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Thursday 10th:

Friday 11th:

Monday 7th:

- Part 1) Review (click to 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)
Due to the special events which took place Friday, I’ve moved our 2.5w, 2.5n and 2.5r assignment due dates back to today and we’ll treat today like it was last Friday.
2.5r Reflections Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for last week!
It should look 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)

Please complete and turn-in the following assignments which are due today:

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h

If you’ve completed and turned-in everything, explore any of these!

103 Lab Applications and Resources List

- 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
2.5r Reflections Form

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

Tasks Checklist for today

Complete our 2.5r Reflections Form
Complete and turn in your 2.5w and 2.5n assignments in Google Classroom

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

Checkout your grades in all classes since they should have all been entered by this morning. You’ll get your report cards on Thursday.

Logon here to check your grades
...and our rainy forecast for the next few days

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=78602&MR=1

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Tuesday 8th:

- Part 1) Review (click to 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

Use the symbol above linked to today’s forecast: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=78602

Find the hidden objects in this rainy day search image (open the image in a new tab for a larger view to Skitch!)

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 to comment)

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

Click here to view your ratings summary graphs from last week

If you did not complete the weekly reflections form for last week, please click here to do so: 2.5r Reflections Form

Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)

Practice your hidden object finding skills
Create your own election-related title page
Explore and create custom QR codes

Page 1: Voting Tuesday

Add these 3 things to your page

Add a title: 3.1n Notebook using Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Add today’s Google Doodle (just drag it onto your page from a new tab after you click the play button)
Search Google for Election Day and choose something that looks good to you

Here’s my example:

Page 2: QR creating codes

What’s a QR (or Quick Response) code? Find out here: http://www.whatisaqrcode.co.uk/

Here’s a quote from the site: “a standard 1D Barcode (UPC/EAN) stores up to 30 numbers, a QR Barcode can store up to a massive 7,089! It is this massive amount of data that enables links to such things as videos, Facebook or Twitter pages or a plethora of other website pages.”

Create 2 custom QR codes (like the example for the weather forecast at the bottom of today’s blog entry) and if you have a bar code scanner on your phone, try them to see if they work!
Here are 2 sites for creating QR codes (try them both, but the custom site is the coolest)

Regular QRstuff: http://www.qrstuff.com/index.html
Custom SnippQR: http://qr.snipp.com/CreateQr.aspx or if that site doesn’t work, try one of these

Here are the URLs you need to create your QR codes and a video help file to show you how to make them (this video uses a SnippQR code I made for last Thanksgiving):

Video help: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/QRcodes/QRgeogreeting.mp4

Make a QR code of a geoGreeting, like this example (of a Happy Thanksgiving geoGreeting)

geoGreeting site: http://www.geogreeting.com/
geoGreeting example QR code link: http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?yrkzzIUDrkxuCqsFsxq#t
QR code creators to try:

Make a QR code of our campus website

Here’s the URL for our BMS website: http://bms.bisdtx.org/
QR code creators to try:

You may use this same paw that I used or use your own image

Here’s my example

Challenge: can you make one with a color gradient like this example for today’s weather?

Add these 4 things to your page

A title: Tuesday using Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
A QR code for a geoGreeting with the site logo and a link to the site
A QR code for the BMS website (http://bms.bisdtx.org/) with the site title and a link to the site
Add these 2 links for free Bar Code scanners to add to a phone to the notes section of your page

Android (I use this one): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android&hl=en
iPhone (I haven’t tested this!): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scanlife-barcode-qr-reader/id285324287?mt=8

Here’s my example page (the Demo words are there to prevent copying… you don’t need them on yours!)

- 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
Today’s forecast: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=78602
QR code creators to try:

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

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Tasks Checklist for today

Solve today’s hidden object puzzle
Create an election-related title page for your notebook
Create 2 custom QR codes for BMS and for the weather forecast

- Part 4) Through? (click to comment)

Checkout these modern moveable apartments which are designed to plug into and out of frames located in different cities, so your home can move with you when you change locations

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3051862/moving-you-can-take-this-tiny-cheap-smart-apartment-with-you-wherever-you-go#1

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Wednesday 9th:

- 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)
UIL Chess Practice will meet in room 103 after school today since the library is closed for the book fair
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

Solve today’s hidden object puzzle
Create an election-related title page for your notebook
Create 2 custom QR codes for BMS and for the weather forecast

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
Open the image below in a new tab and drag it to your desktop

Use Pixlr to fill in the colors and ColorZilla to pick good colors from the image below

Pixlr App: https://pixlr.com/editor/
ColorZilla extension: Click here to add it if you don’t already have it

Video Help: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Video%20Tutorials/Pixlr/Cornucopia%20Fill.mp4
Use the symbol below and link it to Pixlr: https://pixlr.com/editor/

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 learning goals (all objectives to date)

Practice color-filling a drawing using Pixlr and ColorZilla
Capture the elections results map or graphic
Express your feelings about the results in a complete sentence
Create a Google Form with a variety of question types

Page 3: Election results and reaction statement

Add these 4 things to your page

A title: Election Results using Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
A results map or graphic (search Google) showing the election results at current time (I used this site for mine below: http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president)
An emoji showing your reaction using the Explore Tool
Your personal reaction statement (a complete sentence about how you feel about the results) in the notes section at the bottom

Here’s my example

Page 4: Google Practice Form with at least 3 different question types

Why are we learning about forms?

