Skills 1 Assignment Calendar- Fall 2010

Fall 2009 Callendar

9/7/10 Week 1 Day 1

 

New Olympians Day

 

A variety of activities are planned for new students to Sprague

 

 

9/9/10 Day 2

Login and Discuss T:

  • Make folders- personal and sub
  • Word, Excel, Images etc

Get to know you!:

  • Open Word doc
  • Save as: last first know you in your T:
  • Title (Name-Get to know you)
  • List 5 things you did this summer
  • One sentence- What would you do after school if you could do anything you want?
    • copy/paste to my docs
    • reboot machine/discuss deep-freeze

Websites:

  • Show Sprague's and personal
  • Show calendar
  • today, weeks, and Ctrl F
  • Syllabus

Google image search

  • Pick a theme
  • (Mine might be football or soccer)
  • Find 10 images online you like (theme!!!)
  • Save them to your images folder
  • Save the largest version of the image

Course Syllabus (Homework)

  • Read,, sign and return
    course syllabus

    (both parent and student)
  • COURSE REQUIREMENT

 

  • See you on Monday 9/13

9/13/10 Day 3

Collect Syllabus

  • Discuss class expectations
  • Discuss my website

Review:

  • Local login (to the machine)
  • T: (Thawspace folders)

Applications Pre-test

  • Directions will be given in class

Spraguetech2 server

  • Get usernames and passwords
  • Logging in and finding your folder

Tech2 practice

  • Loggng in
  • Backing up your files
    • know you
    • images

9/15/10 Week 2 Day 4

Review:

  • Computer login and T:
  • Spraguetech2 login
  • Finding your folder

Network practice

  • Go to Adkins\files\Word
  • Copy hello.doc
  • Paste into your T: folder
  • Copy paste to your tech2 folder
  • Submissions- Submit your know you doc

Picasa intro

  • Use the images you found online
  • Using the Picasa editor

Microtype

  • Create new user
  • Skills Analysis- hands covered
  • Correct typing position
  • Alphabet keyboarding - lesson 1

9/17/10 Week 2 Day 5

Every day...

  • Login to the local machine (duh!)
  • Login to Spraguetech2 too!!

Network practice- rename this act.

  • Adkins\files to copy
  • Copy rename-this.doc
  • Paste into thawspace folder
  • Rename to last first rename.doc
  • Paste into submissions folder

Excel intro

  • Open Excel
  • Rows, Columns, Cells, tab, enter etc
  • Begin "practice" document

Microtype

  • Finding your username
  • Open and continue
  • Finish lesson 1 today HANDS COVERED
  • Start lesson 2??

9/21/10 Week 3 Day 6

Microtype

  • Continue lessons
  • Complete lesson 2 today

Piknik... another image editor

  • Go to piknik.com and upload an image
  • What can you do?
  • Discuss advantages/disadvantages

Excel Practice

  • Review cell referencing, writing simple formulas, and show how to build a graph!!

Internet Intro

9/23/10 Week 3 Day 7

Excel Project

Internet Activity

  • Dinner and a Movie
  • Directions given in class

Microtype

  • Continue lessons
  • Complete lesson 3 today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9/27/10 Week 4 Day 8

Microtype

  • Continue lessons
  • You should be thru lesson 3 today
  • Our first progress check is Friday

Gradebook

Project information

  • Copy work from last time into sheet 2
  • Rename sheet 1 to Day 1
  • Rename sheet 2 to Day 2
  • Complete steps 3 and 4 today

Internet activities

9/29/10 Day9

Microtype

  • Continue lessons
  • You should be thru lesson 4 today
  • Our first progress check is Friday

Gradebook

Project information

  • Copy work from last time into sheet 3
  • Rename sheet 3 to Day 3
  • Complete step 5 and 6 today

Internet activities

10/1/10 Day 10

Microtype

  • Continue lessons
  • You should be thru lesson 5 today
  • Our first progress check is today

Gradebook

Project information

  • Finish step 6 first in day 3
  • Insert new worksheet and rename day 4
  • Copy work from last time into day 4
  • Discuss cut/insert cells
  • Final Gradebook...

