A/3 -- Friday, October 11, 2013

Roberts' Class --  Nature Works (Day 2)
Students met with their video group to discuss how they would present their topic to their peers: rap, puppet show, song, dramatic play, voicethread, etc.  Students watched their video again and took detailed notes to prepare for their group's presentation. Students met with their group and planned for presentation.

•  Next Time:  Students will meet with their group to prepare and rehearse their group's presentation.  Groups will present as time allows. 

Veeder's Class --  "NC County" Project (Day 3)

Students continued working with their partner or by themselves to collect info about their assigned county for this project.  Students, who had previously started creating their PowerPoint, continued to work on their PowerPoint.  When the other students finished collecting all of the need info, they started creating their NC County PowerPoints. Students learned how to add the URL's for their sources to their PowerPoint slides.  Students learned how to save their PowerPoint slides as jpegs.

•  Next Time:  NC County Project  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Nixon's Class -- Intro to Basic Word Processing (Day 2)
Opened basic's file from their home directory.  Demo'ed basic tools in MS Word 2007. Items covered included:

1. Changing font:  style, type, size, color, high lighting
2. Copy and Paste (Copied and pasted a sentence mulitple times)
3. Aligning -- Left, Center and Right with examples of justified
4. Changed view (page width to whole page)

Students used demo'ed tools in their basics file.  Students saved their updated basics file to their home directory.
Next time:  Follow written directions to format O'Henry story.