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Assignments
Last
day to turn in late or extra credit work is 410/14/08 Only current
work will be accepted after that date.
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6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
Homework
Help
Web Research
Extra Credit Opportunities
Where We Are
REQUIRED
NEW OR USED SUPPLIES FOR COMPUTER ELECTIVES
These Stay in The Lab So They Are Always Available To
You. Bring Your Planner Daily. (If you are using a flash drive bring it
every day, too, so you can consistently back up your work.)
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1 new or used pocket folder |
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1 new or used writing utensil |
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2 new or used 3.5"
disks |
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OR 1
jump/flash/thumb drive/ |
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USB stick |
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5-10 sheets notebook
paper
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6TH GRADE TASKS
- MOST RECENT LAST
THIRD
QUARTER DEADLINE: LAST DAY TO TURN IN LATE, EXTRA CREDIT OR
MAKEUP WORK WILL BE 4/24/08.
You are expected to
improve your words per minute and lower your error rate for every
speed test. Minimum goal for 6th Grade is 15 WPM. Use
your practice time wisely. Extra Credit is available for
typing practice outside of class.
Think.com Permission Slip
Due by 4 on
Fri, 3/14.
Supplies:
used or new. Folder, paper, pencil, 5-10 pieces of paper, and
either 2 floppies or 1 USB stick. Due Fri, 3/14.
Speed1
(Due Fri, 3/14.) Do not print or
save results - just show me. Take at least one speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
me your results and type them into Excel1.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.
We will be starting this program and having typing lessons, games,
and contests for improved speed and accuracy.
Data1, Goals & Grades Sheet - in
Word. (Due Fri, 3/14)
Excel1 (Skills Checklist and
Keyboarding Speeds Chart) Turn it in by showing it to me
by 3/18 at 4pm. Don’t Print it.
Think.com Site Setup
will be done in class.
For now, just leave your Home Page
in first position and do not post anything assignments, 1 row of
pictures (opt.), and a short introduction of yourself (opt.)
there. PERMISSION SLIP DUE BY 3/14. Requirements:
First page must have the word "Home" in the title, up to 1 row of
pictures, and all assignments.
Nothing else should be on your Home Page.
Due Date 4/1.
Speed2
Due
Date 4/7.
Do not print or save results -
just show me. Take at least one speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
Mr. Norris your results.
Blog1 Due
Date 4/11.
View the PowerPoint called
"Blogging 101"
and then respond to the writing prompt on Slide 11. Post your
response as your first blog entry on your Think.com Home Page.
The following are the expectations for your writing: 2 or more
proper paragraphs, minimum 10 complete and thoughtful sentences,
thorough responses to all points in the prompt, exciting word
choice, conventions, and sentence fluency. Due 4/11.
MovieMaker (P.8) and Audacity (P.9). Your soundtrack is due by
4/18. Your final movie is due 4/24.
Speed3
(Due
Date 4/24.) Do
not print or save results - just show me. Take at least one
speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
me your results.
Blog2.
Due Date 4/24.
Visit another Mann student's web site on Think.com. Leave
him/her a comment of
at least a paragraph. Write about what they wrote in their blog,
answer their question, give them a compliment.
Blog3-Digital Story. Topic
due
Due Date TBD.
Skeleton outline due
Date TBD.
Script draft due
Date TBD.
in Word. Narration
Due Date TBD.
Movie Maker
Due Date TBD.
7TH GRADE TASKS - MOST RECENT LAST
THIRD
QUARTER DEADLINE: LAST DAY TO TURN IN LATE, EXTRA CREDIT OR
MAKEUP WORK WILL BE 4/24/08.
You are expected to
improve your words per minute and lower your error rate for every
speed test. Minimum goal for 7th Grade is 20 WPM.
Use your practice time wisely. Extra Credit is available for typing
practice outside of class.
Think.com Permission Slip
Due by 4 on by 4 on Fri, 3/14.
Supplies:
used or new. Folder, paper, pencil, 5-10 pieces of paper, and
either 2 floppies or 1 USB stick. Due Fri, 3/14 in class.