 

10/5/10 Week 5 Day 11

Internet Practice

  • Discuss Formatting
  • Submit for grading!!
  • Open/review dinner and a movie
  • Where did we leave off??

Gradebook (cont)

Gradebook project

  • Insert comments and sorting
  • Start grading

Photoshop intro

  • Learn basic editing tools
  • Alter our old tech photo for practice

Microtype

  • If time

 

10/7/10 Week 5 Day 12

I am gone today... Help Mr Justino this period!!

 

Microtype

  • Finish thru lesson 6
  • Re-check progress next week

Gradebook!

  • Make sure yours looks like mine-
  • Teach/practice sorting
  • Make sure you are completely finished!!

Photoshop

Tools you will need

  • Magnifying glass
  • Move tool
  • Magnetic lasso

Other things to know/use

  • Edit-Transform-Scale
  • Use Shift to preserve dimension
  • Ctrl C = Copy
  • Ctrl V = Paste

Goal for the period

  • Copy/paste 5-10 heads onto another body
  • Size so they look like the "fit'
  • Anything else you want!!
  •  

 

 

 

 

10/8/10

Furlough Day

No School

 

10/12/09 Week 6 Day 13

Microtype

  • Finish thru lesson 7
  • Re-check progress today

Internet nternet activities

  • Dinner and a Movie

 

Grading Gradebook!!

Photoshop (if time)

  • Edit the tech page
  • Adding content from other images!!

10/13/09 Day 14

Special 1/2 Day Schedule

PSAT schedule

 

10/14/10

  • Regular A day schedule

 

 

10/15/10

 

 

1st 6 Weeks Grading 1/2 Day

In-service Day

No School for students

 

10/18/10 Week 7 Day 15

Microtype

  • Thru lesson 8, 9 today
  • Spend some extra time typing today

Gradebook Grading

  • Practice Sorting
  • Grade formulas, sorting

Dinner and a Movve

  • Here are the requirements
  • Discuss Formatting
  • Start preparing final draft for submission

Photoshop

  • More fun using PS
  • Adding a filter... Liquefy

10/20/10 Day 16

Microtype

  • Thru lesson 10

Access Databases

  • Definition-
  • Coaches Database- See files to copy
  • Download from the net
  • Intro:
  • Structure
  • Adjust/move columns
  • Sort and filter

Gradebook Grading

  • Practice Sorting
  • Grade formulas, sorting

Dinner and a Movie

  • Here are the requirements
  • Review formatting
  • Continue preparing final draft for submission
  • Due Friday

Photoshop

  • Adding a text layer
  • Saving as a .jpg
  • Make sure you have the .psd too
  • Due Friday... requirements

10/22/10 Day 17

Microtype

  • Thru lesson 11

Access Database

Gradebook Grading

  • Practice Sorting
  • Grade formulas, sorting

Tech photo due today

Dinner and a Movie

10/27/09 Week 8 Day 18

Microtype

  • thru 12 lessons
  • Take timing #1 again

Tech Photo/Dinner-Movie

  • Make sure you have both documents submitted
  • Share images
  • Watch the ppt

Coaches DB questions

  • Discuss questions from last week
  • Show how to copy/paste from the db
  • Format the document for submissioin

Word Activity

10/29/09 Day 19

Microtype

  • thru lesson 13
  • Take timing #1 again
  • Did you improve??

I've graded the "tech photo"

  • Check your grade on spraguetech2

The Donut Bet!

  • Writing a stat rule that makes us win!!

Word Activity (if time)

 

 

 

11/1/10 Week 9 Day 20

Microtype

  • thru lesson 14
  • progress check Friday

Excel - "Donut Bet"

  • Sharing the "Stat Rules"
  • Deciding on one rule to send to Mr. Rodin's class

Word Activity

  • Favorite Vacation
  • Complete the written
  • Adding images for interest!
  • Share top quality stories

 

 

11/3/10 Day 21

NEWTECH2!!

