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Monday 12th: Open House

- 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
Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Logon here to check your grades and screenshot them for today’s warmup, so I can see that you know how to access them. All teachers on your schedule can see your grades in all classes, so you’re not sharing anything with me that I don’t already know, but if you don’t want to show your grades here, just Skitch your list of classes.
Use the symbol above linked to your Gradebook at this link: https://skyward.bisdtx.org/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsstu/fwemnu01.w

Your warmup for today should look something like this (yours shouldn’t be blurred like this example) with your current progress report grades on it:

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 from last week

Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)

Demonstrate that you can access your grades online
Explore some new font styles and create several examples of your own variations
Explore some 3D sketch examples
Create some 3D sketches of your own and rotate them using Sketchtoy

Practice using Screencast-O-Matic to record your 3D sketches as they draw themselves

Page 1: New Flamingtext fonts site

Use this new Fonts site (which Aiden L shared in a click-to-comment last year…) for your Title: 1.11 Week4 Notebook

Flamingtext: http://www5.flamingtext.com/Free-Logo-Designs

Skitch the settings to your slide

Try at least 2 more styles to add to your page
Skitch the settings window for your favorite style onto your page. Try the different tabs in settings to customize the features of the font.
There are 29 pages of designs with many variations of each available, so make sure you look around to find some cool examples that you like!

Here’s my example page

Page 2: Sketchtoy

Explore this cool 3D sketch site (view examples for ideas!)

Video help with Sketchtoy: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sketchtoy/Sketchtoy%20Demo%20%28f16%29.mp4

SketchToy: http://sketchtoy.com/
To rotate your screen in Sketchtoy, use the left and right arrow keys or hold the spacebar down and left-click-drag right or left (best for fine-turning your screen!)

Here are the some of the controls

Here are some of my examples of sketches

Monday: http://sketchtoy.com/63022418
Christmas Tree: http://sketchtoy.com/20613702
Tree: http://sketchtoy.com/20613881
Street signs: http://sketchtoy.com/20614061
Math Symbols: http://sketchtoy.com/20614305
Solar System: http://sketchtoy.com/20614449
Staircase: http://sketchtoy.com/20614514
Question Marks: http://sketchtoy.com/65890727
Carbon Atom: http://sketchtoy.com/63022480
Rotation, Translation & Reflection: http://sketchtoy.com/64318840

Use Screencast-o-matic to record your completed 3D sketches while rotating them and save the recordings as gifs for your slide. To rotate your screen in Sketchtoy, use the left and right arrow keys or hold the spacebar down and left-click-drag right or left (best for fine-turning your screen!). Screencast-o-matic which should now be in your Start/Recent Programs List, but if you haven’t installed it yet, here’s another link:

Download and install Screencast-o-matic: SOM v1.4 download

Add these things to your page 2 (like you see in my example):

A title: Sketchtoy using Flamingtext: http://www5.flamingtext.com/Free-Logo-Designs
Short (10 second) screencasts of your Sketch toys drawing themselves
The Sketchtoy logo linked to the site: http://sketchtoy.com/

...and here’s the same example with the gifs playing

- 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
Logon to check your grades: https://skyward.bisdtx.org/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsstu/fwemnu01.w
Flamingtext: http://www5.flamingtext.com/Free-Logo-Designs
SketchToy: http://sketchtoy.com/
Video help with Sketchtoy: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sketchtoy/Sketchtoy%20Demo%20%28f16%29.mp4
Example Sketchtoy sketches

Monday: http://sketchtoy.com/63022418
Christmas Tree: http://sketchtoy.com/20613702
Tree: http://sketchtoy.com/20613881
Street signs: http://sketchtoy.com/20614061
Math Symbols: http://sketchtoy.com/20614305
Solar System: http://sketchtoy.com/20614449
Staircase: http://sketchtoy.com/20614514
Question Marks: http://sketchtoy.com/65890727
Carbon Atom: http://sketchtoy.com/63022480
Rotation, Translation & Reflection: http://sketchtoy.com/64318840

Download and install Screencast-o-matic: SOM v1.4 download

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

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Tasks Checklist for today

Check your PR Grades and Skitch them to your warmup
Create at least 2 new fonts with Flamingtext
Create at least 2 new Sketchtoy 3D sketches
Use Screencast-O-Matic to record your sketches as they draw themselves

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

Checkout our Open House information for Tonight!

