D/1 -- Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Bolebruch'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, Adaptation and Fresh Water Communities..

•  Next Time:  Final groups (Coloration, Invasive Species and Habitat) will present to their classmates. 

Faulhaber'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. 

Blackwood's Class -- Practicing Basis Word Processing Skills (Day 1)
Opened basic file from their home directory.  Practiced the following skills: Copy and Paste; Inserting Clip art; Using footer.  Saved updated basics file. 

• Next time:  Review centering, applying bold and italics, color, font, size and underlining.Open candy bar story file from the shared drive.  Save candy bar story to their home directory.  Follow written directions to format O'Henry story. After finishing, students went to Good Choices in shared drive.