  • We must make users again
  • You won't be able to login until we do

Microtype

  • thru 15 lessons
  • progress check Friday

Nations Database (ran out of time)

  • Copy/paste from files to copy
  • Download from net
  • Review:
  • sort, filter, move columns, adv filter
  • Begin Nations questions
  • Do 1 - 13 odd only
  • Add #8 and #14

Word Activity

  • Favorite Vacation
  • Complete the written
  • Adding images for interest!
  • Submit for grading

11/5/10 Day 22

Microtype

  • thru 16 lessons
  • progress check today

Nations Database

  • Copy/paste from files to copy
  • Download from net
  • Review:
  • sort, filter, move columns, adv filter
  • START Nations questions
  • Do 1 - !3 odd only
  • Add #8 and #14

Get caught up...

  • Favorite Vacation
  • Nations questions
  • Catch up in Microtype

If done with all...

  • Photoshop... add your sign
  • I will demo!!

11/9/10 Week 10 Day 23

Microtype

  • lesson 17
  • Completed all 20? Play Microtype

Photoshop

  • "Add your sign"
  • See files to copy for images
  • I will demo in class

Donut Bet

  • "The Rules" have been set!
  • Copy/paste the spreadsheet from files to copy
  • Use it to see which class wins!!
  •  

Nations Database

11/11/10

 

Veteran's Day and Staff Furlough day

11/12/10 Day 24

Microtype

  • lesson 18
  • Completed all 20? Play Typer-Shark
  • Take timing #1 for practice
  • Next week we will take one for real!

Nations Database

Catch up...

 

11/16/10 Week 11 Day 25

Microtype

  • Take a timing
  • 19 lessons

Photoshop

  • Add your sign demo

Nations Database

 

11/18/10 Day 26

Microtype

  • Finish lesson 20
  • Progress Check today
  • Our first real, for a score, timing

Nations Database Quiz

  • Review for the quiz (using the table to filter)
  • Take the quiz today

Finish any of the following

 

Grading Day is Monday...

11/22/10 Week 12

 

Grading Day

 

 

 

11/23/10

 

Conferences

  • 12:00 - 8:00 PM

11/24/10

Staff Furlough Day

 

Thanksgiving

11/25-11/26

11/29/10 Week 13 Day 27

Microtype

  • Begin Skillbuilder Activities
  • Focus is "Speed"... finish Assesment and start lesson 1
  • **If you don't have all 20 lessons for Alpha,
  • finish that first**

Access review

  • 60 points for Nations Database
    • 20 for questions
    • 20 for Database Queries/Reports
    • 20 for the quiz
  • Do you have all 3 parts????

Excel - Graphing

  • "Joe Sprague Student"
  • Creating graphs in Excel
  • Formula Review 1st
  • Creating Bar/Column graphs

12/1/10 Day 28

Microtype

  • Skillbuilder- Focus Speed
  • Finish lesson 1

Joe Sprague (cont)

  • Comparing Day to Minutes
  • Pie and "your choice" graphs too
  • You should have 7 graphs:
    • 2 bar (days to hours and minutes)
    • 2 column (days to hours and minutes)
    • 2 pie (days to hours and minutes)
    • 1 of your choice (just for fun!)

Access review

  • 60 points for Nations Database
    • 20 for questions
    • 20 for Database Queries/Reports
    • 20 for the quiz
  • Do you have all 3 parts????

 

Photoshop

  • Work on "Add your sign"

12/3/10 Day 29

Microtype

  • Goal: lesson 2

Joe Sprague (cont)

  • Adding formatting
    • Borders and color
  • You should already have:
  • Data sheet w/
    • total, average, median and check formulas
  • 7 Graphs:
    • 2 bar, 2 column, 2 pie, 1 your choice

Favorite Vacation PowerPoint

 

 

12/7/10 Week 14 Day 30

Microtype

  • Skillbuilder, Focus Speed
  • Lesson 3

Jan Sprague

  • Review requirements
  • Grading Begins

Favorite Vacation PowerPoint

  • Instructions
  • Discuss ideas for trip details and activities

12/9/10 Day 31

Microtype

  • Take a timing!

