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Thursday 19th

Friday 20th: Have a Great Thanksgiving Break!

Monday 16th

- 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
Link the symbol above to the Teacher’s Corner Word Search Creator: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/
Complete the wordsearch below; there are no backwards words. Open it in a new tab for a larger view!

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)

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

Click here to view your ratings summary graphs

Today we have these objectives (all objectives to date)

Explore Canva Presentation options
Create a Canva ‘slide’ of your favorite Thanksgiving foods
Review using Pixlr or Sumopaint to fill an image

Explore Graffiti Creator and create some unique examples of your own

Slide 1: Title slide

Here are the 3 things you’ll need on your slide

A Title: 3.05 Week13 Learning Log Favorite Fonts or Gzaas
Some text that show there’s only 1 more week until the Thanksgiving Break!
A fun turkey image

Slide 2: Canva Presentation

Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs
Create a new Presentation style Canva by clicking here:
Here’s what goes on your Canva Presentation and gets transferred to your slide 2

A slide title: Monday Favorite Fonts or Gzaas
(make this in Canva) A Canva title (whatever you think works well for for this topic)
(make this in Canva) At least 4 images of your favorite Thanksgiving foods (you can search Google and upload your choices to Canva)
(add this into your Canva) Your cornucopia from last week’s 3.01 Week12 Warmup file (Skitch it from your warmup file or make a new one if you prefer)

If you need or would like to make a new Cornucopia, here are the steps

Open the image at the link below and right-click save to your desktop: http://goo.gl/iZTrbe
Open the Pixlr App: https://pixlr.com/editor/
Use ColorZilla and the Pixlr fill bucket to color the image and save it to your desktop
Video help with your Cornucopia: http://goo.gl/dSH9Yj

Skitch your filled Cornucopia to your desktop and upload it into Canva

Slide 3: Graffiti Creator

Using Firefox open Graffiti Creator http://www.graffiticreator.net/
Explore the site to see how it works and create 3 different style phrases to add to your slide (using the word ‘Holiday’ for example)
Here’s my example with the 3 things you need

A slide title: Monday Favorite Fonts or Gzaas
A Firefox logo
3 examples of your Graffiti creations Skitched to your slide

- 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
Teacher’s Corner Word Search Creator: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/
Favorite Fonts or Gzaas
Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs
Pixlr App: https://pixlr.com/editor/
Video help with your Cornucopia: http://goo.gl/dSH9Yj
Graffiti Creator http://www.graffiticreator.net/

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

Checkout the This Week in Tech Infographic and explore any topics of interest

http://futurism.com/images/this-week-in-tech-6/?src=home

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Tuesday 17th

- 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
Use either of the links below for your warmup today
2048: http://cyberzhg.github.io/2048/
Mobile (smaller) version 2048: http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
Capture your highest score tile to use as your link symbol and link it to the game you chose (regular or mobile)

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 objectives (all objectives to date)

Practice your 2048 strategy!
Explore local area holiday events and collect them in Canva
Search for light art images and collect them in Canva

Practice using the Graffiti Creator to create cool titles

Slide 4: Canva Holiday events

If you haven’t already done this, add the OneTab extension to make lists of your tabs like the one you’ll see below: OneTab
Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs
Browse this links list for Holiday Events in our area to use in your Canva: http://www.one-tab.com/page/Lif7oNCCSVGC_bU6RDfxrQ
Add a collage of fun holiday events in our area to your Canva from yesterday using the links in this list (or any other sites you can find): http://www.one-tab.com/page/Lif7oNCCSVGC_bU6RDfxrQ
Your collage should have these things on it

A Text title which uses at least 2 different colors
A collection of at least 5 different images from this links list (same link as above): http://www.one-tab.com/page/Lif7oNCCSVGC_bU6RDfxrQ

It should look something like this

Add Skitches of your Canva so far to slide 4. It should have these 3 things on it

A Graffiti Creator Title Tuesday (link to Graffiti Creator: http://www.graffiticreator.net/)
A Skitch of your Canva Foods from yesterday with a Title like you see below
A Skitch of your Canva Fun Holiday Events with a Title like you see below

Slide 5: Light Art images (since we’re heading into the season of lights!)

Search Google for your images using the search term Light Art: https://www.google.com/search?q=light+art&espv=2&biw=1420&bih=946&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIrovBpKSXyQIVReomCh2QsQwj
I found the images I used in this Streetview of an indoor skate park in France (check it out!): https://www.google.fr/maps/@45.1733059,5.7283076,3a,90y,236.29h,69.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5ugFB-vSzooAAAQIuBOnzg!2e0!3e2!7i13312!8i6656
You need these 3 things on your slide

A Graffiti Creator Title Tuesday in different colors than slide 4 (link to Graffiti Creator: http://www.graffiticreator.net/)
At least 3 light art images
A link to where you found them (only one link if they all came from the same location or a link for each if they didn’t)

- 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
2048: http://cyberzhg.github.io/2048/
Mobile (smaller) version 2048: http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/
Graffiti Creator: http://www.graffiticreator.net/
Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs
Holiday Events Links List: http://www.one-tab.com/page/Lif7oNCCSVGC_bU6RDfxrQ

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

Checkout this magnetic gif… it attracts your attention!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DanBoger/posts/Gm1pdxGfbA4

