Week10: Mar 18th–Mar 22nd

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 18th:

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

1. Please check your laptop 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: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Open the image, capture it with IW, and mark off the objects as you find them.  Send me the number you are able to find in your warmup.
     • https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Warmups/Hidden%20Objects/Tire%20swing.png
   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I found ___
4. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC
6. Here are the results of your reflections from the week before Spring Break
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- Part 2) Today students will… (click-to-comment)

1. Introduce Skitch 
   • View screencast (YouTube version for home viewing):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd5NIVDYvwk
   • Link to download Skitch for home or phone use (with parental permission): http://evernote.com/skitch/
   • Skitch for Windows Guide (also on right side panel): http://evernote.com/skitch/getting_started/windows/
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2. This week’s Project of the Week will be to explore the world using streetview and collect images to use to create a new Presentation with the name: 5.4 World Streetviews It should have the following:
   • View example presentation here: http://goo.gl/RBTYq
   • 7 slides (one for each continent in the order below) and an 8th slide with ‘Favorites’
     1. North America
     2. Asia
     3. South America
     4. Africa
     5. Antarctica
     6. Europe
     7. Australia
     8. Favorites (I’ll explain this later in the week)
   • Each slide should have 3 labeled images from each continent and a Wordart title with the name of the continent, like this example
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   • Here’s a collage of my demo presentation (and the link again to view it: http://goo.gl/RBTYq)
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

1. Project Page link:  http://goo.gl/3PES0
2. Information on the 7 continents and a special Google Maps link to streetview imagery from each
   • Information about the continents: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/contnent.htm
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   • Streetview images from the 7 continents:  http://www.maps.google.com/sevencontinents (the continents on this page are in the order of the list in part 2 above)
     • Click 'More places' (blue arrow below) to reload the page with new locations from each continent or drag pegman around (bottom right corner) to explore the vicinity of the selected location
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3. How to add Wordart:
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- Part 4) Through? (click-to-comment)

1. Check your grades in all of your classes. The 5th Progress Reporting Period ends this week!
   • Logon here to check your grades!

Tuesday 19th:

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

1. Please check your laptop 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: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Click on the green link below to see the real-time flow of winds across our country. In your warmup form for today, please tell me why 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
     • http://hint.fm/wind/ 
     • If you’re having trouble, see if this map can help: http://www.met.sjsu.edu/cwfc/topo.htm 
   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I think ___
4. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. Explore this Google Maps Streetviews Gallery, including the all new World’s Highest Peaks collection (added yesterday!)
   • http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/gallery/index.html
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2. Continue working on your 5.4 World Streetviews project. To stay on pace to complete the project by Thursday, you should be completing about 2 slides per day
   1. (Mon) North America
   2. (Mon) Asia
   3. (Tues) South America
   4. (Tues) Africa
   5. (Wed) Antarctica
   6. (Wed) Europe
   7. (Thurs) Australia
   8. (Thurs) Favorites (I’ll explain more about this tomorrow)
3. Each slide should have 3 labeled images from each continent and a Wordart title with the name of the continent, like this example
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4. Here’s a collage of my demo presentation (and the link again to view it: http://goo.gl/RBTYq)
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

1. For help with your 5.4 World Streetviews project, please use the links below
   • Project Page link:  http://goo.gl/3PES0
   • Information about the continents: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/contnent.htm
   • Streetview images from the 7 continents:  http://www.maps.google.com/sevencontinents 

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

1. Check your grades in all of your classes. The 5th Progress Reporting Period ends this week!
   • Logon here to check your grades!

Wednesday 20th:

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

1. Please check your laptop 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: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Use Skitch or IW to capture and mark off the words as you find them.  Send me the number you are able to locate in your warmup form (there are 40 words in the list) 
     • https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Warmups/Word%20Searches/Weather%20Word%20Search.jpg

   

   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I found ___
4. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. Explore this file World Streetviews Spreadsheet which you will need for slide 8 
   • If you would like to add a favorite site, send me your idea and a link using (click-to-comment) and I’ll add it with your name :)
   • http://goo.gl/OPkMp
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2. How to add slide 8 called Favorites to your 5.4 World Streetviews Presentation
   • You should choose 3 images from this file: World Streetviews Spreadsheet
   • It should look something like this:
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3. Continue working on your 5.4 World Streetviews project. To stay on pace to complete the project by Thursday, you should be completing about 2 slides per day
   1. (Mon) North America
   2. (Mon) Asia
   3. (Tues) South America
   4. (Tues) Africa
   5. (Wed) Antarctica
   6. (Wed) Europe
   7. (Thurs) Australia
   8. (Thurs) Favorites

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

1. For help with your 5.4 World Streetviews project, please use the links below
   • Project Page link:  http://goo.gl/3PES0
   • Information about the continents: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/contnent.htm
   • Streetview images from the 7 continents:  http://www.maps.google.com/sevencontinents
   • World Streetviews Spreadsheet (for Favorites slide8): http://goo.gl/OPkMp

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

1. Check your grades in all of your classes. The 5th Progress Reporting Period ends this week!
   • Logon here to check your grades!

