Tuesday, September 16

Today we are going to begin our discussion of online safety. We will start off the day with a chat activity. During this activity, we will watch a video on cyber bullying. We will then come together for a round table (actually square table) discussion. The day will end up with a virtual field trip to the Cyber Cafe.

Below are the links for the day.

Chat Activity
Cyber Cafe

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.

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