| Summercore 2007 (Aug 13-17, 2007)
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Day One Summary
- 8-10 am ... we went over the first 20 questions
- 10 am ... we went over blogs and created at first 9 blogs and then 18 blogs using edublogs ... we started talking about "the big picture themes re Web 2.0"
- Assignment A1 involved creating the blog, choosing a look and posting A1 on the 5 hardest questions
- After lunch, we split into JV and Varsity sections and went over in hands on fashion how to add hyperlinks to our blogs using videos from YouTube ... the Varsity section also covered embedding YouTube videos, uploading files and more ... in JV, we also mentioned teachertube and flickr and google images for finding photos to be hyperlinked onto our blogs ... also Unite Streaming
- From 2:30-4:30, we split into JV and Varsity on the topic of spreadsheets ... some of the topics covered in the Varsity section included the absolute reference $ symbol, formulas, dates, automatic intelligent fill down with dates and number sequences, how to print to fit one page, how to print with gridlines, how to make your own formulas ... assignment A3 was posting your spreadsheet on your blog and also putting it onto your memory stick ("easy to insert but you must follow the procedure before removing")
- Homework for Monday night was chapter 16 PLUS studying the first 20 questions
Day Two Summary
- Assignment A4 is to find several PowerPoint using the Advanced Search feature of google
- Assignment A5 is to make your own PowerPoint (with partner) and post on our blogs (and also move to memory stick)
Sounds can be found at findsounds.com
For Patti or anyone else, click here for MP3 file or click here for wav file for the FIO song ("Figure It Out") from grade 6 at Chapin
- Assignment A6 after lunch is to
-- create an account on bloglines
-- subscribe to several RSS feeds and see them flow into your bloglines account
-- write about on your BLOG, calling it A6 - Assignment A7 involved taking notes on Google Earth from Lynne's talk and putting facts onto
--You can download the software from earth.google.com
--Google Earth comes with overlays that you can turn on or off
--You can turn on 3D buildings ... many major tourist sites can be seen in 3D
--Other layers are overlays that can make an interactive tour of the world
--One of the famous ones on the left side is the crisis in Darfur ... it contains info on the crisis, links to other Web pages and pictures ... other layers include damaged villages, photos
--You can find these tours on earth.google.com or you can read blogs
--Or you can go to advanced search (like we did with PowerPoint) and search for KML or KMZ files
--Examples include: Shakespeare, causes of World War II, St. Paul
--You can make your own tour file
--At the end of A7, you and your partner will have one file perhaps called A7LynneSteve.isf
--This file should be posted on your blog if possible and put onto your memory stick
--You can download 30 days of Inspiration from www.inspiration.com
Day Three Summary
- HW for today was chapter 6
- We will find out who is going to compete for the $33 for the 33 questions
- The carnival will be Friday morning ... please invite colleagues and relatives ... at 4:15 today, we will choose the focus for your "carnival booth"
- topics for today include Photo Story 3 for Windows ... click here ... Photoshop ... Smartboard JV & Smartboard Varsity ... Lower School Dream Weaver usage ... the WP exercises and WP tips
- Lynne mentioned Comic LIfe ... from plasq.com ... click
- Lynne mentioned Zamzar to convert files ... from zamzar.com ... click
- 4pm closingup ... WP Exercises on your memory stick ... how to access PAINT within ACCESSORIES with PROGRAMS ... how to take a screen snapshot on your PC
Day Four Summary
- Photohop Skills and Challenge
- Please take this picture of Masha or this picture of Margie and put it in a folder called A9 Photoshop on your desktop
- Please go to Google Images or Flickr and get a graphic of some place in the world where you would like to use as a background picture ... hold onto the URL so that you can practice of "attribution"
- One nice feature of ADVANCED SEARCH within Google involves finding a picture over 500K or 1000meg so that you have high resolution
- Download the picture into the same folder, perhaps renaming it
- Launch Photoshop and open both files in two side by side windows ... WITHIN Photoshop
