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Monday 6th:
Tuesday 7th:
Wednesday 8th:
Thursday 9th:
Friday 10th: Last day of the 4th Progress Reporting Period
Monday 6th:
- 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 s17 example folder here)
- Review key points from last week & Announcements
- 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: 5.2r Reflections Form
- Last week before Spring Break (and the end of the 5th Progress Reporting Period!)
- Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- You may need to pause Adblock to allow a typing game to load by left clicking on the Adblock extension.
- Use a symbol from the game you choose as your link symbol and link it to the site
- 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)
- Today we have these objectives  (all s17 objectives to date)
- Learn a new typing practice game or practice one of your favorites
- Learn how to customize Prezi Fonts
- Browse examples of custom Prezis for this week’s History topics and Skitch examples
- Page 1: Countdown to Spring Break!
- Make your own countdown page with these 3 things on it
- A title: 5.3n Notebook using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
- A Spring-like page background image (from the Bing Archive or Google Image Search)
- A Subtitle: Countdown to Spring Break and the numbers 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1
- Here’s my example page
- Page 2 (left): Customizing Prezi
- Here’s how your page is already setup for you
- Here are the 4 things that go on the left side of your Page
- A Title: Monday using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
- A subtitle: How to Edit Prezi Fonts
- A Skitch of your Monday sticky note which you make after watching the video help link above (also in your page notes section)
- Another subtitle with the countdown to Spring Break
- Here’s my example page left side
- Page 2 (right): History Example Prezi
- History: Prezi searches by Grade Level Topic
- Here are the 3 things that go on the right side of page 2
- Drag the 8th Grade or 7th Grade box from above to the top of your page
- Skitch two (or more if you like) cool looking examples (include the Title, Description and Author sections) of custom Prezis from your searches
- Add links to the Custom Prezi example you’ve selected
- Here’s my example page right side (for 8th Grade)
- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments!  (click to comment)
- Here are the links you’ll need for today
- s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)
- Tasks Checklist for today
- Practice typing with a new typing practice game or practice one of your favorites
- Customize Prezi Fonts using a copy of a template
- Skitch 2 examples of custom Prezis for this week’s History topics
- Part 4) Through?  (click to comment)
- Checkout the most recent Futurism Infographic and Stories (from last week)
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Tuesday 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 s17 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 & Announcements
- Practice typing with a new typing practice game or practice one of your favorites
- Customize Prezi Fonts using a copy of a template
- Skitch 2 examples of custom Prezis for this week’s History topics
- Word searches were last week’s highest rated warmup
- Open this word search in a new tab for a larger view to Skitch and complete
- 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 learning goals (all s17 objectives to date)
- Explore, create and save some awesome Crazy Tentacles designs
- Learn how to customize Prezi Font Colors
- Browse examples of custom Prezis for Language Arts topics and Skitch examples with links
- Page 3: Crazy Tentacles
- Explore and create with Crazy Tentacles:
- Here’s my example
- Page 4 (left): Customizing Font Colors
- A Title: Tuesday using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
- A subtitle: How to Edit Font Colors
- A Skitch of your Tuesday sticky note which you make after watching the video help below (also in your page notes section)
- Another subtitle with the countdown to Spring Break
- Style note: wherever you see the eyedropper, I’ve used the Colorzilla extension to pick up colors for use with Wordart and links color-matching
- Here’s my example
- Page 4 (right): Language Arts Prezis
- Skitch 2 example Prezis (1&2 in the example below) that you like and add links below your Skitches
- 8th Grade: in Prezi Explore, search for recent topics like Persuasion or STAAR 8th Grade
- 7th Grade: in Prezi Explore, search for recent topics like Myth, Prometheus, Eurydice and Orpheus, or STAAR 7th Grade
- Here’s my example
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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
- s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)
- Tasks Checklist for today
- Create 4-6 Crazy Tentacles designs
- Customize Prezi Font Colors
- Skitch 2 examples of custom Prezis for Language Arts topics and Skitch examples with links
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this cool gif from Google for EducationÂ
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Wednesday 8th:
- 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 s17 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 & Announcements
- Create 4-6 Crazy Tentacles designs
- Customize Prezi Font Colors
- Skitch 2 examples of custom Prezis for Language Arts topics and Skitch examples with links
- Try this maze, or any other that you haven’t already done at the link above
- Open the image in a new tab for a larger view to Skitch
- Here’s my example (challenge: can you add a black background to this warmup square only?)
- 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 learning goals (all s17 objectives to date)
- Practice solving a modern stylish maze
- Review the Wormz application and create your own custom version
- Learn how to customize Prezi Font Colors
- Browse examples of custom Prezis for Science topics and Skitch examples with links
- Page 5: Wormz Review
- Wormz: http://zenorocha.github.io/wormz/
- Create or find your own countdown to Spring Break or Wednesday text or shape to use with the program. For example, I used Google Drawings to make this (image below) and then Skitched each piece to my desktop to drag into Wormz (but try to make your own).
