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Monday 7th
Tuesday 8th & Wednesday 9th:
Testing Shutdown Days
Thursday 10th
Friday 11th: Winter Dance!
Monday 7th
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- Part 1) Review  (click-2-comment)
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- 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)
- We have STAAR Practice shutdown testing tomorrow and Wednesday. Here’s our revised bell schedule for those days:
- Daily Warmup Activity:Â
- Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- Capture an image from each episode 1 & 2 (try to add a color frame around each capture)
- Change the link symbol to a 1 or 2 (to go with your favorite episode) and link the number to that episode
- Change the color of the letters ‘Tues’ to this color code: #e26723
- Here’s my example

- Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!):Â http://goo.gl/TU5uol
- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)
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- Here’s how you rated last week’s programs and activities:
- About this week’s projects and activities:
- Why are we learning about designing in 3D?
- Most new product designs are done as computer models first in order to save money… virtual designs are much cheaper to make and easier to modify than physical ones
- How are 3D designs  used in the real world today?
- Customizing everything from clothing, to shoes, to automobiles to architecture can now be done online!-
- Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)
- 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
- Slide 1: Zen Photon Garden
- Explore and create with Zen Photon Garden: http://zenphoton.com/
- Adjust these settings for different effects
- Here are the 3 things you’ll need on your slide
- Here’s my example slide 1

- Slide 2: Explore the world of Build with Chrome
- Build with Chrome: https://www.buildwithchrome.com/
- For this class, always click sign-in with Chrome at this site so your progress and buildings will be saved!

- There are 3 main areas at this site, and for slide 2 we will be exploring area 1
- Here are the 4 things that go on your slide
- A Skitch of the Explore Area Title
- A Skitch of the Sign in link
- In the notes section, a reminder to click Sign in and a link to Build with Chrome: https://www.buildwithchrome.com/
- At least 4 images in a collage of cool constructions others have made that might give you some ideas for your own construction
- Slide 3: Build Academy
- Build Academy: https://www.buildwithchrome.com/buildacademy
- Go through the build academy tutorials as far as you can, but at least through the first 3 levels today!

- Follow the instructions, and as you complete each task successfully, you’ll see a large checkmark appear, like this:

- You can click the instructions pop-out and move them around so they don’t get in your way like this

- Here are the 3 things you’ll need on your slide
- A Skitch of the Master Your Skills Area Title
- A Skitch of your progress through at least level 3 (complete the 2nd Building challenge). If you complete the 2nd building challenge, and you remembered to sign-in, you’ll see your progress at the bottom of the screen marked with a star like this:
- In the notes section, a reminder to click Sign in and a link to Build Academy: https://www.buildwithchrome.com/buildacademy
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)
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- Here are the links you’ll need for today
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout our amazing warm forecast for this week… 80o on Friday!
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Tuesday 8th & Wednesday 9th:
Testing Shutdown DaysÂ
The same lesson plan will be used both days due to the fact that I will see most classes only 1 time over the two days of testing.
- Part 1) Review  (click-2-comment)
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- 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)
- Here’s the bell schedule for today and tomorrow
- Daily Warmup Activity:Â
- Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- Google Classroom:Â https://classroom.google.com/h
- Complete this ice cream word search (there are no backwards words). Open the image in a new tab for a larger view to Skitch!

- Find an image related to your favorite ice cream store and link it to the website for that store (for example, I chose Amy’s Ice Cream)
- Here’s my example warmup (using Amy’s Ice Cream for my image and link)

- Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!):Â http://goo.gl/TU5uol
- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)
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- Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)
- 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
- Slide 4: Virtual Christmas Tree
- Try one of the sites in this Google Search for decorating a virtual Christmas Tree. Skitch your creation and add a link to the site where made it to your slide
- Here are the 3 things you’ll need on your slide
- A Title: Virtual Christmas Tree  Favorite Fonts  Gzaas Graffiti Creator
- A slide background of something new that you create with Zen Photon Garden: http://zenphoton.com/
- A Skitch (or screencast) of a virtual Christmas Tree creation from whatever site you choose
- A link to whatever site you chose for your tree
- Here’s my example slide 4  (Challenge: Can you make your slide animated like you see below?)

- Slide 5: Virtual Christmas Card
- Try one of the sites in this Google Search for creating a virtual Christmas Card for someone special. Skitch your card and add a link to the site where made it to your slide
- Here are the 3 things you’ll need on your slide
- A Title: Virtual Christmas Card  Favorite Fonts  Gzaas Graffiti Creator
- A slide background of something new that you create with Zen Photon Garden: http://zenphoton.com/
- A Skitch (or screencast) of a virtual Christmas Card creation from whatever site you choose
- A link to whatever site you chose for your card
- Here’s my example slide 5 (Challenge: Can you make your slide animated like you see below?)

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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)
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- Here are the links you’ll need for today
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this list of 20 selfless things to do this holiday season!
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Thursday 10th
- Part 1) Review  (click-2-comment)
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- 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:Â
- Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- Google Classroom:Â https://classroom.google.com/h
- Add the word Testing to whichever day you did not have this class, and for 5th period, add it to Wednesday
- Choose whichever Quizlet vocabulary review would be most helpful to you and add 2 Scatter scores and 1 Test score to your warmup. Skitch the Title of your choice as your link symbol and link it to the Quizlet (see my example)
- Here’s my example

- Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!):Â http://goo.gl/TU5uol
- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)
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- Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)
- Review vocabulary using the tools from Quizlet
- 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
- Slide 6: Santa’s Village
- Use Screencast-o-matic to
- Record 5 seconds of Santa’s Village: https://santatracker.google.com/#village
- Go to Start/Programs and launch SOM from there or download and install it again from the link below
- SOM v1.4 download (only do this if it isn’t in start/programs!)
- Save your recording as a gif to your desktop
- Add it as your slide 6 background
- Then, run through the Code Lab activities to review basic drag ‘n drop coding
- Here are the 3 things you’ll need on your slide
- A 5 second animated background of Santa’s Village (made with screencast-o-matic)
- 2 screenshots of showing you reached Level 10 in the code lab. Here are my examples (with noise added)
- These 2 links in your slide notes
- Here’s my example (recorded as a gif)

- Slide 7: Christmas Lights Displays
- Find at least 3 animated gifs of Christmas lights displays to add to your last slide. Here are the settings to search for animated gifs if you don’t remember:
- Here’s my example (you can add more than 3 if you like, as I’ve done here)

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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)
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- Here are the links you’ll need for today
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this Age Calculator, to find out how many minutes old you are!
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Friday 11th: Winter Dance! Â
- Part 1) Review  (click-2-comment)
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- 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)
- Here’s our Dance Bell Schedule for today
- Friday Warmup Activity:Â
- 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)
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- Please complete and turn-in your 3.10 Warmups and 3.11 Learning Log which are due today:
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)
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- Here are the links you’ll need for today
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout our chilly forecast towards the end of next week
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