Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Complete the word search below (help each other!). Click here for a larger view to Skitch
Explore this population counter and use the link for your link symbol: http://www.breathingearth.net/
Hover over each country to see its current population (the arrow shows whether its population is increasing or decreasing)
Find a country with a decreasing population (down arrow) and Skitch its name and information to your warmup… link it to the World Population Counter. You’ll need to capture this with the PRINT SCRN button, open it with Skitch and then use the crop tool.

Open another site which measures world population even more accurately and Skitch the current World Population underneath ‘Wed’ … here’s the site Worldometers: http://www.worldometers.info/

Your completed warmup for today should look something like this:

Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click to comment)

Today we have these objectives (all s17 objectives to date)

Review a variety of applications from weeks 1-3 of this Grading Period
Practice using Z-type, Pivot, Flamepainter, and Human Benchmark

Have fun reviewing your favorite Santa’s Village activities

Create a new Word Search from the premade Spring word list
Review StudyStack and Quizlet card set locations

Page 1: Review Week1 (here’s a link to our Week1 plans)

Here are the 4 things you’ll need on slide 2

A Title: Week1 using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Z-type (Title/new example/link)

Z-type: http://zty.pe/ or http://phoboslab.org/ztype/v1.html

Pivot (a new 6 frame or more animation saved as a gif)

Here’s how to save as a gif

Human Benchmark (Title/favorite test new score/link)

Human Benchmark: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/dashboard

Here’s my example:

Page 2: Review Week2 (here’s a link to our Week2 plans)

Here are the 3 things you need on your slide

A Title: Week2 using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Flamepainter (Title/new example/link)

Flamepainter: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/#top
You may use Fluid Water or Fluid Fire

Santa’s Village (Title/favorite activity screenshot/link)

Gumball: https://santatracker.google.com/#gumball
Jetpack: https://santatracker.google.com/#jetpack
Present Bounce: https://santatracker.google.com/#presentbounce
Boatload: https://santatracker.google.com/#boatload
Codelab: https://santatracker.google.com/#codelab
SantaSelfie: https://santatracker.google.com/#santaselfie

Here’s my example

Page 3: Review Week3 (here’s a link to our Week3 plans)

Here are the 5 things you need

A Title: Week3 using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
A Skitch of the pre-made word list settings page for Spring and a link to the Word Search generator:: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/
A Skitch of your newly created word search (use any settings you like and you don’t need to solve it!)
A Skitch of StudyStacks by bmercer and the link: https://www.studystack.com/users/bmercer
A Skitch of Quizlets by bmercerBMS and the link: https://quizlet.com/bmercerBMS

Here’s my example

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! (click to comment)

Here are the links you’ll need for today

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
Z-type: http://zty.pe/ or http://phoboslab.org/ztype/v1.html
Human Benchmark: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/dashboard
Time Word Search: https://goo.gl/eXVuMo
World Population Counter: http://www.breathingearth.net/
Worldometers: http://www.worldometers.info/
Word Search generator: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/
Flamepainter: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/#top
Santa’s Village (Title/favorite activity screenshot/link)

Gumball: https://santatracker.google.com/#gumball
Jetpack: https://santatracker.google.com/#jetpack
Present Bounce: https://santatracker.google.com/#presentbounce
Boatload: https://santatracker.google.com/#boatload
Codelab: https://santatracker.google.com/#codelab
SantaSelfie: https://santatracker.google.com/#santaselfie

Word Search generator:: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/
StudyStacks by bmercer and the link: https://www.studystack.com/users/bmerce
Quizlets by bmercerBMS and the link: https://quizlet.com/bmercerBMS

s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

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Tasks Checklist for today

Complete the time word search
Create review pages for weeks 1-3 of this course

- Part 4) Through? (click to comment)

Checkout how much of our physical desktop environment has transitioned over to the virtual one over time

https://plus.google.com/116008990314748336354/posts/BZxS9bFDrpx

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Thursday 16th:

- Part 1) Review (click-2-comment)

Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view s17 example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

Complete the time word search
Create review pages for weeks 1-3 of this course

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Try the memory game a few times and capture your best score to add to your warmup file for Wednesday

