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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    • 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 
      • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): I scored ___ and I ___ 
    • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
    • 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
    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

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

    1. Links for today

    - 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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        • 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
          • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): Blank ___
        • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
        • 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 
        2. Introduce Animations and Transitions Project (5.3 AnTs
        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

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

        1. Checkout the weather forecast for today… cooler and much windier!

          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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            • Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
            • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
            • 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 
              2. Add slides 4 and 5 to your 5.3 AnTs Presentation
              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
              2. Demos for today

              - 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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                  • Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
                  • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
                  • 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  
                    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
                        • AnTs 

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

                    1. Links
                    2. Demos

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

                    1. Checkout this panoramic tour of Iguasu Falls

                      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)
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                        • 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!
                        • 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
                          2. Demos

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

                          1. Have an awesome… 
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                          Week8: Feb25th–Mar1st

                          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 25th:

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

                          1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
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                          3. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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                            • Please complete last Friday’s Weekly Reflections form if you went to the track meet, or were absent or forgot to do it.  Here’s a link to the form: http://goo.gl/TZLrL
                            • Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
                            • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
                            • 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. Choose your favorite file from the 4th 6 weeks and share it with at least one other teacher and me 
                            2. Create a Drive folder called 4th 6 Weeks and drag all files into it
                            3. Introduce Google Drawings 
                            4. Create a new Drawing and follow the directions on the example below. Save your drawing in your drive as Drawing Practice (with no number)
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                            - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                            1. Links for Today!

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

                            1. 4th 6 Weeks report cards should be handed out Thursday

                              Tuesday 26th:

                              - 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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                                • Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
                                  • Can you find the hidden Giraffe in this image? Please don’t give the answer away! 
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                                  • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): The hidden giraffe is ___
                                • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
                                • 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 these websites for creating cool background designs for Google Drawings and Presentations, and for our next assignment 
                                2. Create, share and play your own Tic-Tac-Toe Game using Google Drawings for our first project file of the 5th 6 Weeks
                                  • Here are some student examples:
                                3. Demonstration in class: http://goo.gl/BHszY
                                4. Please follow these steps:
                                  • View demo tutorial clip: YouTube link
                                  • Create a new Drawing in your 103 Student Folder called 5.1 Tic-Tac-Toe
                                  • Add a cool background for your game (like the student examples above).  Here are some ideas for your background:
                                  • Add lines for your gameboard (thick, brightly colored lines work best) and create 2 custom shapes with 5 copies of each:
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                                  • Try adding Wordart!
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                                  • To play your game with someone, share your drawing by clicking the share button and typing the name of the person next to you
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                                  • Here’s a reference guide for the Google Drawings Toolbar:
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                                - Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-to-comment)

                                1. Backgrounds Links for today’s assignment 
                                2. Completed example: http://goo.gl/c3pfk 

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

                                1. 4th 6 Weeks report cards should be handed out Thursday

                                  Wednesday 27th:

                                  - 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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                                    • Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
                                      • Please decode this picture sentence if you can and send me the word meanings in today’s warmup form
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                                      • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): This picture sentence says ___
                                      • Here’s the solution to yesterday’s warmup
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                                    • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
                                    • 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 a copy of this Checkers Template, share it with someone next to you, and play one quick game of checkers with them 
                                      2. Explore this site to create cool looking images and backgrounds
                                        • http://bomomo.com/
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                                        • Capture 4 different Bomomo creations using IW.  Here’s an example of what that might look like:
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                                      3. Create a new Drawing in your Drive called Bomomo and paste your collection onto your new drawing file like this additional example from this morning: Link to example file
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                                      4. View Google Presentations Intro clip: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Google%20Docs%20Intro%20videos/Google%20Presentations.flv
                                      5. View 450 slide Google Presentations demo: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/197021/Google%20Docs%20Intro%20videos/Google_Demo_Slam_Epic_Docs_Animation.flv 
                                      6. View example Presentation of our next Project: http://goo.gl/fGdXd

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

                                      1. Here are the links for today’s assignments

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

                                      1. 4th 6 Weeks report cards should be handed out Tomorrow 

                                        Thursday 28th:

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

                                        1. Please check your laptop for damages and report problems to me!
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                                        3. Here’s what your 103 student folder should look like: (view example folder here)
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                                          • Daily Warmup Activity: (2min timer if necessary – no talking while you complete your warmup please!)
                                            • What famous cartoon character does this picture sentence name?
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                                            • Here’s a sentence starter (or you can choose your own): This is ___
                                          • Daily Warmup Response: Use the Daily Warm-up Form to record your answer
                                          • 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. Create a new Presentation called 5.2 My Backgrounds 
                                            2. Here’s the list of slides you should have in your presentation:

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

                                            1. Links for today

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

                                            1. Grades should be handed out soon, but you can check this link to see them now: 

                                              Friday Mar 1st: 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)
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                                                • Here’s the solution to yesterday’s warmup  
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                                                • 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!
                                                • Friday Warmup Response:
                                                • 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. Please make sure that you have started working on your 5.2 My Backgrounds Presentation and that it’s saved in your Drive folder so I can see it! 
                                                    • If you need help with the 1st 4 slides from yesterday, please let me know so you can get caught up today!
                                                  2. View the Friday video clips selection for this week 

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

                                                  1. Links for our current project (5.2 My Backgrounds Presentation)

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

                                                  1. Grades should be handed out today, but you can check this link to see them now: