Testimonio Keynote: Day 2

Learning Target(s):  I can  type the draft script of my educational memoirs and begin to design slides around the concepts.

Announcements: 

• No Community meetings this week
• On Friday John will be grading your TypingWeb technique (practice using the correct fingers!)
• Racism & Ignorance alert!  Click here for more...

MAKE SURE these dates are in your Planer: 

• September 24 - ID Picture day
• September 24 - Vision and hearing test for all 9th graders
• October 10, 6-8PM - tentative 9th Grade TESTIMONIO EXHIBITION

Homework: None

Agenda: 

• TypingWeb
• WORKTIME: 
• 1- Google Docs  [I will play keynotes during the worktime]
• DRAFT - BLOCK ? - TESTIMONIO KEYNOTE SCRIPT - FIRST LASTNAME
• You have two documents to type
• FIRST: Type your "I am the student I am today because..." paragraphs
• If you don't have one you can look at the template here
• https://docs.google.com/a/envisionacademy.org/document/d/1C0nb2b-MnLrSrsYiS-ined4ggWDe9kIIEHATv6Qkxns/pub
• SECOND: Type your Math Autobiographies, taking in to account your math teacher's comments
• If you did not do a Mathography write a paragraph on the following prompt:
• Describe your memories as a math student from kindergarten until now.  WHY ARE YOU THE MATH STUDENT YOU ARE TODAY?  Use examples from your school math experiences.
• 2 - Keynote 
• One you have finished typing the autobiographies you can now start splitting them in two!  Click here for an example...
• What do you want the audience to SEE?  
• What images and text will you put on the slide?
• What do you want the audience to HEAR?
• What words will you say when the slide is on the screen?

Testimonio Keynote: Day 1

Learning Target(s):  I can Describe what an EXHIBITION is and begin to prepare for my first one by typing the draft script of my educational memoir.

Announcements: 

• No Community meetings this week
• Spirit Points for week ending 9/6/13
  9th Grade: 215   10th: 175  11th: 150   12th: 165

ASB Cabinet 2013-14

ASB President: Cati Harris

ASB Vice President: Gibran Huerta

ASB Secretary: Nancy Corral

ASB Treasurer: Jonathan Reyes

ASB Spirit Rep: Asiay Johnson

9^th Grade President: Roxana Lopez

9^th Grade Spirit Rep: Ron Thompson

10^th Grade President: Symone Gurganious

10^th Grade Spirit Rep: Denean Jackson

11^th Grade President: Ti Faotusia

11^th Grade Spirit Rep: Luz Palacios

12^th Grade President: Salvador Alba

12^th Grade Spirit Rep: Mayra Mazariegos

Write these in your Planer: 

• September 24 - ID Picture day
• September 24 - Vision and hearing test for all 9th graders
• October 10, 6-8PM - tentative 9th Grade TESTIMONIO EXHIBITION

Homework: None

Agenda: 

• TypingWeb
• Write in your planner
• Testimonio Exhibition Discussion
• WORKTIME: Google Docs  [I will play keynotes during the worktime]
• YOu have two documents to type today
• FIRST: Type your "I am the student I am today because..." paragraphs
• If you don't have one you can look at the template here
• https://docs.google.com/a/envisionacademy.org/document/d/1C0nb2b-MnLrSrsYiS-ined4ggWDe9kIIEHATv6Qkxns/pub
• SECOND: Type your Math Autobiographies, taking in to account your math teacher's comments
• If you did not do a Mathography write a paragraph on the following prompt:
• Describe your memories as a math student from kindergarten until now.  WHY ARE YOU THE MATH STUDENT YOU ARE TODAY?  Use examples from your school math experiences.

Friday Routine

Learning Target(s):  I can stop, breathe, and refocus myself after meeting a major deadline.

Announcements: 

• Next Monday we will finish typing our "I am the student I am today because..." so make sure you bring it!
• Flash Drivers are here: 16 gigs for $12 [I have 2 left]

Homework: None

ALERT! 