- Here’s another example where I used Gzaas and the word Wednesday to make this (image below) and then Skitched it to my desktop (again, try to make your own). I also used Google Drawings to rotate it so it would fit better.
- Page 6 (left): Customizing Shape Colors
- A Title: Wednesday using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
- A subtitle: How to Edit Shape Colors
- A Skitch of your Wednesday sticky note which you make after watching the video help above (also in your page notes section)
- Another subtitle with the countdown to Spring Break: 3 Days to Go!
- ...and here’s an example of page 6 (left). You can see where I’ve used Colorzilla by looking at the eyedroppers
- Page 6 (right): Science Prezis
- Science: Prezi searches by Grade Level Topic
- 8th Grade: in Prezi Explore, search for Origins of the Universe
- 7th Grade: in Prezi Explore, search for recent topics like Energy in ecosystems
- Here’s what you need on the right side of your page
- Drag the box for your grade level from above to the top of your page
- Skitch 2 examples of Prezis for your Science Topics and add links to where you found them
- Here’s my example (Challenge: can you make half of your page a different background color?)
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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
- s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)
- Tasks Checklist for today
- Traverse a Robin Sharp maze
- Create your own custom Wormz message
- Learn how to customize Prezi Font Colors
- Collect 2 examples of custom Prezis for Science topics and Skitch examples with links
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout the latest news from Space.com
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Thursday 9th:
- 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 s17 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 & Announcements
- Traverse a Robin Sharp maze
- Create your own custom Wormz message
- Learn how to customize Prezi Font Colors
- Use your best distance for a link symbol and link it to the site (like my example below)
- Here’s my warmups example for this week
- 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 learning goals (all s17 objectives to date)
- Test your virtual running coordination
- Explore, create and capture examples using the Neon Flames application
- Complete our Customizing Prezi self-made tutorials
- Search for and collect some cool looking and useful Math Prezis for future use
- Page 7: Neon Flames
- A Title: Neon Flames using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
- A link to the application: http://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/
- Skitches of 3-5 examples using the application, and if you really like a particular example and want to remember how you made it, include the control slider settings in your Skitch
- Here’s my example
- Page 8 (left): Customizing Prezi Backgrounds
- Open your Copy of Customize Prezi from yesterday
- Your Prezis: https://prezi.com/dashboard/Â
- Skitch the 3 steps for changing your background to the fourth Sticky Note and title it: Thurs – Edit Background
- Here’s my example
- Search for an image of your favorite Spring Break activity (like favorite video game to play, book to read, place to go, movie you would like to see, or other favorite activity) to add to the fifth and final sticky note and title it: Friday – Favorite Break!Â
- Here’s my example
- Here are the 4 things you need on the left side of your page
- A Title: Thursday using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
- A subtitle: How to Edit Prezi Backgrounds
- A Skitch of both your Thursday sticky note with the 3 steps for changing your background and your Friday sticky note with your favorite Spring Break activity
- Another subtitle with the countdown to Spring Break: 2 Days to Go!
- ...and here’s an example of page 8 (left).
- Page 8 (right): Math Prezis
- Math: Prezi searches
- Here are the 3 things you need on your page 8 (right)
- A Title or image: Math
- Search Prezi Explore for a Math Prezi with a cool background, add a label: Cool! and a link to the Prezi
- Search Prezi Explore for a Math Prezi that you think might be useful to you, add a label: Useful and a link to the Prezi
- Here’s my example
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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
- s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)
- Tasks Checklist for today
- Play QWOP to test your virtual running coordination
- Explore, create and capture 3-5 examples using the Neon Flames application
- Complete our Customizing Prezi self-made tutorials
- Search for and collect 2 Math Prezis for future use
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout some cool optical illusions in this site sent to me by CoreyH (thanks Corey!)
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Friday 10th: Last day of the 4th Progress Reporting Period
- 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 s17 example folder here)
- Friday Warmup Activity:Â
- Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements
- Play QWOP to test your virtual running coordination
- Explore, create and capture 3-5 examples using the Neon Flames application
- Complete our Customizing Prezi self-made tutorials
- Search for and collect 2 Math Prezis for future use
- 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 the following assignments which are due today:
- If you’ve completed and turned-in everything, explore any of these!
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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
- s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)
- Tasks Checklist for today
- Complete your 5.3r Reflections Form
- Complete your 5.3w Warmups and 5.3n Notebook assignments and click  TURN IN  for both of them in Google Classroom!
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout the forecast for Spring Break!
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