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Motiving 5th & 6th graders with Programming

This is another session for my Business/Computers hat. notes...

LOGO, Alice

John Newson
Bonnie Brodd
David Miller

Teachers.lakesideschool.org/ms/tech/ncce2010
handouts
powerpoint
downloads


Computer Skills
45 min 1 day/wk
Keyboarding
Email and email etiquette
copyright
Office 2007 basics in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Programming 5th LOGO and Alice 6th Scratch
support the curriculum so drop what they are learning in computers to help with the other class projects


Introduction to Logo
Walking the Turtle around a square
FD
RT
tape shapes on the floor and walk out the steps
The Challenge draw a house using procedures (walls, roof, door window, not draw, etc)
practice on the smartboard and then individual
Then Challenge draw a face (circles, etc)
add an input and use it in your procedure
Fun with Turtle (change color, width)
Final Project
create a design or drawing of your choice
multiple pen color
different pen widths
multiple turtles
procedures
procedures within procedures

LOGO Terapin upgrade lab license of 20 is $300
10 weeks for unit 45min/week

ALICE - Free
http://www.alice.org
worlds-templates
objects
tools

First Project
Create a new world using the water template
add the island from the gallery
add the shark
position the shark so it looks like it is swimming to the left of the island
create a second world and add three objects

Moving Objects
create a new world using the winter template
add a snowman and snowwoman from the gallery
switch to cars

1 new alice thing each week

SCRATCH

Logo Linear, Text based
Alice Object Oriented Built-in Movements 3D Graphics
Scratch Object Oriented, Open Ended

students go to class website for initial instructions
The Spot
Three before Me

computers on the edge of the classroom
The Spot - minimize distractions (turn off screen, sit on hands) do what they need to to pay attention (independent)
Teachers and students both can use the spot
inside voices (mutual respect finish before stopping)
Three before me (verbally communicate - don't grab mouse)

Scratch Project
An editing recording of yourself reciting your poem using audacity (free for audio editing)
two animated sprites
two backgrounds
1 imported image
3 color-coded block categories
This was based upon the English class memorization of a poem
these are minimums students must stretch themselves

What went Well
collaboration
knowledge sharing
peer review
motivation

Lessons Learned
concept was too abstract for first Scratch project
Did not account for gap between classes

next time give mini-projects first

handouts at MIT website

Tools that complement Scratch
Atomic Learning ($)
Jing
Audacity
Photoshop ($)
Sketchup
Picoboard

Benefits of Programming
Independent learning
collaboration
critical thinking
problem solving
creativity

This would be a great addition to any computer applications class!

Teacher Librarians

Colet Bartow - from Montana OPI is one of the presenters
Steve - President Elect

http://NCCETeacherLibrarianSummit.ncce.wikispaces.net
information from the Summit on Wednesday - this will be streamed video soon :)

Title "Teacher Librarian" to emphasis the Teaching role of the Librarian
Bridge the link between Information and Technology literacy
effective users and producers
Library & Information Technology Program (LIT)
Mission: To ensure that students are effective users and producers of ideas and information.
3 essential functions
1. Information Technology Instruction
2. Reading Advocacy
3. Information Management

Bar on the left is the agenda from the summit

wallwisher - tool to gather ideas
join and contribute to the wiki

Then we broke into groups to discuss what needs to be done to move our libraries forward. This session was very motivating and I came out of the session reinvigorated to move forward. I have some ideas that I would love to incorporate into my library. More later...

Keeping Up with the Googlebots

Dr. Patrick Crispen

netsquirrel.com

look for Google 201 shows the advanced Google features (free presentation)
tinyurl.com/googncce
check out windows tab

In the search....
conversions
weather sea
calculator 2+2 (2*2)/pi*G (gravity)
1 mile in smoots
Capital of Belgium
Population of France
many answers before pressing enter - similar to AskJeeves