Thursday 21st:

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

1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
2. Projects 5.1-5.4 are due tomorrow! I’ll be checking your folders during class today to see how you are doing
3. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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4. Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Please explore these baby animal photos from National Geographic and tell me the title of the photo which you like best. Click on the ‘Next’ link by the green arrow to progress through the slides 
     • http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photos/baby-animals/#/baby-harp-seal_230_600x450.jpg
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   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I liked ___
5. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
6. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. Explore the geoGreeting website and compose a message in buildings from Google Maps!  Use (click-to-comment) to send me your message :)
   • geoGreeting site link: http://www.geogreeting.com/main.html#
   • Here’s my example message to you: http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?ysDcCUpBsnkIUtExsyBa#t
   • Here’s where to get the link to your message to send me:
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     • Use (click-to-comment) to send me the link to your message :)
   • YouTube replay link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jR8qbtMW68
2. View the updated Project Locations Spreadsheet:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhVuH-KD_XBfdHRmOHBRX3Azd21HdTVLam81cEVCNGc&output=html
   • Added continents column and new sites for Australia and Africa
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3. Continue working on your 5.4 World Streetviews project.  If you have finished your project,
   1. (Mon) North America
   2. (Mon) Asia
   3. (Tues) South America
   4. (Tues) Africa
   5. (Wed) Antarctica
   6. (Wed) Europe
   7. (Thurs) Australia
   8. (Thurs) Favorites

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

1. For help with your 5.4 World Streetviews project, please use the links below
   • Project Page link:  http://goo.gl/3PES0
   • View my example presentation here: http://goo.gl/RBTYq
   • Information about the continents: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/contnent.htm
   • Streetview images from the 7 continents:  http://www.maps.google.com/sevencontinents
   • World Streetviews Spreadsheet (for Favorites slide8): http://goo.gl/OPkMp

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

1. Check your grades in all of your classes. The 5th Progress Reporting Period ends this week!
   • Logon here to check your grades!
2. Explore more of the National Geographic website at this link: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ 

Friday 22nd: Folder checks every Friday!

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

1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
2. Projects 5.1-5.4 are due today!
3. Today we are on a revised bell schedule for the assembly at the end of the day.  Here’s a copy of the bell schedule:
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4. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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5. Friday Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for this week! Please write 3 complete sentences in the big blocks of the form to get full credit!
6. Friday Warmup Response:
8. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. Complete your 5.4 World Streetviews project.  If you have finished your project,
1. North America
2. Asia
3. South America
4. Africa
5. Antarctica
6. Europe
7. Australia
8. Favorites

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

1. For help with your 5.4 World Streetviews project, please use the links below
• Project Page link:  http://goo.gl/3PES0
• View my example presentation here: http://goo.gl/RBTYq
• Information about the continents: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/contnent.htm
• Streetview images from the 7 continents:  http://www.maps.google.com/sevencontinents
• World Streetviews Spreadsheet (for Favorites slide8): http://goo.gl/OPkMp 

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

1. Check your grades in all of your classes. The 5th Progress Reporting Period ends today!
   • Logon here to check your grades!
2. Explore more of the National Geographic website at this link: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Week9: Mar 4th–Mar 8th

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 4th:

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

1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
2. Here’s a countdown message for you!
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3. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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4. Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Try this scene memory game a couple of times and send me your highest score and what you thought of the game 
     • http://www.proprofs.com/games/scene-memory/
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   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I scored ___ and I ___ 
5. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
6. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. View the Presentation on the front page of our website and on our front entrance TV screen
   • https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ziFjYMlFvb8aayfgV3rdvW2FMDHYcz5cQv1trzHXoDc/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=5000
   • Tomorrow we will learn how to add Animations and Transitions to slides like those you see at the link above
2. If you’ve already finished your 5.2 My Backgrounds Presentation from last Friday, (or when you do finish it):
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3. Complete the last 4 slides of our 5.2 My Backgrounds Presentation
   • Example presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wNiOWlhMyv8GlJ6YyzfiZ8KmVh-l-SI0ZBt2RyZNxtg/present#slide=id.p
   • slide 5: A Sumo sphere or cube as a corner logo  
     • http://sumo.fm/#create
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   • slide 6: A Neave interactive  
     • http://neave.com/imagination/
     • or http://neave.com/bouncy-balls/
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   • slide 7: A Bomomo creation 
     • http://bomomo.com/
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   • slide 8: Choose a Stock image from the search option
     • You don’t need a link for this slide!
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     • Here are the steps to search for a cool background image
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

