11/30 Stroke/Software

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day:  What do you think is the purpose of product reviews?
Do you think that product reviews from professionals are better than reviews from consumers?

 

Daily Objectives:  

Identify and use new and emerging tools, technologies and software.

Keep the up to date on current technologies.

Identify how to maintain ICT literacy and Tech competencies.

Describe and use desktop publishing software and tools to create a finished project.

Understand the design principles used in desktop publishing.

Word of the Day:  Stroke - the border or frame around an image, shape or text box.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day:  What do you think is the purpose of product reviews?
Do you think that product reviews from professionals are better than reviews from consumers?

Daily Objectives: 

Understand the basic hardware that makes up their system.

Describe how a computer processes information.

Identify ways a computer stores, organizes, and accesses information.

Describe how to keep computer systems more secure.

Identify ways to prevent viruses, reduce spam, and secure data.

Word of the Day:  Software - files on disk that contain instructions for a computer.

11/29 Emerging technologies

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day:  How has Black Friday and Cyber-Monday changed to way people shop for the holidays?  Do you think this is a good thing?

Daily Objectives:  

Identify and use new and emerging tools, technologies and software.

Keep the up to date on current technologies.

Identify how to maintain ICT literacy and Tech competencies.

Describe and use desktop publishing software and tools to create a finished project.

Understand the design principles used in desktop publishing.

Word of the Day:  Emerging technologies are contemporary advances and innovation in various fields of technology.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day:  How has Black Friday and Cyber-Monday changed to way people shop for the holidays?  Do you think this is a good thing?


Daily Objectives: 

Understand the basic hardware that makes up their system.

Describe how a computer processes information.

Identify ways a computer stores, organizes, and accesses information.

Describe how to keep computer systems more secure.

Identify ways to prevent viruses, reduce spam, and secure data.

Word of the Day:  Hardware is the physical and mechanical components of a computer system, such as the electronic circuitry, chips, monitor, disks, disk drives, keyboard, modem, and printer.

Black Friday Coupon

Fill out the coupon below and receive a coupon for one assignment off.  You will be excused for one assignment not completed.

Additional Extra Credit - Double points all weekend
Comment on classmates responses to the Discussions on Engrade.

Comment on the blog posts of of your classmates.

Make up all your work.

11/24 Happy Thanksgiving

Take time to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Share it with your friends and family. Here are some activities to help you enjoy your holiday. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.  ~Meister Eckhart Join the Discussion at Engrade: What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? (100 points extra credit) Record your thanksgiving message at: Voki: http://www.voki.com/ Post it on your Blog. (100 points extra credit) Email one to a teacher. Post your Favorite quote on your Blog.

Take the Thanksgiving quiz:
http://home.aristotle.net/Thanksgiving/trivia.asp
http://thanksgiving.spike-jamie.com/quiz.html
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/thanksqz.html

Wish someone a Happy Thanksgiving:
http://www.ecard4all.com/greetings/thanksgiving_ecards.htm
http://www.123greetings.com/events/thanksgiving/wishes/thanksgiving57.html
Thanksgiving activities:
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/seasonalholidays/thanksgiving/
http://entertaining.suite101.com/article.cfm/thanksgiving_activities
http://holidays.kaboose.com/thanks-games.html

10 Memorable Thanksgiving Day Quotes
Thanksgiving Quote #1    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Thanksgiving Quote #2    Edward Sandford Martin
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
Thanksgiving Quote #3    Erma Bombeck
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Thanksgiving Quote #4    J. Robert Moskin
Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.
Thanksgiving Quote #5    James Smith
It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.
Thanksgiving Quote #6      W.T. Purkiser
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.    
Thanksgiving Quote #7    Phillips Brooks
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.
Thanksgiving Quote #8    Wilbur D. Nesbit
Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.       
Thanksgiving Quote #9    O. Henry
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
Thanksgiving Quote #10    John Greenleaf Whittier
Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
What is your favorite quote?
Make Thanksgiving Quote #11 yours. Post it on your Blog.

Here are a couple of My favorite recipes.  Do you have any you could share? at Engrade.

