Dr. Terrance Roberts

Always learning, this time in a mobile classroom!

Cotton

On the way to Little Rock!

Crossing the mighty Mississippi!

Now do your work!

File SAVE AS & Ejecting a Flash Drive

You have until the end of the period to turn in your keynote

1. When you are done get one of the three flash-drives 
1. From INSIDE Keynote  do a FILE SAVE AS and
2. Change the name of your keynote to: 
1. SUBMIT - Block ? - Testimonio Keynote - First Lastname
2. Eject the flash-drive properly and return the flash-drive to John and then log your keynote in at:
1. https://docs.google.com/a/envisionacademy.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpCbVVmYkFDdFVISkFieDhPcDg5X2c6MQ
3. NEXTWEEK you can make your keynote better before Thursday's grade!

Performing a File | Save AS

Two Way's to Eject a Drive

Worktime...

REMINDER: This Keynote is NOT supposed to have automatic transitions!! You move the slideshow forward as you read your script

Agenda:

1. Finish your Keynote! It is due NEXT CLASS, no exceptions.
2. We have decided to work from PRINTED Scripts - ask me how! We'll print them today and tomorrow...

Extra Credit Presentations/Practices begin TODAY!

First a few questions, then TESTIMONIO KEYNOTE!

NO TypingWeb today but we do have a short survey for you to complete about after-school programs. When you are done please get right to work on your keynote...

You have 4 classes to finish the entire thing.

Short After School Program survey

Purpose: I can work productively and produce an average of 2 slides per class, every class, until November 9th.

Testimonio Keynote Workday Instruction

  Your SCRIPT for EACH SLIDE is due 

TODAY Friday, November 2nd 

Purpose: I can work productively and produce an average of 2 slides per class, every class, until November 9th.

Some students did not turn in their FIRST Keynote yet!

 CALENDAR 

  Your THEMES & THESIS were due last Friday, October 26th   

  Your FINISHED KEYNOTE is due the following Friday, November 9th  

 Re-Name Your Keynote! 
 DRAFT - Block ? - Testimonio Keynote - First Lastname 

 REMEMBER: Every SLIDE must have 
 an entry in your outline 

 with Theme, Slide, & Script 

Example outline:

• Testimonio
• Theme 1 (what happened/what is "it" about?):
• Evidence (if not contained in theme):
• Slide (what will the audience SEE?):
• Script (what will the audience HEAR?):
• Theme 2:
• Evidence:
• Slide:
• Script:

Outline Template - 15 slides

Purpose: I can focus on my Testimonio Keynote, finishing my outline so that I can confidently begin working on my slides.

1. CHANGE: TypingWeb LESSON 
1. (tests are now only on Fridays, thank you children for making me see the light)
2. Themes & Thesis were due last Friday, 10/26/12
1. If you have not done them or shared them do it now
2. A complete skeleton of a "B" grade presentation outline [ new! and improved!] is included below the fold.
3. To earn an "A" check the detailed requirements HERE.
3. This week you will be working on a rotation of SLIDES and SCRIPTS.
1. Change the name of your keynote to:
1. DRAFT - Block ? - Testimonio Keynote - First Lastname
2. If you know how you want a slide to look like you can describe that first
3. If you know what you want your audience to hear then write that first.
1. Either way, once one is done the other will be more apparent. 
4. Your outline, with COMPLETED SCRIPT FOR EACH SLIDE is DUE THIS FRIDAY, THE 2ND - The Day of the Homecoming Dance - Yay!

Testimonio Outline due today!

First off, in my opinion, do NOT got to the OSA haunted house!  

If you told me it was CRAP I would have imagined 

something a hundred times better than what I saw.  

Not scary, poorly done, it blew giant chunks of mediocrity.

 I sincerely hope this is not an indication of the quality of that school because THAT, my friends, would be truly scary!

Now:

Purpose: I will  finish my outline (themes and thesis) and begin my Testimonio Keynote

Agenda:

1. TypingWeb TEST
2. Turn in Exhibition Invitation (1PT)
3. Keynote WORK-TIME (Level 1 conversation)

Keynote: Grouping, Layering & Pivoting [+screenshots]

Purpose: I will  finish rough planning my project using my google doc outline and practice new Keynote skills

Agenda:

1. Typing web
2. Turn in Signed Testimonio Invitation (for 2PT)
3. Testimonio example: Mariel
4. Keynote skills: Grouping, Layering & Pivoting
1. Grouping
2. Layering
3. Pivoting
5. Screen-Shot Refresher [We usually use COMMAND+SHIFT+4 and then DRAG our desired area with the cross hair cursor]
6. Work-time
1. Finish Outline
2. Identify Thesis
3. Layout Keynote
4. Work on Slides/Script

Outlining your Testimonio

Purpose: I will  start planning my project using my google doc outline.