See me in private if you are having trouble affording them..
Speed1
(Due Fri, 3/14) Do
not print or save results - just show me. Take at least one
speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
me your results.
Mavis Beacon Teaches
Typing.
We will be starting this program and having typing lessons, games,
and contests for improved speed and accuracy.
Data1 - Goal Sheet in Word - Due
Fri, 3/14.
Excel1 (Skills Checklist and
Keyboarding Speeds Chart) Do not use the template this year.
Start your own Excel file. Turn it in by showing it to me by 3/18
at 4pm. Don’t Print it.
Think.com Site Setup
will be done in class.
For now, just leave your Home Page
in first position and do not post anything assignments, 1 row of
pictures (opt.), and a short introduction of yourself (opt.) there. PERMISSION
SLIP DUE BY3/14. Requirements: First page must have the word
"Home" in the title, up to 1 row of pictures, and all assignments.
Nothing else should be on your Home Page.
Due Date TBD.
Speed2
Due Date 4/7.
Do not print or save results - just
show Mr. Norris. Take at least one speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
me your results.
Blog1.
View the PowerPoint called "Blogging
101" and then respond to the
writing prompt on Slide 11. Post your response as your first
blog entry on your Think.com Home Page. The following are
the expectations for your writing: 2 or more proper
paragraphs, minimum 10 complete and thoughtful sentences, thorough
responses to all points in the prompt, exciting word choice,
conventions, and sentence fluency.
MovieMaker + Audacity. You should have
turned in your Inspiration Script by 4/14. Your soundtrack is due
by 4/17. Your final movie is due 4/24.
Blog2.
Due Date 4/24.
Visit another Mann student's web site on Think.com. Leave
him/her a comment of
at least a paragraph. Write about what they wrote in their blog,
answer their question, give them a compliment
Speed3
Due Date 4/24.
Do
not print or save results - just show me.
Take at least one speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
me your results.
Blog3. Digital Story.
Topic
Due Date April 4.
Script draft in Inspiration
Due 4/11.
Narration in Audacity
Due Date 4/16.
Movie
Due Date 4/23.
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NEWS |
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Parents Page
Latest Research On Web Safety
Students want
more use of gaming technology
States: Ed tech is
raising student achievement
National School Board Association Declares Internet Is Not So
Dangerous After All
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8TH GRADE TASKS - MOST
RECENT LAST
FOURTH QUARTER DEADLINE: LAST DAY TO TURN IN LATE, EXTRA
CREDIT OR MAKEUP WORK WILL BE 4/24/08.
You are expected to improve your keyboarding words per minute and
lower your error rate for every speed test. Minimum goal for 8th
Grade is 25 WPM. Use your practice time wisely.
Extra Credit is available for typing practice outside of class.
Think.com Permission Slip
Due by 4 on Fri, 3/14.
Supplies :
used or new. Folder, paper, pencil, 5-10 pieces of paper, and either
2 floppies or 1 USB stick.
Due Fri, 3/14, in class.
Speed1 (Due
Fri, 3/14) Do
not print or save results - just show me. Take at least one
speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
me your results.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing .
We will be starting this program and
having typing lessons, games, and contests for improved speed and
accuracy.
Data1, Goals & Grades Sheet - in
your favorite program. - Due by Fri, 3/14.
Excel1 (Skills Checklist and Keyboarding
Speeds Chart)
Turn it in by showing it to me by 3/18
at 4pm. Don’t Print it.
Think.com Site Setup
will be done in class.
For now, just leave your Home Page
in first position and do not post anything assignments, 1 row of
pictures (opt.), and a short introduction of yourself (opt.) there. PERMISSION
SLIP DUE BY 3/14. Requirements: First
page must have the word "Home" in the title, up to 1 row of
pictures, and all assignments. Nothing else should be on
your
Home Page.
Due Date 4/1/08.
Blog1.
View the PowerPoint called
"Blogging 101"
and then respond to the writing prompt on Slide 11. Post
your response as your first blog entry on your Think.com Home
Page. The following are the expectations for your writing:
2 or more proper paragraphs, minimum 10 complete and thoughtful
sentences, thorough responses to all points in the prompt,
exciting word choice, conventions, and sentence fluency.
