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MS – Keyboarding Day

1) Warmup

2) Pangram – report scores

3) Keyboarding Games

G1 – Format Text

Students will use Microsoft Word to highlight & format text.

Special keys that will be reviewed are:

  • space bar
  • backspace
  • enter

G2 – Star Testing

Students will take the STAR “Reading” test during class time.

MS – Scratch Demos

After the Scratch projects are published and posted to your blogs, we will be presenting them.

MS – Scratch Project – Final Steps

1. Share your project…

…to the “Scratch server” @ http://scratch.mit.edu

2. Log into…

http://scratch.mit.edu and navigate to your project “My Stuff”

3. Copy the “link code”

4. Create a new blog post

5. Click on the “HTML” tab…

…and paste the “link code”

6. Add an appropriate…

…Title/Description/Tags, and Categorize it under Assignments

MS – Scratch Project Requirements

As you are finishing

Refine your project and play around with adding extra functionality and interactions.

You will upload your project to the Scratch server. I will put the details on the board.

After your project is uploaded to the Scratch server, you will embed the interactive game into your blog.

G2 – Mother’s day project

PART 1

Students will choose a poem about Mothers to type into Microsoft Word.

PART 2

Students will draw a picture in Tuxpaint to insert into the Word document.

MS – Scratch Tutorials & Project

When you are Finished…

…with the Scratch tutorials, use Inkscape to begin creating a character that you will use in the upcoming Inkscape project.

Example Scratch Characters

Check out the printout in the front of the room for some examples.

Primary – Music Video Recording

Stage 2

Today is Stage 2 of the Music Video project. The students did a great job deciding, searching, and saving the pictures to be used in the video.

The students will now move on to organizing the pictures in Movie Maker. In the mean-time, each group will record their portion of the video in front of the green screen. Each group will be responsible for:

  • operating the video camera
  • holding the lyrics (to be read by those in front of the green screen)
  • lip-syncing their parts

K5 – Finalize Mother’s day project

Students will take pictures as well as finish any parts of the project that are incomplete.