Friday, September 12

Welcome to Friday. It's been a great year so far!

Today you will finish up your All About Me project. You will have time to work as your classmates present their projects. When you are done presenting, we will be working with Google SketchUp. SketchUp is a Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) tool. Today will be an introduction, we will work more extensively with this software later on this trimester.

All About Me Instructions

Gabcast! Digital Literacy #1

Wednesday, September 10

Today you will begin working on your Keynote presentation All About Me. Thursday and Friday you will presenting your All About Me to class. If you finish early, you can work on practicing your presentation.

Tuesday, September 9

Today's Tasks

Touch Typing (8 min)
Complete All About Me Inspiration
Begin image mining for All About Me
Create All About Me presentation with Keynote.

All About Me

Start out today with Touch Typing.

• start where you left off on Friday
• hopefully Type to Learn will be ready by next week

Today we will begin our first project. The project will be a short Keynote presentation titled "All About Me." The requirements for the All About Me project are listed below.

• title slide
• minimum/mazimum of ten images
• images must be non-pixelated
• transitions consistent
• no text on image slides
• final slides must be the URLS from your images
  

Internet Wordle/All About Me

Congratulations, you have made it to the end of Week One. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Your tasks today are the following.

1) Touch Typing (8 min)
2) Folders checked by Mr. Madson
3) Internet Project

• complete Internet Inspiration
• transfer to Word document
• import text into Wordle
• chose Wordle graphic
• take a screen shot of Wordle graphic
• load image into iPhoto

4) Begin image mining for All About Me project

Day Three

Now that we have set up your user accounts, we will begin our first typing practice. Until Type to Learn is ready, we will use a free online tool.

Touch Typing

Your tasks today and tomorrow are the following.

• Complete Lesson One in Touch Typing.
• Have your folders checked by Mr. Madson. (due Friday)
  
• Watch the BrainPop "What is the Internet" video
• Take the "What is the Internet?" Quiz
  
• Complete your Internet Mindmap with Inspiration.
• Transfer your mindmap to Wordle.
• Take a screen shot of your Wordle.
• Import the Wordle screen shot into iPhoto.