Jan Sprague

  • Review requirements
  • Grading continues

Favorite Vacation PowerPoint

 

 

12/13/10 Week 15 Day 32

Microtype

  • Lesson 4

Holiday Invitation/Card in Publisher

  • Directions will be given in class
  • Project details
  • **These directions were for a Word document
  • We will be doing this in Publisher some of the directions won't apply

 

Favorite Vacation PowerPoint

 

12/15/10 Day 33

Microtype

  • Continue lessons
  • Goal is lesson 5
  • Check progress

Holiday Invitation/Card in Publisher

  • Directions will be given in class
  • Project details
  • **These directions were for a Word document
  • We will be doing this in Publisher some of the directions won't apply

Favorite Vacation PowerPoint

If you are done with all above:

Photoshop Activity

  • Holiday/Winter/Snow image
    • Here is the info for web
    • We will might add it to the Sprague site!

 

12/17/10 Day 34

Microtype

  • Take a timing
  • Check progress... (Goal is lesson 5)

Holiday Invitation/Card in Publisher

  • Directions will be given in class
  • Project details
  • **These directions were for a Word document
  • We will be doing this in Publisher some of the directions won't apply
  • Due today
  • EC if you can print this at home

Favorite Vacation PowerPoint

If you are done with all above:

Photoshop Activity

  • Holiday/Winter/Snow image
    • Here is the info for web
    • We will might add it to the Sprague site!

 

1/4/11Week 16 Day 35

Microtype

Continue in Skillbuilder today

    Goal is lesson 6

Address Book project

Making an Address book in Access

 

1/6/11 Day 36

Microtype

Continue in Skillbuilder today

    Goal is lesson 7

Address Book project

Making an Address book in Access

 

 

 

1/10/11 Week 17 Day 37

Microtype

  • Complete lesson 8

Tiny URL activity

  • Follow directions in this link
  • Here is my example
  • MAKE SURE TO SELECT "CLASSIC" MAPQUEST
  • Submit Word doc to folder in submissions when complete

Address Book

Project details

  • Review/finish Queries
  • Review/finish Reports
  • More Advanced Features
    • Demo data control using "Input Mask"
    • Demo use of forms and making buttons

1/12/11 Day 38

Microtype

  • Complete lesson 9

Begin Music Database

  • Discuss "big picture"
  • Discuss new concepts
    • Autonumber
    • Primary Key
  • Project details
    • Finish part 1 and begin part 2
    • Try to have at least 5 records in your DB

Address Book

Project details

  • Grading Begins today
  • I will grade at your computer
  • Process given in this link
    • Extra Credit for more advanced features
      • Forms/buttons
      • Data Control

 

1/14/11 Day 39

Microtype

  • Progress Check today (lesson 9 is expectation)
  • Timing
  • Complete lesson 10

Continue Music Database

  • Review "big picture"
  • Review new concepts
    • Autonumber
    • Primary Key
  • Project details
    • Finish part 2

Address Book

Project details

  • Continue grading
  • Process given in this link
    • Extra Credit for more advanced features
      • Forms/buttons
      • Data Control

 

1/19/10 Week 18 Day 40

No Typing Today

Address Book

Project details

  • Continue grading
  • Process given in this link
    • Extra Credit for more advanced features
      • Forms/buttons
      • Data Control

Continue Music Database

  • Review "big picture"
  • Review new concepts
    • Autonumber
    • Primary Key
  • Project details
    • Finish part 3
    • Getting data from other students
    • Finish if you aren't done

Discuss final exam

In 3 parts:

  • Excel
  • Word
  • Microtype

Final Exam Review

Personal Logo Activity

Project details

  • This will be used on the final exam

1/21/10 Day 41

Last Day for Missing Work!!!

 

Microtype

  • Improve a timing if you like

Address Book

Project details

  • Grading continues
  • Process given in this link

Final Exam Review

Begin Word review

 

Personal Logo Activity

Project details

  • This will be used on the final exam

 

 

1/25/10 Week 19 Day 42

 

Final Exam rules:

  • No one leaves class once it begins
  • Make sure to take advantage of breaks

Microtype

  • Last chance to imporve:
    • Progress
    • Either Timing

Word Review

  • Create the Word doc for the final
  • Details... thanks Mr Rodin
  • Check out these options!
  • Have your own idea... be creative

Final Exam Review

In 3 parts:

  • Excel
  • Word
  • Microtype

Final Exam Day 43

 

1/27 Wednesday

 

Period 6