Agenda:

1. Turn in Signed Testimonio Invitation (for 4PT)
2. Typing web
3. Testimonio example: Mia
4. Outlining our Testimonios
5. Workshop:
1. Testimonio Outline (Google Doc)

Testimonio Keynote: Project Description

Purpose: I will understand the Testimonio project requirements and start planning my project using an outline.

Agenda:

1. Typing web
2. Testimonio Parent Invitation
3. Testimonio example: Gibran
4. Testimonio Project Description
5. Testimonio Outline (Google Doc)

Your 1st Keynote is due today!

No time for typing web today!
Today is a Keynote Work Day 

so open your keynote and start working!

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Your 1st Keynote is due today!

ALL Builds and Transitions MUST be 

AUTOMATIC!

YOU MUST ALSO COMPRESS THE FILE 

BEFORE YOU CAN 

email it to John@envisionacademy.org

With the SUBJECT LINE:

Submit - Block ? - Me Keynote - First Lastname


RIGHT/COMMAND Click the keynote file and choose COMPRESS

SEND the ZIP file to John as an attatchment

Keynote Work Day & SPLASH at Stanford

No time for typing web today!
Today is a Keynote Work Day 

so open your keynote and start working!

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After class starts we will pause a moment to look
at a great opportunity for EA students:

Splash is the program that brings high school and middle school students from everywhere to Stanford’s campus for a learning extravaganza. Classes are taught by Stanford undergraduates, graduate students, and other community members. 

EA is going to SPLASH on a bus on: 
(JUST) Saturday, November 3rd
Meet @ EA at 8AM
Take fun classes from 10am-4pm
Return to EA @ ~5pm

Click as many squares as you wish when choosing class.  Click the CIRCLE of the class you want the MOST!

Be sure to use your school email @envisionacademy.org when signing up.
You can use the school address if you need to:
1515 Webster St, Oakland, CA 94612

It is FREE! Even though the website say's it isn't, we gotcha' covered!

Splash Website

Splash Video

Splash Sign-up
(be sure to use your @envisionacademy.org address)

Just a sample of the over 100 classes taught @ Splash are listed below

Secret Agents: Tales of 20th Century Espionage
Learn to Create an Android App and Facebook Apps
The Secrets of Filmmaking

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Sports Journalism
Quiddich for Muggles
Beat the Dealer: Blackjack card counting
Building a Mini Concrete Canoe

Introduction to Robotics
How to Write Your Own Screenplay
Socially Conscious Artists: Intelligent Hip Hop and Rap as Forces for Social Good

Why Hip Hop Matters
Improvisational Belly Dance
How Cars Work
Harry Potter Extravaganza

Introduction to Cryptography
Herpetology: aka Snakes and Lizards and Frogs, Oh My!
Threats to Coral Reef Ecosystems

Why are some species endangered?
Festivals of India
Creating a Start Up Business

How to Love
Achieve Your Goals - Lessons from the Hunger Games
Getting the Most Out of College

Poetic Improvisation
Drama: Improv!
Hip Hop Choreography
Drumming and Percussion

Keynote: Sound Tracks and Sound Effects

No time for typing web today!

1. Open Your ME Keynote and get working.  We will pause for:
2. Inserting a soundtrack
3. inserting a sound on a page

Remember - Final ME Keynote is due FRIDAY - no exceptions

Soundtrack are a single sound (or other sound file)
that play across your ENTIRE slideshow.
Drag your sound file on to the Inspector's Document Audio TAB.
You can set the volume and loop values here too.

Keynote: animations; on a path; alpha channels; drop shadows]

Purpose: I can make a small but effective presentation using Keynote

Agenda

1. TypingWeb.com
2. Reviewing the calendar for Quarter 2
3. Keynote

1. Simple animations
2. Animations on a path
3. Alpha channels
4. Drop shadows
5. Font and Color guidelines
1. HINT: The THEMES already have good fonts and colors so use them as guidelines

Animations 
The order of the action is shown in the DRAWER

Animations on a Path

are just another ACTION on the BUILD INSPECTOR

Use a Mask to animate only PART of an image

Alpha Channel

Makes colors TRANSPARANT ! Works inside a MASK too!

