week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 3

Welcome back from Turkey Break!

This week we will begin working with MS Excel.

This post will be updated during the week, so check back here from time to time for more details.

MONDAY'S HOMEWORK:
Design a simple survey to conduct among your friends and family to do your first MS Excel Chart!
(More details on how to do this will be given in class today)

TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 30
Yesterday you saw how we can turn simple data into an interesting and attractive graph. For homework you cam up with a survey question and should have begun collecting data. Today we will look at a couple of ways to organize the data you're collecting to prepare for entry into Excel.

We will also have an opportunity to interview one another for our surveys.

WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 1
Catching up and regrouping

THURSDAY - DECEMBER 2
WE NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE TALK... The computers have all been repaired, but there are some important changes.

***Period 6 and 7***
data entry (type your survey data into an Excel spreadsheet and create a graph from your data.
Copy/ paste your graph into an MS Word document.
Type your name and class period under the graph and print it. Give me the print-outs.

When you have finished, please make sure you have completed 2 blog posts this week. I will be checking over the weekend.

Is there anything else you need to catch up on?

Next week we'll being to look at some more elements of the MS Office Suite.
extra: some fun things you can do with Excel...
Try clicking HERE to create a piece of Excel artwork! You download the spirograph spreadsheet, then change the numbers to design a unique work of art!
Click HERE if you're a little more advanced in Excel.
Check out some more ART made in MS Excel!
And... by the way... my 1st period class may remember a conversation we had about learning game design. Did you know you could make GAMES in Excel???

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TGIF! - December 3
Period 1 - Lucky you, it's Week A and you have a full hour of fun with MS LUZZI!!! OMG, You are SO LUCKY!
By the way, by now your blog posts should be as awesome as mine. No lie.
Anyway...
Today, let's continue/ conclude the joy we've been cultivating through MS Excel.

• Try THIS lesson to learn a few more things about making a chart in Excel.
• Want to review the basics? Try THIS.
• More about formatting and the math Excel can do? Click HERE.
• Wanna know what I had for dinner last night?
• Wanna try a cool challenge (and listen to lame Goth music at the same time)? Click HERE and see how to make cool (but simple) art in Excel! The person who developed this lesson uses the Google logo, but any image could be used for a template here.
• Want to learn everything you ever need to know about Excel. HERE is a suite of lessons.

LEARN. EXPLORE. HAVE FUN!

THIS WEEK:
Please write 2 blog posts... free-write. any topic. I will check these over the next weekend.

Quiz Comments!!!

Please put your quiz comments here!

You are done with your test!!!

This is how we add photos

This is a blog post that I will add a photo to.

Period 1; Week of Nov. 22- Nov. 24

Dear Period 1 Students,
Some of your blog URLs don't seem to be working. Please check in with me to make sure I have the correct URL for your blog.
Thanks,
Ms L.

Period 1, 6 & 7; Week of Nov. 22- Nov. 24

Computer Apps:

Here are your assignments for the week. As usual, at the beginning of each class there will be a little review, a short lesson, and maybe some notes, but here you can see what you will have to be able to do.
REMEMBER: This is the 2nd week of the second marking period. The semester's end will come sooner than you think!

Monday, 22:
Today we will learn to add some media to our blog posts.

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT

Create a new post which includes a photograph.

Tuesday, 24:
Review for Quiz!!!

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT
Make sure you are able to do everything that will be required for the quiz. Practice making links, using comment features and tagging your posts. You may Tag and Link in posts you have already written by using the EDIT POST option in your Dashboard. Make sure your blog is functioning normally, that you KNOW your user name and password, and that Ms Luzzi has your URL address!


Wednesday, 25:
Quiz Day!

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT
We will have a quiz in class. Following the quiz, catch up on reading your favorite blogs or doing some work on your own.

This is the last day that we will be focusing on blogging in class. You will be required to maintain your blog, adding 2 posts a week, for the duration of the semester, however, our in-class work together will be focused on MS Office programs beginning next week.

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!!!

responding and linking

I just read this and it was great.

responding and linking

I think this blog is awesome.

