Skills 2 Assignment Calendar - Spring 2011

Spring 2010 Calendar

2/1/11 Week 1 Day 1 (All 8 period day)

T:

  • Build personal folder in thawspace
  • Build Word, Excel, Images sub-folders

Prep for collage project

  • Pick a theme (something you really like!)
  • Find 10 images (at least) on the web
  • Save to a folder in your thawspace

Tech 2 login

  • Username, password and folder
  • Login, make sure you have rights

Syllabus

  • Read, sign, parent sign
  • Return next class

 

2/2/11 Day 2

Spraguetech2

  • Login to sprague\tech2\shared
  • Go to Adkins\ files to copy\Skills2\Word
  • Copy/paste the "find-this" file to your T:
  • Rename to "last first find this"
  • Copy/paste to:
    • submissions\skills-2\period-#\1_find-this
  • Are you backed up to your users folder?

Review thawspace

  • Make sure you are saving here
  • Organized structure

Syllabus

  • Print your name, turn in
  • No syllabus...
    • Google activities that require email account you may not be able to participate in
  • Discuss Syllabus

Excel Spreadsheet

  • Project: AJ's Trucking
  • Build the "shell"
  • Add data (in class)
  • Write total/average formulas

Photoshop collage

  • Make sure you have collected 10 images
  • Create a new "pallette" 8X10
  • Open images collected from last class
  • Copy/paste images to this pallette
  • At least 10 required
  • Must have some type of theme

2/4/11 Day 3

Microtype

  • Set up Microtype
    • username: NO CAPS!
  • Take skills analysis, Hands covered
  • Start Skill Builder lesson 1 ACCURACY

Excel Spreadsheet

  • Project: AJ's Trucking
  • DO YOU HAVE 8 DRIVERS?
    • If no, add them now!!
  • % of desired hours
    • Absolute referencing/copy/paste formulas
    • Adding the "target"
  • Add Total/Ave at the bottom of the column
  • Add formatting
    • color, border, control decimals etc

Photoshop collage

  • Make sure you have collected 10 images
  • Create a new "pallette" 8X10
  • Open images collected from last class
  • Copy/paste images to this pallette
  • At least 10 required
  • Must have some type of theme

2/8/11 Week 2 Day 4

Typing

  • Use Microtype if you like
  • Find your favorite typing game if you prefer
  • Be prepared to share your game on Thursday!

AJ's trucking

Project information

  • Add 3 graphs
  • Review sorting
  • Discuss sheet protection and "unlocking" cells
    • Protect sheet
    • Only edit the yellow and green regions!!
    • "target" value unlocked too!

Photoshop Collage

  • Discuss Layers
    • naming, moving, adding, deleting
    • adding a text layer
  • Continue working on your collage

2/10/11 Day 5

Microtype

  • ACCURACY SELECTED in Skillbuilder
  • Finish lesson 2 (if needed)
  • Begin lesson 3

Aj's Trucking

Project information

  • Review all requirements
  • Fix and finish any missing parts
  • Prepare for grading
  • If finished with all...
    • Advanced features
    • Adding Macros!

Photoshop collage

  • Blending options
  • Continue improving your work
  • Requirements

 

 

2/14/11 Week 3 Day 6

Typing

  • Use your favorite program
  • Type for 20 minutes
  • Microtype timing Friday

Google Accounts

  • Everyone get a Google account
  • **This assignment will be worth 0 points until you have your syllabus
  • Google docs
    • Create Word doc and save as Ad Activity

 

Ad Activity in Word

Project info

  • Create the structure using your Google doc
  • Share finished projects
  • Think about what you want to advertise!

Aj's Trucking

2/16/11 Day 7

Collage

  • Add a text layer with your name and period #
  • Requirements
  • Don't forget to add a clearly visible blending option

Ad Activity in Word

Project info

  • Review the structure
  • Share finished projects
  • Begin finding images you want to use
  • Start creating each facet of the ad

Aj's Trucking

Typing

  • Use your favorite program
  • Type for 20 minutes
  • Microtype timing Friday

2/18/11 Day 8

Typing

  • Use your favorite program
  • Type for 15 minutes
  • Microtype timing today

Collage

  • Save as a .jpg version for submissions
  • Requirements
  • Don't forget to add a clearly visible blending option
  • Copy/paste collage in submissions for grading

Aj's Trucking

Ad Activity in Word

 

 

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2/21/11 Week 4

President's Day

  • NO SCHOOL

 

2/23/11 Week 4 Day 9

No Typing today

  • "The Guts of your computer"
  • Crossword puzzle/Internet search
  • Discussion will follow
  • Hand in paper!

Ad Activity (cont)

  • Share great work
  • Continue Project

Aj's Trucking

Graded Assignments

  • Syllabus
  • Aj's
  • Collage
  • "Guts" Crossword
  • Ad Activity

2/25/11 Day 10

Typing

  • Record your typing program here
  • If you are using an onine game, record URL
  • If you are using Microtype... type "Microtype" (duh)

Ad Activity (cont)

  • Share great work
  • Continue Project

Aj's Trucking

 

3/1/11 Week 5 Day 11

Typing

  • Everyone use this:

Begin Access Activity

Student Information Database

  • Parts 1 and 2
  • Build and add your info
  • Add my info
  • Gather class info

3/3/11 Day 12

Typing

  • NEW RULES!
    • 37 is the magic number...
    • I'll explain in class
  • Timed Writing #3

Student Info database

  • Project Info
  • Finish part 2- Collect all data
  • Add all previous data
  • Part 3 Review sorting and filtering
  • Part 4 Start "Class Questions"

 

 

 

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3/7/11 Week 6 Day 13

Typing

  • Microtype
    • Start in lesson #1 if you haven't been using MT
    • REMEMBER THE 37 RULE
      • All students will type in Microtype except those that have 2 scores of 37 or better
      • (wpm - errors >= 37)

Student Info DB

  • Project Info
    • Finish answering the questions
    • Remember...
      • List questions must copy/paste from db
      • 6 and 7 must be queries in db and in Word doc
      • Quiz will be Wednesday
      • PLEASE BRING A PENCIL/PEN WEDNESDAY

If you finish early...

  • Take a look at your Ad Activity
  • Work on improving your score for 6 week grades

3/9/11 Day 14

Typing

  • Microtype
    • Goal: finish lesson #2
    • REMEMBER THE 37 RULE
      • All students will type in Microtypet except those that have 2 scores of 37 or better (wpm - errors >= 37)

Blogging

Student Info DB

Project Info

  • Go over answers to the Word doc questions
  • Submit Word doc AND database to submissions
  • STUDENT INFO DB QUIZ

 

3/11/11

Grading Day

  • 1/2 Day Grading
  • 1/2 Day Inservice

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3/14/11 Week 7 Day 15

Student Info Database

  • Submit
    • Your Word document and
    • Your Databae to submissions

The truth about credit cards

  • Compound interest
    • We will build a compound interest calculator (together) and see what happens when you pay the minimum payment using a credit card

Blogging

  • Something I've learned!!
    • Internet Explorer and Google don't mix well
    • When using docs or blogging use Chrome or Firefox
  • Review:
    • Posting
    • Followers
    • Archives
    • Comments
      • Post a comment to my blog
      • Controlling comments is very important
      • Be sure HIDE COMMENTS on yours

3/16 Day 16

Typing

  • Microtype
    • Goal: finish lesson #3
    • REMEMBER THE 37 RULE
      • All students will type in Microtype except those that have 2 scores of 37 or better
      • (wpm - errors >= 37)

Blogging

  • Add Blog post #2
  • Read my blog post
  • respond by publishing a second post in your own blog.
  • Please copy/paste the link to your blog in this form

Amortization Spreadsheet

  • Student created and edited
  • Learn to use... see files to copy for amort2003.xls
  • Answer questions

3/18/11 Day 17

Typing

  • Check progress today for all NON-37'S
  • Timed Writing #4

Student Info Database

  • Make up quiz if you missed it
  • Make sure you submitted your work

Blogging

  • Today:
    • Comment on someone's elses post #2
    • Provide them with feedback about their responses
    • See this link for blog URL's

Amortization Spreadsheet

  • Answer Questons
  • Make sure to get them graded before you leave :)

3/29/11 Week 8 Day 18

Welcome back from Spring Break!