Country Apple Dumplings

Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes     Ready In: 1 Hour 5 Minutes
Yields: 16 servings
"Oh my Goodness!! Who knew that fresh apples, crescent roll dough, and citrus soda could make such a wonderful treat!"
INGREDIENTS:
2 large Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored
2 (10 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent roll dough
1 cup butter   
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle Mountain Dew ™
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
2. Cut each apple into 8 wedges and set aside. Separate the crescent roll dough into triangles. Roll each apple wedge in crescent roll dough starting at the smallest end. Pinch to seal and place in the baking dish.
3.Melt butter in a small saucepan and stir in the sugar and cinnamon. Pour over the apple dumplings. Pour Mountain Dew™ over the dumplings.
4.Bake for 35 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

Chocolate Cresent Roll

Prep Time: 10 Minutes  Cook Time: 15 Minutes     Ready In: 30 Minutes
Yields: 16 servings
"Great for Chocolate Lovers!"
INGREDIENTS:
2 (10 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent roll dough
12 ounce package of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
2. Separate the crescent roll dough into triangles. Place about 2 tsp. of chips on the largest end. Roll each crescent roll dough. Pinch to seal and place in the baking dish.
3. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

11/23 Efficiency

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Record your thanksgiving message at: Voki: http://www.voki.com/ Post it on your Blog (100 points extra credit)

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Evaluate your project today(200 points).  Title your post Podcast Evaluation. Write a three paragraph evaluation that answers all the questions below about your project.

• My Project was checked with the Rubric
• What I created to finish the assignment is appropriate for what I was supposed do 
• Credit is given to all of my sources, written in the way my teacher requested
• My work is neat
• My work is complete and includes heading information (name, date, etc.)

How does your project inform others? Was the information used appropriately? Does the product satisfy the requirements as originally defined? What set of criteria can you use to make judgments?  What can you do to make my project better?  Did you do your best or could you have done better?

Daily Objectives: 

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:  Efficiency - The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Evaluate your project today(200 points).  Title your post Podcast Evaluation.  Write a three paragraph evaluation that answers all the questions below about your project.

• My Project was checked with the Rubric
• What I created to finish the assignment is appropriate for what I was supposed do 
• Credit is given to all of my sources, written in the way my teacher requested
• My work is neat
• My work is complete and includes heading information (name, date, etc.)

How does your project inform others? Was the information used appropriately? Does the product satisfy the requirements as originally defined? What set of criteria can you use to make judgments?  What can you do to make my project better? Did you do your best or could you have done better?

Daily Objectives: 

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:  Efficiency - The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.

11/22 Effectiveness

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: What is the one technology or technology gadget that you are thankful for? Why?

Daily Objectives: 

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:  Effectiveness - The extent to which actual outcomes are achieved, in terms of the planned outcomes, via relevant outputs, programs or administered expenses. The effectiveness of an output or program should be distinguished from its efficiency, which concerns the adequacy of its administration.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: What is the one technology or technology gadget that you are thankful for? Why?

Daily Objectives: 

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:  Effectiveness - The extent to which actual outcomes are achieved, in terms of the planned outcomes, via relevant outputs, programs or administered expenses. The effectiveness of an output or program should be distinguished from its efficiency, which concerns the adequacy of its administration.

11/19 Relevance

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Do Your Test Scores Reflect How Good Your Teachers Are?  Explain your answer?

Daily Objectives: 

Develop an appropriate multimedia projects that use a combination of text, graphics, audio and video.

Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:  Relevance is a term used to describe how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is to a given matter. A thing is relevant if it serves as a means to a given purpose.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Do Your Test Scores Reflect How Good Your Teachers Are?  Explain your answer?

Daily Objectives: 

Develop an appropriate multimedia projects that use a combination of text, graphics, audio and video.

Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:   Relevance is a term used to describe how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is to a given matter. A thing is relevant if it serves as a means to a given purpose.

11/18 Podcast

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Can Cellphones Be Educational Tools?

Daily Objectives: 

Develop an appropriate multimedia projects that use a combination of text, graphics, audio and video.

Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:  Podcast - An audio or video file that is made available on the Internet for download and playback using a computer or a mobile device such as an Ipod.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Can Cellphones Be Educational Tools?

Daily Objectives: 

Develop an appropriate multimedia projects that use a combination of text, graphics, audio and video.

Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:   Podcast - An audio or video file that is made available on the Internet for download and playback using a computer or a mobile device such as an Ipod.

11/17 Fades

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Why is music faded in and out when making a movie project in GarageBand?  How does this effect the project?

