Pictures

Today you will be organizing Deep Portage pictures in your iPhoto. You will need a minimum of 25 images in your project.

Deep Portage Lives On...

Deep Portage will live on through your Deep Portage presentation. As you watch the pictures today, you will begin preliminary brainstorming work for your project. Our goal is to capture your experiences while they are fresh in your memory. Today, you will use either Microsoft Word notebook or Inspiration to begin the process.

Your brainstorming should include the following categories:

Classes (three details for each)

• Charlie to Base/Landforms
• Water Canaries
• Canoeing
• Tower Hike/Big 9
  
• TEAM
• Pioneer Olympics
• Climbing Wall
• Campfire
• Night Stalker
• Wolf Howling
• Trials of Life (Predator Prey)

The Meals
The Staff
The Facility (includes the rooms, the Great Hall, the Dining Hall...)
Getting There
Tips and Tricks

Remember When...

You must include a minimum of three comments about each category. You may write full sentences or use bullet points (Word Notebook)

Keynote Challenge

Your Task...

Go to startribune.com or cnnstudentnews and chose a current event. You will be presenting the story at the end of class period. Your presentation must include the following.

• title slide
• audio (from Royalty Free Music)
• image slide (in frame)
• text slide with six bullet points (who, what, where, when, why, how)
  
• URL slide

Final project must be turned to the 2015 Drop Box by the end of the hour.

Work Day 2/Scavenger Hunt/Learning Log

Check the post from Tuesday, September 23 for the task list.

1) Set up your Learning Log with Microsoft Word. Include tabs for the following subjects.

• Language Arts
• Social Studies
• Math
• Science
• Digital Literacy
• Cultural Literacy
• Academic Literacy
• Health
• Phy Ed
• Art
  

Work Day

Task List for Today

• complete Deep Portage Prediction
• complete Online Safety Podcast
• organize Documents folder (checked by Mr. Madson)
• clean desktop
• add iTunes and Garage Band to software log
• finish All About Me
• present All About Me
• turn All About Me in to the 2015 Drop (1_madsonjamie_all)
• explore Google SketchUp (this is last, after everything else is complete)

Finally, if you wish, check out Cover to Cover Day.

All-Day Read-a-Thon and Webcast to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone LIVE from Scholastic Headquarters in NYC. Watch All Day! From 8:00am until the last page is read.

Monday, September 22

Today you will finish recording your Online Safety podcast.

1. Finish recording the podcast. Check your audio levels and adjust accordingly.
2. Export the podcast to disk.
3. Turn in to the Digital Literacy folder in the 2015 Public Drop Box.(1_jamieolivia_safety)
4. Check iTunes for the audio file.
5. Transfer your podcast to your Digital Literacy folder.
6. Listen to you classmates podcasts.

When you are finished...

• add Garage Band to your Software Log
• search the internet for the exact address for Deep Portage
• search the internet for the exact address for Rockford Middle School
• use Google Maps to map out directions from Rockford Middle School to Deep Portage
  

Friday, September 19

Today you will finish recording your Online Safety podcast.

When you are finished, you should share the podcast to iTunes and then turn in to the Digital Literacy folder in the 2015 Public Drop Box. (1_jamieolivia_safety)

Once you have turned in your completed audio file. you should add Garage Band to your Software Log.

Online Safety Podcast II

First thing first....Today is a No Touch Typing Day.

Today you will create your Online Safety podcast using Garage Band. Follow the instructions below.

• have your script approved by Mr. Madson
• chose an eMac
• open Garage Band
• select Create a New Podcast Episode
• save the project into your Digital Literacy folder (1_jamieolivia_safety)
• record your voice clips (record each question/answer as an individual clip)
• add introductory music
• add sound effects
• add ending music
• check audio levels
• share podcast to iTunes
  

Online Safety Podcast

Today you are going to start out the day exploring more online safety websites.

Start Here
Web License
ThinkUKnow
NSTeens

As you explore, you are going to compile a list of your "Top Five Tips for Being Safe Online." After compiling the list, you are going to create a script. Your script should have two columns, a spot for the title and names. When your script has been approved, you will begin exploring Garage Band.

Monday, September 15

Today we will continue our All About Me presentations. For those of you who are finished, you have two tasks. The first task is to begin creating your Software Log. Your Applications Log should be a table created in Pages. The steps to creating a table are listed below.

1. open Pages
2. select blank document
3. save the document to your Digital Literacy folder (1_madsonjamie_software)
4. click on Table
5. set up a Table for three columns and twenty rows
6. label the columns (Software, Description, Used For...)
7. make entries for the following programs

• Camino
• Keynote
• Touch Typing
• Pages
• Google SketchUp
• iPhoto
  

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.

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.
  

MacFS Folders/Digital Literacy Creation

Welcome to the second day of Digital Literacy. We have three tasks on today's agenda.

1) Log in to your account.
2) Create folders in your Documents folder to store your files.

1. create a folder for 6th Grade
2. create a folder for 7th Grade
3. create a folder for 8th Grade

• create a folder for each subject (and place inside of grade level folders)
  

• Digital Literacy
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Academic Literacy
• Cultural Literacy
• Health
• Art
  

3) Download a photo from the internet into iPhoto and cite appropriately. (Group A)
4) Use Inspiration to create your digital mind map. (Group B)