Keynote: Project Due Dates for Quarter 2 (12-13)

Keynote Projects Due Dates for Quarter 2, 2012-13

• Thursday, October 18th
• Me Keynote EXTRA CREDIT  Presentations begin
• Friday, October 19th
• Me Keynote EXTRA CREDIT  Presentations continue
• ALL "ME" Keynotes Due (no late work credit - turn in what you have) 
• Monday, October 22nd
• Testimonio Keynote project launch
• Testimonio Keynote work-time & Typing Web
• Testimonio Exhibition invitations go home (for credit on return)
• (4pts Tuesday, 3pts Weds, 2pts Thursday, 1pt Friday, Advisor calls home if not returned by Friday)
• Tuesday, October 23rd - Friday November 2nd
• Testimonio Keynote work-time & Typing Web
• Friday, November 2nd
• Testimonio Script Due
• Monday, November 5th - Thursday November 8th
• Testimonio Keynote DUE for EXTRA CREDIT 
• (4pts Monday, 3pts Tuesday, 2pts Wednesday, 1pt Thursday)
• Testimonio Keynote dry run presentations for extra credit 
• (4pts Monday, 3pts Tuesday, 2pts Wednesday, 1pt Thursday)
• Friday, November 9th
• Testimonio Keynote DUE for Normal Credit
• Monday, November 12th - Wednesday November 14th
• John is out of town - you have a sub. Do NOT expect help on technical issues.
• Work on refining Presentation Script & Practice Presentation
• Thursday, November 15th
• MANDATORY Exhibition for all 9th and 10th grade students
• 8:30AM Students bring NICE exhibition clothing in AM
• NO: CASUAL CLOTHING ( no t-shirts, no hoodies, no hats, no jeans, no raggedy anything)
• YES: PROFESSIONAL CLOTHING (button down shirts, nice sweaters, slacks, skirts, dresses, blouses, nice shoes, ties, etc...)
• When in doubt ASK!  If not sure bring clothing (or a picture) in advance for approval.  No exceptions.
• Students STAY at school after 5th period - DO NOT GO HOME
• 3:40-4:40 Students/Staff set-up rooms 
• 4:45-5:30 Dinner Break 
• 5:30-6:00 Students return, dress, freak-out 
• 6:00PM Parents arrive

Conference Week Special Schedules and Locations

Special Schedule all week for all classes

9th Grade DLE schedule as follows:

When in the DLE Studio your purpose is to:

1. Type your drafts for Facing History
2. Continue to work on your "ME!" Keynote

• Thursday, 10/11
• P4: 8:30-9:25 in DLE Studio
• P5: 9:30-10:25 in DLE Studio
• P1:10:30-11:25 in the theater
• Advisory: 11:30-12:25 in the theater
• 1PM FAMILY CONFERENCES in DLE Studio
• Friday, 10/12
• P2: 8:30-9:25 [prep]
• P3: 9:30-10:25 in the theater
• P4:10:30-11:25 in the theater
• P5: 11:30-12:25 in the theater
• 1PM FAMILY CONFERENCES in DLE Studio

Keynote: downloading images; smart builds; simple animations

Purpose: I can make a small but effective presentation using Keynote

Agenda

1. TypingWeb.com

1. Keynote 201
1. Downloading images to your STUDENT FOLDER to use in your projects
2. Smart Builds using images
3. Simple animations
4. Font and Color guidelines
1. HINT: The THEMES already have good fonts and colors so use them as guidelines

Always DOWNLOAD the BIGGEST (highest quality) image you can and STORE IT IN THE STUDENT DRIVE before you use it in a project!

Smart Builds are preset animations specifically for images

Animations (The order of the action is shown in the DRAWER)

Testimonio Typing in Google Docs/Drive

 AGENDA:

1. Type your Testimonio Rough Draft (use DRAFT in the title while you are working on it.  Change the title to SUBMIT when you want Natalia to review it.)
2. Work on your Keynote (instructions on yesterday's blog)
3. Quite school work or reading

Follow the format below...

Let the computer do the double spacing...

Share it with your teacher when done...

Now go work on your Keynote!  

Check yesterday's blog for requirements