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Monday 21st
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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 example folder here)
- Daily Warmup Activity:Â
- Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- Here’s my example with the 3 things you’ll need marked on it
- The symbol above linked to Thisissand: http://thisissand.com/
- A Skitch of your own creation (tip: make your browser window small to reduce the time it takes to fill it)
- A Skitch of an example you liked from the Gallery: http://thisissand.com/gallery/
- 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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- Here’s how you rated last week’s programs and activities:
- Today we have these objectivesÂ
- Create cool Sand-scapes using Thisissand: http://thisissand.com/
- Explore a variety of interesting patterns from the Pattern Library
- Learn how to add a pattern from the pattern library as a background for a Google Slide
- Practice using a Double Bubble Thinking Map to compare and contrast two images
- Open your 1.14 Week5 Learning Log and create a Title Slide with a positive picture quote
- Add a title using a font from the Favorite Fonts Collection
- Browse the Pattern Library: http://thepatternlibrary.com/, Skitch a pattern that you like to add as a slide background
- Search Google Images for picture quotes on positive thinking, choose a new one which you like, Skitch it to your slide and link it to the source
- Add the link to the Pattern Library so you can browse and use more patterns in the future
- Here’s my numbered example
- Improve Slide 2:Â Links List for the Week
- Add the following 3 things to your Slide 2
- A wordart title: Monday
- Paste the links to Thisissand Gallery and the Pattern Library into the table which is already on your slide
- Add a subtitle which says: Links list for this week
- Here’s my numbered example slide 2

- Improve Slide 3: Review the Double Bubble Thinking Map
- Here’s a traditional Double Bubble Thinking Map

- ...and here’s a completed example

- Use these 2 images for your map (drag and drop them onto your slide)


- Compare these 2 images by adding at least 3 items in each column
- Here’s my numbered example (with no items added so you can think of your own)
- A title: Monday
- The 2 images from above
- In each column add 3 things (using text boxes or wordart, whichever you prefer)
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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
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this cool idea for making writing activities more fun, collaborative and creative
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Tuesday 22nd
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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 example folder here)
- Daily Warmup Activity:Â
- Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- Google Classroom:Â https://classroom.google.com/h
- Use the Skitch highlighter to complete the Circle maze below. Use this for your link symbol:

- Add this link to your link symbol: http://krazydad.com/mazes/
- Open the maze in a new tab for a larger view to Skitch. Try working from both ends of the maze using different colors and keep your lines short so you can undo small lengths at a time!
                
- 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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- Learn how to use Sumopaint, which is a free, web based drawing and photo editing tool (like photoshop)
- Learn how to use the Sumopaint Symmetry tool with lots of related adjustments for color, gravity, and points of symmetry
- Create 3 unique symmetry designs
- Learn how to use the Sumopaint Shapes tool with lots of related adjustments for types of shapes, gradient fills and rotation
- Create 3 unique shapes collections
- Learn how to use the research tool to find free to use images on slides or documents
- Add Slide 4: Sumopaint Symmetry Tool
- A Wordart title: Tuesday
- The SumoPaint logo below linked to http://www.sumopaint.com/home/#app (You can click sign-in with Google to save your work if you like)
- Three examples of your creations using the symmetry tool (watch the video help above to see some ideas about how to make these)
- A Wordart subtitle: Symmetry
- A ‘video play button’ which you find using the research tool images option and the ‘Free to use, share or modify’ filter linked to the symmetry video help clip
- Here’s my numbered example

