3/31 Authority / Costume

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: Should technologies, like nuclear reactors, that produce negative impact continue to be used?

Save resources at http://www.delicious.com/  use the same tag for each.

Include at least one source from each

Web Search-Books-Scholar-News-Directory-Blog Search-(Images - Picasa- Flickr)- (Videos-Optional)   

Daily Objectives: 

Determine the range of possible sources (brainstorm).

Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities (select the best sources).

Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

Identify the criteria for evaluating websites and online resources.

Use the criteria to evaluate preliminary websites.

Word of the Day:  Authority- an expert or an authoritative written work in a particular field: he is an authority on Ming china.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Should technologies, like nuclear reactors, that produce negative impact continue to be used?


Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day: Costume: Multiple paintings of a sprite used to animate a sprite.

3/30 Web directory / Sprite

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 do you think eating or drinking is not allowed in the classroom?  Why does eating or drinking not go well when working on a computer? 

Play the review game:

http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_5/rrRMD.htm

Then take the Mac Anatomy Quiz on Engrade.

Save resources at http://www.delicious.com/  use the same tag for each.

Include at least one source from each

Web Search-Books-Scholar-News-Directory-Blog Search-(Images - Picasa- Flickr)- (Videos-Optional)    

Daily Objectives: 

Determine the range of possible sources (brainstorm).

Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities (select the best sources).

Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

Identify the criteria for evaluating websites and online resources.

Use the criteria to evaluate preliminary websites.

Word of the Day:  A Web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Why do you think eating or drinking is not allowed in the classroom?  Why does eating or drinking not go well when working on a computer?

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day:  Sprite: a character that you can program and edit.

3/29 Critical analysis / Stamp

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: Everything on the Internet is correct or reliable.  How do you determine what to believe when using the Internet?

 

Save resources at http://www.delicious.com/  use the same tag for each.

Include at least one source from each

Web Search-Books-Scholar-News-Directory-Blog Search-(Images - Picasa- Flickr)- (Videos-Optional)   

Daily Objectives: 

Determine the range of possible sources (brainstorm).

Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities (select the best sources).

Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

Identify the criteria for evaluating websites and online resources.

Use the criteria to evaluate preliminary websites.

Word of the Day:   Critical analysis - is a method used evaluate the value of a resource. Authority, Scope, Format and Presentation, Cost and Accessibility

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: What role does art, music or games play in your life?

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day:  Stamp: A tool used for duplicating in Scratch.

3/28 Information Seeking Strategies / Loop

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 do you think it is important to use different types of sources when researching for a project?
Save resources at http://www.delicious.com/  use the same tag for each.

Include at least one source from each

Web Search-Books-Scholar-News-Directory-Blog Search-(Images - Picasa- Flickr)- (Videos-Optional)   

Daily Objectives: 

Determine the range of possible sources (brainstorm).

Evaluate the different possible sources to determine priorities (select the best sources).

Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

Identify the criteria for evaluating websites and online resources.

Use the criteria to evaluate preliminary websites.

Word of the Day:   Information Seeking Strategies involves making decisions and selecting sources appropriate to the defined task.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Do you think that video games like Tetris or PacMan have any educational value?  Why or why not?


Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day:  Loop: Used to repeat a script

3/25 Focusing a research topic / Block

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Tell us what you think about parents sharing their family-related frustrations, concerns and stories with online readers. Should they obtain their spouses’ and children’s permission first? Would you approve or disapprove if your mother or father were sharing stories about you online – in, say, a blog, or on Facebook or Twitter? What ground rules would you want your parents to agree to? How protective are you of your privacy?

Daily Objectives: 

Define an information problem.

Identify information needed in order to complete the task (to solve the information problem).

Create an outline, a storyboard, a graphic organizer, and/or a concept map .

Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.

Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.

Word of the Day:  Focusing a research topic is narrowing (or sometimes broadening) a topic so that you can demonstrate a good understanding of it, including enough examples and important details, within the size limits of the project you are required to produce.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Tell us what you think about parents sharing their family-related frustrations, concerns and stories with online readers. Should they obtain their spouses’ and children’s permission first? Would you approve or disapprove if your mother or father were sharing stories about you online – in, say, a blog, or on Facebook or Twitter? What ground rules would you want your parents to agree to? How protective are you of your privacy?

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day: Block: a puzzle piece that you  fit together to command your project.

