Fall 2016: This week I learned (or reviewed)
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Week1
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- How to use Z-type for fun typing practice
- How to fill out a Google Form
- How to use click-to-comment to send me comments, links and ideas anytime
- How to use Skitch to capture, markup and save screenshots
- How to create custom messages with Gzaas
- How to create and save a Pivot animation
- Learn the procedure for completing Warmups and Notebook assignments
- Explore and practice with a new typing game (Z-type)
- Practice creating full screen messages with Gzaas
- Practice working with and saving Pivot animations as .piv and .gif files
- Learn what our reaction time is using a web app test
- Create titles for our core classes using Gzaas
- Learn how to search for animated gifs and collect a few examples for our notebooks
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Week2
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- Learn some basic browser viewing and bookmarking techniques to help you with this class
- Explore the StudyStacks application to help with vocabulary
- Learn some basic keyboard shortcuts using StudyStacks
- Explore the Flamepainter application and collect some of your finest creations!
- Practice important Science terms using a matching game in StudyStacks. Try to beat my time!
- Create a new Google Sheet and add lists of important people, places and things in your life
- Add a Circle Map image to the background of a Google Slide
- Add images and labels which represent the items in your lists to your Circle Map
- Add a link to an object in a warmup activity (Google Drawing)
- Add a Chrome Extension to block advertisements on websites
- Improve your Flamepainting techniques and capture some examples for your notebook
- Open and use a different browser to explore some new applications
- Create and capture scenes with the Fluidfire3 and Fluidwater3 applications
- Explore, copy and edit some cool Wordart Fonts from a large collection for your use anytime
- Enhance our knowledge of Keyboard Shortcuts using a new vocabulary practice application called Quizlet
- Create and save a Pivot animation as a gif so it will play continuously anywhere
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Week3
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- Learn how to find and view our daily announcements
- View the newsletter events for this week
- Create copies of the Gzaas Shadows and My Links Google Sheets for use in your own projects anytime
- Find and collect your core teachers’ email addresses on your My Links Gsheet copy
- Create and solve your own Word Search using the Word Search Maker
- Create and solve your own maze using the Maze Generator
- Create and practice with your own Quizlet card set
- Create an email to your core teachers in which you share your About Me Circle Map
- Learn how to play a 3D connect game
- Learn how to download and use Screencast-O-Matic
- Create your first screencast of how to open your ‘Copy of My Links’ file
- Create your StudyStack account
- Import the 1st 7 Presidents list into StudyStacks
- Practice the terms and take the quiz in StudyStacks
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Week4
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- 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
- Practice your hidden object finding skills
- Add some useful Chrome extensions
- Review and practice with Flamepainter
- 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
- 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
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Week5
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- Create cool Sand-scapes using Thisissand
- Explore a variety of interesting patterns from the Pattern Cooler
- Learn how to add a pattern from the pattern cooler as a background for a Google Slide
- Create a Double Bubble Thinking Map to compare/contrast current science topics for your grade level
- Explore Diffen.com for creating comparisons to use on your thinking map
- Explore a game which is design to inspire creative and collaborative writing
- Create a variety of interesting and colorful symmetrical designs with the Sumopaint Symmetry Tool
- Create a variety of interesting and colorful shapes with the Sumopaint Shapes Tool
- Use the research tool to find free to use video play buttons
- Explore some interesting browser tricks and effects
- Create 3D cubes, spheres and other shapes using Sumopaint
- Transform text and other objects using the Sumopaint Transform Tool
- Explore the Bing Homepage Gallery for some cool slide background images
- Create your own planets using the Sumo 3D Sphere tool from images of water, clouds and agate
- Explore a variety of Sumo image transformations and filters and create some examples of your own
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Week6
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- View our new assignment numbering scheme which is already added to your notebook for this week
- Explore a Bing images archive and select a variety for use in our learning logs
- Practice adding images to slide backgrounds
- Practice using the ColorZilla extension to select colors from images
- Create and capture flowing designs with the Heart Designs Chrome Experiment using your PRINT SCRN key
- Create your own beatbox music with Incredibox v1
- Improve your pattern recognition memory with practice
- Explore 3 different versions of Bing Image Archives
- Practice using Sumo Science and Art masks over background images
- Create your own Sumo mask to use over a background
- Explore a new version of incredibox v2
- Practice your hidden object search skills
- Create new Wordart Masks using sumopaint, to place over colorful backgrounds
- Explore a new version of incredibox v3
- Create virtual pumpkin carvings
- Combine techniques we’ve learned this week to create two new Sumo Mask notebook pages
- Explore a new version of Incredibox (v4) and preview an upcoming release (v5)
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Week7
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- Learn how to use Sumopaint to pick colors from an image and use them to color-fill a line drawing
- Discovery a new virtual pumpkin carving site and use SOM to record a gif of your creation
- Learn how to activate Java in Firefox to use with Wordle
- Create a wordcloud of a famous speech using Wordle
- Practice your word search puzzle solving skills
- Explore some interesting world population counter sites
- Learn how to use Wordle advanced features to solve a color challenge activity
- Create a peaceful ‘take a break’ page using a Bing archive image
- Explore a new interactive generative art site called Weavesilk and try to learn how the site works
- Practice your hidden object finding skills
- Learn how to copy a slide from one slideshow and paste it into another
- Learn how to use a Custom Wordle Phrase creator spreadsheet
- Create a custom Wordle using phrases instead of just words
- Practice using Weavesilk to make and capture cool original designs
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Week8
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- Explore an example OneTab links list
