A/5 - Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Faulhaber's Class -- Working on Favorite Place (Day 3)
Students continued to work on favorite place script (saved as favpla 2 fau). Students located and saved a pic of the transportation used to arrive at their fav place.  Students added transportation pic's URL and a copy of pic to favpla.

• Next time -- Demo PhotoStory and remind students not to start recording until all needed fav place components are home directory (favpla doc with fav place URL and pic along with transportation URL and pic, favpla2 doc with finished script, fav place pic file and transportation pic file) (NOTE:  Explain the choice between needed to print and effect use of school's limited resources.). Saved PhotoStory fav place project to home directory. Have microphones ready to record.

Monroe's Class -- Working on Favorite Place (Day 3)
Students continued to work on favorite place script (saved as favpla 2 mon). Students located and saved a pic of the transportation used to arrive at their fav place.  Students added transportation pic's URL and a copy of pic to favpla. Started demo PhotoStory. Reminded students not to start recording until all needed fav place components are home directory (favpla doc with fav place URL and pic along with transportation URL and pic, favpla2 doc with finished script, fav place pic file and transportation pic file) (NOTE:  Explained the choice between needed to print and effect use of school's limited resources.). After importing pics, students saved PhotoStory fav place project to home directory. 

• Next time -- Have microphones ready to record.  Open fav place PhotoStory file from home directory NOT PhotoStory. Start demo with removing black borders (NOTE:  Explain the choice between needed to print and effect use of school's limited resources.). 

Barefoot's Class --  Basic Word Tools (Day 2)
Students practiced using basic tools in MS Word 2007. Students wrote 5 sentences

1. My name is _________
2. My favorite color is ________.
3. I go to Apex Elementary.
4. I was born in _______.
5. My favorite thing to do is ____________.

 Tools used: Changing font (style, type, size, color, high lighting), Cut, Copy and Paste, Aligning Center

• Next Time -- Basic tools in PowerPoint?