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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3. Daily Warmup Activity: 
   • For your warmup today, we will move all of our 2nd 6 weeks assignments up until now into a new folder called 2nd progress reports in order to make room for new assignments. Here are the steps:
     • View demo video clip: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/2nd%20PR%20files%20to%20new%20folder.mp4
     • Create a new folder in your 103 folder called 2nd progress reports 
     • Select all files (list mode is the easiest way to do this)
     • Drag all files into your new folder
4. Daily Warmup Response: Move all of our 2nd 6 weeks assignments up until now into a new folder called 2nd progress reports
5. 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
   • Create a new drawing called p6 in your 103 folder
   • Capture 6 different examples using the program below and drag them onto your new p6 drawing
   • http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
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   • Here’s what your new p6 drawing might look like:
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3. Introduce Animations and Transitions Project (2.5 AnTs) 
   • We will start a new presentation to show a variety of slide animations and transitions
   • Here’s a link to my example (which you can view below): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pIL5Jf5ZQIeY644hFaBcx8xq6xzDXbCPiuV-Shkp0Ks/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000
4. Your presentation should have 5 slides, each with slide numbers, but today we will work on only the first 3 slides
   • Slide 1: Title and subtitle
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   • Slide 2: Add Wordart (or scribble-draw) ‘Video’ ‘Image’ & ‘Sketch’ each with an animated entrance
     • Slide 2 video demo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/GDocs%20Presentations%20add%20Wordart%20and%20animations.mp4
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   • Slide 3:  Add an embedded Video or clipart, an image and a sketch, each with entrance animations
     • How to add slide transitions Video Demo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/103%20Laptop%20Temp%20Share/GDocs%20Presentations%20How2%20Add%20Transitions.flv
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

1. Links for today
   • Kaleidoscope Painter:  http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html 

- 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

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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3. Daily Warmup Activity: 
   • Try this Word Wanderer game a couple of times and Skitch your highest score into your 103 folder. Rename the file wu12
     • http://www.proprofs.com/games/word-wanderer/
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4. Daily Warmup Response: Skitch your highest score into your 103 folder. Rename the file wu12
5. 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 
   • https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
2. You can animate your tracing to draw itself… here’s an example! 
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3. Add slides 4 and 5 to your 2.5 AnTs Presentation
   • Here’s a link to my slide 4 example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pIL5Jf5ZQIeY644hFaBcx8xq6xzDXbCPiuV-Shkp0Ks/present#slide=id.gb05b8961_2_0
   • Kaleidoscope Painter:  http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
   • Slide 4: Copy and paste your Kaleidoscope Painter creations from your p6 file onto a slide with a black background. Then resize, arrange and add animation effects to them. You need at least 6 different images with animations, but you can add more if you like 
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   • Slide 5: Search for an image which represents ‘The End’ of your presentation and add it to your last slide with an animation
     • Here’s a link to my slide 5 example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ILDBk_GKkfXCOWcSfBRn4ChHvZLJkBDbqoDqrA5wCDY/present#slide=id.gb063a586_017
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

1. Links for today
   • Kaleidoscope Painter: http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
2. Additional links
   • Slide transitions video demo:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
   • My example presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ILDBk_GKkfXCOWcSfBRn4ChHvZLJkBDbqoDqrA5wCDY/edit?usp=sharing 

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

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

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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3. Daily Warmup Activity: 
   • Find the hidden objects in the image below by capturing it with Skitch and marking off the items as you find them with different color highlighters.  Drag your file into your 103 folder and rename it wu13. Help each other to find the items fast! 
     • https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Warmups/Hidden%20Objects/country%20search.png
     • Here’s part of my example with 2 items highlighted
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4. Daily Warmup Response: Skitch your results into your 103 folder as wu13
5. 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
   • 7th Grade Chess
   • 8th Grade Chess
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: 
   • http://goo.gl/RoXCaS
   • http://goo.gl/rPoA9B 
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
   • http://goo.gl/jaeBSq
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
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5. Play at least 1 game of either checkers or chess at any of these sites: 
   • Checkers or Chess: http://usuaris.tinet.cat/jmarine/dames/
   • Spark Chess: http://www.sparkchess.com/
   • Chess.com: http://www.chess.com/play/computer 

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

1. Links for today
   • Kaleidoscope Painter: http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
2. Additional links
   • Slide transitions video demo:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
   • My example presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ILDBk_GKkfXCOWcSfBRn4ChHvZLJkBDbqoDqrA5wCDY/edit?usp=sharing

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

1. Check your grades in all classes. Progress Reports will probably be handed out this Friday!
   • Logon here
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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3. 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! 
     • http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2013/All%20doodles
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     • Here’s my example:
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4. Daily Warmup Response: Skitch 4 of your favorite Doodles with links onto a new drawing called wu14
5. 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: 
   • http://www.airpano.ru/files/Brasil-Argentina-Iguazu-Falls-2012/2-2
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   • Here’s the same area in Google Maps: http://goo.gl/JZJ0M1
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2. Learn how to let someone else logon to their Drive on your computer without you having to log off 
   • Caution! Don’t do this unless you are monitoring them, since they can access all of your stuff as if they were you!
   • Video demo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Incognito%20Logon.mp4
   • In Chrome, use ctrl+shift+N
   • This will open up a new window for them to logon to so they can complete their project animated gifs
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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 
   • Kaleidoscope Painter: http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
2. Additional links
   • Slide transitions video demo:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
   • My example presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ILDBk_GKkfXCOWcSfBRn4ChHvZLJkBDbqoDqrA5wCDY/edit?usp=sharing

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

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

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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3. Friday Warmup Activity: 
   • Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for this week! 
5. 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 
   • Kaleidoscope Painter: http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
2. Additional links
   • Slide transitions video demo:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
   • My example presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ILDBk_GKkfXCOWcSfBRn4ChHvZLJkBDbqoDqrA5wCDY/edit?usp=sharing 

- 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!
   • Logon here
2. Here’s a cool light painting image… have a great weekend! (view source here)