- Review how to find out what’s happening each week at BMS
- Create a new Prezi account (or ensure access to a previous account)
- Explore some cool Prezi features while screencasting an example Prezi walkthrough
- Invent your own Dots and Boxes strategy
- Create and edit a new blank Google Drawing
- Explore Wormz and create a Wormz message
- Record your Wormz message and save it as a gif and as a video
- Create your first blank Prezi for this class and upload a video file to it
- Consider some positive thinking terms in a word search
- Compare versions of Dots and Boxes, choose a favorite and give a reason for your choice
- Explore reusable Prezis in 4 core subjects areas and find examples for future use
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Week9
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- Explore some cool quotes from others on coping with fear or uncertainty
- Create and capture some fun patterns using the energetic and colorful Neon Flames application
- View directions for customizing Prezis in a Prezi or Video
- Learn how to customize Prezi backgrounds, fonts, colors and images
- Learn a new ‘Word Wanderer’ game
- Complete our Digital Citizenship Survey and find out how you compare with other students
- Locate and browse our BMS Digital Citizenship resources page
- Explore using Prezi to create basic photo collages from the BMS & BHS websites
- Practice rotating, resizing and grouping text and images in Prezi
- Practice your Word Searching skills
- Explore a fun site called Neave and use PRINT SCRN to capture some ‘mid-air’ examples
- Refine your capture and arranging skills on a Google Slide
- Explore and collect images from Colleges, Universities, Trade Schools and Professions-of-interest
- Continue designing your roadmap to the future in Prezi by collecting and arranging your images
- Practice using the Sumopaint color-fill tool to fill in an abstract art line drawing
- Complete our Prezi path to the future project by adding Dream Jobs and/or Dream Locations
- Create designs and collect favorite examples using a variety of multi-brushes at Bomomo
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Week10
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- 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 page backgrounds
- Explore the basic programming features of Lightbot
- 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)
- Create or reopen an account at Code.org
- Explore the Hour of Code programming practice activities
- Discover the personality traits which make the best programmers
- 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 Halloween Google Doodles
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Week11
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- Explore Google’s cool Halloween Doodle Game for today
- Review Gzaas, the Chrome Extensions List and some important keyboard shortcuts
- Create a transparent map overlay in our notebooks
- Create your own geoGreeting
- Review Flamingtext, the Word Search Maker, inserting shapes in GSlides and finding info on the BMS Website
- Learn how to code more artwork in Stage 7 of the accelerated course at Code.org
- Practice thinking games or puzzles
- Review key applications and techniques like Brainy Quotes, Flamepainter and Sumopaint
- Create more computer code to solve Stage 9 puzzles
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Week12
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- Practice your hidden object finding skills
- Create your own election-related title page
- Explore and create custom QR codes
- 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
- 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
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Week13
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- Play 2048 to grow your brain :)
- Explore Canva Presentation options
- Create a Canva page of your favorite Thanksgiving foods
- Review using Pixlr or Sumopaint to fill a cornucopia image if you haven’t already done so
- Explore Graffiti Creator and create some unique examples of your own
- Practice your word search skills
- Create a variety of cool AI-generated art effects with the Google Deep Dreams Generator
- Add a collection of holiday events to your Canva presentation
- Practice using Graffiti Creator
- Explore light art and collect some examples
- Learn 2 new brain training games from Brain Metrix
- Create custom word clouds with Tagul
- Explore Canva Elements and add them to our Holiday Presentation
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Week14
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- Practice our Word Search skills
- Discover, explore and share information about Ice Festivals from around the world
- Learn how to add an HD background to a Prezi
- Explore and capture some amazing images of snowflakes
- Create examples of snowflake-like art using Kaleidoscope painter
- Train your brain to avoid the color trap
- Create virtual paper cut-out snowflakes using the Snowdays site
- Create WeaveSilk ‘snowflakes’
- Use the Prezi Present Preview mode for zone Skitch transfers to our notebooks
- Practice a logic lighting puzzle
- Experiment with Sumopaint Symmetry tools
- Explore and create with a ‘variety pack’ of snowflake creation apps
- Practice geometry (angles) and physics (gravity, acceleration, rotation, inertia) using Present bounce
- Review how to record and save GIFs using Screencast-o-matic
- Learn how to copy, crop and recolor GIFs on a Google Slide
- Practice using Graffiti Art to create a color matched ‘The End’ title for a Google Slide
- Learn how snowflakes form in nature
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Week15
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- Learn how to use the Draw-a-stickman site
- Create some Zen Photo Garden scenes
- Test Build with Chrome using the Edge Browser
- Solve the Code Lab puzzles at Santa’s Village
- Practice your word searching skills
- Explore the Build with Chrome tutorials using the Edge browser
- Explore your creative stylist side using Santa Selfie
- Consider some things you might do for others this holiday season
- Practice your hidden object finding skills
- Create virtual Christmas Cookies
- Improve your dexterity with Penguin Slide
- Explore some Flamingtext holiday fonts and choose a favorite
- Create a Build with Chrome design
- Explore Little Alchemy and create new elements by creatively combining 4 basics
- Choose a virtual Christmas Tree Decorator and decorate a tree
- Choose a virtual Christmas Card Creator and create a card
- Explore and select a variety of Christmas Lights Gifs
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Week16
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- Sharpen our gaming skills with Gumball Tilt
- Explore Santa Cards
- Explore MakeBeliefsComix and create our own design
- Explore Floorplanner and create our own floorplan
- View an infographic on 12 things happy people do
- Explore a collection of Words and Language tools from 308 Today
- Create and record an Image Cube
- Create a Christmas (or other holiday) Loupe Collage
- Reflect and provide feedback on this course
- Train your brain with Link All
- Collect your favorites from 2016
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