12/9 Buffer

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

Mattel has come out with an electronic dog tag called "Puppy Tweets," and it does exactly what you think. Just attach it to your dog's collar, install the USB dongle to your PC, and start following your pet's Twitter account. 

ICT Essentials 1 -  My Technology Evaluation
Question of the Day: How are your own teachers using technology? Does it help you learn? Do you have any suggestions for ways that your school can better use technology to promote learning and class participation?

Daily Objectives: 

Use a digital camera to take photographs.

Use photo editing and photo capture software and tools.

Create a Photo story.

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: Buffer -A buffer contains data that is stored for a short amount of time, typically in the computer's memory (RAM).

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: How are your own teachers using technology? Does it help you learn? Do you have any suggestions for ways that your school can better use technology to promote learning and class participation?

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 the Binary code is used in computer processing.

Convert binary numbers to base 10. Convert base 10 numbers to binary.

Word of the Day:  Buffer -A buffer contains data that is stored for a short amount of time, typically in the computer's memory (RAM).

12/8 Cloud Computing

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.
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ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Do you have a smartphone or other device on which to download apps? What are your favorites? Why? Even if you don’t have one of these devices, what apps seem most entertaining, useful or valuable?

Daily Objectives: 

Use a digital camera to take photographs.

Use photo editing and photo capture software and tools.

Create a Photo story.

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:  Cloud Computing  refers to applications and services offered over the Internet.

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Do you have a smartphone or other device on which to download apps? What are your favorites? Why? Even if you don’t have one of these devices, what apps seem most entertaining, useful or valuable?

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 the Binary code is used in computer processing.

Convert binary numbers to base 10. Convert base 10 numbers to binary.

Word of the Day:  Cloud Computing  refers to applications and services offered over the Internet.

12/7 Cookie

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: How much should parents in general know about their teenagers’ life online? Why?

Daily Objectives: 

Use a digital camera to take photographs.

Use photo editing and photo capture software and tools.

Create a Photo story.

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:   Cookie is data sent to your computer by a Web server that records your actions on a certain Web site.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: How much should parents in general know about their teenagers’ life online? Why?

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 the Binary code is used in computer processing.

Convert binary numbers to base 10. Convert base 10 numbers to binary.

Word of the Day:  Cookie is data sent to your computer by a Web server that records your actions on a certain Web site.

12/6 Photo Story / Memory

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

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day: Check your grade on Engrade.  Check out Mr. Viereck's Hints for Improving Your Grade.  Reflect on the things that you have been doing to get this grade. What will you do to improve your grade?  Write a plan that includes at least 3 things that you will do.

Daily Objectives: 

Use a digital camera to take photographs.

Use photo editing and photo capture software and tools.

Create a Photo story.

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:  Photo Story - story told through photographs: a collection of photographs in a magazine or book, often accompanied by a short commentary, that tells a story

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day: Check your grade on Engrade.  Check out Mr. Viereck's Hints for Improving Your Grade.  Reflect on the things that you have been doing to get this grade. What will you do to improve your grade?  Write a plan that includes at least 3 things that you will do.

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 the Binary code is used in computer processing.

Convert binary numbers to base 10. Convert base 10 numbers to binary.

Word of the Day:  Primary memory which is stored on chips located on the motherboard, and Secondary memory that is stored in the hard drive.

12/3 Test

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:

Are Your Tech Habits Hurting Your Grades? 

By SHANNON DOYNE AND HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO

Tell us about your digital media habits. How much time (and money) do you spend texting? Do you recognize yourself at all in these teens’ stories? Do you often switch between doing homework and things like checking Facebook, watching videos or playing games? Do you find it hard to focus on and process your schoolwork? Are your grades affected? Do you – or your parents – try to set limits on your use of technology? 

Daily Objective:

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: Habit- A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. An established disposition of the mind or character.

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:

Are Your Tech Habits Hurting Your Grades? 

By SHANNON DOYNE AND HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO

Tell us about your digital media habits. How much time (and money) do you spend texting? Do you recognize yourself at all in these teens’ stories? Do you often switch between doing homework and things like checking Facebook, watching videos or playing games? Do you find it hard to focus on and process your schoolwork? Are your grades affected? Do you – or your parents – try to set limits on your use of technology? 

Daily Objective: 

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: ASCII - The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (acronym: ASCII; pronounced /ˈæski/ ASS-kee)^[2] is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many more characters than did ASCII.

12/2 Drag and drop/Bytes

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 do you think your life would be different without the Internet?

How do you think your life would be different without Computers? 

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:  Drag and drop is a procedure where you grab something (selected text, a file, a picture, or whatever) and drop it into a new location.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day:

How do you think your life would be different without the Internet?

How do you think your life would be different without Computers?  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:  Byte - a piece of computer information made up of eight bits.

12/1 Competency/Bit

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 people are more likely to review a product they like or a product they dislike?  Why?

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:  Technological competency is the ability to create, repair, or operate specific technologies, commonly computers.

 

ICT Essentials 2

Question of the Day:  Do you think people are more likely to review a product they like or a product they dislike?  Why?
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:  Bit - the smallest piece of information used by the computer. Derived from "binary digit". In computer language, either a one (1) or a zero (0).