NO HEADPHONES OR ELECTRONICS WITHOUT ASKING

NO STREAMING MEDIA

[ I say this because sometimes kids don't realize 

that we are NOT on DEADLINE anymore! ]

Friday Routine

• Typing TEST 
• Check Grades
• Click on the PowerSchool link in the "Grind" section of the Blog [upper right]
• Log in to PowerSchool
• fyi, these are the grades that will be mailed home today...
• Find your LOWEST grade and click on it
• Figure out WHY you have that grade and move to the next task...
• Open Planner
• Plan for the next 7 days
• Plan out WHEN you are going to take the time to work on your schoolwork (including reading) outside of classtime.
• Check Email
• Email the teacher of your lowest grade explaining how you are going to raise that grade.
• HERE IS THE KIND OF THING YOU SHOULD SAY [Copy and paste this, filling in the blanks, if you wish]
• "Dear Ms/r ______________, I noticed that I have a[n] ___  as a grade in your class.  Here are the things I am going to do to raise that grade ___________________.  Here are/is some/a question[s] I have about my grade _________________________.  Thank you!  YourName
• CC john@envisionacademy.org on this email for credit
• Use the following subject line:  FRIDAY GRADE CHECK - BLOCK ? - FIRST LASTNAME
• If you have all B+ or higher grades you can choose to email the teacher you feel intellectually challenges you most and ask them a question you would like to know the answer to.  Make this serious; don't waste their time.
• CC john@envisionacademy.org on this email for credit
• Bellow are ALL of your teacher's emails - remember you are only sending it to ONE of them...

Agenda: 

• Do some work
• I will be showing and grading keynotes while you work
• The best way to be successful is to use your time wisely.  Take the rest of the period to do what YOU need to do most:
• Improve your Keynote and REsubmit it with this NEW subject line:
• RESubmit - Block ? - Me Keynote - First Lastname
• Do some work to improve your grade in another class
• Read a book
• Play NitroType with a classmate

Keynote 6: Downloading Music and making it DANCE

¡Sit Where Your Keynote Is!

Learning Target(s):  I can OBTAIN AUDIO to use in my Keynote project

Announcements: 

• Performers needed for whole school community meeting THIS THURSDAY
• Your Keynote is due TODAY AT THE END OF CLASS
• The lab WILL NOT be open today after school 

Homework: None

Agenda: 

• KEYNOTE
• RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
•  Where is the music?
• How do I access it?
• http://www.youtube-mp3.org/
• http://www.flvto.com/
• How does it work?
• What do you mean by "dance" old man?
• Worktime
• Remember: Your Keynote is due at the end of class today!
• Remember 4/5ths of your slides need to be animated AND automatic (not on click) (half a second per element is good)
• Remember ALL slides must have automatic transitions (3 to 5 seconds is good)
• EOC
• Email your keynote to JOHN@ENVISIONACADEMY.ORG as an attachment!
• SUBJECT: Submit - Block ? - Me Keynote - First Lastname
• In Memorium... 

Keynote 5: Music, masking, color picker

¡Sit Where Your Keynote Is!

Learning Target(s):  I can use AUDIO in my Keynote project

Announcements: 

• Performers needed for whole school community meeting THIS THURSDAY
• Your Keynote is due in TWO periods (@ the end of the BLOCK period Weds/Thurs). 
• We will have MacBooks in Period 6 for kids who want to work on their KEYNOTE with me in the Theater

Homework: None

Agenda: 

• KEYNOTE
• Sound Effects on a SINGLE SLIDE
• SoundTRACK on an entire slide SHOW
• The color picker
• Masks review
• Other 
• Worktime
• Remember: Your Keynote is due in TWO periods (@ the end of the BLOCK period Weds/Thurs). 