1. Links for today
   • Video tutorial on how to do this:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/How2%20create%20My%20Backgrounds%20Presentation.flv
   • Slide 2 - Flamepaint: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/#top
   • Slide 3 - Clipart: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/
   • Slide 4 - Tagxedo: http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html
   • Slide 5 - Sumopaint: http://sumo.fm/#create
   • Slide 6 - Neave: http://neave.com/imagination/ or http://neave.com/bouncy-balls/
   • Slide 7 - Bomomo: http://bomomo.com/
   • Slide8 – (insert stock photo)
   • Example presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wNiOWlhMyv8GlJ6YyzfiZ8KmVh-l-SI0ZBt2RyZNxtg/present#slide=id.p

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

1. Checkout your ratings of last weeks programs!
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Tuesday 5th:

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

1. Please check your laptop 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: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Try this Word Wanderer game a couple of times and send me your highest score and what you thought of the game
     • http://www.proprofs.com/games/word-wanderer/
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   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): Blank ___
4. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. Explore the Kaleidoscope Painter 
   • http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
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   • Capture at least 6 different creations using IW and save them for use later on this week
   • Here are some examples
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2. Introduce Animations and Transitions Project (5.3 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/1M0_lf-eI6I4QQWtSrFF926_0OvMq1nr8TxCou-1NkXg/present#slide=id.p
3. 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
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   • Slide 3:  Add an embedded Video or clipart, an image and a sketch, each with entrance animations
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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 the weather forecast for today… cooler and much windier!
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   • http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=78602 

Wednesday 6th:

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

1. Please check your laptop 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: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Find the hidden objects in the image below by capturing it with IW and marking off the items as you find them.  Send me the number you are able to find in the warmup form. 
     • https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Warmups/Hidden%20Objects/country%20search.png
   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I found ___
4. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

- Part 2) 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. Add slides 4 and 5 to your 5.3 AnTs Presentation
   • Here’s a link to my example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M0_lf-eI6I4QQWtSrFF926_0OvMq1nr8TxCou-1NkXg/present#slide=id.p
   • Slide 4: Copy and paste your Kaleidoscope Painter creations from IW onto a slide with a black background. Then resize, arrange and add animation effects to them.
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   • Slide 5: Choose an image which represents ‘The End’ of your presentation and add it to your last slide with an animation
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3. Make a screencast of your Presentation running with Screencast-o-matic and save it to your desktop as AnTs.gif.  Then upload it to your Drive folder (you can see an example of mine running in the help section below)
   • To create your screencast, choose Present in new window and make the window size about a quarter of your screen
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   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
   • Here are the settings to use when you save your screencast:
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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
   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
2. Demos for today
   • Slide transitions demo: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
   • 5.3 AnTs Presentation example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M0_lf-eI6I4QQWtSrFF926_0OvMq1nr8TxCou-1NkXg/present#slide=id.p 

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

1. Checkout this message for you: http://gzaas.com/LzAjLvs 

Thursday 7th:

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

1. Please check your laptop 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: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Explore the Google Doodles Archive and send me a link to your favorite 
     • http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2013/All%20doodles
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   • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I liked this one: ___
4. Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
5. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. Explore this site:  http://www.airpano.com/
2. Complete your 5.3 AnTs Presentation  
   • Scroll up to Tuesday for info on the 1st 3 slides
   • Scroll up to Wednesday for info on slides 4&5
   • Here’s a link to view my example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M0_lf-eI6I4QQWtSrFF926_0OvMq1nr8TxCou-1NkXg/present#slide=id.p
3. Complete your AnTs screencast animated gif and save it to your drive as AnTs.gif  
   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
   • To create your screencast, choose Present in new window and make the window size about a quarter of your screen
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   • Here are the settings to use when you save your screencast:
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   • Here’s my AnTs.gif example
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

1. Links
   • Kaleidoscope Painter: http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
2. Demos
   • Slide transitions demo:https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
   • 5.3 AnTs Presentation example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M0_lf-eI6I4QQWtSrFF926_0OvMq1nr8TxCou-1NkXg/present#slide=id.p

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

1. Checkout this panoramic tour of Iguasu Falls
   • http://www.airpano.ru/files/Brasil-Argentina-Iguazu-Falls-2012/2-2
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Friday 8th: Folder checks every Friday!

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

1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
2. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
   • 
3. Friday Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
   • Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for this week! Please write 3 complete sentences in the big blocks of the form to get full credit!
4. Friday Warmup Response:  You might need this link for the last question: http://www.airpano.com/

Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/iA4mC

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

1. Make sure you have completed these assignments (which you can view examples of at this link)  
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2. View the video clips selection for this week

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

1. Links
   • Kaleidoscope Painter: http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html
   • Screencast-o-matic: http://screencast-o-matic.com/
2. Demos
   • Slide transitions demo:https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/How2/Google%20Docs/Google%20Slides%20Transitions%20Demo.mp4
   • 5.3 AnTs Presentation example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M0_lf-eI6I4QQWtSrFF926_0OvMq1nr8TxCou-1NkXg/present#slide=id.p

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

1. Have an awesome… 
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