

http://www.proprofs.com/games/safe-cracker/

Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I scored ___

Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer

- Part 2) New

Test your Glogster Edu account logon. We will begin using this account next week.

Here’s the link to the logon site (it must say Edu or your on the public page and your logon won’t work!): http://edu.glogster.com/login/

It should look like this:

Your nickname is your first name, last initial, and ‘s12’, so for the name Mark Twain, the nickname would be MarkTs12

Your password is the same as the one you use to logon to your computer

Here’s a link to a list of Nicknames for my students: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AlJ3MHR052StdEN4NUNhb2U0N096U21rY19YNGs0Snc&single=true&gid=1&output=html

Individually check folders, Review Key Sites Presentations and Prezi links for completeness!

Prezi Links: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AlJ3MHR052StdEJjNzlaVHdQOWo1d1NrbUJDOC1oVUE&output=html

- Part 3) Do - Today students will…

Create and upload a screencapture of your completed Prezis to your GDocs 103 Student Folder

Please name the file 5) My Animations Prezi

It should look like this:

Add a link to your My Animations Prezi to the Prezi Links Form

http://goo.gl/bjo3E

Check for the following:

5 files uploaded to your 103 GDocs Student Folders

Slide 10 on Scratch added to your Review Key Sites Presentation

Prezi Links submitted (for all 3 Prezis)

- Part 4) Through?

Checkout these ‘Best of’ Glogs for ideas:

http://edu.glogster.com/glogpedia/

Friday 11th: Folder checks every Friday!

- Part 1) Review

Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!

Reminder: Sunday is Mother’s Day!

Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like:

Daily Warmup Activity (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)

Find the hidden objects in this Mother’s Day puzzle and send me the number you are able to find in your warmup for today

Link to full size version: http://www.elcivics.com/worksheets/hidden-pictures/mothers-day-game.pdf

Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I found ___

Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer

- Part 2) New

New 308 Quick Notes GDoc link at the top right of this Blog

…or here: http://goo.gl/bCXTC

this page is for backup links, quick corrections, notes, etc.

- Part 3) Do - Today students will…

Continue individual folder checks

Please complete the Week 17 reflections form

http://goo.gl/VnJaN

Check for the following and complete them if necessary:

5 files uploaded to your 103 GDocs Student Folders

Slide 10 on Scratch added to your Review Key Sites Presentation

Prezi Links submitted (for all 3 Prezis): Link to form - http://goo.gl/bjo3E

After folder checks: View the video selections for this week

- Part 4) Through?

Checkout these ‘Best of’ Glogs for ideas for next week:

http://edu.glogster.com/glogpedia/