STEP BY STEP

Keynote 4: Layers & Alpha Chanels

¡Sit Where Your Keynote Is!

Learning Target(s):  I can use layers in my Keynote project

Announcements: 

• Your Keynote is due in THREE periods (@ the end of the BLOCK period Weds/Thurs). 
• The lab should be open tomorrow, Tuesday, after school for 1 hour.
• If you are in my Intervention remember to finish reading Warriors Don't Cry by Tuesday morning's intervention.

Homework: None

Agenda: 

• KEYNOTE
• Layers
• Grouping
• Pivoting
• Alpha Channel
• Masks review
• Worktime
• Remember: Your Keynote is due in THREE periods (@ the end of the BLOCK period Weds/Thurs). 

Advisory 9-Sept-13

WARMUP:

• Take out your planners
• John will walk around giving credit for kids who are using their planners
• While you are waiting continue with the warm-up
• Turn to the Core Values Page and choose ONE that you want to work on this week and make a specific plan as to how you are going to work on it!
• Write that GOAL in the Goal Section of this weeks planner pages

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Allie's Memorial Service

• TOMORROW:  Tuesday, September 10th at 5pm at "The Grove" in Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA. (located off of Skyline Blvd.)  There will be a pot-luck reception nearby afterwards.
• John has more information & directions.

Period 6 - Starts TOMORROW in the theater at 3:55
Saturday Detention Date Change to September 14th starting at 8:30 AM

PowerSchool & Keynote 3: Images, Animations, Masks, Alpha Channel

¡Sit Where Your Keynote Is!

Learning Target(s):  I can motivate myself to success by checking my own grades in PowerSchool.  I can add images and animations to my Keynote.

Announcements: None
Homework: None

Agenda: 

• POWERSCHOOL
• When you are finished with your typing test go to John's desk and get your PowerSchool login information
• Once you have the information go back to your desk and click on the PowerSchool link in the "Grind" section of the Blog [upper right]
• Log in to PowerSchool
• Find your LOWEST grade and click on it
• Figure out WHY you have that grade and be ready to explain it to the class when asked by John
• Once you are done with PowerSchool check your email (in case your teachers have emailed you)and then open your Keynote and work until John continues the class.

• Friday Routine:
• Typing TEST
• Check Email
• Check Grades
• Open Planner
• Plan for the next 7 days
• KEYNOTE
• Downloading images to your STUDENT FOLDER to use in your projects
• Simple animations
• Animations on a path
• Masks
• Alpha Channels

Step By Step

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

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!

ME Keynote - Day 2 - Basic Concepts

Learning Target(s):  I can explain the three main presentation software programs and their use.  I can create a two slide keynote with a transition.

3rd Period: 10:10
4th Period: 11:55
Lunch: 12:55
5th Period: 2:15
SSR: 2:45
Advisory/Community Meeting: 3:45

Homework: NONE

Agenda:

•  Teacher Talk: The history and types of presentations
• PRESENTATION:  Whither the presentation?
• What are the three types of software and what are they good for?
• RUBRIC: ME KEYNOTE
• EXAMPLE:  Block ? - Keynote 101 MASTER 2013-14 .key
• Work time: The "ME Keynote"
• Keynote 101 -  A tour of Keynote AND your first keynote slides
• Launching Keynote
• Choosing a theme (you can change it later)
• Naming your file:   DRAFT - Block ? - ME KEYNOTE - FIRST LASTNAME
• The inspector
• Changing templates 
• Adding additional text
• Autofitting text (with the +)
• Adding slides
• Transitions

• Exit Ticket
• "What are the three presentation software programs available to EA students and what is each good for, specifically?"

STEP-BY-STEP

Launching Keynote

The Inspector

Adding Slides

Autofitting text using the BLUE +

Transitions BETWEEN Slides

Animation of OBJECTS on Slides

ME Keynote - Day 1 - Project Requirements

Learning Target(s):  I can accurately restate the requirements of the "ME Keynote"

Homework: Have it out, on the desk next to you, during TypingWeb and you can get full credit.