- You will want to use the IMAGE SIZE fearture to change the size or resolution of one of the pictures ... the resolution should be 72
- Now use one of the methods taught in class to make a "fake but authentic" or "Forrest Gump" picture
- Put a border around the outside of the picture ("stroke means border") that matches one of the colors within the picture
- Use the text feature to add the text with what URL you got the picture from
- Flatten the picture ("which means SMUSH the LAYERS into one")
- Save as a JPEG
- Here is a sample or two from earlier this summer: Rob from FL or Lizzie from FL
- If time allows (and it may not), please post on your blog as assignment A9 (or whatever number we are up to)
Roster of 18 Participants
e-mail of form JDOE AT mail.hockaday.org
Web page and Intranet
Web page and Intranet
Carnival Choices include: Inspiration, LS Web Site(s), Powerpoint, Basic Skills with Microsoft Word, Photoshop, Blogs, Wikis, Smartboard, Excel, Google Earth, You Tube, iPod and the iTalk, Searching the Web, Using Google, Webquests, Storyboard 3, Digital Video and Movie Maker
- Blog & Wiki for 4th Grade Opera & Smartboard ... Denise Jones ... Tresa Wilson
- Google Earth ... Jim Wasserman ... Rachel Brandt
- Inspiration ... Patti Black ... Wendy Branson ... Amy Banks *
- Moviemaker & You Tube ... Meshea Matthew ... Celeste ... Masha
- MS Web Site ... Patricia Inda
- Powerpoint & Smartboard ... Margie Lynch ... Victoria Spears Johnson ... Bill Catterson
- Powerpoint & Curriculum Links ... Dorothy Dickmann ... Mary Ellen Wilensky *
- Storyboard 3 ... Angel Duncan ...... Kayla Kennedy*
- * LS Web Site * Kayla, Masha, Mary Ellen, Amy
- Amy Banks ... Webquests ... hock15 ... grade 1 & 2 science teacher ... grades 3 & 4 next year
- Angel Duncan ... Storyboard 3 ... hock7 ... Director CDC (Child Development Center)
- Bill Catterson ... Powerpoint ... hock9 ... Director, Audio-Visual Services ... Video Media Production & Advanced Video Media 9-12
- Celeste Sanders ... Video & You Tube ... hock ... Middle School Math ( Math Resource person)
- Denise Jones ... Blog & Wiki for 4th Grade Opera & Smartboard ...hock=6 ... music teacher, grades 2-4
- Dorothy Dickmann ... PPT & Smartboard ... ... hock3 ... Lang Arts 3rd/4th ... Summercore Alum 1994
- Jim Wasserman ... Google Earth ... hock11 ... History Teacher, 10th-12th Government,
AP US History, Consumer Econ & Media Literacy, Law, philosophy, military history
here is our podcast about the real meaning of "soft machine" in the Truckin song by the Dead ...
Click here for the MP3 file (4.7 meg)
Click here for the streaming MOV file (3.2 meg)
This is also posted on www.summercore.com/frozen where you can read about other interpretations ... Steve
Click here for the Quick Resource Guide - Kayla Kennedy ... Google Earth ... hock18 ... Pre-Kindergarten
--Kayla knows Alvan Adams from Phoenix ... also a 33 ... click - Margie Lynch ... PPT with Victoria & Smartboard hock2 ... second grade math teacher
--here is one picture from Monday ... 144K ... click
--here is the same picture as a thumbnail ... 12K ... click
--here is the thumbnail ... 1K
- Mary Ellen Wilensky ... PPT with Dorothy & Smartboard Lesson ... hock8 ... summercore alum ... 3rd grade math ... click here for one birthday picture on Tuesday 8/15 or ... click here for a picture of the cake later in the day with a special birthday candle ;-)
- Masha Barsuk ... Photoshop ... Moviemaker Second choice ...hock17 ... pre-K teaching assistant
- Meshea Matthews ... Moviemaker & You Tube with Celeste ... Podcasting if possible ... hock12 ... Dept Chair, Mass Communications ... US (Yearbook, Newspaper, Broadcasting)
- Patricia Inda ... MS Web Site ... hock16 ... 5th and 6th grade Spanish ... Summercore Alum 2005
- Patti Black ... Inspiration ... hock14 ... Middle Science ... Science 6 ... Summercore Alum 2006
- Rachel Brandt ... Google Earth ... Tour of Africa including videos and images of locations ... hock10 ... Middle School History ... History/Geography, grades 7-8
- Tresa Wilson ... blog partner with Denise ... LS Web Site possibly ... hock13 ... 4th grade, Language Arts
- Victoria Spears Johnson ... PPT with Smartboard ... hock5 ... 1st grade teacher ... Summercore Alum from 95 (see #33 on the list at bottom of this Web page)
- Wendy Branson ... Inspiration with Patti ... hock1 ... Administrative Assistant to Head of Lower School