Period 7: URLs for your classmate's blogs

http://mysportz101.blogspot.com/
http://iiyee95.blogspot.com/
http://hillary-hills.tumblr.com
http://bloggeredtodeath.blogspot.com/
http://girlstalkaboutyou.blogspot.com/
http://stevenjaii.blogspot.com/
http://2faancymarie.tumblr.com/
http://max195.blogspot.com/
http://achmedthegreat.blogspot.com/
http://ohwell22-whatalife.blogspot.com/
http://divayoung.blogspot.com/
http://astoldbynika.tumblr.com/
http://gorgeousquaa.tumblr.com/
http://jessayka.blogspot.com/
http://mike17360.blogspot.com/
http://aysiatho-.tumblr.com/
http://tashyangel.blogspot.com/

You should see your blog on this list... if you don't, you are missing credit for a major assignment. Get on it!

If you created a blog in tumblr, I'd like to try again to make you a blogspot account this week! I am having serious problems getting tumblr to load consistently.

Period 6: URLs for your classmate's blogs

http://yawelkysfashionblogg.blogspot.com/
http://fahsionmuchx3.blogspot.com/
http://moviezallthetime.blogspot.com/
http://amzinqhunniex33.blogspot.com/
http://alesiaiiabusiverelationships.blogspot.com/
http://soloridatricia.blogspot.com/
http://kingofking77.blogspot.com/
http://crimesinamerica.blogspot.com/
http://andrewandnba.blogspot.com/
http://harlemm.blogspot.com/
http://sasha96.blogspot.com/
http://eli-schoolislame.blogspot.com/
http://missbossymistyx3.blogspot.com/
http://crystalrsblog.blogspot.com/
http://stupidassclass.blogspot.com/


If your blog is not listed here then you are missing a major assignment grade... let's get that fixed up today!

Period 6 & 7; Week of Nov. 15- Nov. 19

Computer Apps:

Here are your assignments for the week. As usual, at the beginning of each class there will be a little review, a short lesson, and maybe some notes, but here you can see what you will have to be able to do.
REMEMBER: This is the 1st week of the second marking period. The semester's end will come sooner than you think!

Monday, 15:

Today we will talk more about using comments and how to make your blog a forum for conversation. We will discuss comment etiquette. You will be reading and commenting on each other's work.

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT

You will give your URL to someone in class and get their URL from them. You will read each other's blog posts and use the comment function to make a comment. Your comment must be no less than 5 complete sentences and must follow the comment etiquette we discuss in class. It is expected that you will also reply to comments you receive. Replies may be done at home if there is no class time to do it.

*** Due to today's Town Hall, the discussion may be moved to tomorrow, and this assignment may have to be done this week as homework, in which case it will be due on Wednesday.***

Tuesday, 16:

You will look for 3 blogs with similar themes to your own today (not written by classmates) and comment on at least one post.

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT

We will cover in class some search techniques. You will use them to find 3 blogs that are thematically related to your own. You will chose one to add a comment to. *Please email me the URL of the blog post you commented on.*

Wednesday, 17:

You will write a post in your blog and link to the blog that you found and commented on yesterday. The post you write today should reflect on the post you read yesterday.

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT

In class we will review how to create links in a blog post. You will write a blog post that refers to the post you read yesterday and create a link to it so that others who read your blog will also be able to read what you read.

Thursday, 18:

You will see how tags help in a blog search. Homework (Due Monday) will be to write a post in your blog that includes at least 3 tags and at least 2 links.

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT

We will continue to look at search techniques today. You will write a post DUE MONDAY with will include at least 3 tags to make it easier to find in a search. It will also refer to at least 2 outside sources and therefore include at least 2 links.

Friday, 19 (Period 1 only; Periods 6&7 will have a workshop next Friday):

Workshop Day! You will work in pairs to edit the posts you've written so far.

Dear Computer Apps Students:

It has been a long time since room 106 was my classroom. In fact, that school doesn't even exist anymore. It still matters, though. A lot of important things happened to me during the time that I taught in room 106. I made great friends, did fun projects with my students, and made some pretty stupid mistakes (which is an important part of learning, of course!).

In this lesson, we will be considering the conversational element of blogging. A blog post should invite your audience to participate... to be part of the conversation. I just read a great blog post about how to do this.

The post suggests using links, tags, and comments to keep the exchange dynamic. What I have done in the previous paragraph is created a link.

Blogger allows a place for labels. These are also called tags. Tags on your blog will help people find it in a search.

We'll see about comments shortly.