 

Typing

  • Lesson #4 for <37
  • Favorite typing game for all the rest

Blogging

  • Login to Google using your spraguehs account
  • Open your blog
  • ADD A GADGET
    • Go to "Design" and "Add a gadget"
    • Create a "text box gadet"
    • Make this text box in your menu area
    • Title it "Favorite Links"
    • Create links to 4 of your favorite websites
    • School appropriate please!
    • See my example
  • ADD A 2ND GADGET!
    • Add another gadget of your own choosing
    • Place it anywhere you like on your blog

Image search for Picasa project

  • Google search for 10 animal images (minimum)
  • This can be 1 type of animal or many different ones
  • Make sure to save the largest images you can
  • Save into a folder called "my-animals" for Thursday's project

3/31/11 Day 19

Picasa project

  • Creating a web album in Picasa
  • Simple and amazing!
  • For this activity make the album PUBLIC

Blogging

  • Add a slideshow gadget of images in your blog!
    • You must have a PUBLIC ALBUM

PowerPoint- Ad Activity (cont)

  • Redo your Ad Activity with PowerPoint
  • Each Page in Word becomes a slide
  • Your "menu" page becomes an intro slide
  • Link slides together so they run on their own
  • Grading requirements

 

 

 

4/4/11 Week 9 Day 20

Typing

  • Either your favorite game
  • <37... Microtype thru lesson #5
  • Make sure you are using "Skillbuilder"

Ad in PPT

  • Continue transitionsing from doc to PPT
  • Evaluation requirements
  • Animation will be discussed today? or Wednesday?
  • Due Friday?

Picasa/Blogging

  • Finish making your web album
  • Add the gadget in your blog
  • If you are done... make another!

4/6/11 Day 21

Blogging cont-

  • "My Superhero"
    • Create a 2nd blog
    • use "last name-my-superhero
    • You get to create your own Superhero!
    • Write your first episode
    • Introduce your Superhero
    • Here is my example

Ad in PPT

  • did you know part 4
  • Continue transitionsing from doc to PPT
  • Evaluation requirements
  • We will discuss adding animation
  • Don't use too many!!
  • Timed for everyone to read... "reherase timings" !

 

4/8/11 Day 22

My Superhero

  • Add episode #2
  • Introduce your villain
  • Here is my example

Ad in PPT

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4/12/11 Week 10 Day 23

Clothing Sales Activity

  • Project Details
    • Discuss scenario "Oly Clothing Store"
    • Copy/paste spreadsheet from files to copy
    • Copy data into raw data
    • Copy data into all data
    • Discuss
      • autofilter
      • sub-filter
    • Start collecting data

Photoshop activity

  • Merging images
  • Bridge merge

4/14/11 Day 24

Clothing Sales

  • Project Details
  • Make sure all your data is collected
  • Discussion:
  • Who should be fired? Get a raise?
  • Start filling out report

Superhero

Photoshop (only if time...)

  • Merging images
  • More possibilities

 

 

 

4/19/11 Week 11 Day 25

Clothing Sales

  • Project Details
  • Review Employee analysis
    • Declarative Statement
    • One statistical fact to support
    • One comparative sentence to strengthen
  • NO OPINIONS... ONLY FACT
  • Product analysis
    • Copy report table and fill out
    • Insert Word doc object
    • Provide analysis

Ad-PPT

  • Discuss grades
  • Show great work
  • Improvements

4/21/11 Day 26

Clothing Sales

  • Project Details
  • Review Employee analysis
    • Declarative Statement
    • One statistical fact to support
    • One comparative sentence to strengthen
  • NO OPINIONS... ONLY FACT
  • Days of the week analysis
    • Copy report table and fill out
    • Insert Word doc object
    • Provide analysis
  • Due end of period

Photoshop (only if you are done...)

