C/2 - Thursday, October 11, 2012

Shannon's Class -- Field Trip to Symphony (No tech rotation )

• Next time -- See blog post on Friday, Oct 5

Hilgers' Class -- Working on Favorite Place project (Day 4)
Students finished script (10 mins).  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 -- Have microphones ready to record.  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:  Explained the choice between needed to print and effect use of school's limited resources.). Save PhotoStory fav place project to home directory.  Open fav place PhotoStory file from home directory NOT PhotoStory.  Some students are ready to record others finishing needed components (see note for students who need help)

Blackwood's Class -- Intro to Basic Tools in PowerPoint (Day 1)

1. Accessing PowerPoint
2. Creating Title Slide
3. Adding new slide and choosing layout
4. Adding other elements (pic, new text box, wordArt)
5. Using WordArt
6. Changing design
7. Saving PowerPoint

• Next Time:  Students create a PowerPoint about their favorite book??? characters, connection, genre, what is was about, setting, author