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Wednesday 18th

- 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
There are some vocabulary quizzes coming up in the last few days before our break, so with that in mind, here are some reviews to help you prepare!
Choose the Quizlet which applies to you and Skitch 2 Scatter scores and a Quiz score with 2 questions visible for your warmup. Use the Quizlet title linked to the Quizlet which you select from the choices below

8th Regular ‘The Giver’ Vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/105616783/8th-ela-the-giver-set-1-vocabulary-flash-cards/
8th PreAP Unit 6 Vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/105598988/8th-ela-preap-unit-6-vocabulary-flash-cards/
7th Grade Unit 5 Vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/100125371/7th-ela-unit-5-vocabulary-flash-cards

Here’s my example from The Giver Quizlet (with added noise)

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 objectives (all objectives to date)

Practice current ELA vocabulary with Quizlet
Review the use of Wordle and Tagxedo and customize them as much as you can
Explore additional Canva graphics to add to your project

Create Word clouds of things you are thankful for in Tagxedo AND Wordle (at least 1 using each) to add to your Canva Presentation and then Skitch to this slide

Tagxedo (use Firefox for this app): http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html

Custom Tagxedo ideas

Gzaas word template using Thanks!: http://gzaas.com/RciuBN
Thanks! image ready for upload: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/197021/Gzaas/Thanks.jpg
Custom color scheme (copy/paste/edit): first code is background
'Green Blue Orange' 002B05 007080 4080a0 f0f0f0 d0a030 c06010

Wordle (use Firefox for this app): http://www.wordle.net/create
…or Wordle Advanced: http://www.wordle.net/advanced
Here are some ideas for text to use

A-Z Thanksgiving List: http://www.evernote.com/l/ACt_lOgN-d1PgLK6tcZ6Jk0l_Ib7qcC7p4E/
Names of Family, friends, pets, foods, fun, places
Text of favorite articles, poems, songs (search for lyrics)

Open your Canva presentation and add a new page 3 to your presentation

Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs

Here’s what your new Canva page should have on it:

The Wordle you made above
The Tagxedo you made above
A collection of at least 5 different text and graphics images from Canva searches

There are 11 in my example, and I found lots of graphics here:

Here’s my numbered example

Slide 6: Skitch your new Canva page

Duplicate your slide 4 (by pressing the CTRL + D keys) and drag it down to the slide 6 postion in your Learning Log
Resize and/or reposition the elements on your slide so you can add your new Canva page on there
Here’s what goes on slide 6

A Graffiti Creator Title Wednesday (Graffiti Creator: http://www.graffiticreator.net/)
Your rearranged Canva pages 1&2 from slide 4
Your new Canva page 3 labeled

Here’s my example

- 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
All Quizlets: https://quizlet.com/bmercerBMS
Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs
Graffiti Creator: http://www.graffiticreator.net/
Tagxedo (Firefox): http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html
Wordle (Firefox): http://www.wordle.net/create
Wordle Advanced: http://www.wordle.net/advanced
A-Z Thanksgiving List: http://www.evernote.com/l/ACt_lOgN-d1PgLK6tcZ6Jk0l_Ib7qcC7p4E/

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

Checkout this cool gif, especially appropriate given recent events in the news… tough times bring people together across the world, and that is the silver lining in tragic events :)

https://dribbble.com/shots/2352246--love4paris
Other support designs here: https://medium.com/@aureliensalomon/designers-support-paris-e671cacd51cb

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Thursday 19th

- 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
Today’s maze is a modified version of one of these amazing Robin Sharp mazes
Use a gif you like for your link symbol and link it to where you found your gif
Open the modified maze image below in a new tab for a larger view to Skitch and solve:

Here’s my completed warmup 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 objectives (all objectives to date)

View and solve a modified Robin Sharp maze
Explore the Canva Card Templates and choose 2 to create your own cards with
Find funny photos or gifs and add your own holiday-related captions to them

Slide 7: Final Canvas

Open your Canva presentation and add your last page (page 4) to your presentation

Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs

Choose More and then Card and create 2 different cards regarding something you are thankful for in some way or are related to Thanksgiving in some way. Here’s how to get to Cards:
This site might help you to get some ideas: A-Z Thanksgiving List: http://www.evernote.com/l/ACt_lOgN-d1PgLK6tcZ6Jk0l_Ib7qcC7p4E/
Here are my 2 example cards

I used a modified version of the 1st example above on our campus website this morning… it looks like this:
...then I created another one in Google Drawings to put on our site, and it looks like this

Skitch your cards to slide 7 and add a title (use any tool you like for your title Favorite Fonts Gzaas Graffiti Creator) so it looks something like this

Slide 8: Thanksgiving fun

Browse the web for fun photos or gifs related to Thanksgiving and add your own caption to each image
Your slide should have a title (using any tool you like Favorite Fonts Gzaas Graffiti Creator) and 4 images with captions like this example

- 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
Canva: https://www.canva.com/#your-designs
Favorite Fonts Gzaas Graffiti Creator
A-Z Thanksgiving List: http://www.evernote.com/l/ACt_lOgN-d1PgLK6tcZ6Jk0l_Ib7qcC7p4E/

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

Checkout this cool picture quote and others from this site (Hellen Keller was deaf and blind and did remarkable things in her life despite those handicaps… you can read her bio below the quote)