  • Merging images
  • More possibilities
  • New tools!

 

 

 

4/25/11 Week 12 Day 27

Car Project Prep...

  • Project details soon to come...
  • For today-
    • Go to Auto Trader
    • Find this car:
      • Toyota Tacoma (Truck)
      • Within 100 miles of 97302
      • Automatic Transmission
      • 4 wheel drive
      • $15,000 or less
      • Any: year, color, mileage
      • RECORDING... IN GOOGLE DOCS????
      • ---Record in docs for practice
      • ---Testing for final project

Photoshop PhotoMerge

See files to copy images\merge-images

  • Bridge Merge is required
    • We will be doing more with it later
  • Pick one other folder
  • Merge images and fix errors if you can
  • Bring in your own photos if you want!

Superhero

4/27/11 Day 28

Car Project Prep...

Photoshop PhotoMerge

See files to copy images\merge-images

  • Bridge Merge is required
    • Add some additional touches!
    • Add Godzilla stepping over the bridge!
    • Add unusual items...
    • boats on the bridge, cars in the bay!
  • Pick one other folder
  • Merge images and fix errors if you can
  • Bring in your own if you want!

Superhero

4/27/11

Grading Day!

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5/2/11 Week 13 Day 29

Dream Car Project

  • Find YOUR CAR today
  • Be sure to record all the info!
  • You should be able to get 1 - 10 done today
  • We practiced using "My Toyota"
  • Make SURE to record this in a NEW DOCUMENT
    • NOT in the "Toyota Document"
  • Details

 

Photoshop PhotoMerge

Demo my Bridge Merge

  • Add your own interesting images
  • Make sure you have 2 merges:
    • Bridge
    • One of your choice
      • See files to copy for merge options

Superhero

  • If you have not done so already...
  • Add your superhero URL to this form
  • Write episode 5
  • I've had a ball writing these...
  • I hope you have a little fun too... :) Mr A

5/4/11 Day 30

Dream Car

Photoshop "Merges"

  • See files to copy images\merge-images
  • Bridge Merge is required
    • Add some additional touches!
    • Add Godzilla stepping over the bridge!
    • Add unusual items...
    • boats on the bridge, cars in the bay!
  • Pick one other folder
    • Merge images and fix errors if you can
    • Bring in your own if you want!

Nothing Else Today

  • Make sure you have 1 - 11 recorded...
    • For both the Toyota (Practice)
    • And your car (Final Presentation... soon to come)
  • Work on your ""merges" and "touches"
  • Make sure you have "episode 5" completed in your blog

5/6/11 Day 31

I will be gone today...

Take good care of Mr Justino:)

 

Dream Car

  • Make sure you have ALL INFO for steps 1 - 11
    • Both MY TOYOTA in the "Toyota" doc
    • And YOUR CAR in your own doc
  • Last class...
  • IF YOU HAVE ALL COLLECTED...

Photoshop "Merges"

  • See files to copy images\merge-images
  • Bridge Merge is required
    • Add some additional touches!
    • Add Godzilla stepping over the bridge!
    • Add unusual items...
    • boats on the bridge, cars in the bay!
  • Pick one other folder
    • Merge images and fix errors if you can
    • Bring in your own if you want!

Superhero!

  • Episode 6
    • Usually we have about 7 episodes...
    • I will be grading during my "recovery"
    • Make sure you have all episodes complete

5/10/11 Week 14 Day 32

Dream Car

  • Last few parts...
    • Demo some really fine projects
    • Frame that target
  • Part 12... Amortization SS

Merge Images

Superhero Blog

5/12/11 Day 33

Dream Car

  • Final Presentation
      • Demo some really fine projects
      • Frame that target
    • All "parts" list
    • Final presentation list

Merge Images

Superhero Blog

 

 

5/16/11 Week 15 Day 34

Last chance...

