8th+Grade11-12


 * __**May 25th:**__
 * Work Day! Last Day in Class!!!

__**May 21st-23rd:**__
 * I have been checking your pages, if changes are needed I wrote on the discussions on that certain page -
 * Pages I have checked: Powerful Presentations and Screencasting
 * **Alec, Josh, Jordan,** Dalton **I cannot find your Powerful Presentations page**
 * **Colt, Vicki, Mike, Carter, Josh, Jordan, BJ, Hope I cannot find your Screencasting page**
 * for some reason glogster was not working this weekend and I couldn't view most of them, so I will double check today
 * I will not grade for the game design or the final grade until May 31st, the rest should be done
 * This is your time to add anything to you wiki to make it worth an A - remember A is an outstanding grade which is more than the minimum required!

__**May 14th:**__ __**There are only 6 classes left including today!!!!**__ __**Your final project is to make sure your 21 Things starting from INTERACTIVE LEARNING**__
 * Last Thing - 21 Things - Game Design
 * __**This will be due May 31st!!!**__
 * **__What you need on your pages__** - print this off if you need to

__**May 9th:**__ =__**FYI -**__your Video Creation Page should have __//**2 videos embedded**//__ on it= 1 is a video of anything you want the other is a video about internet safety Jenni, Josie, and Josh are the only ones finished, they are the only ones who can gmail chat and listen to music. If you have questions on how to something ask one of them.

21 Things - Screencasting Try this, you don't even have to sign up! http://www.screencast-o-matic.com For Vimeo if the 8th grade Vimeo isn't allowing you to upload more movies let me know and I will have you log in under a different user name.

__**May 7th:**__ 21 Things - Screencasting

__**April 30th:**__ 21 Things - Search Strategies [] []

__**April 25th-27th:**__ 21 Things - Powerful Presentations Check out this fun Web2.0 resource http://storybird.com

__**April 23rd:**__ 21 Things - Powerful Presentations

__**Apr 16th-20th:**__ 21 Things - Video Creation If you made your Video with Movie Maker and have not uploaded it to Vimeo follow the instructions from Apr 13th If you have made your video and already uploaded it to Vimeo this is what you need to do:
 * Log in to Vimeo
 * Find where you can get the "embed code" - it might say src code
 * Put that code into a widget in your wiki
 * You may work together to figure out how to do this

__**Apr 13th:**__ 21 Things - Video Creation If you made your Video with Movie Maker follow these instructions:
 * Part 1
 * Open your Movie Maker file
 * Click the blue File button next to the Home tab
 * Click SAVE MOVIE
 * click recommended for this project
 * Save it in your P drive or flash drive
 * Your name should be in the file name when you save it
 * Part 2
 * Log onto Vimeo
 * Username: LCA8thgrade@gmail.com
 * Password: - I will tell you in class
 * click refresh if the page isn't loading
 * Click upload video
 * choose file to upload
 * The only thing you should do is upload your video - please don't do anything else on this site

__**Apr 11th:**__ 21 Things- Video Creation - first video due on Friday

__**Apr 4th:**__ 21 Things- Video Creation - Remember the first video is about internet safety and/or digital citizenship for 3rd-5th graders

__**Apr 2nd:**__ 21 Things- Video Creation Today is the last day of the grading period Make sure you are caught up through Mobile Computing before you work on Video creation
 * Remember your first video needs to be about online safety or digital citizenship**

__**Mar 30th:**__
 * Mrs. King is your sub for today
 * No Gmail Chat today
 * You may use headphones
 * Catch up on your "Things" before you start working on Video Creation

__**Mar 28th:**__
 * No headphones or Gchat, unless you are finished with Mobile Computing
 * 21 Things- Video Creation

__**Mar 26th:**__ - Sorry Hope :)

21 Things- Mobile Computing - Part 2

__**Mar 21st - 23rd:**__
 * 21 Things- Work Day

__**Mar 19th:**__
 * 21 Things- Mobile Computing

__**Mar 12th - 14th:**__
 * 21 Things- Buyer Beware!

__**Mar 12th:**__
 * 21 Things- Work Day
 * No gmail or music unless you are all caught up
 * If you don't know check out:[]
 * Look at the Things under Second Semester and make sure you have everything on your pages that needs to be
 * If you are done:
 * Clean up your P Drive
 * Make folders for classes that you use the computers on
 * make subfolders if needed
 * Move any files that are your that are just on the computer into appropriate folders on your P drive
 * Delete any unnecessary files or folders
 * Work on stuff from another class

