Fall 2015: This week I learned (or reviewed)
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Week1
Week2
Week3
Week4
Week5
Week6
Week7
Week8
Week9
Week10
Week11
Week12
Week13
Week14
Week15
Week16
Week1
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- Z-type typing practice
- How to fill out Google Forms
- How to complete all warmups for the week in one Google Drawing (with links)
- How to use Skitch to capture, markup and save screenshots
- How to create custom messages with Gzaas
- How to add background images to Pivot animations
- A variety of typing games from a list submitted by students
- How to use click-to-comment to send me links and ideas anytime
- How to complete Learning Log slides
- How fast your reaction time is
- How to search Google for animated gifs
- How to add gifs to Google Slides so that they will play during presentations
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Week2
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- 7 basic Keyboard shortcuts for Chrome
- How to use StudyStacks to review vocabulary in a variety of games
- How to use Flamepainter
- How to change Google Slides Backgrounds to plain colors and images
- How to create a basic spreadsheet to organize lists of things you like and people who are important to you
- How to create a Thinking Map (Circle Map version) on a Google Slide
- How to use Skitch to complete word searches and mazes for warmups
- Where to find a large number of mazes for use anytime
- How to install the Adblock Chrome Extension
- How to configure the Java console to use the Fluidfire and Fluidwater applications
- How to use Firefox for the Fluidfire and Fluidwater applications
- How to create a Pivot animation, save it as a gif and add it to a slide
- How to create an email list of teachers and send them an embedded image using Skitch
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Week3
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- How to find and view our weekly newsletters to see what’s happening each week in all of your classes
- How to create an electronic version of a Math project using Google Drawings
- How to find and use Screencast-o-matic to record videos and animated gifs
- How to convert very large or very small numbers to Scientific Notation
- How to record a demo of a scientific notation conversion using Google Drawings and Screencast-o-matic
- How to format superscript numbers (like with scientific notation)
- How to use the new voice-to-text feature in a Google Doc
- How to view our campus slideshow with important news and information
- How to create your own maze and customize the level of complexity of the maze
- How to create moving animations of emotions vocabulary using gifs
- How to record a collection of gifs and save that collection as a gif
- How to find and use a collection of cool Wordart fonts for use in any Google Apps projects
- How to find our Campus Public Calendar to stay informed on what’s happening each month at BMS
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Week4
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- How to select ‘view calculated grades’ (for progress reports) in the online gradebook
- How to find and view what’s happening all week in your classes using the newsletter matrix view
- What a really bad hair day might look like
- How to draw 3D Rotating sketches, share them in replay mode and record and save them as gifs
- That 3D titanium ribs have been printed and used in a human
- How to play online Chess or Checkers at varying levels of difficulty
- How to copy and paste spreadsheet cells onto a slide as a table and preserve links in the process
- How to add a number of useful Chrome apps and extensions
- How to use Quizlet to practice current Science vocabulary and then play scatter against all other students using those terms
- How to use the magnify option in Skitch to make a maze easier to solve
- How to use Google for a reverse image search (to identify a photo of something for example)
- How to use the Colorzilla extension to pull color codes from anything in your browser window
- How to add color-matched borders around images on a slide
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Week5
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- How to create cool sand-scapes using Thisissand
- Explore a variety of interesting patterns from the Pattern Library
- How to add a pattern from the pattern library as a background for a Google Slide
- Practice using a Double Bubble Thinking Map to compare and contrast two images
- How to use Sumopaint, which is a free, web based drawing and photo editing tool (like photoshop)
- How to use the Sumopaint Symmetry tool with lots of related adjustments for color, gravity, and points of symmetry and use this tool to create 3 unique symmetry designs
- How to use the Sumopaint Shapes tool with lots of related adjustments for types of shapes, gradient fills and rotation and use this tool to create 3 unique shapes collections
- How to use the research tool to find free-to-use images on slides or documents
- Learn about a bunch of fun Google Browser tricks
- Learn what a Blue Moon is, when it can and cannot happen, and when our next Blue Moon will occur
- Learn how to find out information on any Google Doodle using the Google Doodles Archive
- Explore the doodles archive and collect examples that you like
- Learn how to play A Maze Race
- Practice updating a spreadsheet links list embedded on a slide with the important titles and links from this week
- Learn how to turn any image into a 3D sphere or cube and adjust the size, lighting, rotation, and shading of the objects using the Sumopaint 3D filters