On our website at: http://bms.bisdtx.org/

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Tuesday 13th

- 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

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

Check your PR Grades and Skitch them to your warmup
Create at least 2 new fonts with Flamingtext
Create at least 2 new Sketchtoy 3D sketches
Use Screencast-O-Matic to record your sketches as they draw themselves

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Help each other to find all of the objects hidden in the image. Use the Skitch highlighter tool to mark them off in both places as you find them (example below):

Use this gif for your link symbol (just drag it from here onto your warmup file)

...and link it to this: http://sarahj-art.tumblr.com/search/tire+swing

Right-click here for a larger view to work with!

Here’s my example warmup

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 objectives to date)

Practice your hidden object finding skills
Continue working with Sketchtoy and Screencast-O-Matic
Add some useful Chrome extensions

Review and practice with Flamepainter

Page 2: Complete your Sketchtoy and Screencast-O-Matic work from yesterday. Click the link below to jump back to the directions and examples from yesterday

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Page 3: Chrome Extensions

Add 6 extensions and 1 app which we will use in class to your Chrome Browser
Here are the steps

Open the file at this link: Chrome Extensions List: https://goo.gl/uAW2X4
Highlight and copy all of the cells with text in them (and none of the blank cells) like you see in the gif below… then paste them onto page 3 of your notebook

Video help adding extensions: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Chrome%20Extensions/How%20to%20add%20Chrome%20Extensions%20from%20the%20Extenshions%20Sheet.mp4

Click the links in each of the green highlighted boxes to add each extension
Skitch your extensions bar (which shows the extensions you’ve added) onto your slide. This will show that you’ve added them

Your completed page 3 should look something like this, and should have these 3 things on it

A table with links that work
A Skitch of your Chrome Extensions Bar to show the extensions you’ve added
A title: Chrome using your favorite font tool: Favorite Fonts / Gzaas / Flaming text

Page 4: Flamepaint review

Make something cool to remember how to use the program
Flamepaint: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/#top
Here’s my example. Challenge: Do you think you could make something like this with Flamepainter?
Here’s a hint on how I made the frame:

- 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
Link to hidden object search enlarged image
SketchToy: http://sketchtoy.com/
Video help with Sketchtoy: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Sketchtoy/Sketchtoy%20Demo%20%28f16%29.mp4
Download and install Screencast-o-matic: SOM v1.4 download
Chrome Extensions List: https://goo.gl/uAW2X4
Video help adding extensions: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Chrome%20Extensions/How%20to%20add%20Chrome%20Extensions%20from%20the%20Extenshions%20Sheet.mp4
Flamepaint: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/#top

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

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Tasks Checklist for today

Find the hidden objects with the Skitch highlighter tool
Complete your 3D Sketch gifs
Install some key Chrome extensions
Review the Flamepaint app by creating something new

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

Checkout this definition of fast… no matter how many times I watch this, I still can’t believe he could do this so quickly!

World Record Cup Stacking

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Wednesday 14th

- 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

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

Find the hidden objects with the Skitch highlighter tool
Complete your 3D Sketch gifs
Install some key Chrome extensions
Review the Flamepaint app by creating something new

UIL Chess practice starts soon! We will meet every Wednesday from 3:50-4:30 in the library to practice, so if you like chess or would like to learn more by playing, come join us!

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Play a game of Checkers or Chess and Skitch your result to your warmup for today
Link the symbol above to this site: Checkers or Chess http://wgs-jmarine.rhcloud.com/webgl8x8boardgames/app.html?provider=&gid=
Here’s another site for Checkers to try: www.247checkers.com/

If chess or checkers won’t load for you, try another curvy puzzle instead at this link: http://www.flaminglunchbox.net/curvy

Use this for your link symbol if you have to do a curvy puzzle:

Here’s how to setup the type of game and the level of play
Here’s are some other site options for online Chess

Spark Chess
Chess.com
New AI version of computer chess which lets you see how the computer is thinking

Here’s my example warmup for today (Challenge: can you get the entire square for Wed to have the same color background as the game, as you see in 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 learning goals (all objectives to date)

Play a computer version of Chess or Checkers
Explore Google’s reverse image search using an example image
Explore and collect some images of baby animals
Learn how to copy a slide from an example Google Slides Presentation to your notebook
Choose 3 animated gifs which you think best demonstrate different emotions

Complete Page 4 (Flamepaint review) from yesterday if you haven't already done so. Here’s a link to jump back to the directions:

Page 4 (directions)
Flamepaint: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame/#top

Page 5: use Google Image Search to upload an image and learn more about it

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Here’s the image we want to learn more about (like, what are these?):

