Tuesday, October 4, 2011, Government

Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objective, Agenda, and Attendance
Objective: SWBAT describe how cabinet members are selected, the Presidential Powers and Roles of the President.
Warm Up 15 minutes: What is the Electoral College? What does it decide? p. 233 answer questions 1-5
Activity 30 minutes: The Cabinet p. 228-232
Activity 20 minutes: Presidential Powers- Describe in your own words the powers of executive office. p. 784-785
Activity 10 minutes: Personal Exercise of Power p. 247, Immediate Needs of the Nation p. 247, Mandate of the People p.248 Think-pair-share- What do think your take would be on this if you were president?
Notes 20 minutes: Head of State, Chief Executive, Chief Legislator, Economic Planner, Party Leader, Chief Diplomat, Commander in Chief.
Closing 5 minutes: Review how cabinet members are selected, the Presidential Powers and Roles of the President.

Final Questions

Final Questions

1. Describe the importance of Netiquette and Digital Citizenship and how you intend to continue to use it throughout your digital lifetime.

2. How do you create a new folder on your MacBook and rename it?

3. How do you save a file in a particular folder with a particular name?

4. What is a file extension? Give three examples and what they are used for.

5. What is the difference between the world wide web and the internet?

6. What does http and html stand for?

7. What is a domain name?

8. List and describe 3 Search Engines.

 9. List and describe 3 Application we used in this class and how they can help you in your academic future.

10. Please list and describe 3 Components of your Macbook Computer.

Video Reflection

Name: _____________

Date: ______________

IMOVIE REFLECTION

Explain what media is, what kind of media IMOVIE helps people create, and the appropriate use of this kind of media.



Describe the difference between the Project Library and the Event Library.


In detail, explain how to do all of the following:

a. add an event to the project library.
b. split a scene into two different scenes.
select a piece of a clip.
slow down and speed up a clip.
change the film from color to black and white
Add transitions
add music
add voice over
add text

Webquest Project

Description- A WebQuest is a tool used by tech savvy teachers, as well as, tech savvy students. Its purpose is to incorporate the computer and the world wide web into a project that helps participants learn something about a particular subject. A WebQuest is not just a lesson in disguise but should take participants on a journey that makes them work at a higher level of learning.

Objective- Our objective at Santa Rosa Academy is to have Mac Lab students make a WebQuest, so that they can distribute information at a higher level of learning, and also, think at a higher level themselves.

Resources

http://webquest.org/
https://sites.google.com/
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Requirements:

Topic- Cleared by the instructor
Task- Students must come up with a task for participants to complete in order to learn the information they are trying to present. Tasks must have participants using the internet to accomplish their goal, and must have participants think at a higher level of learning than just summary. 
Process- Student must have a well thought out process in which participants must complete to finish a task. The process should use five hyperlink’s and have these following components: a site that has participants watch something, read something, and/ or play something.
Evaluation- Students must have a tool or rubric, in which to determine how successful a participant was at actually complete the task.
Conclusion- Students must come up with a conclusion for the WebQuest for participants to achieve closure on their completion of the task.

WebQuest Project

What is a WebQuest October 1, 2010

What is a WebQuest?

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.
Since those beginning days, tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland.

provided byhttp://webquest.org/

Santa Rosa Academy Star Testing

Please read the following letter to become informed of star testing which will be taking place from April 4th- April 29th. Feel free to download or print.

Bonus: Vmyths

Go to http://vmyths.com/hmul/1/

Write about five viruses and write what you found interesting for each on a pages document

5 points extra credit.

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/internet101/f/the_difference_between_internet_and_web.htm

Garage Band Reflection Due 3/11

Garage Band Reflection

Garage Band Reflection

List three different purposes for Garage Band.



2. Where is the Garage Band Application found on your MacBook and what is the icon used for it?



How could Garage Band be an effective tool for academic work?



What is the difference between a loop and a real track?



4. Describe where the loops, track time line, and tracks are located taking a screen shot of each.



5. In detail, describe how to record your own instrument/sound on Garage Band.




6. What are the three basic tracks needed to make a song?




7. In detail describe what automation is and how do you do it?





Describe in detail the best way to add a video audio clip to your song.





What is an intro/outro, verse and chorus?



10. How do you add a new track?

Pages Project Brochure

Here is an example of what we are doing in class for the Brochure in case students forget the requirements and want to work at home. Also we worked on taking "screen shots" during this warm up, in fact, these pictures are an example of a screen shot. (Play around with it. Hold command+fn+shift+4) and cross hairs should appear. Click and drag to capture picture to desktop.

Google Sites Reflection

What is HTML stand for and what is it used for?


Describe how to create a google site.

Describe in detail how to do all of the following on google sites.
embed a youtube video
insert and image
insert a link
insert text
change background image.

Why is netiquette important?

Describe and draw 5 components of the Macbook and their functions

Describe how we met our goals of gaining information fluency and communication and collaboration in the classroom activities.

Why is it important to your academic and professional career to know how to make a website?

MacBook Parts Vocabulary

Please Describe in detail the part's looks, its function and find a picture on the web of each computer part.

Quiz Keynote and other questions

Reflection Questions:


1. Explain in detail how you add the following to a Keynote presentation:
a. Slide Transition
b. New Slide
c. Transitions Between Points
d. pictures

2. Please describe the application Icon for Keynote and where it can be found on the finder.

3. List Five of the twelve Tips we talked about in class for making a good presentation.

4. Describe Netiquette and its significance.

5. What is a Search Engine?

6. What is a URL and Domain Name.

7. What is a file extension and why is it important information to know?

8. List Five different uses for Keynote.

9. How does using Keynote and this project meet our standards Creativity and Innovation/ Information Fluency?

10 Tips for Presenting

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/skills/presentations.aspx

Visit Site and List 12 Tips

Keynote Project: Grades Based on Completion of Requirements Due 1/26/2011

Keynote Project

This project is designed so that you can get used to using technology for the purpose of presenting material to an audience in an effective manner. This is a group project and requires all group members to participate equally. Please follow the steps in numerical order and make sure that your presentation meets all of the requirements.

This project meets the following National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)- 1. Creativity and Innovation, 2. Communication and Collaboration, 3. Research and Information Fluency, 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making.

Tuesday: (5 points)
Before you begin, you must get into groups of three or four. Select a team leader, two researchers, and one person to be in charge of designing the keynote presentation, known as the designer.
Once you have accomplished this task, pick a topic of your groups’ choice and check in with teacher.

Once you have been cleared by teacher, you may begin to do research on topic.

(15 points)
You must get information from five sites about topic.
Record sites used and a brief four sentence paragraph describing each site chosen.
You must grab five to ten images representing or illustrating topic.

Keynote requirements:

(20 points)
At least five slides and no more than seven slides in presentation
The first slide must be a Title Slide  with Names of Group members.
The last slide must have sites used for gathering information on topic
Each slide must have a transition to next slide and an animation for each point.
Each point must be no more than five words long, and each slide must have no more than five points.
There must be two images on each slide relevant to topic.

Presentation Requirements:

Due Thursday- January 27, 2011(10 points)
 Each person in group have speaking part in presentation.
Presentation must be under ten minutes long.
Presentation should be clear to audience.
Presentation should have an element of entertainment

Blog Project

Blog Project-

Description: noun- blog (a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies) "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order"
verb- (read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal)

Purpose: We are going to create a blog using blogspot.com because it is free and works nicely with gmail accounts which all students should have through Santa Rosa Academy. The blog is a tool people use to write and share ideas with others and has become sort of a big deal in the online community. I want to use this blog for students to ask each other questions and for help with assignments in this class and other classes as well. Students will be expected to follow my blog and post on theirs twice a week.

Creating the blog

Need a gmail account to get started. You should have a Santa Rosa Academy Email account which works. If not, then follow these steps to get started and create a gmail account.
Go to gmail.com
click on create an account
fill out the text boxes under “Get started with Gmail”
choose a login Name and Password that you will remember
Sign in to new account.
Go to https://blogger.com/start and click on the “Create a Blog” button
Use Santa Rosa Academy email or the new gmail account you created as email for blog.
Create a password you will remember
Create a display name
Click Continue
Create a Blog Title, which will be MacBook (initials)
desired address to link, which will be your full name.
Click Continue
Choose Template
Continue
Start Blogging

Follow my blog

Go to https://mrgmaclab.blogspot.com
Click on follow
click on google
click ok