Post your first blog entry on your Think.com Home Page by 4/1/08.
Speed2.
Due
Date 4/7.
Do not print or save results - just show me. Take at least
one speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show me your
results.
MovieMaker + Audacity. You should have
turned in your Inspiration Script by 4/14. Your soundtrack is due by
4/17. Your final movie is due 4/24.
Blog2.
Due Date 4/24.
Visit another Mann student's web site on Think.com. Leave
him/her a comment of
at least a paragraph. Write about what they wrote in their blog,
answer their question, give them a compliment.
Blog3. Digital Story.
Topic
Due Date April 4.
Script draft in Inspiration
Due 4/11.
Narration in Audacity
Due Date 4/16.
Movie
Due Date 4/23.
Speed3
Due Date April 24.
Do
not print or save results - just show me. Take at least one
speed test at
http://www.learn2type.com/TypingTest
so we will know your starting keyboarding speed.
Do not save the web page. To turn in, just show
me your results.
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Extra Credit Opportunities
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NEWS & NEW CONTENT (Continued)
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Students want more use of gaming
technology.
Results from Project Tomorrow's annual
Speak Up survey reveal a disconnect between students', adults'
views on technology in schools.
Educators are largely missing out on
what could be a huge opportunity to capitalize on their
students’ appetite for electronic games and simulations to
teach them about core curriculum topics, results from a
new national survey suggest. Project Tomorrow’s fifth
annual Speak Up Survey, the largest annual survey
addressing the attitudes and opinions of K-12 students,
teachers, parents, and school administrators toward the
use of technology in education, reveals that online or
electronic gaming is one of the technologies that students
use most frequently—and that educational gaming is one of
the emerging technologies that students would most like to
see implemented in their schools. Yet, only one in 10
teachers has adopted gaming as an instructional tool.
During the past four years of the survey, the technology
that students most wanted to see implemented in their
classrooms was a personal laptop for each student. For the
first time this year, laptops for students also topped the
list of teachers’ and school leaders’ most desired
technologies. However, this year’s survey also reports
that gaming is now listed by students as a classroom
must-have.
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YouTube tackles bullying online.
The first online anti-bullying
channel has been launched to encourage young people to denounce
the intimidation. YouTube has set up a site where
youngsters can post their own videos and messages. It follows
growing concern about the increase in persecution by e-mail,
mobile phone and on social networking sites, known as
cyberbullying.
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96 percent of teens
use social-networking tools
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Survey reveals schools have a
huge opportunity to harness technology for instruction.
Ninety-six
percent of U.S. students ages 9 to 17 who have internet access
use social-networking technology to connect with their peers,
and one of their most common topics of discussion is education,
according to a new survey. Yet most schools have stringent rules
against nearly all forms of online social networking during the
school day. In light of the survey's findings, school leaders
should consider reexamining their policies and explore ways they
could use social networking for educational purposes, its
authors say.
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States: Ed tech is
raising student achievement.
Results of
$15M in evaluation grants due soon.
This fall, nine states will be
presenting their findings after three years of federally funded
research into technology's impact on teaching and learning--and
an early look at these findings shows some promising results.
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Voters urge teaching of 21st-century
skills.
Results of a new poll commissioned by the Partnership for 21st
Century Skills shows the vast majority of U.S. voters believe
students are ill-equipped to compete in the global learning
environment, and that schools must incorporate 21st-century
skills such as critical thinking and problem solving,
communication and self-direction, and computer and technology
skills into the curriculum. But the upcoming presidential
election, researchers say, presents a perfect opportunity to
charter a new path to success for America's students.
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Fair use' confusion threatens media
literacy.
In an age when
digital images and recordings to supplement and enhance
education are abounding, unnecessary restrictions and a lack of
understanding about copyright law are compromising the goal of
using such technology in the classroom, says a new report. After
interviewing educators, educational media producers and
media-literacy organizations, the report's researchers conclude
that educators have no shared understanding of what constitutes
fair-use practices, and that teachers face conflicting
information about their rights, and their students' rights, to
use copyrighted works.