Agenda: Teacher Talk: The ME Keynote

• Presented in class
• Some or all of the slides will become the introduction to your longer Testimonio Keynote Project
• Consists of five slides and one song
• Slide one: Your Name & Block
• Slide two: Where you come from (you or your family)
• Slide three: Where you are going (college/career plans)
• Slide four: What makes you happy
• Slide five: Your biggest fear in life
• NOTE: These are NOT the same requirements as previous years

Exemplar: Denean Jackson's "My First Keynote"

Worktime: DRAFT - BLOCK ? - ME KEYNOTE SCRIPT - FIRST LASTNAME

Next Step: Whither the presentation?

Weekend homework: 3 paragraphs
<<click here to see worksheet for homework>>

The next SIX weeks or so: The ME Keynote & the Testimonio Keynote

News You can use: Obama on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

My First Google Docs & Typing Web Intro

Learning Target(s):  I can upload and share a photo with Google Docs.   I can log in to typingweb.com, improve my typing speed, and track my position on the weekly Leader Board.

Warm-up: Open BLOG, then open a NEW TAB and CHECK YOUR SCHOOL EMAIL.  

Announcements: Student's who have not done the "Me Photo" will do them during class today

Homework to write in your planner RIGHT NOW: 

• TONIGHT: NONE
• FRIDAY/WEEKEND: three paragraphs, ON THREE DIFFERENT EVENTS, based on your educational brainstorm from last weekend (which will be returned tomorrow)

Agenda I: Google Docs

1.  TeacherTalk & Guided Workshop (class is quiet unless called upon):

1. Google "docs" [Google DRIVE]
1. Definition(s)
1. Local vs. Web Applications [Apps]
1. Storage
2. Backup
3. Availability
2. Types of documents



3. Your First Google Doc!


















4. Upload your Me Photo         
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Sharing your document          
   

Agenda II: TypingWeb

• TEACHER TALK: TypingWeb.com

1. Why we type
2. Signing IN to TypingWeb.Com
• Look in "The Grind"
• USERNAME: First_Last_EA
• No apostrophe's in this one, sorry!
• PASSWORD: EA2017
3. Using TypingWeb
4. TypingWeb warmups
5. How you get your grade - by IMPROVING
6. The Leaderboard

• WORKSHOP 

1. How many lessons can you get through in the time left in class?
2. If you have NOT done your ME PHOTO now is the time

• CLOSING

1. LOG OUT TypingWeb (upper right corner of screen)
2. LOG OUT of your email account
3. Push your chair in

Using School Email

Learning Target(s):  

• I can log in to my school email and correctly email an attachment to john@envisionacademy.org

Announcements: None

Agenda: Catch-UP

• Renaming files 
• Slow Click the file NAME and, when you see the blue highlight, just start typing!
• Finding Applications
• Spotlight
• Apple Menu
• Sidebar
• Applications folder
• One User vs. ALL Users

Agenda:  Using School Email (& Google Docs)

•  TeacherTalk & Guided Workshop (class is quiet unless called upon):
• Your school email
• 'Distribute'
• Log-in
• Follow the instructions carefully
• PROVE YOU ARE A HUMAN
• Change your password from the default
• REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD!
• If your log-in works:  write john@envisionacademy.org an email.  In this email tell John a secret he can't tell ANYONE else!  It can be a real secret or a made up one.  It must be school appropriate and NOT MEAN.
• If your log-in does not work:  How may I help you?
• Sending your first email
• Compose...
• Proper Subject Line Format (for credit)
• Attachments: Attach your "ME PHOTO"
• Address LAST!
• DRAFT or Send

Copy and paste the words below... 
and then change the "?" and the "name" 
SUBMIT - BLOCK ? - ASSIGNMENT NAME - FIRST LASTNAME