- Learn how to transform any image (stretch, flip, rotate or distort it in any direction) using the Sumopaint transform tool
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Week6
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- Create something cool with our names for a title slide
- Explore a Bing images archive and select a variety for use in our learning logs
- Practice adding images to slide backgrounds
- Practice using the ColorZilla extension to select colors from images
- Learn how to create cool beatbox music creations with Incredibox (v1)
- Learn how to carve virtual pumpkins
- Practice using Sumo masks on slide backgrounds
- Learn how to create your own slide mask from a template
- Explore some cool pumpkin carvings
- Create more cool beatbox music creations with Incredibox (v2)
- Practice finding objects hidden in a sketch
- Search for images of amazing dog housess
- Learn how to create your own letter templates for a slide mask
- Practice cutting out the letters of your masks with Sumopaint and applying the masks to slides
- Create your own beatbox music with Incredibox v3
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Week7
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- Learn how to use the Sumopaint fill tool
- Find and practice with virtual pumpkin carving tools
- Review using screencast-o-matic to record and save gifs
- Review how to activate a Firefox java plugin
- Learn how to use Wordle to create a word cloud from a famous speech
- Learn the effects of word frequency on word size in Wordle word clouds
- Practice with the customization features of Wordle
- Learn spreadsheet fill functions
- Use a basic spreadsheet to create Wordles with custom word sizes
- Attempt to use Wordle advanced features to control word sizes and colors exactly
- Practice using Quizlet for vocabulary review
- Learn how to use Wordle advanced features to solve a color challenge activity
- Create a peaceful ‘take a break’ slide using a new Bing image archive resource
- Explore a new interactive generative art site called Weavesilk and try to learn independently how the site controls work
- Explore the World Population Counter Map
- Learn how to copy a slide from one slideshow and paste it into another
- Learn how to use a Custom Wordle Phrase creator spreadsheet
- Practice using Weavesilk to make and capture cool original designs
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Week8
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- Learn how to play dots and boxes against a computer
- Create colorful flowing multi-colored hearts
- View some information on bully prevention and assess the extent of the problem here
- Practice with the Sumopaint fill bucket to fill-in a line drawing with colors
- Create your own Prezi account and explore a cruise ship tour Prezi
- Explore reusable Prezis in all subject areas
- Learn how to customize Wormz
- Practice recording gifs and videos with screencast-o-matic
- Create a new Prezi of your own using a Prezi template
- Insert a full-view Prezi Skitch into a slide background
- Learn a variety of versions of dots and boxes and try to figure out a winning strategy for these games
- Research the 5 Ws regarding the current Hidden Pines Fire, and collect your research in a Prezi
- Carefully consider how you might deal with an emergency if you were in charge of helping your family to get through the event as safely as possible
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Week9
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- Explore some cool quotes from others on coping with fear or uncertainty
- Create and capture some fun patterns using the energetic and colorful Crazy Tentacles application
- View directions for customizing Prezis in a Prezi
- Learn how to customize Prezi backgrounds, fonts, colors and images
- Learn a new ‘Word Wanderer’ game
- Complete our Digital Citizenship Survey and find out how you compare with other students
- Locate and browse our BMS Digital Citizenship resources page
- Explore the surface app and create and record something interesting to share
- Explore a variety of additional Digital Citizenship Week resources
- Learn how our personal internet practices compare with other students by viewing survey response summary graphs
- Practice your current ELA vocabulary with Quizlet
- Explore the colorful Kaleidoscope Painter and capture some of our creations
- Explore Tagxedo and create a custom shape word cloud of a famous speech
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Week10
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- Practice a variety of typing activities
- Learn how to pause the Adblock extension as needed
- Explore a variety of interesting news resources on robotics
- Practice adding images and gifs as a slide backgrounds
- Explore the basic programming features of Lightbot
- Learn how to use a new image editor called Pixlr to fill a line drawing
- Continue basic programming with Lightbot puzzles
- Explore Crazy Tentacles 1&2 and capture examples of your creations
- Learn more about Google self-driving cars near us (in Austin)
- Review how to draw on an image to fill in gaps in a line drawing with Pixlr
- Learn how to replace colors in an image with Pixlr
- Save your Hour of Code completion Certificate
- Learn how to code artwork in Stage 5 of the accelerated course at Code.org
- Explore some cool Google Doodles
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Week11
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- Learn how to find the current wind speeds anywhere in the United States
