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Monday 11th:

Tuesday 12th:

Wednesday 13th:

Thursday 14th:

Friday 15th:

Monday 11th:

- Part 1) Review  (click to comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. Tonight is OPEN HOUSE from 5:30-8pm
5. 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: 1.3r Reflections Form

6. Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Important Note: Due to all of the unusual circumstances surrounding the start of this year (Hurricanes, Schedule changes, etc.) I will only enter Reflections Forms responses as progress report grades. Warmups and Notebooks will be graded starting today!
• Logon here to check your grades and screenshot them for today’s warmup, so I can see that you know how to access them. All teachers on your schedule can see your grades in all classes, so you’re not sharing anything with me that I don’t already know, but if you don’t want to show your grades here, just use the Skitch pixelate tool to hide your grades.

• Here’s the pixelate tool location on the Skitch toolbar
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• Use the symbol above linked to your Gradebook at this link: https://skyward.bisdtx.org/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsstu/fwemnu01.w
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7. 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)

1. Today we have these objectives  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Ensure you can access your grades online and practice with the Skitch pixelate tool
• Explore a new fonts site and create 3 examples
• Practice keyboard shortcuts with Quizlet
• Create a copy of the My Links Google Sheet for your own use
• Find and collect your core teachers’ email addresses on your My Links Gsheet copy

2. Page 1: Flamingtext fonts site

• Use this new Fonts site (which a student shared with me a while back) for your Title: 1.4n Notebook

• Flamingtext: http://www5.flamingtext.com/All-Logos

• Skitch the settings to your slide

• Try at least 3 styles to add to your page
• Skitch the text settings window for your favorite style onto your page. Try the different tabs in settings to customize the features of the font.
• There are 38 or so pages of designs with many variations of each available and some of them are animated, so make sure you look around to find some cool examples that you like!

• Here’s my example page recorded as a gif
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3. Page 2: Quizlet (a new vocabulary activity)

• View this Quizlet version of Keyboard Shortcuts with a few new Chrome shortcuts added

• https://quizlet.com/114944711/basic-keyboard-and-chrome-shortcuts-flash-cards/

• Practice the shortcuts by playing Match at least 2 times to help you review them

• Quizlet Match: https://quizlet.com/114944711/match
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• Take the practice test to see what you remember

• Quizlet Practice Test: https://quizlet.com/114944711/test (uncheck written option! See gif below)
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• Important: Here’s how to setup the test so that it’s multiple choice!
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• Here’s what goes on your page:

1. A Skitch of the Quizlet Title
2. A Skitch of your Match Times
3. A Skitch of your test score
4. Add a link to this Quizlet in your notes section: https://quizlet.com/114944711/basic-keyboard-and-chrome-shortcuts-flash-cards/

4. Page 3: My Links and email addresses

• Click here to copy the My Links Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oUSN0-lE7NnIy-HlCiUxD5-ceCwZbHJLRSGCCxTjHe4/copy
• Here are the 2 things you’ll need on page 2 (right-click on it for a larger view)

1. A Title: My Links rotated on it’s side using any of these Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
2. Add the email addresses of your core class teachers in the tan area by each class in your copy of the My Links sheet.

• You can get your teachers’ names from your warmup for today
• There’s a link to a list of addresses in the location of the red oval of the example screenshot below.

• Skitch the portion of the My Links sheet that includes the 4 shaded areas as you see below
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments!  (click to comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text 
• Check your grades at this link: https://skyward.bisdtx.org/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsstu/fwemnu01.w
• Quizlet Match: https://quizlet.com/114944711/match
• Quizlet Practice Test: https://quizlet.com/114944711/test uncheck written option!
• Copy the My Links Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oUSN0-lE7NnIy-HlCiUxD5-ceCwZbHJLRSGCCxTjHe4/copy

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Access your grades online and Skitch them to your warmup
• Explore a new fonts site and create 3 examples
• Practice keyboard shortcuts with Quizlet
• Create a copy of the My Links Google Sheet for your own use
• Find and collect your core teachers’ email addresses on your My Links Gsheet copy