Daily Objectives: 

Develop an appropriate multimedia projects that use a combination of text, graphics, audio and video.

Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:  Fading in and out - a Fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Why is music faded in and out when making a movie project in GarageBand?  How does this effect the project?

Daily Objectives: 

Develop an appropriate multimedia projects that use a combination of text, graphics, audio and video.

Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning and productivity.

Judge the product (effectiveness). Judge the information problem-solving process (efficiency).

Word of the Day:   Fading in and out - a Fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal.

11/16 Plagairism

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: You wouldn’t want someone stealing your hard work, intentionally or even unintentionally, would you? Of course not. Why?

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day:   Plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: You wouldn’t want someone stealing your hard work, intentionally or even unintentionally, would you? Of course not. Why?

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day:  Plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

11/15 Timing

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day:  The way someone tells a joke is as important as the joke itself. This is comic timing.  How is this timing related to the way you present the information in your project?  Is the timing of your presentation important?  Can the timing enhance your presentation?  Defend your answer.

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day:  Timing - the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics). Presentation timing is use of rhythm and tempo to enhance a presentation. The pacing of the delivery of a presentation has a strong impact on its effectiveness; the same is also true of the delivery of a speech or live presentation.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: The way someone tells a joke is as important as the joke itself. This is comic timing.  How is this timing related to the way you present the information in your project?  Is the timing of your presentation important?  Can the timing enhance your presentation?  Defend your answer.

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day:  Timing - the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics). Presentation timing is use of rhythm and tempo to enhance a presentation. The pacing of the delivery of a presentation has a strong impact on its effectiveness; the same is also true of the delivery of a speech or live presentation.

11/12 Integrity

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day:  Go to Engrade for part 1 of your test. Sign in.  Click on your class.  1. Click on the quiz tab.  2. Click on the quiz.

Part 2: Question of the Day: Read the Article: Psst! Need the Answer to No. 7? Click Here. Write a blog post stating your opinion. Do you think this is right? Is this cheating? What would you do? What happens when you get a job and don't know what to do? Would you go to a Doctor who did this? Please explain your answer. Use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation. 

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day: Integrity is regarded as the quality of having an intuitive sense of honesty and truthfulness in regard to the motivations for one's actions.

ICT Essentials 2 Go to Engrade for part 1 of your test. Sign in.  Click on your class.  1. Click on the quiz tab.  2. Click on the quiz.

Part 2: Question of the Day: Read the Article: Psst! Need the Answer to No. 7? Click Here. Write a blog post stating your opinion. Do you think this is right? Is this cheating? What would you do? What happens when you get a job and don't know what to do? Would you go to a Doctor who did this? Please explain your answer. Use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation. 

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day: Integrity is regarded as the quality of having an intuitive sense of honesty and truthfulness in regard to the motivations for one's actions.

11/10 Respect

Do you think teenagers today should show more respect for adults? (teachers, parents etc)

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day:  Do you think teenagers today should show more respect for adults? (teachers, parents etc)  Do you think it important for teenagers to show respect for adults?  Why?

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day:  Bugging Out - The term “bug” has been used for problems in machinery since electricity was invented. But the first computer bug was actually a moth! In 1945, a computer being tested at Harvard University stalled when a moth got caught inside. The engineers taped the moth into their computer log with the note, “First actual case of bug being found.”

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Do you think teenagers today should show more respect for adults? (teachers, parents etc)  Do you think it important for teenagers to show respect for adults?  Why?

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day: Bugging Out - The term “bug” has been used for problems in machinery since electricity was invented. But the first computer bug was actually a moth! In 1945, a computer being tested at Harvard University stalled when a moth got caught inside. The engineers taped the moth into their computer log with the note, “First actual case of bug being found.”

11/9 Creative Commons

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day:  What do you think is the purpose of Copyright?  Why is Copyright a good thing?

Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day: "Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright."creativecommons.org

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: What do you think is the purpose of Copyright?  Why is Copyright a good thing?


Daily Objective:  Engage (e.g. read, hear, view, touch) the information in a source.Extract relevant information from a source.Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.Use and explore browser extensions and bookmarking tools to extract information, analyze sources, bibliographic citations, and identify point of view of their sources.

Word of the Day: "Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright."creativecommons.org