  • Complete the following:
    • Dream Car (most important)
    • Superhero blog (next in order)
    • Merge Images
    • Submit Dream Car and Merge Images

5/18/11 Day 35

Typing

  • We haven't typed in... forever
  • Type for 15 minutes
  • Timing test to follow...
    • #4, 3 minutes, no "beep" Hah!

The Internet

  • How did it come to be??
  • What does the future look like?

Research- Work in groups

  • Each group gets a "decade"
  • Record info in shared Google doc
  • Recording requirments
    • 2 sources required!!!
    • Major advancements/developments only
    • Bullet list form
    • Technical info/acronyms need to be defined
      • Linking to an online resource is just fine :)

5/20/11 Day 36

Internet Research- A brief history

  • Prepare your 5-10 most important items to share
  • Bullet form
  • Tech info/Acronyms defined
    • Links to online resources are OK
  • Add your decade into this document

Forms

  • Answer these questions in this form
  • Make your own!!

 

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5/24/11 Week 16 Day 37

Internet Research

  • Thanks for your efforts!
  • This turned out to be pretty cool
  • A brief look at all your work

Forms...

  • Google forms are very cool
  • We use one for our "shout-outs"
  • Activity:
    • Go to docs
    • Create a form...
      • think of something you want to ask your fellow students
      • Or, just ask some silly questions... like I did :)
    • Goals:
      • Learn how to make and use Google forms
      • Create a meaningful "poll" we might use on Sprague's site

Add your form to your blog

  • Use the first one (not Superhero... separate purpose)
  • Follow instructions in my post
  • My blog is an example!

5/26/11 Day 38

Take someone's Poll

  • Please share your opinion!
  • In the link...
    • You will find links to all student blogs
    • Select THREE BLOGS
    • Take the poll on their blog
  • If your blog is missing!

In your form

  • Add 2 gadgets of your choice
  • Pick gadgets you think will provide relevant information
  • I chose "the cloud" to emphasize most frequent responses

Share your form

  • Give me edit rights when you share
  • Use the email address:
    • adkins_doug@spraguehs.com

5/27/11

 

Furlough Day

 

No School

5/30/11 Week 17

 

Memorial Day

 

No School

 

6/1/11 Day 39

Vote!

Google Forms

  • Add a third gadget to your form from last week
  • I will grade in shared form (see 5/26 above)

Google Drawings

  • What will they think of next...
  • Check this out!
    • Add some to mine!
    • I'll have to change some settings...
  • Make your own

6/3/11 Day 40

Make sure you have:

  • Question Form
    • 3 gadgets
    • Calculated average/median
    • Shared with adkins_doug@spraguehs.com
  • Painless Quiz
    • shared with adkins_doug@spraguehs.com

Final Exam Review

6/7/11 Week 18 Day 41

Final Exam Review

  • Excel review today, parts 1 - 9

Chrome Capture

  • This is so cool!
  • Google Chrome has an image capture tool!
  • Follow these instructions
    • Open Google Chrome
    • Open your Excel Review in Google docs
    • Select the Screen Capture tool (see link above)
    • Capture the image of your spreadsheet
    • Save the image
    • Create a google drawing and upload your file
    • Add text explaining store cost is really store cost per item
    • Share you drawing with me
      • adkins_doug@spraguehs.com

Reminder... Google doc grading

  • I will be giving points for:
    • Painless Quiz
    • Form Practice
    • Drawing
    • Excel Review
    • Chrome Capture Drawing

6/9/11 Day 42

Discuss Finals

  • One last review of the review
  • We will work on/discuss
  • Using the data-filer-autofilter
  • Reviewing how to use the subtotal process
    • We will return to the clothing sales activity

Want anything graded??

  • LAST CHANCE
  • Nothing accepted after today

 

 

 

 

 

 

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6/13/11 Week 19

Final Exams

  • Periods 1,2,3

6/14/11

Final Exams

  • Periods 4,5,6

6/15/11

Final Exams

  • Periods 7,8