Memory: http://www.proprofs.com/games/memory/

Here’s my example warmup for today

Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

Today we have these learning goals (all s17 objectives to date)

Sharpen your memory with a pattern matching game
Review the use of Screencast-O-Matic to record a new 3D Sketchtoy
Review the tools for creating Sumopaint Symmetries and Shapes

Use a new Thisissand background for reviewing Sumo Mask making

Page 4: Review Week4 Sketchtoy and Screencast-o-matic

Here are the 3 things you need

A Title: Week4 using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
A Skitch of a Sketchtoy of the word ‘Thursday’ and your save link from Sketchtoy: http://sketchtoy.com/
Record your Sketchtoy using Screencast-o-matic and Skitch the publish as a gif and resize settings (so you can remember how to do this in the future). Screencast-o-matic should be in your start/programs list, but if not, here’s a link to install it again

SOM v1.4 download

Your saved gif of your Sketchtoy Tuesday

Here’s my example page (using the word Tuesday instead of Thursday)
Here’s the slide recorded as a gif so you can see the animation running on it:

Page 5: Review Week5 Sumo Symmetry & Shapes

Sumopaint: http://www.sumopaint.com/home/#app

Video Help with the Symmetry Tool: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sumo/Sumo%20Symmetry.mp4
Video Help with the Shapes Tool: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sumo/Sumo%20Shapes.mp4

Here are the 3 things you need on your slide

A Wordart title: Week5 using any of these Fonts links: Favorite Fonts / Gzaas / Flaming text
Create 3 new Symmetries, Shapes or a combination of them
Add a link to Sumopaint: http://www.sumopaint.com/home/#app

Here’s my example slide 7

Page 6: Review Week6 Sumo Masks

Create a slide background and Skitch it to your desktop (like my example below) using Thisissand: http://thisissand.com/

You can see the colors I used for this one in the bottom right corner of the image below, but be creative… choose your own!
It will help if you set your browser window to the approximate size and shape of your slide

Create a Sumo Mask of the word Sand in your favorite thick Gzaas font

Here’s a Gzaas shadow template which works well (just change the font to your favorite): http://gzaas.com/preview/preview?gs_form=Sand&font=chewy&color=EAA72C&backColor=ffffff&pattern=&style=&shadows=16px+12px+17px+%23000000&visibility=1&from=preview
Here’s the one I used (but please use a different font than I used!)
Sumopaint: http://www.sumopaint.com/home/#app
Video help creating Sumo Mask: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sumo/How%20to%20create%20a%20Sumopaint%20slide%20mask.mp4

Here are the 3 things you need on your slide

A Wordart title: Week6 using any of these Fonts links: Favorite Fonts / Gzaas / Flaming text
A Sand Sumo Mask over your Thisissand background
A link to Thisissand: http://thisissand.com/

Here’s my example slide 9

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

Here are the links you’ll need for today

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Memory: http://www.proprofs.com/games/memory/
Sumopaint: http://www.sumopaint.com/home/#app

Video Help with the Symmetry Tool: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sumo/Sumo%20Symmetry.mp4
Video Help with the Shapes Tool: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sumo/Sumo%20Shapes.mp4
Video help creating Sumo Mask: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sumo/How%20to%20create%20a%20Sumopaint%20slide%20mask.mp4

Thisissand: http://thisissand.com/

s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

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Tasks Checklist for today

Complete a pattern matching game
Create a review page showing the use of Screencast-O-Matic to record a new 3D Sketchtoy
Create a review page of Sumopaint Symmetries and Shapes
Create a review page of Sumo Mask making using a new Thisissand background

- Part 4) Through? (click-2-comment)

Checkout this unusual optical illusion and the cool animated gif below it

gif from Oz by Akela 73 (I can’t find a valid link to post)

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Friday 17th: Monday is a Student Holiday!

- Part 1) Review (click-2-comment)

Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view s17 example folder here)
Friday Warmup Activity:

Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

Complete a pattern matching game
Create a review page showing the use of Screencast-O-Matic to record a new 3D Sketchtoy
Create a review page of Sumopaint Symmetries and Shapes
Create a review page of Sumo Mask making using a new Thisissand background