- Part 4) Through?  (click to comment)

1. Checkout the latest news regarding Florida’s Hurricane Irma

• https://www.google.com/search?q=hurricane+irma
• https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2017/hurricane-irma
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Tuesday 12th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. 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

• Access your grades online and Skitch them to your warmup
• Explore a new fonts site and create 3 examples
• Practice keyboard shortcuts with Quizlet
• Create a copy of the My Links Google Sheet for your own use
• Find and collect your core teachers’ email addresses on your My Links Gsheet copy

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Help each other to find all of the objects hidden in the image below.
• Click here for a larger view to work with!

• Use the Skitch highlighter tool to mark them off in both places as you find them (example below):

• Use this gif for your link symbol (just drag it from here onto your warmup file)

• ...and link it to this: http://sarahj-art.tumblr.com/search/tire+swing
• Here’s my example warmup (crop your Skitch to the larger rectangle)

5. 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)

1. Today we have these learning goals  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Practice finding hidden objects in a drawing and marking them with the Skitch highlighter
• Download and install Screencast-o-matic v1.4 (for gifs)
• Record the process of opening up recent files in Google Drive

• Create your own custom Word Search

2. Page 4: Screencast-O-Matic (record your own screencasts!)

• Video help using SOM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfR05iMThTZ3FyNGs/view
• After watching the video clip, click the link below to install the program

• SOM v1.4 download

• Use Screencast-o-matic to record how to open up your most recent file in your Recent Drive.
• Try to keep your recording to around 5-10 seconds so the file isn’t too large!
• Save your recording as a gif to your desktop and drag it onto your page
• Your newly recorded animated gif should play continuously like this (right-click and open it in a new tab to see it more clearly):

• Here’s my example Page 4 with the 3 things you need marked on it (add the video help link in the notes section)
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3. Page 5: Word Search Creator

• Create a Wordsearch of the first 7 US Presidents

• Copy the list of Presidents in the purple shaded box from your Copy of My Links file (or create a new copy by clicking here) and then click on the Word Search Maker link to create your own word search of their names using all diagonal words

• If you can’t find your Copy of My Links from yesterday in your Recent Drive, click here to make a new one
• Word Search Maker: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/

• Video help using Word Search Maker: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfaUxkUWx1VE9BMXc/view
• Solve your Word Search (hint: there’s a very easy way to do this if you look closely!)
• Here’s my example with the 3 things you’ll need on your slide 3

1. A Skitch of The Teacher’s Corner Website Logo
2. A blank copy of the word search you create (add links to the Word Search Creator and the video help in your notes section)
3. Your solution to your word search (check the site for an easy solution!)

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
• Warmup: Hidden Object Find
• Video help using SOM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfR05iMThTZ3FyNGs/view
• Install SOM: SOM v1.4 download
• Recent Drive
• Copy of My Links (in you can’t find your own): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oUSN0-lE7NnIy-HlCiUxD5-ceCwZbHJLRSGCCxTjHe4/copy
• Word Search Maker: http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-search/
• Video help using Word Search Maker: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfaUxkUWx1VE9BMXc/view

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Complete the Hidden Objects Find with the Skitch highlighter
• Download and install Screencast-o-matic v1.4 (for gifs)
• Record the process of opening up recent files in Google Drive
• Create your own custom Word Search

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

1. Checkout our classroom site visitors list (live and over the course of the past 30 days)

• Live views: http://live.feedjit.com/live/308today.blogspot.com/0/
• Blogspot archive for the past month:

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Wednesday 13th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. 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

• Complete the Hidden Objects Find with the Skitch highlighter
• Download and install Screencast-o-matic v1.4 (for gifs)
• Record the process of opening up recent files in Google Drive
• Create your own custom Word Search

• Here’s why we had some problems with G Suite yesterday:

• View live status here: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
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• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Use the Skitch highlighter to complete this bear maze.
• Right-click on the maze below and open it in a new tab for a larger version to work with:

• Use this for your link symbol:

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• Add this link to your link symbol: http://krazydad.com/mazes/
• Here’s how you add a link
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• Here are some tips that will help you: 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! 
• Use the Skitch highlighter tool on the thinnest setting like this:

• Your warmup should look like this (with the maze solved)

5. 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)

1. Today we have these learning goals  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Solve a maze with the Skitch highlighter tool on its narrowest setting
• Explore FluidFire and FluidWater
• Practice recording short gifs with SOM
• Practice using Flamingtext to add cool labels to gifs

2. Page 6: FluidFire & FluidWater gifs

• Explore both apps and then use Screencast-o-matic to record short gifs (5-10 seconds at 800x600) of them running. Here’s an example of what you’re trying to create:

• Live page demo: click to view
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• FluidFire: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/fluid_fire_3/index.html

• Here’s a gif of it running
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• FluidWater: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/fluid_water_3/index.php
• Video demo of Fluidwater3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfWGd0dEJIR2NTVjg/view

• Here’s a fast-motion gif of it running

• Move your gifs to notebook (pg 6) and add creative labels with Flamingtext:
• Here’s how to find Screencast-O-Matic once you’ve installed it (type screen in the Windows 10 search bar at the bottom left of your desktop)

• If you don’t have Screencast-O-Matic installed, here’s where to find the installation again

• Install SOM: SOM v1.4 download

3. Complete pages 4&5 from yesterday: Click the links below to jump back to the directions

• Page 4
• Page 5

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
• Warmup: Bear Maze
• Page 6 live page demo: click to view
• FluidFire: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/fluid_fire_3/index.html
• FluidWater: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/fluid_water_3/index.php
• Video demo of Fluidwater3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfWGd0dEJIR2NTVjg/view
• Install SOM if you don’t already have it: SOM v1.4 download

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Solve a maze with the Skitch highlighter tool on its narrowest setting
• Explore FluidFire and FluidWater
• Record 2 short gifs with SOM
• Use Flamingtext to add a label to each gif

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

1. Checkout this definition of fast… no matter how many times I watch this, I still can’t believe he could do this so quickly!

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• See more at this World Records Cup Stacking Video: The Evolution of Sport Stacking World Records (2.0)

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Thursday 14th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. 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

• Solve a maze with the Skitch highlighter tool on its narrowest setting
• Explore FluidFire and FluidWater
• Record 2 short gifs with SOM
• Use Flamingtext to add a label to each gif

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• UIL Chess practice starts soon, so for our warmup today, play a game of either Checkers or Chess at any of these sites

1. Checkers: www.247checkers.com/
2. Chess

• Chess.com: http://www.chess.com/play/computer
• AI version of computer chess: http://bewitched.com/chess/ which lets you see how the computer is thinking
• Spark Chess: http://www.sparkchess.com/ 

• Use one of these symbols (or search for your own!) and link it to the game URL above for the game you played

• Here’s my example warmup for today (Challenge: can you get the entire square for Thurs to have the same color background as the game, as you see in my example?)
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• Once you’ve completed your warmup for today, you may turn it in. It should look something like this:
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5. 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)

1. Today we have these learning goals  (all f17 objectives to date)

• Play a computer version of Chess or Checkers
• Add some useful Chrome extensions
• 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

2. Page 7: Chrome Extensions

• Add 6 extensions and 1 app which we will use in class to your Chrome Browser
• Here are the steps

• Open the Chrome Extensions List: https://goo.gl/uAW2X4
• Highlight and copy all of the cells with text in them (and none of the blank cells) like you see in the gif below… then paste them onto page 3 of your notebook

• Video help adding extensions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfY05pdzc3ZnZjZjA/view

• Click the links in each of the green highlighted boxes to add each extension
• Skitch your extensions bar (which shows the extensions you’ve added) onto your slide. This will show that you’ve added them