Here are 2 ways… 1) right-click on the image and choose ‘Search Google for this image’

...or 2) drag the image up to a Google Image Search tab

Here are the 4 things you’ll need on your page 5

A title: ƎƧЯƎVƎЯ image search Fonts links: Favorite Fonts / Gzaas / Flaming text

Are you wondering how REVERSE is written backwards? If so, checkout the Text Flipper in section 13 of the right side-bar here at 308 Today (or search Google for how to reverse text)

The 2 fuzzy birds picture with a label identifying what kind of animals they are
The gif from above showing how to search for a specific image
4 other cute baby animal images from your searches. If you have trouble finding some, try this link: http://cute-babyanimals.com/

Page 6: Vocabulary GIFs

View the list of words below which describe feelings from a French Class. Notice how the cartoon faces help you to understand the words? We will be using animated GIFs to do the same thing (examples below the cartoons)

Watch this video clip first! Video help transferring a slide: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/GSlides/Transfer%20vocabulary%20gifs%20slide%20to%20your%20portfolio.mp4
Then click on this link to open a copy of a slide with the 1st 3 gifs already done for you on it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18Os5FMh_Q2fySSklYP5_qZ4DjdE8FVmRiXM7coErqkw/copy

It looks like this

Use this Google Search link to find animations of your 3 emotions to add to the bottom half of your copy of the slide: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1283&bih=662&q=enraged&oq=enraged&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1654.3432.0.5032.7.6.0.1.1.0.110.634.0j6.6.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.7.637.tvqPOyNgblI#q=enraged&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbs=itp:animated
Important: you’ll have to click on each image in the search results to get it to load as a gif, and then drag it from there onto your slide!

Here’s an example of a completed page recorded as a gif using examples found by a student in a previous class

- 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
Checkers or Chess http://wgs-jmarine.rhcloud.com/webgl8x8boardgames/app.html?provider=&gid=
Fonts links: Favorite Fonts / Gzaas / Flaming text
Cute baby animals images: http://cute-babyanimals.com/
Copy of Vocabulary Gifs Slide: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18Os5FMh_Q2fySSklYP5_qZ4DjdE8FVmRiXM7coErqkw/copy
Google Search for emotions gifs: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1283&bih=662&q=enraged&oq=enraged&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1654.3432.0.5032.7.6.0.1.1.0.110.634.0j6.6.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.7.637.tvqPOyNgblI#q=enraged&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbs=itp:animated
Video help transferring a slide: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/GSlides/Transfer%20vocabulary%20gifs%20slide%20to%20your%20portfolio.mp4

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

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Tasks Checklist for today

Play a computer version of Chess or Checkers
Use Google’s reverse image search to identify the animals in a picture
Add example images of baby animals to your notebook
Copy a slide from an example Google Slides Presentation to your notebook
Find and collect 3 animated gifs which demonstrate emotions

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

Checkout this article about how a computer neural network was able to win against the World Champion in the game of Go

This was not expected to be possible for another 10 years or so because it cannot by solved by brute force calculations
https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/17/google-defeating-go-champion-shows-ai-can-find-solutions-humans-dont-see/

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Thursday 15th

- 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

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

Play a computer version of Chess or Checkers
Use Google’s reverse image search to identify the animals in a picture
Add example images of baby animals to your notebook
Copy a slide from an example Google Slides Presentation to your notebook
Find and collect 3 animated gifs which demonstrate emotions

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Try the maze below created by Robin Sharp (and work in sections with your Skitch Highlighter)
Skitch the maze below and use the highlighter tool to work through it in sections
Use the Skitch Magnify option if you need it to make the maze even larger and easier to solve:

Link the Robin Sharp symbol to this site: https://www.flickr.com/photos/robinsharpmazes/ as you can see in my example below
Here’s what your warmup should look something like:
...and here’s what your completed warmups for this week should look like:

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 objectives to date)

Practice your maze solving skills with a new artistic maze
Experiment with a variety of text tricks and converters
Use the Gslides scribble tool to trace the parts of an object

Page 7: Text tricks

Try these text tricks from section 13) of 308 Today (add these 4 links to the notes section of the slide)

Text ASCII converter
Text Binary converter
Text Converters (Variety)
Text Flipper (turn text upside down and backwards)

Challenge: What does this message say? 01001001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101101 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000110 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100001 (if you solve it, add the solution to your Notebook page 7)
Capture one example from each of the 4 links and use the research tool to add a smiley (here’s how):
Here’s what goes on slide 8 of your portfolio: