Welcome to Mrs. Ryan's Tech Lit Class...

Contact me at mary.ryan@edmondschools.net

Weeks 6-7-8

February 15-19

Movie Project - Movie may be an original story, documentary, or interview.

Step 1. Storyboard - Due Friday 2-19-10

Monday Idiom Warm-ups - Movie Project - Start Story Board

Tuesday -  - Idiom Warm-ups - Story Board

Wednesday - Idiom Warm-ups -  How to use Audacity

Thursday - Idiom Warm-ups - Project overview

Friday -  Idiom Warm-ups - "Make Warm-ups Pretty" Print Warm-ups (100 daily points) -  Conference with Mrs. Ryan about storyboard and plan. (100 Project Points)

February 21- March 12th

Tuesday March 9th will be the last day to work on project in class.

Movies will be presented in class on the 10th - 11th - and 12th.

(Warm-Ups Daily - Print each Friday for 100 daily grade points)

Step 2. Write Script (If you are doing a documentary do research first.)

Step 3. Rehearse Narration

Step 4.  Record

Step 5.  Edit in Audacity - Add background Music

Step 6. Export as a MP3 - Save as "Final Audio"

Step 7.  Gather images (Take Pictures, Take Video, Draw Pictures, or Gather Internet Pictures)

Step 8. Import Images and Audio into Movie Maker

Step 9.  Add Title & Credits - Add images & Audio.

Step 10. Add transitions and effects (must have 3 of each).

Step 11.  Time images and audio to go together.

Step 12.  Save as Movie by the end of class on March 5th!

Objective:  Students will make a one to three minute movie that is narrated using Audacity and Movie Maker.

 

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Week 5

February 8th - February 12th

Monday Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.13

Tuesday -  - Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.14

Wednesday - Idiom Warm-ups -  Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.15

Thursday - Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit - Make-Up anything you have missed - Progress Reports go home!

Friday -  Idiom Warm-ups - "Make Warm-ups Pretty" Print Warm-ups (100 daily points) -  Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.15- Print Glencoe Keyboarding Report (each unit is 100 daily points) - Should have finished through 1.15.  2 minute Timed Writing together (for 100 test points)

Objective - You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 4

February 1st - February 5th

(Due to snow days you will turn last weeks work in with this weeks work on Friday 2-5-10)

Monday Snow Day- Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.10

Tuesday -  Snow Day - Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.11

Wednesday - Idiom Warm-ups -  Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.12  1.10

Thursday - Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.13 1.11

Friday -  Idiom Warm-ups - "Make Warm-ups Pretty" Print Warm-ups (100 daily points) -  Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.14 1.12- Print Glencoe Keyboarding Report (each unit is 100 daily points) - Should have finished through 1.14 1.12

Objective - You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 3

January 25th - January 29th

Monday - Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.8

Tuesday -  Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.9

Wednesday - Idiom Warm-ups -  Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.10

Thursday Snow Day-Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.11

FridaySnow DayIdiom Warm-ups - "Make Warm-ups Pretty" Print Warm-ups (100 daily points) -  Print Glencoe Keyboarding Report (each unit is 100 daily points) - Should have finished through 1.11

Objective - You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 2

January 19- January 22, 2010

Monday - No School - Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!!!

Tuesday -  Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.4

Wednesday - Idiom Warm-ups - Typing Position Test -100 Test Project Grade - Are you keeping your fingers on the home row keys as you type, keeping your eyes on the text, sitting up striahgt, and not resting your arms or hands on the table or keyboard.  Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.5

Thursday -- Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.6

Friday -  Idiom Warm-ups - "Make Warm-ups Pretty" Print Warm-ups (100 daily points) - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.7 - Print Glencoe Keyboarding Report (each unit is 100 daily points) - Should have finished through 1.7

Objective - You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 1

January 11-January 15, 2010

Monday - Welcome - Seating Chart - Expectations - Introductions

Tuesday - How to Log In - Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.1

Wednesday - Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.2

Thursday -- Idiom Warm-ups - Glencoe Keyboard Connections Unit 1.3

Friday -  Idiom Warm-ups - "Make Warm-ups Pretty" Print Warm-ups - Print Units 1.2,1.2, & 1.3

Objective - You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 18 - The last week of first semester!

January 4- January 8

Terrapin Logo (A program that teaches programming logic)

Week 17

December 14-December 18th

PowerPoints and Movies will be presented to the class.

Week 15 &16

November 30th - December 11th

Warm Ups are now idioms - Students will type the Idiom for the day and what they think it means. (The real meaning will also be discussed)

Power Point about yourself to music -

Bring pictures of you, your family, & your friends on December 1st (may be in any format - digital on a CD or Flash-drive or pictures to be scanned in class) 

Bring a song that goes with your life story - it must be full length and appropriate

These are the areas that will be graded

Start/Stop with Music

Has Pictures

Read/Font/Spelling

Has Custom Animation and clip art 

Stayed on Topic

Flow-slides stay on long enough but not too long

Has words from song while they are being sung

Work Cited (artist &name of song)

Week 14-1/2

November 23rd & November 24th

Computer Ethics - I-Safe

Week 11-12-13-14

October 26th - November 20th

Step 1 - The plan (Can be an interview, a documentary, or an original story) - Due 10-30-09 Project Grade

Step 2 - The script - Due 10-30-09 Project Grade

Step 3 - Record narration - make sound track -Final Project Due 11-20-09 Two Project Grades

Step 4 - Get images (take pictures, draw, or get pictures from the Internet) - Final Project Due 11-20-09 Two Project Grades

Step 5 - Put it together in Movie Maker - Final Project Due 11-20-09 Two Project Grades

Step 6 - Add credits (for all images & sound) - Final Project Due 11-20-09 Two Project Grades

Week 10

(October 19-20-21st)

Monday-Tuesday - Wednesday - Warm-ups and Audacity.  You will edit music to make it your own.  Must use effects - use more than one song - must have multiple tracks - must generally sound good. Export as MP3, Thursday you will quickly share your music with the class for a daily grade.

Week 9

October 12, 13, &14th

Monday - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th hour - Edmond Police Detective Oaks taking about Internet Safety in the Media Center.  7th and 8th hour - Time to make missing assignments up during class.

Tuesday & Wednesday - Martin Luther King Jr. Portrait in Microsoft Word. (Daily Grade)

Wednesday - Make warm-ups pretty and print.

Objective - Student will be able to follow direction and change format in MS  Word.

Week 8

October 5th - October 9th

Monday & Tuesday - Excel - Grades (with formulas) - Print Tuesday for a daily grade

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Car spreadsheet - You will find three cars on the Internet - one for less than $3000, one between $3001 - &15,000 , and one over $15,001 (no limit).  All cars must be street legal and safe.  The first 2 cars must be within 100 miles of our school, the last one must be in the USA. You will format Excel to figure out what your car payment would be using formulas and make a chart that compares the three cars.  This will be a Test/Project grade and will be due on Friday at the endo of the hour.

Week 7

September 28 - October 2

Monday - Excel - Candy - with a pie chart -  Handout Together (Print - Daily grade)

Tuesday - Excel - USA Flag (Scatter Chart) - (Print - Daily grade)

Wednesday - Thursday - You will chose 2 sets of data to make a Excel sheadsheet with a chart that is meaningful - (Print both on Thursday- Two Daily grades)

Friday - I will be at volleyball conference - Typing Time Practice Makes Perfect - C & D

Week 6

 

September 21 - September 25

Assignment - You will make a Power Point about the your favorite class or activity that you are now participating in.  Your Power Point will show in the cafeteria starting next Monday.  Project is due Friday at the end of class.  This is a project grade (60% of your grade.)

The following will be included: 

  • Must be positive.
  • Must use Formal Language
  • Must have pictures of your activity
  • Must have Clip Art, Text Box, & Word Art
  • Must have Timely Facts
  • Must have Custom Animation
  • Slides must be timed (Power Point must run by itself)
  • Must be able to read from the cafeteria TV's (Contrast and Spelling)

 Objective - You will be able to make a timed Power Point with pictures.

Week 5

Tuesday -

September 14th- Friday -September 18th

Assignment:  You will log into the computer each day, do the warm-up, and complete lesson 19 by Friday.  On Friday the class will "Make Warm-Ups Pretty" using different fonts, effects, color, and size.  All assignments will be printed on Friday. 

Tuesday:  Home Volleyball Game at 4:30 & 5:30 -Away Volleyball Thursday at PC Hefner 4:30 & 5:30 - All Edmond Tournament at Cimarron 3:30 PM - Saturday Teams at Santa Fe High School

Thursday:  Progress Reports go home 8th hour

Weekly Objective:  You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 4

Tuesday -September 8- Friday -September 11

Assignment:  You will log into the computer each day, do the warm-up, and complete lesson 14 by Friday.  On Friday the class will "Make Warm-Ups Pretty" using different fonts, effects, color, and size.  All assignments will be printed on Friday. 

Thursday:  Home Volleyball Game at 4:30 & 5:30 - Saturday Teams at North High School

Weekly Objective:  You will be able to type using the touch method.

 

Week 3

Wednesday -September 2 - Friday -September 4

Assignment:  You will log into the computer each day, do the warm-up, and complete lesson 10 by Friday.  On Friday the class will "Make Warm-Ups Pretty" using different fonts, effects, color, and size.  All assignments will be printed on Friday. 

Thursday:  Home Volleyball Game at 4:30 & 5:30 Followed by Open House

Weekly Objective:  You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 2

Monday 8-24-09 to Friday 8-28-09

Assignment:  You will log into the computer each day, do the warm-up, and complete lesson 7 by Friday.  On Friday the class will "Make Warm-Ups Pretty" using different fonts, effects, color, and size.  All assignments will be printed on Friday. 

On Tuesday - Test Grade for Typing correctly. 1)  Sitting up straight, 2) Hands on the home-row keys, 3) Hands & Arms not resting on the keyboard or table, and 4) Watching the screen (not hands) as you type

On Thursday during 8th hour Fund Raising material will be handed out.

Weekly Objective:  You will be able to type using the touch method.

Week 1

On Tuesday (8-18-09) we will make the seating chart - I will introduce myself - you will learn class room procedures!

On Wednesday (8-19-09) you will log into the computer (and get your first 100 points) - Learn how to do your daily warm-ups.  We will also log into Typing Time and start lesson one.

On Thursday (8-20-09) you will log in, type your warm-up, and continue in Typing Time. Finish Lesson 1 - start Lesson 2

On Friday (8-21-09) we will (together) make your warm-ups pretty and print them (your 2nd 100 points).  Finish Lesson 2 and print your Typing Time Summary Report (100 points for lesson 1 & 100 points for lesson 2) - There will also be a fire drill during 3rd hour.   

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