QT4

=Computer Applications II, CS200, QT4, Periods 3, 6, 7=

//__Objective__: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce a professional-looking calendar.//  Research the events online and write the dates on your paper.  __Publisher Filename__: **CalendarYourName.pub** Use Microsoft Publisher, Publications for Print, to customize a calendar for the months of May and June. After picking the calendar publication, go to the lower right corner to set calendar dates. (Page 1 will be May and page 2 will be June.) Pick a color scheme and change the provided aspects of the template to personalize your calendar. Pick a font scheme. Change the pictures etc.
 * Thursday - Tuesday May 26 - 31, 2011**


 * Add** **textboxes** or **pictures** to include events on particular days.
 * Refer to the school calendar for events to include. [|http://www.Lancaster.k12.pa.us]
 * Include these holidays and more. Look them up online to find the correct dates for 2011.
 * Mothers' Day
 * Primary Election Day in PA
 * Fathers' Day
 * Memorial Day
 * Other events you may include
 * Your birthday if it falls in May or June or you may do a calendar for your birthday month
 * Personal events
 * Friends and family birthdates
 * School Events
 * National Teacher Day
 * No Socks Day
 * May Day
 * Cinco de Mayo
 * Bike to Work Day
 * Flag Day
 * Kentucky Derby
 * World Turtle Day
 * Summer Solstice
 * World Environment Day

 Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.

//__Objective__: Use logic.//
 * Wednesday May 25, 2011**

 Get into your Gaggle digital locker and save **BeeSting.sb** to the desktop.  Make changes and additions to the **BeeSting** Scratch program according to the pictures on the handouts.  Save to the desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.

//__Objective__: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce professional-looking documents.//  Get into your Gaggle digital locker and save your PostcardElectronics.pub file to the desktop.  __Publisher Filename__: **PostcardElectronics.pub** Follow along with the demonstration.  Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker. When you feel you are finished, have Miss Hangen check it and get permission to print it.
 * Wednesday May 18 - Tuessday May 24, 2011**

//__Objective__: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce professional-looking documents.// __Finish__: **BeeSting.sb** __Publisher Filename__: **PostcardElectronics.pub** Follow along with the demonstration. Publisher Postcards Thank You Open Corner Color Scheme - Iris Change Organization to The Electronics and More Store and stretch it across to the vertical line Ungroup the logo Insert logo from My Pictures, and enlarge keeping it to scale. Format Picture - Recolor - Accent 2 (bright green) Colors and Lines: Fill Color - Accent 3 (Light Orange), Line Color - Accent 2 (bright green), Dashed, 3 pt Remove check from Draw border inside frame Save Save to the desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker. Delete from the desktop and empty the recycle bin.
 * Tuesday May 17, 2011**

//__Objective__: Share information with different sprites. Use repeat until effectively. Trouble-shooting. Critical thinking.// 1. What does a bee do with flowers? 2. What is a person's reaction when being stung by a bee? 3. What happens to a bee after it stings someone? 4. Where is a bee's stinger? __Scratch Program__: **BeeSting.sb** 3 pages of directions provided. __Your Challenge__: **Create the scripts for the flower**. Make it change to the costume with the yellow center when the bee pollinates it. 5. Explain why you needed to use repeat until instead of forever if. 6. Explain what is occurring in the repeat 10 loop in the bee script.
 * Monday May 16, 2011**

//Objective: Use column breaks effectively.// Get your red binder. Get into Gaggle and save your **STEM2011.docx** to the desktop. __Word Filename__: **STEM2011.docx** Use the **Additional STEM2011.docx Directions** packet that is in your binder. When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer. FINISH AND PRINT Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker. After you have proofread it and are sure it is finished, get permission to print it.
 * Friday May 6, 2011**

//Objective: Use column breaks effectively.// Get your red binder. Get into Gaggle and save your **STEM2011.docx** to the desktop. __Word Filename__: **STEM2011.docx** Use the **Additional STEM2011.docx Directions** packet that is in your binder. When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer. Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker. After you have proofread it and are sure it is finished, get permission to print it.
 * Thursday May 5, 2011**

//Objective: Use column breaks effectively.// Get your red binder. Get into Gaggle and save your **STEM2011.docx** to the desktop. __Word Filename__: **STEM2011.docx** Use the **Additional STEM2011.docx Directions** packet that is in your binder. When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer. Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
 * Wednesday May 4, 2011**

//Objective: Use columns effectively.// Get your red binder. Get into Gaggle and save your **STEM2011.docx** to the desktop. __Word Filename__: **STEM2011.docx** Type the rest of page one. Directions and text are in your red binder. After typing, go back and format the appropriate text with the appropriate formats: - bold - underline - subscript - superscript Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
 * Tuesday May 3, 2011**

//Objective: Use columns effectively.// Read over the blue packet called **STEM2011.docx Directions**. __Word Filename__: **STEM2011.docx**
 * Monday May 2, 2011**

Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.

//Objective: Use graphics and computational thinking effectively.// http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Klovira/109633/Klovira/109633
 * Thursday - Friday April 21-29, 2011**

__Scratch Program__: **DecorateEgg.sb**

Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.

//__Objective__: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a professional-looking table of contents. //
 * Tuesday & Wednesday April 19 & 20, 2011**

Start a Word document and save it with the name, **Contents.docx**

__Word Filename__: **Contents.docx** Use Word to create a page of the table of contents of a textbook. Refer to stapled packet. 1. Set the margins. Top and bottom: 1" Left and right 1.25" 2. Clear all tab settings. 3. Make a tab stop at 6 that is aligned right and has the dots as a leader. 4. View - Rulers 5. Click at 1.25 to place a regular tab stop at that spot. 6. Type the text with the default font. 7. Insert the footer. 8. Use the page numbering drop down menu to format the page number as indicated on the picture on your direction packet.

Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.

//__Objective__: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics. //
 * Monday April 18, 2011**

Finish and print **Menu.docx**

__Word Filename__: **Contents.docx** Use Word to create a page of the table of contents of a textbook. Actually page in your binder.

Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.

//__Objective__: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics. //
 * Thursday & Friday April 14 & 15, 2011**

Look at a table of contents in a book. Look at a menu. Describe what I might mean by leading dots.

__Word Filename__: **Menu.docx** Landscape Margins 1" Restaurant or Cafe name with your name in it (Change font, Size 48, bold, Small caps, center) Sentence (Size 20) 2 columns, from this point forward Tabs, Clear All, 3.25, Alignment - decimal, Leader, 2........, Set, OK Category - bold, italic, underline, shadow, size 24 Menu item, tab, price, size 20 Page border Put faint picture or background behind text Spell check Make it look nice

Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.

//__Objective__: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics. //
 * Wednesday April 13, 2011**

__Finish__: **NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx** Margins --> Top and bottom 1.5, left and right: .8 Spelling and grammar check Proofread Font: Bookman Old Style Title: size 16, bold, small caps by Your Name: size 14, bold, small caps Title: centered above article Article: 3 columns, spacing .3, column width 2.1 include photo, textwrapping: square One page only

__Finish__: **WordGame.sb** (Scratch) Print NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx Show me WordGame.sb

//__Objective__: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics. // How are the newspaper columns different than our usual way of aligning text? Look at the picture and think about the question. Discuss it with your neighbor. Share with the class when the teacher calls on you.
 * Monday & Tuesday April 11 & 12, 2011**

@http://www.dailyblogtips.com/create-your-own-newspaper-headlines/ __Word Filename__: ** Download. **Save to the desktop as **NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx**.
 * For Fun:** Read about creating your own fake newspaper clippings.
 * [[image:hangencs200:Newspaper.jpg width="333" height="284" link="@http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp"]] ||
 * Click picture for Newspaper Clipping Generator ||

__Together, we will__: spell check grammar check use newspaper columns add a graphic format Save the file to the desktop as **NewpaperBruceLlewellyn.docx**, and then upload it to your Gaggle digital locker. Test that the file that you saved in your digital locker is correct by opening it. **Only after you are sure that your completed NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx file is in your locker, delete it off the desktop and empty the recycle bin.**
 * [[image:hangencs200:NewspaperBruce.PNG width="275" height="354"]] ||
 * NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx ||

//Objective: Understand the uses of desktop publishing.// __Paper and Pencil__: Finish **Desktop Publishing--What Is It**?
 * Friday April 8, 2011**

Quagmire isn't just a cartoon character's name. @http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/quagmire __Try out__: **WordGame.sb**. This would be a word game for young children. __Scratch Program__: **WordGame.sb**

Show me WordGame.sb Turn in **Desktop Publishing--What Is It?**

//Objective: Understand the uses of desktop publishing.// Show Miss Hangen your PhotoStory and any other marking period 3 assignments that are not in your digital locker. __Paper and Pencil__: Pages 2,3,4,5,6 of **Desktop Publishing--What Is It?** Page 1 is in the red binder and has directions to find an occupation in the government database. Websites needed: http://www.bls.gov @http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos276.htm @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics @http://webvision.med.utah.edu/KallSpatial.html @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity @http://webvision.med.utah.edu/KallDepth.html @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_vision When you are finished with the packet, make sure your name is on it and turn it in.
 * Tuesday - Thursday April 5 - 7, 2011**

//Objective: Create a digital picture story about a place, topic, or event that you are interested in.// Get into your Gaggle digital locker. Save your PhotoStory file to your desktop. Save your PhotoData.xlsx to your desktop. Put final touches on your PhotoStory and have it ready to be viewed and graded. __Filename__: **PhotoStoryPdxLastname.wp3** __Requirements__: Title page created in PowerPoint Photos (Edited as necessary) Captions/Titles on several photos Customize Motion on all photos to create a fluid look and to emphasize featured parts of photos Add transitions other than the default to some slides to add interest and emphasize meaning Add appropriate music Include a credits slide that you create in PowerPoint. Make sure it is readable and flows well.
 * Monday April 4, 2011**

Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.