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Free Office Applications
There are plenty of online office suites to choose from that do
the same, if not better, than ones costing up to $700.
For more,
visit the
Office Apps
page of this site.
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is a
peer-to-peer
Internet telephone
network that allows for users
to
call
other users from their computer and communicate via
microphone, as well as call and
be called from regular phones. Handy features
include: instant messaging, file transfer, voice and video
conferencing.
Instructor's Page
Questions or Comments?
Email Link
Alternate Site:
The Tech Trainer
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TIPS
& TRICKS
Today's Tech Vocabulary
What is Web 2.0?
Free Office Applications
Clustr Map Started 3/8/08
del.icio.us
Cool Tool:
Talking Photos
AUDIO VOCABULARY
This
is a Voki
COMPUTER
HELP LABS:
I
will be happy to give you extra help if you make an appointment. (See me
in class or email me at shankLs@d11.org.) There is after-school tutoring
in the Media Center every Tuesday and Wednesday. You may also come
to the lab during
Knight Light Cyber Cafe on
Thursdays after school to make up work, attend detention or study hall,
or do projects for other classes.
NEWS & NEW CONTENT (Continued)
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This
new report from
American Psychologist, a journal of the American
Psychological Association, challenges some of our commonly-held
beliefs about the topic. Online ‘Predators’ and Their
Victims: Myths, Realities and Implications for Prevention,
is based on a study involving three surveys conducted in 2000
and 2005, including Internet users from age 10 to 17, and
federal, state, and local law enforcement officials. "...In
spite of public concern, the authors found:
*Adolescents’ use of
popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook do
not appear to increase their risk of being victimized by online
predators.
Rather, it is risky online interactions such as talking online
about sex to unknown people that increases vulnerability,
according to the researchers.
* Internet
offenders pretended to be teenagers
in only 5 percent of the crimes
studied by researchers.
* Nearly 75 percent of
victims who met offenders face-to-face did so more than once.
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Online sex offenders are seldom violent, and
cases involving stalking or abduction are very rare.
* Youth who engaged in four
or more risky online behaviors were much more likely to report
receiving online sexual solicitations. The online risky
behaviors included maintaining buddy lists that included
strangers, discussing sex online with people they did not know
in person and being rude or nasty online.
* Boys who are gay or are
questioning their sexuality may be more susceptible to
Internet-initiated sex crimes
than other populations. Researchers found boys
were the victims in nearly one-quarter of criminal cases, and
most cases included facts that suggested victims were gay or
questioning their sexuality.
from Mills, Kim. “‘INTERNET
PREDATOR’ STEREOTYPES DEBUNKED IN NEW STUDY.” APA Online. 18 Feb
2008. American Psychological Association. 21 Feb 2008
http://www.apa.org/releases/sexoffender0208.html
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School
Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
The National School Boards Association, which represents 95,000
school board members, just released a report
declaring fears of the internet are
overblown. In fact, after surveying 1,277 students,
"the researchers found exactly one student who reported they'd
actually met a stranger from the internet without their parents'
permission. (They described this as "0.08 percent of all
students.") The report reminds educators that schools initially
banned internet use before they'd realized how educational it
was. Now instead they're urging schools to include social
networks in their curriculum!"
From
Slashdot
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What
is Web 2.0?
The
term
"Web 2.0“
usually refer to web-based teaching activities
that are more interactive, conversational, student-directed, or
project- and inquiry- based. For
more,
visit the
Web 2.0 page
of this site.
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del.icio.us
allows you to
keep
links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, resources, and
more, and access them on the web anywhere.
For more,
visit
del.icio.us
and the
Web 2.0 page
of this site. See also
Social Bookmarking.
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allows you to send and
receive messages via the web, SMS, Instant Message clients, and
by third party applications. Posts can be only 140 text
characters in length. People use Twitter to communicate. This
might be one-to-many, or it can be as part of an online
conversation.
For more,
visit
Twitter
and the
Web 2.0 page
of this site.
Ms. Shanks' Twitter Cloud on April 8, 2008
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