Linking & Advanced Page formatting + Web work day #4

Purpose:  I will finish and submit my Personal Page

Agenda:

1. Announcements (I do): 
1. Tomorrow is Career Day!  Meet in Advisories
2. Tomorrow is BFF Picture Day in the Theater @ lunch
3. Today's Community Meeting is in the Commons, meet in advisory first.
4. Yesterday in History, January 30th: 
1. 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
2. Mini-Lesson (I Do)
1. Open email; open your website
2. Linking 
1. internal
2. external
3. New window?
3. Advanced formatting
1. Learn by example (you can't USE a Template but you can LEARN from them)
3. Work Time (YOU Do)
1. If you need to see the requirements check your outline or yesterday's post
2. Continue building pages.
1. Here is an example page from last year

Outline & Linking + Web work day #3

Purpose:  I will outline my personal website

Agenda:

1. Announcements (I do): 
1. Today in History, January 29th: 
1. The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe, is published
2. Lesson (We do)
1. Login to email
2. Open a new google doc
3. title it:    DRAFT - Block ? - Website Outline - First Lastname
4. Share the document with John@EnvisionAcademy.org
5. Copy the following into the google doc:
1. Personal Page (DUE NEXT CLASS) - One, serious, page about your history, where you came from and what you do these days.  Images will be similar to ones used in your ME Keynote.
1. Idea
2. idea
3. idea
2. Personal Totem Page (DUE FRIDAY) - a page devoted to SOMETHING that represents you.  A dancer might choose her ballet shoes, a musician his instrument, someone who keeps to themselves might choose a wolf... You will need to write about why this totem represents you and artistically illustrate the item.
1. idea
2. idea
3. idea
3. Dreams - a page about what you hope the world will become and how you might help that happen.  This is also where you can talk about your college and career plans. Images might include logos of your intended college.
1. idea
2. idea
3. idea
6. By the end of the period you need a minimum of three ideas for each page.  Each idea should be at least a sentence. These are NOT the only pages your website will have.
3. Work Time (YOU Do)
1. Complete the outline
4. Mini-Lesson (I Do)
1. Linking 
1. internal
2. external
3. New window?
5. Work Time (YOU Do)
1. Continue building pages.

Back Up That! and web work day #2

Purpose:  I will set up my cloud back-up account 

and continue working on my personal website

Agenda:

1. Announcements (I do): 
1. Say hi to Mr. Edwards, he'll be your teacher  today.  Sorry I'm not there - not feeling so good.  Back tomorrow!
2. Today in History, January 28th: 
1. 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after lift-off killing all seven astronauts on board.
2. Lesson (We do)
1. Today Mr. Edwards is going to run you through signing up for a "Cloud" back-up solution. If you finish on time you may have some time at the END to work on your website
1. By using this back-up solution you will be able to:
1. keep a good backup of your school files the entire time you are at EA!
2. not need to trip out when someone is at your computer, because your files will be there in the cloud!
3. be able to get to your school files from any computer, anywhere in the world (when you are sick or traveling!)
4. be able to get to your home files from school!
5. be able to turn files in to me simply and easily!
2. You will need to use a different browser than Chrome - Mr. Edwards can explain why
1. Use SPOTLIGHT to find Safari 
2. Follow Mr. Edward's instructions exactly
1. You MUST use your school email to sign up for this
3. Once you are finished and Mr. Edwards has confirmed that you have set-up your account, backed up your folder, and tested that backup,  you may either:
1. Finish your EA page that was due on Friday.
2. Begin to write and design your personal page.  HERE IS AN EXAMPLE of a personal site that was done last year.
3. Do quiet homework or reading for another content class.

Web Work Day #1

Purpose:   I will create an informational web page for the school

1. Agenda:
2. Homework:
1. This Weekend collect digital or scannable photos to use on your web site (*you will be making personal pages about yourself, your family, and your hopes and dreams)
3. Announcements (I do*): 
• Today in History, January 25th: 
• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1996 – Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America.
• 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
• 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
4. Lesson
1. I DO: fundamentals of design & usability
1. Simpler is better
1. Color
2. Font
3. Layout
4. Depth
2. YOU DO:
1. IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO:
1. Create your site (you may follow the pictures on LAST CLASS' BLOG).
1. SUBMIT YOUR SITE ADDRESS HERE
2. ON YOUR NEW WEB SITE:
1. Using text and images from www.envisionacademy.org create a single page with the following minimum components:
1. Contact information for the school
2. Between one and five pictures
3. Reasons to go to the school
2. By the end of class you must have completed our purpose for the day.

History of the Internet part 2, + your first Web Page

Purpose:   I will learn the basics of using Google Sites and will begin to create an informational web page for the school

Agenda:

1. Announcements (I do*): 
1. News you can USE: 
1. Indonesia sentences UK Grandmother to death for smuggling drugs
2. Recap (We do)
1. Discussion stopping points from yesterday
1. 5th Period - 3.3 on 1/22
2. 3rd Period - 3.2.4
3. 2nd Period - 3.2.4
4. 1st Period - 3.2.4
2. (WE do)
1. VIDEO: The History of the Internet (7:51)
2. Discussion
3. Lesson
1. I DO: Web building software
1. online vs standalone
2. We DO: Google sites BASICS
1. Log in to your email
2. Look for Sites in the Top Bar (and then wait)
3. YOU DO:
1. Create your site (you may follow the pictures on your own or with me).
2. SUBMIT YOUR SITE ADDRESS HERE
3. Using text and images from www.envisionacademy.org create a single page with the following minimum components:
1. Contact information for the school
2. Between one and five pictures
3. Reasons to go to the school
4. Some of the sites created today will be used during Friday's class to illustrate both clever work and epic fails so do your best!

