Tuesday - Practice typing today, and then we will take the timed writing of "Jokes All Keys" in Microtype.

Monday - people that didn't finish their assignment from Friday will do so, while other students work on their websites and/or practice typing in NitroType. Typing test tomorrow: "Jokes all keys"

Thursday & Friday - Students finish their MENU and BUSINESS CARD, and then upload it to their Google Drive and publish it to their website (hint: "Share" it to "anyone with the link" and copy/paste the link to your blog).

Tuesday & Wednesday - Students create a MENU and BUSINESS CARD for a restaurant using Microsoft Publisher. view directions

Friday - Friday Fun Day! Finish up your calendars (show Mr. Dwyer) and then you can either type, work on your website, make animoto videos, make GameStar video games, visit your classmates' websites, or do other stuff we've done in this class.

Thursday - Students work on their Google Calendars. You must add a new calendar called "Birthdays", including the birthdays (with yearly reminders) of all your closest friends and family members. Then, in your default calendar, add an appointment for showing me your calendar tomorrow during class (with a reminder 10 minutes before). Also, add the Kane County Cougars schedule (baseball, minor league) to your calendar. Tomorrow you will have to show me that you can turn the Calendar on and off.

Wednesday - Today students reviewed the basic computer terms from January by playing the "Scatter" game (hint: use the Archives in the righthand side bar to view blog posts from January). Then students created a Google calendar, adding birthdays (recurring every year, with reminders) of all the special people in their lives (eh-hem; mine is Feb 10). As always, blog about your day.

Tuesday - Today is a Website work day. Students add to their blogs, clean up any design flaws, check for typos or unnecessary stuff (example: buttons), and make sure that it is organized logically. Remember: you can change the order of pages (and make subpages)  using the "Pages" tab at the top.

Monday - The big day is finally here. Today we will have the first of 3 speed assessments in Typing. Grading scale is on the right. Today's timed writing will be "Cat in the Hat". You will have 3 chances to complete it; when you finish each attempt (3 minutes each), take a Snip of the entire screen and upload it to your shared folder in Google drive.

TYPING WEEK!
Friday - Students take the District Typing Assessment today (record scores here) and the "Cat in the Hat" timed writing (3 minutes)
Wednesday & Thursday - Students competed against each other in typing contests on Microtype. Tomorrow will be the District Typing Assessment.
Monday & Tuesday - Students practiced typing and reviewed the best posture & technique for doing so.

Thursday & Friday - Today students continued watching/blogging about internet safety videos; then students visited websites of other students to comment on their "internet safety" blog posts. Make sure your posts are school appropriate (disciplinary measure still apply!).

Wednesday - Hump Day Challenge - create a pivot table that pulls out all of the assignments for which you have a "0". Then continue watching and blogging about internet safety videos.

Monday & Tuesday - These days we used our "My Grades" spreadsheets from last week to do a class assignment (adding up all of the grades by Category). Then students watched the next Spreadsheets video to learn an easier way to do this (using "Pivot Tables"). Students then watched and blogged about internet safety. Note: every time you watch a different safety video, blog about it. Your blog should include a link to the video, and the blog post should be categorized as "safety videos".

Thursday - Today is a catch-up day. If you finished the Spreadsheet assignments already you can work on typing, your website, Gamestar Mechanic or Animoto

Wednesday - Today students added two charts to their spreadsheets, just like in my example. Here are some helpful hints:

• un-share the document with me before you start making changes
• for the first graph, select cells D1 to E19 (for the second chart only select cells F1 to F19); then insert a chart and modify it so it looks exactly like mine
• change the chart title, background color, and font by using the edit feature (the pencil)
• resize and move the chart by carefully clicking and dragging
• when you're sure it looks exactly like mine, share the document with me again

Tuesday - Today we started a unit on Google Spreadsheets (like MS Excel), watching and completing the assignment in the first video in the "Google Spreasheets Tutorials" submenu. My Grades Template

Monday - Today we watched the top 3 videos from each category and voted on them (pick only 1 from each category this time). Then students practiced typing in Nitrotype again, making sure to post their top score to the blog.

Friday - Today we watched and voted on videos from the Funny and Random categories. Videos can be accessed from the pull-down menu above.

Wednesday - Today we watched and voted on videos from the Happy/Love and Sad/Sappy categories. Videos can be accessed from the pull-down menu above.

Tuesday - Today students will compute the AVERAGE and RANGE to their "Rate my Videos" spreadsheet and show it to Mr. Dwyer. Then they will choose their best video and submit it for tomorrow's Film Festival.

Monday - TYPING DAY! Practice your typing at Nitrotype, and record your best score in your blog.  Mr. Dwyer will be meeting with students 1 on 1 to discuss their websites (mean/median/mode and animoto videos).

All week, students finished their videos, added a new form ("Rate my videos") and visited the websites of their classmates to watch their videos. Mr. Dwyer met with students 1 on 1 to discuss their websites.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - First, students finish the activity from yesterday and share it with me. Then they go to Animoto.com, create a free student account and create a sappy video like the one below. Also, don't forget to add to your blog every day (hint: you should be embedding your videos into your blog)

Tuesday - Students viewed the ratings of their classmates and shared this with mark_dwyer@ipsd.org for a grade. Then students found the mean, median, mode and range of the data using formulas.

Monday - Students finished viewing and rating the websites of their fellow classmates, and viewed their results in Google Drive.

Thursday - Today students shared their websites with their classmates (link to the right), and then rated everyone else's websites.

Wednesday - Today students watched the next video, and added a "Form" to their website.

Monday/Tuesday - Today students finish up their required work from last week. When you are finished, you may practice typing in NitroType or create more games in GameStarMechanic.