- Learn how to add a transparent overlay to a Google Drawing to help us to identify a location
- Learn how to code and create more interesting artwork in stage 7 at code.org
- Learn how to solve more interesting puzzles and use more advanced commands in stage 9 at code.org
- Learn how to create your own geoGreeting to share
- Discover some amazing places on earth to explore, capture and save using Google’s new Earth View site
- Create more interesting artwork using the Stage 11 activities at code.org
- Consider the importance of attitude from a famous quote and view a couple of others on personal perspective
- Solve more imore complex programming puzzles (with help) using the Stage 113 activities at code.org
- Explore some fun Scratch games and generative art
- Explore more spectacular Earth Views
- Practice vocabulary for ELA classes with Quizlet
- Complete our code.org activities with Stage 15 activities
- View some Scratch Geometry demonstrations and choose a favorite
- Explore a site which tracks recent developments in Science and Technology
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Week12
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- Practice with another custom maze from Robin Sharp
- Create QR codes for your phone to scan
- Practice creating a geoGreeting to share with a QR code
- Practice rotating objects on a Google Drawing
- Learn how to create a new Google Form and customize it
- Practice using the ColorZilla extension
- Create and test an account at Canva
- Practice vocabulary review with StudyStacks
- Practice creating custom QR codes with images using SnippQR
- Explore more Google Forms customizing features, like adding images and page backgrounds
- Complete the Beginners Challenge Tutorial at Canva
- Review using ColorZilla and Pixlr to fill an image
- Learn how to insert images into a form
- Explore Canva templates and select one to work with
- Explore more Canva editing features
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Week13
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- Explore Canva Presentation options
- Create a Canva ‘slide’ of your favorite Thanksgiving foods
- Review using Pixlr or Sumopaint to fill an image
- Explore Graffiti Creator and create some unique examples of your own
- Practice your 2048 strategy!
- Explore local area holiday events and collect them in Canva
- Search for light art images and collect them in Canva
- Practice using the Graffiti Creator to create cool titles
- Practice current ELA vocabulary with Quizlet
- Review the use of Wordle and Tagxedo and customize them as much as you can
- Explore additional Canva graphics to add to your project
- View and solve a modified Robin Sharp maze
- Explore the Canva Card Templates and choose 2 to create your own cards with
- Find funny photos or gifs and add your own holiday-related captions to them
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Week14
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- Learn how to add an HD background to a Prezi
- Explore and capture some amazing images of snowflakes
- Discover, explore and share information about Ice Festivals from around the world
- Create examples of snowflake-like art using Kaleidoscope painter
- Train yourself to avoid a brain ‘color’ trap
- Practice capturing and organizing groups of elements in Prezi
- Explore the Snowdays program
- Explore WeaveSilk symmetry settings and effects
- Explore some Sci-Fi writers’ predictions from long ago which have come true
- Create different styles of virtual Christmas cookies
- Experiment with Sumopaint Symmetry tools
- Explore and create with a ‘variety pack’ of snowflake creation apps
- Learn how to set a path in Prezi
- Review how to record and save GIFs using Screencast-o-matic
- Learn how to copy, crop and recolor GIFs on a Google Slide
- Practice using Graffiti Art to create a color matched ‘The End’ title for a Google Slide
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Week15
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- Explore cool interactive light designs with Zen Photon Garden
- Browse and capture interesting designs made by others in the virtual world of Build with Chrome
- Practice the skills and techniques which will help you with your own creations in Build with Chrome
- Practice making creative backgrounds with the Zen Photon Garden
- Discover and create with the virtual Christmas Tree decorating site of your choosing
- Discover and create with the virtual Christmas Card creation site of your choosing
- Explore a list of kind things to do for others over the Winter Break
- Review vocabulary using the tools from Quizlet
- Explore the creative fun of Google’s Santa Tracker
- Review recording an animated gif using screencast-o-matic
- Review adding an animated gif as a Google Slide background
- Review searching for animated gifs using the additional search tools available at Google Image Search
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Week16
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- Learn how to plan a simple comic strip
- Explore a couple of basic web comic creation tools and create your own simple comic strips using those tools
- Explore a 3D house planner and modify or create your own floorplan
- Explore and select 3 favorite Words and Language Tools from section 11 at 308 Today
- Create a holiday image cube to record and save as a gif
- Learn how to work through the Link All start-up brain puzzles
- Reflect on your best experiences in the year 2015
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