History of the Internet Part 1

Purpose:  I will understand the social and technical origins of the internet

Agenda:

1. Announcements (I do*): 
1. Today in History: 
1. 1990 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
2. 2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2. Recap (We do)
1. How was last Friday?
1. MST TODAY is last chance to turn it in for credit.
3. Lesson
1. (YOU do) Take this three question survey
2. (We do) Discussion
1. What is the Internet?
2. What is the WWW?
1. Tim Berners Lee
2. HTTP (s)
3. Browsers
4. DNS
5. Spiders
3. What exactly are Websites?

PSA Workday #4 of 4 - El Fin

Purpose:   I will submit my Photoshop PSA and reflection on the correct Google Doc by the end of the period.

No typing web today!

Agenda:

1. Announcements (We do): 
1. An Interesting Day in History: On January 18h, 
• 1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
• 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland.
• 1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for possession of crack cocaine in an FBI sting.
• 1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
• + three plane crashes and 3 meteor strikes...
2. SCHEDULE: NO JOHN (All periods) - Add reflection & Rename document SUBMIT
1. The reflection will take some time to write so by TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE PERIOD EVERYONE must have STARTED the reflection
2. To make sure all source and final images are inserted correctly EVERYONE MUST STOP WORKING IN PHOTOSHOP 10 MINUTES BEFORE THE END OF THE PERIOD.
3. Work time (YOU do)
1. Submit the following:
1. Your finished Photoshop Public Service Announcement, which consists of:
1. At least three separate images combined into one final image
2. On an important topic
3. EXPORTED from Photoshop as a JPEG (click here for instructions on exporting your final image as a JPG file)
4. Inserted at the BOTTOM of YOUR GoogleDoc REtitled: Submit - Block ? - PSA - Firstname Lastname
2. A completed GoogleDoc will consist of:
1. All of the outline boxes at the top completed with your plans for the final image.
2. Each source image inserted into the document directly AFTER the text boxes.
3. The final image inserted into the document at the AFTER the source images.
4. The REFLECTION written directly AFTER the final image.
3. A completed Reflection will consist of thoughtful answers to the following questions:
1. WHY did you choose the topic you did?
2. WHAT made that topic important?
3. HOW did you get your point across in your image?
4. What are you most proud of about this project?
5. What are you most disappointed in about this project?
6. What grade should you get for how hard you worked? (A, B, C, NC, + or -)
7. What grade should you get for how well you used the Photoshop software program? (A, B, C, NC, + or -)
8. What grade should you get for your ideas and your artistry? (A, B, C, NC, + or -)
9. Any comments you choose to write.
10. STUDENTS SHOULD COPY AND PASTE THE QUESTIONS INTO THE GOOGLEDOC BEFORE ANSWERING.
2. If you finish early...
1. You can do an additional PSA
2. You can do one of the freaky animals
3. You can enter the "make Nicolas Cage look like a cat contest"

PSA Workday #3.5 of 4

Purpose:   I will complete at least 90% of my Photoshop PSA

No typing web today!

Agenda:

1. Announcements (We do): 
1. Scandalous Day in History: On January 17th, 
• 1893 – The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• 1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
• 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
• 1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
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2. The Week Ahead (I do)
1. TODAY: Work time, assemble final version to turn in
2. TODAY after school: LAB OPEN UNTIL 4:30
3. Friday: NO JOHN (All periods) - Add reflection & Rename document SUBMIT
3. Work time (YOU do)
1. TODAY: 
1. FINISH: Downloading all images you think you will need (you can get more later) and save them on your student drive
2. REMEMBER: Insert the images at the bottom of the Google doc. These will be your "Before" pictures and MUST be submitted in order to get credit
3. Open the images in Photoshop
4. Use your tools!
1. Remember the resources on the upper right side of the blog
2. Remember the manual taped to the back of the door
3. REMEMBER all of the transformation tricks we learned.
2. If you finish early...
1. You can do an additional PSA
2. You can do one of the freaky animals
3. You can enter the "make Nicolas Cage look like a cat contest"

PSA Workday #3 of 4

Purpose:   I will complete at least 90% of my Photoshop PSA

No typing web today!

Agenda:

1. Announcements (We do): 
1. Today in History: On January 16th, 
• 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000.
• 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
• 2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
2. The Week Ahead (I do)
1. TODAY: NO JOHN (P1&2) - Work time, assemble final version to turn in
2. Thursday: Work time, assemble final version to turn in
3. Thursday after school: LAB OPEN UNTIL 4:30
4. Friday: NO JOHN (All periods) - Add reflection & Rename document SUBMIT
3. Work time (YOU do)
1. TODAY: 
1. FINISH: Downloading all images you think you will need (you can get more later) and save them on your student drive
2. REMEMBER: Insert the images at the bottom of the Google doc. These will be your "Before" pictures and MUST be submitted in order to get credit
3. Open the images in Photoshop
4. Use your tools!
1. Remember the resources on the upper right side of the blog
2. Remember the manual taped to the back of the door
3. REMEMBER all of the transformation tricks we learned.
2. If you finish early...
1. You can do an additional PSA
2. You can do one of the freaky animals
3. You can enter the "make Nicolas Cage look like a cat contest"