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Tuesday 27th: Red Ribbon Week - Career Day!

Wednesday 28th: Red Ribbon Week - Team Jersey Day!

Thursday 29th: Red Ribbon Week - Character Day!

Friday 30th: Red Ribbon Week - Halloween Costume Day & Pep Rally!

Monday 26th: Red Ribbon Week - Hat Day!

- 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 example folder here)
Red Ribbon Week Theme Days (Learn more about Red Ribbon Week by clicking here)

Monday: Hat Day- “Let’s put a lid on drugs”
Tuesday: Career Day- “Drugs won’t affect our future” (students dress up as what they want to be in the future)
Wednesday: Team Jersey Day- “Team up against drugs”
Thursday: Character Day- “Let’s Show Good Character by Being Drug Free”
Friday: Halloween Costume Day- “Scare drugs away”

Daily Warmup Activity:

Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Choose any practice typing game from this list: Typing Practice Games
You may need to pause Adblock to play your typing game. If you do, add this to your warmup (like my example)
Here’s my example (with the Adblock pause symbol added)

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)

Here’s how you rated last week’s programs and activities:

Click here to view your ratings summary graphs

Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)

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

Open your 2.11 Week10 Binder and add the following

All slides: Search for background images or gifs related to computer programming or robots and add a different background and a link to where you found it to each slide throughout this week. Here are some ideas for topics to search on (have fun exploring cool stuff going on in the world regarding robotics!)

Google’s Driverless Car
Amazon warehouse robots
Education-related robotics programs and competitions (including our own BHS BearTecs!)
Science Daily Robotics News
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Robotics News and Articles
DARPA Robotics Challenge Teams (Finalists)
Robohub
Google Search for current robotics news

Slide1: Title slide

You should have the following 4 things on slide1

A title: 2.11 Week10 Binder (Favorite Fonts or Gzaas)
A subtitle: Basic Programming
A background image from something you found in your searches (use a different image than mine please!)
A link to where you found your background

Here’s my example (to read more about these self-driving cars in Austin, click here)

Slide2: Lightbot introduction to programming

Video help with Lightbot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Lightbot/Lightbot%20Intro.mp4
LightBot: http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html
You should have the following 4 things on slide 2

A title: LightBot - Day1 (Favorite Fonts or Gzaas)
A Skitch of your highest level reached today (best advice on the higher levels of this… run little bits at a time and add as you go along!)
An image of the LightBot homepage linked to the site: http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html
A link to where you found your background image (use a different image than mine please!)

Here’s my slide2 example (Challenges: Can you color-match your shape fills, borders and texts to the LightBot screens as you see below?)

- 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
Typing Practice Games
Favorite Fonts or Gzaas
Video help with Lightbot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Lightbot/Lightbot%20Intro.mp4
LightBot: http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html

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

Checkout what happens when you tap the same key too many times while playing a video game!

(Image from http://en.docsity.com/)

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Tuesday 27th: Red Ribbon Week - Career Day!

- 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 example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity:

Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Open this Fall Leaves file and drag it to your desktop: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Warmups/Coloring%20pages/Fall.jpg
Open the image from your desktop with Pixlr: https://pixlr.com/editor/
Video help with this warmup: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Pixlr/How2%20color%20with%20Pixlr.mp4
Use this image and Colorzilla to get colors to fill your image with: https://thefisheriesblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/28f16-free_fall_leaves_shutterstock_61538884_web.jpg
Use the image below for your link symbol and link it to this URL: http://technologyfueled.com/pixlr-tools/

Here’s my example

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 objectives (all objectives to date)

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)

Slide 3: Lightbot Day 2

You should be able to continue where you left off yesterday
LightBot: http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html
Add a title: Lightbot Day 2 and your certificate of completion or a Skitch of as far as you got to your slide background
Here’s my example

Slide 4: Crazy Tentacles

Explore and create with Crazy Tentacles 1 (if Chrome doesn’t work use Firefox!): http://grantkot.com/sine.html
Use right-click to clear the canvas!
Try Crazy Tentacles 2: http://grantkot.com/tentacles.html
Add a Title (Tuesday) and at least 4 examples of your creations from either version
Here’s my example

- 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
Pixlr: https://pixlr.com/editor/
Fall Leaves file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Warmups/Coloring%20pages/Fall.jpg
Video help with the warmup: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Pixlr/How2%20color%20with%20Pixlr.mp4
LightBot: http://lightbot.com/hocflash.html
Crazy Tentacles 1 (if Chrome doesn’t work use Firefox!): http://grantkot.com/sine.html
Crazy Tentacles 2: http://grantkot.com/tentacles.html

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

Checkout more about autonomous cars in Austin

Here’s a link list to explore: http://www.one-tab.com/page/BkVMhF70RLWzWD63Zl-uhA

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Wednesday 28th: Red Ribbon Week - Team Jersey Day!

- 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 example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity:

Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Add an image of your favorite candy or candy bar and a link to where you found your image
Here’s my example

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 objectives (all objectives to date)

Create or reopen an account at Code.org
Explore the Hour of Code programming practice activities
Explore more robotics news

Discover the personality traits which make the best programmers

Create an account at Code.org using ‘Sign in with Google Account’. Here are the steps:

Click this link to go to the sign-in page and click ‘Sign on with Google Account’: http://studio.code.org/users/sign_in

Click accept

Complete the sign-up form like this

Slide5: Begin (and hopefully complete) the ‘Hour of code’ which you probably saw at the bottom of the LightBot screen on Monday. You will get a certificate from the site when you complete the activities which you will Skitch and save

Begin the Hour of Code block programming tutorial by clicking on this link http://studio.code.org/hoc/1 or by clicking where you see below
You should bring earbuds to watch the video tutorials, but if you don’t have them, you can read the transcripts this way
Move as far as you can through this very basic tutorial today and then add the following on slide5

A title: Hour of Code
A Skitch of the highest level you reach today
At least one comment about what you liked about the tutorial
A ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ symbol for whether you liked or didn’t like it overall
A link to the tutorial so you can explore more later if you’re interested: http://studio.code.org/hoc/1

Here’s my example Slide5 (I’ve added noise to deter copying)

Once you complete slide5, find backgrounds for the rest of your slides through slide 8. Again, search for background images or gifs related to computer programming or robots and add a different background and a link to where you found it to each slide throughout this week. Here are some ideas for topics to search on (have fun exploring cool stuff going on in the world regarding robotics!)

Google’s Driverless Car
Amazon warehouse robots
Education-related robotics programs and competitions (including our own BHS BearTecs!)
Science Daily Robotics News
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Robotics News and Articles
DARPA Robotics Challenge Teams (Finalists)
Robohub
Google Search for current robotics news

- 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
Chocolate Bar Word Search: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Warmups/Word%20Searches/Chocolate%20Bars.jpg
Hour of Code sign-in: http://studio.code.org/users/sign_in
Hour of Code activities: http://studio.code.org/hoc/1

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

Checkout this information on which traits make good programmers

http://digest.bps.org.uk/2015/10/the-surprising-truth-about-which.html?m=1
“...the personality trait most strongly correlated with programming ability was not introversion or conscientiousness, but openness: a trait that's related to being creative and imaginative. What's more, over time to the present day, openness has become a more important correlate of programming ability, while conscientiousness has become less important. This is speculation, but perhaps more creative people are today drawn to careers in programming because of all the opportunities for imaginative expression in a world of apps, video games, snazzy websites, and social networks. Finally, the traits of agreeableness (essentially how friendly someone is) and neuroticism (how anxious and emotionally unstable) were not correlated with programming ability, pretty much refuting the tired stereotype of the socially awkward programming geek.”

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Thursday 29th: Red Ribbon Week - Character Day!

- 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 example folder here)
Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Open this 3 Leaves file and drag it to your desktop: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Warmups/Coloring%20pages/3leaves.jpg
Open the image in Pixlr: https://pixlr.com/editor/
First, we need to repair some breaks in the image in order for the fill bucket to work correctly. The red circles show where there are gaps that need to be closed
Video help1 with using the pencil tool to close gaps in an outline: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Pixlr/Pixlr%20use%20pencil%20to%20fix%20lines.mp4
Next we will use the Fill Bucket and the Color replace tools to make our leaves look more realistic
Video help2 with using the Color replace tool (add this video link to your warmup link symbol): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Pixlr/Pixlr%20use%20color%20replace%20tool.mp4
Here’s your warmup symbol (which you should link to Video help2)

Your warmup file should look something like (but not exactly 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-2-comment)

Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)

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

Slide6: Saving your certificate

Make sure you sign in each day! (click sign-in with Google)
If you are still working on yesterday’s Hour of Code: http://studio.code.org/hoc/1
here are the 4 things you’ll need on your slide6

A title: Hour of Code
A Skitch of your welcome back screen as your background (which you’ll see when you click on this link and then click Sign in with Google: http://studio.code.org/users/sign_in)
Your completed checks (which should already be part of your background… just make sure it’s included!)
Your certificate with your name on it. If you forgot to add your name to your certificate and capture it yesterday, you can get another one here: http://code.org/api/hour/finish

Here’s my example Slide 6

Slide7: Continue on with Stage 5 - The Artist

Stage 5 start link: http://studio.code.org/s/20-hour/stage/5/puzzle/1
Here are some tips on what you’ll see
Your slide7 should have these 2 things on it

A background showing your stage5 ‘final creation’ (mine was a tunnel of hoops) with your green stages 1-10 at the top
A Skitch of your total progress through all stages so far (which you get from the More dropdown like you see in my example below – click on it for a larger view)