3/24 Statement of Purpose / Stage

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Write a Statement of Purpose for your topic.  What is my real personal interest in the topic? (There will always be something that can interest you) What do I specifically want to learn about my topic?

Daily Objectives: 

Define an information problem.

Identify information needed in order to complete the task (to solve the information problem).

Create an outline, a storyboard, a graphic organizer, and/or a concept map .

Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.

Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.

Word of the Day:  A Statement of Purpose is a sentence that you write, which states, in some detail, what you want to learn about in your research project.
The statement guides you as you work so that you will read and take notes only on what's needed for your project.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: As a teenager, how do you think technology changed or affected your life?

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day:  Stage: the background of your  project. 
Review - http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_7/9bAUn.htm 
http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_1/31uRb.htm

3/23 Possible Sources / Script

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Why do you think it is important to use several different sources and or different types of sources for your project? Make a list of specific questions that ask : Who? What? When? Where?

Daily Objectives: 

Define an information problem.

Identify information needed in order to complete the task (to solve the information problem).

Create an outline, a storyboard, a graphic organizer, and/or a concept map .

Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.

Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.

Word of the Day:  Possible Sources - Include Books, Magazine Articles,  Newspaper Articles, Maps or Atlases, Expert people, Site visits (to museums, etc.), Television Shows, Radio Shows, Sound Recordings, Video Recordings, Electronic Databases, and Websites. 
Save resources at http://www.delicious.com/

Include at least one source from each

Web Search-Books-Scholar-News-Directory-Blog Search-(Images - Picasa- Flickr)- (Videos-Optional)  

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Do you think modern technology reduces or increases cheating? Why?

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day:  Script: the place where you put the programming blocks. In computer programming, a script is a program or sequence of instructions.

3/22 Key words / Events

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: What topic have you selected for your project? 

• List 5 key words or key phrases you can use to get the information you need.  Check out Listing Key Words.
• What questions do I want to answer? Brainstorm a list of 5 questions before you begin to look for information.

Daily Objectives: 

Define an information problem.

Identify information needed in order to complete the task (to solve the information problem).

Create an outline, a storyboard, a graphic organizer, and/or a concept map .

Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.

Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.

Word of the Day:  Key words - Good key words are the important words or short phrases that specifically describe your topic and closely related topics. They are not long sentences.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Do you think modern technology reduces or increases stress? Why?

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day:  Events - Not only can events be signaled by blocks, they can also be signaled by a user's actions. Clicking Scratch's green flag, for instance, effectively signals an event that is handled by:

In Scratch, not only do events enable threads to communicate, they also allow sprites to communicate with each other. For instance, two sprites might want to play Marco Polo with each other, with one sprite's behavior defined by the leftmost thread below and the other sprite's behavior defined by the rightmost thread below:

Out of statements, Boolean expressions, conditions, loops, variables, threads, and events can you construct interesting (and fun) programs. In fact, let's explore the inner workings of what, on first glance, appears to be a very complex program but, ultimately, is just an application of these building blocks.
Let's turn our attention to Oscartime! 

3/21 Task definition / Events

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Do you think that a parents should spy on their teen's online life?  Is this good parenting or an invasion of privacy?

Daily Objectives: 

Define an information problem.

Identify information needed in order to complete the task (to solve the information problem).

Create an outline, a storyboard, a graphic organizer, and/or a concept map .

Identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.

Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.

Word of the Day:  Task definition means to be sure about the job you have to do.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: How do you use technology to broadcast events (communicate) in your life?  How is this similar to events that happen in a computer program or video game?


Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Program a sprite to move a specific distance.

Program a sprite to move a specific direction.

Arrange statement in logical order.

Evaluate and enhance threads in Scratch.

Word of the Day:  Events - In programming, multiple threads can communicate with each other by signaling events and handling events. An event, then, is like a message from one thread to another. In Scratch, blocks whose labels begin with "broadcast" signal events whereas blocks whose labels begin with "when" handle events, the latter of which, recall, effectively represent threads themselves.
A block that signals an event is:

A block that handles an event is:

3/18 Netizen / Threads

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Should you spy on your cheating bf (boyfriend) or gf (girlfriend)? What would you do if you caught your bf (boyfriend) or gf (girlfriend) spying on you?

Daily Objectives: 

Use and integrate Word-processing and Presentation tools and software when completing projects and assignments.

Identify, Observe and Practice proper Internet Safety and Netiquette.