__**Mar 9th:**__
 * 21 Things- Career Prep - Part 2 - Finish part 2
 * Work on part 3

__**Mar 7th:**__
 * 21 Things- Career Prep - Part 2 - You will have homework for Friday
 * If you finish everything but your homework: World Math Day

__**Mar 5th:**__
 * 21 Things- Career Prep - Part 1
 * If you finish Part 1, play the Career Interestgame
 * Work on parts of your Portfolio that aren't finished yet - what you sent me on Friday has not been graded yet
 * If you finish something new email to let me know

__**Feb 27th:**__
 * Catch up day - many of you are not caught up - that is what you need to do
 * Gmail chat and Music can only be use if you are all caught up
 * That means you are finish with:
 * Interactive Learning - graded on renweb - email me when you finish this page to be regraded
 * Digital Images - graded on renweb - email me when you finish this page to be regraded
 * april.salo.lca@gmail.com
 * Productivity Suite (this page is worth 15pts instead of 10pts because of the 3 different activities) not graded yet
 * Dig the Data - not graded yet
 * If you are finished - refresh you memories with Scratch - We will be using this for our very last "Thing"

__**Feb 15th:**__
 * 21 Things - Dig the Data - Day

__**Feb 13th:**__
 * 21 Things - Dig the Data - Day 1

__**Feb 8th:**__
 * 21 Things - Productivity Suite - Google Spreadsheets

__**Feb 8th:**__
 * 21 Things - Productivity Suite - Google Presentations

__**Feb 6th:**__
 * 21 Things - Productivity Suite - Google Docs

__**Feb 3rd:**__
 * Work Day
 * Work on Interactive Learning Pages and Digital Images pages
 * If you finish create a new logo in Gimp to use on your wikispaces

__**Feb 1st:**__
 * 21 Things- Digital Images
 * Gimp and other free image manipulation sites
 * Friday will be a work day

__**Jan 30th:**__
 * 21 Things - Interactive Learning

__**Jan 18th:**__
 * Work Day

__**Jan 16th:**__
 * 21 Things - Work on all the pages for your FINAL

__**Jan 13th:**__
 * 21 Things- Learning Online
 * movie and class discussion

__**Jan 11th:**__
 * finals discussion
 * 21 Things - Finish up PLNs

__**Jan 9th:**__
 * 21 Things - Personal Learning Network (PLN)

__**Jan 6th:**__
 * 21 Things - Work Day

__**Jan 4th:**__
 * 21 Things
 * Creative Commons Video
 * Audacity intro
 * how to export and upload to wiki

__**Jan. 2nd:**__
 * Take the first few minutes to check over your porfolio
 * If you have things to change it should be in red on your pages
 * When you have finished all your changes and are up to date email me to let me know - delete the red text too
 * 21 Things- Be Fair and Legal
 * copyright and fair use video
 * plagiarism video

__**December 16th:**__
 * Work Day

__**December 14th:**__ >> fyi GA n wrk on it @ hm 2 mke sure ur cort^ aftr break. IAC, Ull B graded thru d troubleshooting page, so mke sure ur done thru dat b4 u leaV on fri, IYKWIM. - Click here to see what it says
 * On the Digital citizenship page - Discuss messaging and texting using a web 2.0 tool. What acronyms do you use? Do you think it is good to know a lot of different acronyms, why or why not? Create a message using acronyms.
 * Can you read this?
 * hi agn, AFAIK w'v break real sn now. IMHO dis S gr8 ! OTTOMH we won’t av hmwrk frm dis cls . Unl u didn't Fnish n cls W ll d wrk tym . U ll hav 2DIY on yr own tym.
 * Work on your all your pages!!! They will all be graded over break - download a copy of what should be on your page from the 21 Things page.

__**December 12th:**__
 * 21 Things- Digital Citizenship
 * Presentation

__**December 9th:**__
 * 21 Things - Finish Troubleshooting page
 * If you are finished:
 * Check out how to make special characters with the alt key another one
 * Make sure Num Lock is on and use the keypad on the right side of your keyboard
 * Viruses - whats the difference between malware and viruses and worms?
 * Stuxnet Virus
 * Blog

__**December 7th**:__
 * 21 Things- Make sure all of your pages are up to date - use the example for help
 * How are you doing on the troubleshooting page?