Pink Card Questions (from you to us)
- Restaurants ... google .. Patricia
- How to find blogs from others ... Denise
- Blackberry help ... Kayla
- Posting pictures in lower school with DreamWeaver ... Amy ... Mary Ellen ... Masha ... Margie ... Vicotria
- Trouble putting photos on the Web ... Margie
- finding more resources to use with the SmartBoard ... Mary Ellen
- posting photo galleries on our Web site ... Masha
- learning more "key" shortcuts ... Meshea
- effective use of laptops with 6th graders and concerns about diminished teacher/student connections ("wasted time because of technical problems") .. Patti
- being able to post photos on the Web easily ... Victoria
- I want summercore to prepare me to become someone the girls can come to for help with the laptops or the software ... efficiency and proper use of the laptops are both important to me ... Rachel
- I need to know Dreamweaver very well so that I can maintain my class Web site ... some of the more difficult, sophisticated
details of the SmartBoard would be great ... Amy
--Click each of the following 5 GRAPHIC SCREEN SNAPSHOTS of actual Hockaday documents: Coming Up | Galleries | Notes | Tips Page 1 | Tips Page 2
--Click each of the following 4 files to download the actual Hockaday document: Coming Up | Galleries | Notes | Tips - my specific goals include PowerPoint for the 4th grade and a PowerPoint for composer study ... Denise
- we understand that if a student works on Word Perfect at home, she should obey the Rule of Four and choose to SAVE AS in a different format before coming to Hockaday, but what if she doesn't and bring the word perfect file to school ... is there a way for her to access the file when at school ... Dorothy and Mary Ellen
- How do you add background music to PowerPoint? Bill
- Zipping files? Meshea
--I will sit and show you the free Zipper program by Ken Ward (in contrast WinZip can be downloaded for 30 days but is not free) ... Steve - Microphones for the PC
- Help Screens for the various Micosoft Word options that you check ON or check OFF? Wendy
Thirty Three Questions on Computer Vocabulary
-- yes, someone always wins the $33 by Wednesday --
-- no, you do not need to look at these questions until Summercore begins --
Click here to see Masha at the exact moment of winning the $33 for first placeClick here to see Margie at the exact moment of winning the $5 for second place
- One byte = _____ and equals __ bits
- One K= ________ and is metaphorically the same as _________
- One meg = ______ and is metaphorically the same as _________
- One gigabyte = ________ and is metaphorically the same as _________
- One terabyte = ______
- A floppy disk holds about ___ meg which is the same as ___K or _________ bytes
- A typical memory stick holds ________ meg (yes, they come in many sizes)
- The word blog first used in 1999 is short for ______
- A CD ROM holds about ___ meg which is the same as ___ K (hint: click here to see a pile of 650 floppy disks)
- A DVD disk holds _______ between __ and __ gigabytes
- RAM stands for R__ A_____ M_____ and refers to __
- ROM stands for R___ O___ M______ and refers to __
- Larry Bird's initials (LB) in ASCII code are __ and __
- Zip Drives, Digital Still Cameras and Memory Sticks tend to use the _____ port
- Digital Video Cameras use the _____ port
- Baud Rate refers to ______ and is expressed in _____ per second
- A File Server is a __________
- The Red Sox last won the World Series in __
- An MP3 file is ___________ and typically might be ____ megabytes
- A new type of Web site that allows users to easily add or edit content is called a _ _ _ I (hint: "quick" in Hawaiian)
- When you aggregate dozens of blogs into one, you are using the technology involving _S_ feeds
- The Rule of 3 refers to the following 3 reminders when saving: ___ and __ and ___
- The fourth tip when saving is ________
- The point size of ___ equals 1 inch
- Use __ space(s) between sentences
- Pushing the ____ button repeatedly is a sign that you have not reached computer maturity
- Two PC suffixes or extensions are ___ and ___
- Audio files that Web users subscribe to are called ____
- HTML stands for H_____ T_____ M_____ L______
- A computer virus can be defined as __________________
- Two popular graphic file types are ____ and ____
- Two popular audio file types are ____ and ____
- Larry Bird's uniform number in binary is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