Use the help sections of software, investigate online tutorials, and experiment with techniques, tools and software.

Use multiple, documents, applications and web tools to create and modify projects.

Use multiple, documents, applications and web tools to create and modify projects.

Word of the Day:  Netizen (from Internet and citizen) or cybercitizen is a person actively involved in online communities.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Should you spy on your cheating bf (boyfriend) or gf (girlfriend)? What would you do if you caught your bf (boyfriend) or gf (girlfriend) spying on you?


Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Identify the parts of the Scratch Interface.

Describe the function of the parts of the Scratch Interface.

Use Scratch paint to create an original  Sprite with several costumes.

Use the scratch program to animate a Sprite.

Word of the Day:  Threads - It's often helpful to use separate threads for conceptually distinct tasks. For instance, you might want to keep track of whether the user ever presses some key during a program's execution in order to, say, toggle sound on and off:

Notice how, in the above, the left-hand thread handles meowing, if appropriate, whereas the right-hand thread constantly checks and remembers whether the user has muted or unmuted sound by pressing 'm'.
Related to threads are events, to which we turn our attention next.

3/17 Limerick

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

Sample Limerick

This is the Question of the Day,
Please Answer the Question this Way,
Use proper grammar and spelling,
On your blog without yelling,
This way you will receive the grade "A".

ICT Essentials 1 
Question of the Day: A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are often funny or nonsensical. Write your own Limerick about technology . 
How to write a limerick:The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9). The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6). Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..." Example of an 8,8,5,5,8 syllable limerick:

There once was a clover named Kate,
Who sat on the edge of a plate,
The fancy folk dined,
On foods of all kind,
Then tossed her at quarter past eight

Daily Objectives: 

Use and integrate Word-processing and Presentation tools and software when completing projects and assignments.

Identify, Observe and Practice proper Internet Safety and Netiquette.

Use the help sections of software, investigate online tutorials, and experiment with techniques, tools and software.

Use multiple, documents, applications and web tools to create and modify projects.

Use multiple, documents, applications and web tools to create and modify projects.

Word of the Day: A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are often funny or nonsensical.

More Examples: http://www.dltk-holidays.com/patrick/m-limerick.htm

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are often funny or nonsensical. Write your own Limerick about technology.  
How to write a limerick:The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9). The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6). Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..." Example of an 8,8,5,5,8 syllable limerick:

There once was a clover named Kate,
Who sat on the edge of a plate,
The fancy folk dined,
On foods of all kind,
Then tossed her at quarter past eight.

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Identify the parts of the Scratch Interface.

Describe the function of the parts of the Scratch Interface.

Use Scratch paint to create an original  Sprite with several costumes.

Use the scratch program to animate a Sprite.

Word of the Day: A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are often funny or nonsensical. 
More Examples: http://www.dltk-holidays.com/patrick/m-limerick.htm

3/16 Predators/ Threads

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 best way to protect children from online predators?

Daily Objectives:  Netiquette Project Evaluation

Use and integrate Word-processing and Presentation tools and software when completing projects and assignments.

Identify, Observe and Practice proper Internet Safety and Netiquette.

Use the help sections of software, investigate online tutorials, and experiment with techniques, tools and software.

Use multiple, documents, applications and web tools to create and modify projects.

Use multiple, documents, applications and web tools to create and modify projects.

Word of the Day: Predators -  Online Players, Internet Predators, Cyberpaths, Dating Site Frauds, Cyberstalkers - are adult Internet user who exploits vulnerable children or teens.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: What do you think is the best way to protect children from online predators?
 

Daily Objectives: 

Identify the Vocabulary and and computer programming concepts.

Identify the parts of the Scratch Interface.

Describe the function of the parts of the Scratch Interface.

Use Scratch paint to create an original  Sprite with several costumes.

Use the scratch program to animate a Sprite.

Word of the Day:   Threads.  In programming, a thread is like a mini-program within a program that can execute at the same time as other threads. A program with multiple threads, then, can do multiple things at once. In Scratch, any block whose label begins with "when" essentially demarks the start of a thread; think of what Scratch calls a "script" as a thread. (Technically, scripts run in threads, but never mind that.)
One such block is:

As the above block's label suggests, this thread begins to execute when the user click's Scratch's green flag. A program with two such blocks thus has two "threads of execution," both of which start simultaneously when the user clicks Scratch's green flag.