More options - search blogs, specific date (last week, etc)
archive.org has archived back to 95 (the evolution of the web)

nearby - local hits based upon IP address
custom location - you choose

wonder wheel - your search term in the middle with spokes of other search terms and the click on another search term and it continues creating wheels - brainstorm search terms, click on web and then search for currently highlight search

timeline - wardrobe malfunction

images from the page - 2-3 pictures from the page and display on the search results
page views - thumbnail of the page prior to loading
fewer shopping sites (more shopping sites)
limit to discussions - Q&A sites (yahoo answers, etc)
images - more options - sizes, face, photo, clipart, line drawing, color
video - time, quality, slide shows, CC, cartoons
image-swirl.googlelabs.com

filter - images and languages built into google
google.com/preferences and click Lock Safe Search - password protected cookie for all google sites (this must be done on each browser) - you know safe search is on if you see balls on your screen
fastflip.googlelabs.com
Google Buzz - social medium center - contact lists and profile are public by default
neutering or disabling Buzz - in preferences to make private or disable altogether
Google Chrome (web browser) - google.com/chrome - best features: security and speed - minimalist approach - each tab a seperate application (one tab goes down - others available)

youtube.com/disco (pandora)- playlist from youtube
youtube.com/html5 (safari 4 and chrome)
feather "lite" version of youtube - reduce latency (beta)
Google Public DNS - Domain Name Servers (code.google.com/speed/public-dns) - use google DNS server to speed up searching DON'T do this on a laptop
Google.com/moderator
function space to zoom (some computers)

autocompleteme.com
googlegoggles (for android)google.com/mobile/goggles take a picture of anything with words and google will search for those words, or take a picture of something (ie golden gate bridge) and search,
images.google.com/hosted/life -
dictionary.google.com pronunciations (audio sometimes), conjugation, related phrases and languages
google.com/support

Google Story video
4 blogs on PowerPoint (squirrelnet) to keep up with google

Last Day

It's Friday, usually that means excitement for the weekend and ready to crash. Today however has mixed emotions, I'm exhausted, but there will be time to sleep on the bus ride home. Right now I just need to be the most absorbant sponge I can be. I'm sad that the conference is almost over...

Used Book Sale

What a great finale to a wonderful day! The Elliot Bay Book store in Seattle has a 60% of Used books sale! Many award winners and honorees.

Good Night!

Microsoft Office 2010

I decided to attend this workshop based on my other hat as a Business/Computer Teacher. Right now our school district runs Office 2003 on all the computers except the HS Business classes - who purchased their own licenses for 2007. I am MS Certified in Excel and Word 2007. So this new version intrigues me - perhaps its a chance for the rest of the school to get caught up and then we'll be back to one version of Office. Perhaps I will be teaching this in a Business class. Maybe I'll need to become certified in these as well. Should be interesting to see how different 2010 is from the the very different 2007. Compatibility is another issue I want to learn more about.

So here are the notes...

PowerPoint will allow embedded video
pretty funny MS2010 trailer on you tube - see if I can find it
http://netsquirrel.com
Next version of Office 14 (they're skipping 13)
No major interface changes - just minor updates (yeah!!!)

2007 Change - make it easier to find things (Top 10 Requests were things MS already did - people just couldn't find it)

Major focus online storage, editing and collaboration
Release unknown - June 15?
7 Different Suites available - no free upgrades

Office Button returns to File - takes away from the document and goes "backstage"
=rand(5) inserts 5 random paragraphs of text
permissions now built in
Print and Print Preview are now combined (hooray!)
Paste Preview
Merge Paste (keeps formatting such as bold, italics but converts to be the same)
Ribbon now in all applications
Ribbon can be customized
Minimize/Maximize ribbon with "smoosh" button

Edit video (to shorten add a few effects)
Text effects replaces WordArt (similar to Excel chart effects)
Screenshots on insert tab - much faster than print screen
Background Removal tool - get rid of background of picture
More SmartArt
Windows Live SkyDrive - 25GB harddrive free - sharing and editing capabilities with limited web version
Simultaneous co-editing on the cloud
Control F - find feature enhanced more like Adobe and Google Books
Broadcast slide show live
Record Slideshow
Animations has its own tab
Equation Editor now in PP
Sections in PP and then close to
Animation Painter



Embed 2007
delete watch v
www.youtube.com/v/filename

Open PowerPoint
Office Button
Options --> Popular turn on Developer Tab --> ok
Developer Tab --> more tools --> add Shockwave ActiveX Control --> ok
Draw box with cursor
Properties