- Add Slide 5: Sumopaint Shapes Tool
- A Wordart title: Tuesday
- The SumoPaint logo below linked to http://www.sumopaint.com/home/#app (You can click sign-in with Google to save your work if you like)
- Three examples of your creations using the shapes tool (watch the video help above to see some ideas about how to make these)
- A Wordart subtitle: Shapes
- A different or altered ‘video play button’ which you find using the research tool images option and the ‘Free to use, share or modify’ filter linked to the shapes video help clip
- Here’s my numbered 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
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this cool gif
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Wednesday 23rd
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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 example folder here)
- Daily Warmup Activity:Â
- Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- Google Classroom:Â https://classroom.google.com/h
- Explore these browser tricks (they may not all work at school… if one doesn’t work or is blocked,  just move on to the next! If you know another one that you prefer, use that instead). Choose your favorite and Skitch it onto your warmup.
- Add an interesting symbol related to your choice and link it to that site. Here’s my example, linked to ‘Underwater’

- 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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- Learn about a bunch of fun Google Browser tricks
- Learn what a Blue Moon is, when it can and cannot happen, and when our next Blue Moon will occur
- Learn how to find out information on any Google Doodle using the Google Doodles Archive
- Explore the doodles archive and collect examples that you like
- Add Slide 6: Blue Moons and Squirrels!
- A wordart title: Wednesday  Favorite Fonts
- A blue moon (search Google Images) linked to Moon Connection: http://www.moonconnection.com/blue_moon.phtml
- The answers to the 5 questions in my example slide below (all are found at the link above or on today’s Google Doodle). You don’t need to put the questions on your slide, but you do need to number your answers so they match the question numbers!
- Today’s Google Doodle linked to the information about the Doodle
- Here’s my example slide 6

- Slide 7: Google Doodles Archive
- You’ll need these 4 things on your slide 7
- A wordart title: Wednesday  Favorite Fonts
- A Skitch from the top of the Google Doodles Archive linked to the archive: https://www.google.com/doodles#archive
- At least 3 Doodles that move (just drag and drop them). Try searching ‘animated’ or just browse to find them. I used 4 in my example but you only need 3
- Use screencast-o-matic to record about 10 seconds of an interactive doodle like this pony express Doodle or another that you like: https://www.google.com/doodles/155th-anniversary-of-the-pony-express You can search for them by name,  search ‘interactive’, or just browse the Archive to find them.
- Here’s my example slide 7 recorded as a gif

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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
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this information on this Sunday’s lunar event


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Thursday 24th
- 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 example folder here)
- Daily Warmup Activity:Â
- Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup
- Google Classroom:Â https://classroom.google.com/h
- Use the symbol and link below

- A Maze Race: http://www.proprofs.com/games/a-maze-race/
- Here’s my Thursday warmup example

- ...and my completed 1.13 warmups file

- 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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- Learn how to play A Maze Race
- Practice updating a spreadsheet links list embedded on a slide with the important titles and links from this week
- Learn how to turn any image into a 3D sphere or cube and adjust the size, lighting, rotation, and shading of the objects using the Sumopaint 3D filters
- Learn how to transform any image (stretch, flip, rotate or distort it in any direction) using the Sumopaint transform tool
- Update your Slide 2 links list
- These titles and links need to be added to slide 2
- Your slide 2 should now look something like this (without the blue highlights)

- Add Slide 8: Sumo 3D filters
- Create a slide like this example with a title, a sphere, a cube, video help links and some other 3D effect that you like

- Add Slide 9: Sumo transforms
- Add Slide 10: Sumo favorites
- Create a final slide with at least 2 of your favorite Sumo designs
- Add a favorites label like this example (it doesn’t have to be a gif, but it would be cool if it was!)
- Here’s my example with 3 of my favorites (but you only need 2!)

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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
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this information on rattlesnakes in Texas (which are especially active this time of the year)
        This one was in our backyard last night, which is why I’m posting this info to you!
                
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Friday 25th: Monday is a Student HolidayÂ
- 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 example folder here)
- Friday Warmup Activity:Â
- Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uolÂ
- 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:
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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
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- Part 4) Through?  (click-2-comment)
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- Checkout this awesome parent comment about our football team’s character which we received through our campus positive feedback form! Congratulations athletes and coaches, we couldn’t be more proud of you!
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