Forms are the quickest and easiest way to collect information from a bunch of people in one location and organize the results in a useful way… for example, forms automatically graph responses (like our weekly reflections responses)

How are forms used in the real world today?

We use them for feedback on our classroom activities in this class, on our campus website to get feedback from the public
We use them to vote for student council representatives and class officers and on policy/procedure changes for how this school is organized
We use them for quizzes and tests (they will even automatically grade themselves)
We use them to plan events and training sessions and to collect feedback on how those events went so we can improve them in the future

Make sure you have the Google Docs Quick Create extension added

Click here to add it if you don’t already have it

Video help with Google Forms: How to create a new form
Name your new form Form1
Add 3 different ‘getting to know you questions’ and use a different question type for each question (you can use my examples below if you like or make your own, but you need one text question, one multiple choice question and one checkboxes question)

What’s your favorite food? (text question)
Which primary web color is your favorite? (multiple choice: Red, Green, Blue)
Check your favorite seasons of the year (checkboxes: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer)

Here’s my example with some important notes

Choose a different form background than I used in the videos and in my example below
Use the ColorZilla picker extension to pull colors from your form to use with your title line and fill colors and your form link

A Skitch of the top of your form, including a couple of questions
A Wordart title: Wednesday using colors you pull from your form using ColorZilla
A link to the preview version of your form, which you get by clicking here:

- 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
Pixlr: https://pixlr.com/editor/
ColorZilla extension: Click here to add it if you don’t already have it
Election results map example link: http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president
Google Docs Quick Create extension: Click here to add it if you don’t already have it
Video help with Google Forms: How to create a new form

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

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Tasks Checklist for today

Colorfill a cornucopia line drawing
Create an election results page and add a personal reaction statement in a complete sentence
Create a Google Form with 3 different question types

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

Checkout the amazing results of the general election (and the local one)

Bastrop County Election Results: http://kxan.com/bastrop-county-election-results/
https://www.google.com/search?q=general+election+results&oq=general+election+results&aqs=chrome..69i57.5903j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Thursday 10th:

- 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

Colorfill a cornucopia line drawing
Create an election results page and add a personal reaction statement in a complete sentence
Create a Google Form with 3 different question types

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h

Use this link for your link symbol above Robin Sharp Mazes (the link may not work here at school!): https://www.flickr.com/photos/robinsharpmazes/

Open the image below in a new tab for a larger view to Skitch and solve:

Here are my example warmups for this week:

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 a-Mazing skills!
Create a Canva account
Explore the basic Canva tools and techniques by completing the Beginners Challenge

Test Lightbot 2.0 site access

Page 5: Create an account at Canva and check to make sure the beginner tutorial videos work for you

Why are we learning about Canva?

About Canva (scroll down at the link) https://about.canva.com/
Canva is one of a new style of design tools with easy-to-use templates, built-in image libraries and a drag-and-drop interface that’s much easier to learn than coding
It has built-in tutorials which can help beginners make high quality, professional looking materials

How are tools like Canva used in the real world today?

It’s used to create documents, infographics, fliers and presentations
Click here to view some examples

Create an account at Canva (when working with Canva, choose only materials marked FREE or upload your own!)

Canva: https://www.canva.com/
Sign-in with Google (the sign-in page is kind of fun to play with!)

Here are the 3 things you’ll need on your page:

A title: Thursday (rotated like you see below) using Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Your Canva homepage after you’ve created your account at Canva: https://www.canva.com/
The Canva Tutorials page from this link: https://designschool.canva.com/tutorials/

Page 6: Canva Beginners Challenge

Click here to access the Canva Tutorials: https://designschool.canva.com/tutorials/ and then scroll down to where you see the Beginner’s Challenge. If you’re not signed in, click here: https://www.canva.com/ and then ‘Sign in with Google’, then click on the tutorials link.

Follow the directions to help you through the challenge. As you go through the Challenge, Skitch steps 2 and 4 to your desktop to add to your page
Here’s my example page with the 4 things you need on it

A title: Thursday (rotated like you see below) using Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
Either the Canva logo or the Beginners Challenge tile
Your Challenge step 2 Monkey with the hat you chose
Your step 4 page
Your completed Challenge ‘Congratulations’

Page 7: Lightbot 2.0 Site Access Test

Lightbot 2.0: http://ptstech.net/lightbot2.html
Here’s what should happen when you go to the link:

Add a Skitch of the Basics Level 1 stage completed if the site works OR a Skitch of what happens when you go to the site if it doesn’t work. Here’s what goes on your page