Week10: Oct 28th–Nov 1st

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!
  • Some notes for Parents/Guardians who view this Blog:
    • Everything we do in this class is listed on this Blog (so students who are absent can easily find what they’ve missed and even complete it while they are absent!)
    • Nearly every assignment can be completed at home or anywhere with an internet connection (use the Paint program or a Google Drawing rather than ‘Interwrite’ where you see it on this Blog)
    • Friday’s are makeup days so students who have trouble completing assignments have this extra time every week to get caught up!
    • You can see examples of every project we do at this Public Examples Folder Link

Monday 28th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

  1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
  2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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    • Daily Warmup Activity: 

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    • Daily Warmup Response: Skitch your word search into your 103 Drive folder as wu15
    • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

    - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

    1. View your ratings of last week’s programs and activities: 
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    2. Create a new presentation in your 103 Drive called 2.6 World Streetviews 
    3. Information on the 7 continents for our project

    - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

    1. Links for our project 
    2. Videos for our project

    - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

    1. Checkout our costume schedule for Red Ribbon Week!
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      Tuesday 29th:

      - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

      1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
      2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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        • Daily Warmup Activity: 
          • View the following slideshows from hurricane Sandy which struck about this time last year. Skitch 1 photo that you feel is the most significant to you, add some text about what it made you think of and save it to your 103 Drive as wu16
        • Daily Warmup Response: Skitch the most significant photo to you into your 103 Drive as wu16
        • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

        - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

        1. View project fonts collection. You should be able to open this slideshow and copy and edit the fonts which you like best. If you find a cool font to add to this collection, please send me the font name in (click-to-comment)
        2. Continue with the 2.6 World Streetviews Project. Here’s a link to the Google Maps | Views homepage: https://www.google.com/maps/views/home?gl=us 
        3. Information on the 7 continents for our project

        - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

        1. Links for our project 
        2. Videos for our project

        - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

        1. Checkout our costume schedule for Red Ribbon Week!
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          Wednesday 30th:

          - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

          1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
          2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here
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            • Daily Warmup Activity: 
              • In your warmup for today, please follow the steps below:
                1. Capture the current Wind Map with Skitch: http://hint.fm/wind/
                2. Add red and blue rectangles like you see below using the Skitch shapes tool
                3. Answer this question in text at the top: why do you think the wind flows in all different directions in the red rectangle, and much more smoothly and in the same direction in the blue rectangle?
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            • Daily Warmup Response:  Skitch the wind map following the steps above to your 103 Drive as wu17
            • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

            - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

            1. View project fonts collection. You should be able to open this slideshow and copy and edit the fonts which you like best. If you find a cool font to add to this collection, please send me the font name in (click-to-comment)
            2. Continue with the 2.6 World Streetviews Project. Here’s a link to the Google Maps | Views homepage: https://www.google.com/maps/views/home?gl=us 
              • To stay on pace to complete the project by Thursday, you should be completing about 2 slides per day. Click on the name of each continent to go directly to the map view of that continent!  
                1. (Mon) Title Slide
                2. (Mon) North America - (Click here for demo video clip)
                3. (Mon) South America
                4. (Tues) Europe
                5. (Tues) Africa
                6. (Wed) Asia
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                7. (Wed) Australia (Oceania)
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                8. (Thurs) Antarctica
                9. (Thurs) Oceans
                • Each slide should have  
                  1. 4 images from each continent
                    • Each image should come from a different country where possible
                    • Each image should have a label with the name of the country which it came from
                  2. Each slide should have a Wordart title with the name of the continent
                  3. Every image and label should be animated!
              • Information on the 7 continents for our project

              - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

              1. Links for our project 
              2. Videos for our project

              - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

              1. Check your grades in all classes. The 2nd grading period ends this Friday and we will be 2/3 of the way through this course!
              2. Checkout our costume for today for Red Ribbon Week!
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                Thursday 31st:

                - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

                1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
                2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here
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                  • Daily Warmup Activity: 
                    • Find at least 1/2 of the words and Skitch your results to your 103 Drive as wu18 
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                  • Daily Warmup Response: Skitch your results to your 103 Drive as wu18 
                  • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

                    - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

                    1. Checkout today’s Halloween Doodle at https://www.google.com/
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                    2. View project fonts collection. You should be able to open this slideshow and copy and edit the fonts which you like best. If you find a cool font to add to this collection, please send me the font name in (click-to-comment)
                    3. Continue with the 2.6 World Streetviews Project. Here’s a link to the Google Maps | Views homepage: https://www.google.com/maps/views/home?gl=us
                    4. Information on the 7 continents for our project

                    - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                    1. Links for our project 
                    2. Videos for our project

                    - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

                    1. Check your grades in all classes. The 2nd grading period ends tomorrow and we will be 2/3 of the way through this course!
                    2. Checkout our costume for today for Red Ribbon Week!
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                    Friday Nov 1st:  Folder checks every Friday!

                    - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

                    1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
                    2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here
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                      • Friday Warmup Activity: 
                        • Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for this week! 
                      • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

                        - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

                        1. Today is the last day of the 2nd Grading Period, and all work must be completed today! Here’s what your folder should have in it. Please make sure your files are named this way and that you have your files in the correct place (so that they look like the image below)! 
                        2. Complete your 2.6 World Streetviews Project. Here are the links to each of the locations you should have in your project by slide number:
                          1. (Mon) Title Slide
                          2. (Mon) North America - (Click here for demo video clip)
                          3. (Mon) South America
                          4. (Tues) Europe
                          5. (Tues) Africa
                          6. (Wed) Asia
                          7. (Wed) Australia (Oceania)
                          8. (Thurs) Antarctica
                          9. (Thurs) Oceans
                        3. Here’s a link to my example project, so you can see what your project should have in it 
                        4. View the video clips selection for this week 

                        - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                        1. Links for our project 
                        2. Videos for our project

                        - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

                        1. Check your grades in all classes. The 2nd grading period ends tomorrow and we will be 2/3 of the way through this course!

                        Week9: Oct 21st–Oct 25th

                        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!
                        • Some notes for Parents/Guardians who view this Blog:
                          • Everything we do in this class is listed on this Blog (so students who are absent can easily find what they’ve missed and even complete it while they are absent!)
                          • Nearly every assignment can be completed at home or anywhere with an internet connection (use the Paint program or a Google Drawing rather than ‘Interwrite’ where you see it on this Blog)
                          • Friday’s are makeup days so students who have trouble completing assignments have this extra time every week to get caught up!
                          • You can see examples of every project we do at this Public Examples Folder Link

                        Monday 21st:

                        - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

                        1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
                        2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like after our warmup: (view example folder here)
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                          • Daily Warmup Activity: 
                          • Daily Warmup Response: Move all of our 2nd 6 weeks assignments up until now into a new folder called 2nd progress reports
                          • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

                          - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

                          1. Here’s how you rated last week’s programs and activities: 
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                          2. Explore the Kaleidoscope Painter and capture 6 examples which we will use later on in our next project
                            • Here’s what your new p6 drawing might look like:
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                          3. Introduce Animations and Transitions Project (2.5 AnTs
                          4. Your presentation should have 5 slides, each with slide numbers, but today we will work on only the first 3 slides

                          - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                          1. Links for today

                          - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

                          1. Checkout our public calendar to see what’s going on this week (or any week): BMS Public Calendar

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                            Tuesday 22nd:

                            - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

                            1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
                            2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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                              • Daily Warmup Activity: 
                              • Daily Warmup Response: Skitch your highest score into your 103 folder. Rename the file wu12
                              • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

                              - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

                              1. View screencast demo of all possible slide transitions currently available in Google Presentations 
                              2. You can animate your tracing to draw itself… here’s an example! 
                                • Draw ant2
                              3. Add slides 4 and 5 to your 2.5 AnTs Presentation

                              - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                              1. Links for today
                              2. Additional links

                              - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

                              1. Check your grades in all classes. Progress Reports will probably be handed out this Friday!

                                Wednesday 23rd:

                                - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

                                1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
                                2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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                                  • Daily Warmup Activity: 
                                  • Daily Warmup Response: Skitch your results into your 103 folder as wu13
                                  • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

                                  - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

                                  1. View UIL Chess results slides from last year’s event which also demonstrate text animations
                                  2. Although video is blocked for you to use in your presentations, animated gifs will work. View some example slides from our Website/TV which have animated gifs in them: 
                                  3. Challenge! See if you can add your p7.gif file which we will make today to slide 1 of your presentation so it looks like this
                                  4. Make a screencast of your 2.5 Ants Presentation running with Screencast-o-matic and save it to your desktop as p7.gif.  Then drag it to your Drive folder
                                    • To create your screencast, choose Present in new window and make the window size about a quarter of your screen so it will fit in the screencast-o-matic Small HD frame 
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                                    • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
                                    • Here are the settings to use when recording and saving your screencast:
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                                    • Save your animated gif file as p7
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                                    • Here’s an example of mine
                                    • p7.gif_thumb1_thumb1 
                                  5. Play at least 1 game of either checkers or chess at any of these sites: 

                                  - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                                  1. Links for today
                                  2. Additional links

                                  - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

                                  1. Check your grades in all classes. Progress Reports will probably be handed out this Friday!
                                  2. Next week is Red Ribbon Week, and here’s what the costumes schedule looks like for each day of the week:
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                                    Thursday 24th:

                                    1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
                                    2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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                                      • Daily Warmup Activity: 
                                        • Create a new drawing in your 103 folder called wu14
                                        • Explore the Google Doodles Archive and Skitch 4 of your favorites onto the new drawing. Add the link below each Doodle so I can go see it too! 
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                                      • Daily Warmup Response: Skitch 4 of your favorite Doodles with links onto a new drawing called wu14
                                      • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

                                      - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

                                      1. Explore this panoramic tour of Iguasu Falls. Next week we’ll be working on a project involving Google Maps, and this will get us to start thinking about it: 
                                      2. Learn how to let someone else logon to their Drive on your computer without you having to log off 
                                      3. Complete your 2.5 Ants presentation and your p7.gif recording of it and make sure both are in your 103 folder 
                                        • If the person next to you is having trouble using screencast-o-matic, please change seats with them using the logon technique above to let them complete their assignment. Thanks for helping!

                                      - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                                      1. Links for your project 
                                      2. Additional links

                                      - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

                                      1. Check your grades in all classes. Progress Reports will probably be handed out tomorrow!

                                        Friday 25th:  Folder checks every Friday!

                                        - Part 1) Review   (click-to-comment)

                                        1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
                                        2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here
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                                          • Friday Warmup Activity: 
                                            • Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for this week! 
                                          • Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

                                            - Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-to-comment)

                                            1. Complete your 2.5 Ants presentation and your p7.gif recording of it and make sure both are in your 103 folder 
                                              • If the person next to you is having trouble using screencast-o-matic, please change seats with them using the logon technique above to let them complete their assignment. Thanks for helping!
                                            2. View the video clip selections for this week

                                            - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                                            1. Links for your project 
                                            2. Additional links

                                            - Part 4) Through?   (click-to-comment)

                                            1. Check your grades in all classes. Progress Reports should be handed out today, but you can preview them here!
                                            2. Here’s a cool light painting image… have a great weekend! (view source here)

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