• Your completed page 3 should look something  like this, and should have these 3 things on it

1. A table with links that work
2. A Skitch of your Chrome Extensions Bar to show the extensions you’ve added
3. A title: Chrome using your favorite font tool:   Favorite Fonts / Gzaas / Flaming text

3. Page 8: Sketchtoy

• Explore this cool 3D sketch site SketchToy: http://sketchtoy.com/

• Video help with Sketchtoy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfMHlyREJEVXVPUWc/view

• To rotate your screen in Sketchtoy, use the left and right arrow keys or hold the spacebar down and left-click-drag right or left (best for fine-turning your screen!)
• Create 2 designs of your own. Click the save button and copy the links to paste in your notebook
• Use SOM to record your links as they play

• Here are the some of the controls
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• Here are some of my examples of sketches

• Monday: http://sketchtoy.com/63022418
• Christmas Tree:  http://sketchtoy.com/20613702
• Tree: http://sketchtoy.com/20613881
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• Street signs: http://sketchtoy.com/20614061
• Math Symbols: http://sketchtoy.com/20614305
• Solar System: http://sketchtoy.com/20614449
• Staircase: http://sketchtoy.com/20614514
• Question Marks: http://sketchtoy.com/65890727
• Carbon Atom: http://sketchtoy.com/63022480
• Rotation, Translation & Reflection: http://sketchtoy.com/64318840

• Use Screencast-o-matic to record your completed 3D sketches while rotating them and save the recordings as gifs for your slide. To rotate your screen in Sketchtoy, use the left and right arrow keys or hold the spacebar down and left-click-drag right or left (best for fine-turning your screen!). Screencast-o-matic which should now be in your Start/Recent Programs List, but if you haven’t installed it yet, here’s another link:

• Download and install Screencast-o-matic if you don’t already have it: SOM v1.4 download

• Add these things to your page 2 (like you see in my example):

1. A title: Sketchtoy using Flamingtext: http://www5.flamingtext.com/All-Logos
2. Short (10-15 second) screencasts of your Sketch toys drawing themselves
3. Use the 800x600 setting for your SOM record window size

4. The Sketchtoy logo linked to the site: http://sketchtoy.com/ 

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• ...and here’s the same example with the gifs playing
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
• Checkers: www.247checkers.com/
• Chess

• Spark Chess: http://www.sparkchess.com/ 
• Chess.com: http://www.chess.com/play/computer
• AI version of computer chess: http://bewitched.com/chess/ which lets you see how the computer is thinking

• Chrome Extensions List: https://goo.gl/uAW2X4
• Video help adding extensions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfY05pdzc3ZnZjZjA/view
• SketchToy: http://sketchtoy.com/
• Video help with Sketchtoy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxVuH-KD_XBfMHlyREJEVXVPUWc/view

2. f17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Page 7
• Page 8

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Play a computer version of Chess or Checkers
• Add some useful Chrome extensions
• 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

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

1. Checkout this article about how a computer neural network was able to win against the World Champion in the game of Go and how it will now be used in other ways to benefit humanity

• AI winning at the game of Go was not expected to be possible for another 10 years or so because it cannot by solved by brute force calculations
• https://www.wired.com/2017/05/win-china-alphagos-designers-explore-new-ai/
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Friday 15th:

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view f17 example folder here)
4. Here’s our Pep Rally Bell Schedule for today

5. Friday Warmup Activity: 

• Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

• Play a computer version of Chess or Checkers
• Add some useful Chrome extensions
• 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

• Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for this week!
• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• It should look like this
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5. 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)

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

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
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2. 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)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• 1.4r Reflections Form

2. s17 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Page 7
• Page 8

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Complete your 1.4r Reflections Form
• Complete your 1.4w Warmups and 1.4n Notebook assignments and click  TURN IN  for both of them in Google Classroom!

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

1. Checkout this information on earning college scholarships for playing video games!

• Google Search results on ‘eSports College Scholarships’ in the last year:  https://goo.gl/E5DJg

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