C/5 -- Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Monroe's Class --  Nature Works (Day 3)
Students met with their video group to put the final touches on their presentation and rehearse.  Some groups created pictures for their presentations.  Groups were chose at random to present.  While not presenting the other students were active listeners during each presentation.  Some students asked questions related to the presentation.  The groups that presented included:  Decomposers, Coloration and Invasive Species.

•  Next Time:  Final groups (Adaptation, Fresh Water Communities, Habitat) will present to their classmates. 

Stangler'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.

•  Next Time:  Students will learn how to add the URL's for their sources to their PowerPoint slides.  Students learned how to save their PowerPoint slides as jpegs.NC County Project  Students will finish creating their PowerPoint, importing their slides into Voicthread and adding their voiceovers. 

Little'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:  bold, underline, italic, 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

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.