__December 5th:__
 * Work on Troubleshooting

__December 2nd:__
 * Take the first few minutes to check your portfolio and make sure it is up to date.
 * 21 Things- Make sure all of your pages are up to date
 * Troubleshooting - we will be watching some videos - you might want to take notes

__November 30th:__
 * Check out the 21 Things Portfolio Example
 * Make sure yours is simlar and you have all the pages
 * Add to each page what is required - check out the items in red, which you might not have

__November 28th:__
 * 21 Things - Visual Organizer

__November 21st:__
 * Half of you followed all the directions from Friday - this reflects in your grade
 * 21 Things- Digital Footprint
 * Please follow all directions

__November 18th:__
 * 21 Things - Staying Organized

__November 16th:__
 * Creating a portfolio for 21 Things
 * after you have created you portfolio send me an email with the url of you portfolio - april.salo.lca@gmail.com

__November 14th:__
 * No Blog for the week
 * Introduction to 21 Things
 * Homework - sign up for gmail if you don't have one, or don't remember how to log on.

__November 9th:__
 * Blog
 * More PowerPoints to watch!

__November 7th:__
 * Blog
 * Watch some powerpoints
 * finish some powerpoints

__November 4th:__
 * PowerPoint is due at the end of class today
 * It must be saved in the shared 8th grade folder! Otherwise it wont count.
 * Finish your blog for the week

__November 2nd:__
 * Lisa, Jeriah, Lucy, and Alec - 1st PowerPoint must be saved to the shared drive in tech 8 folder or you will lose 50pts!
 * Blog
 * PowerPoint Animations

__October 31st:__
 * Everyone check your Google response for a grade - BJ, Mike and Noah - check your Google Response and finish today!!
 * Blog topic is open, if you need an idea blog about if you want to snow, why or why not.
 * PowerPoint Animation – Refresh slide transitions – question? – due on Friday, please talk to me if you think you won’t be able to finish by then

__October 28th:__
 * Blog
 * BJ, Victoria, and Noah save your Google response to the shared drive!!
 * Jeriah, Jenni, Lucy, Alec, Carter, Josh, and Noah save your first PowerPoint to the shared drive!
 * PowerPoint Animation
 * How far are you?

__October 24th-26th:__
 * Save PowerPoint from last weeks and Google Response in the Shared drive!!!
 * Blog - check your blogs for comments from me, if there is no comment then you received full credit.
 * Finish Google Responsein Word
 * PowerPoint Animation - final assignment

__October 19:__
 * Blog
 * Google Response in Word or google docs Google Response
 * PowerPoint Presentations
 * Final PowerPoint Assignment

__October 17th:__
 * Blog - Short week this week!!!! Any plans for this weekend?
 * PowerPoint Presentations

__October 14th:__
 * Blog if you need to finish
 * PowerPoint - who is presenting?
 * Is everyone done? -

__October 10th-12th:__
 * Blog Topic: How is your PowerPoint going? What do you like about it? What could you improve on?
 * PowerPoint
 * Who is going to present to us on Friday?
 * American Math Challenge

__October 7th:__
 * Blog
 * PowerPoint
 * Table of contents
 * Bibliography
 * American Math Challenge

__October 5th:__
 * Blog: continue blog from Monday
 * PowerPoint -
 * designs and formatting backgrounds
 * Slide transitions

__October 3rd:__
 * Blog - Open Topic
 * PowerPoint

__September 28th - 30th:__
 * Blog
 * Review some stuff in word
 * Movie Poster Assignment

__September 26th:__
 * Google Test
 * A Google a Day
 * If you finish take time to blog

__September 23rd:__
 * A Google a Day
 * Blog
 * Google Movie

__September 21st:__
 * A Google a Day
 * Blog
 * Finish our discussion from Monday
 * Google Movie

__September 19th:__
 * Use the first few minutes for blogging
 * A Google a Day
 * Google: Your Search Toolbox
 * Movie: Inside Google

__September 16th:__
 * Google

__September 14th:__
 * Use the first few minutes to work on your blog
 * Validate Authority

__September 12th:__
 * Review Blogging:
 * Each blog should be at least 5 sentences long.
 * Searching With Gooogle

__September 9th:__
 * Keeping track of your logins.
 * Using google for searches
 * [|Start your Engines]

__September 7th:__ Welcome to a new year! Class Wikispaces: 21 Things Portfolio Example Jeriah Jenni Colt Lisa Vickie Lucy Ben Josie Alec Mike Taylor Carter Josh Jake Noah Jordan Dalton BJ Hope ||
 * Rules
 * Expectations
 * Procedures
 * Blogs
 * Keeping track of your logins. || Class Blogs