JPGs of my "All About ME" Slideshow

9. Slide Presentation All About You!

Google SLIDES:

This is going to be a FUN ONE:

• 1. Go to Google SLIDES, click on the Google Apps Icon

 

• 2. Create a new slideshow--name the file: Your First & Last name

• 3. Create a Title Slide and Select a Slideshow Theme

1. 4. Title your Slideshow with your First and your Last Name

• 5. Add a new Slide. Go to the SLIDE menu item, and select "Apply Layout" and select a layout for your next slide.

• 6. Add two images to the slide, title the slide according to the subject of the slide. Each slide should have content about you and things you like to do. After the TITLE SLIDE, please add at least three more slides, just like we did above. (total of 4 slides).
• Each slide should have:
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• 1. 2 Images per slide. Images can be of any source.
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• 2. A short narration (text content) of what the subject is and what you like about it, other information you would want the reader to know.
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• 3. A title for the subject of the slide.
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• 7. Submit your slideshow to Google CLASSROOM:
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• 1. Save each slide with "SAVE AS"
• 2. Click on the JPG format so the slide is saved as a PIC
• 3. Use the INSERT IMAGE in the menu bar of your BLOG post to insert a PIC of each of your 4 slides into the post.

9. Yougurt Shoppe: Google Spreadsheet

Time to Play a Game!

Time to Simulate Real Life or is it Real Simulate Life??

A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?

LINK to GAMES: Tycoon Games / Business Simulation for Kids and Teens

Play free tycoon games online for children, teens, high school & college students on Learn4Good.com. Exercise your management skills and entrepreneurial qualities, and learn how to run a successful business or operation on these fun interactive business simulation / strategy games, RPG food service/ cafe/ diner games, farmer games, airport management games to play at school or at home on your computer. From simple fun to more challenging educational games & activities. Happy business management! Go Tycoon!

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WHAT YOU NEED TO DO... Just PLAY!

  

Example of how to Submit a Document

This is my Business Letter number One. To view my letter you can click here:

https://docs.google.com/a/northstarcharter.org/document/d/18XAKauINiA1N-r7abIfgHYW3P8ivHBLUknyUkEqPj2c/edit?usp=sharing

Writing a Business Letter: Letter Number 2

Time to write a second letter this one is a little bit different. On this letter we will add the "SENDER's" (that's you) information into the ADDRESS BLOCKS of the LETTER--see the example of the letter that I use in my directions for adding a TABLE to your letter.

Oh yeah, we are also going to add a table to our letter.

For those of you that will miss this lesson or those of you that have questions about "what" and "how" we did, I will leave a screen cast for you so that you can also follow along later.

Here's what we are going to use:

Now OPEN GOOGLE DOCS to a NEW BLANK TEMPLATE and you are ready to go!

1. Open Google DOCS and select a BLANK document
2. Split the screen and place the above post on one half and your Google DOC on the other
3. Follow the directions for creating a business formatted letter and adding a TABLE
          Either from Mr. Winkelman or from the Video below
4. Be sure to add your ADDRESS to the ADDRESS BLOCK (see the example below).
4. Embed your finished letter in your BLOG
5. Submit your POST URL to Google Classroom

Here's the Screen Cast with the directions for the lesson:

Sample Letter with Personal Address Block:

Writing a Business Letter (Class Collaboration): Letter Number 1

Together as a class we are going to use GOOGLE DOCS to write a BUSINESS FORMATTED LETTER. You will want to make sure that you are not distracted by other computer activities, so close all other tabs that are open on your browser and pay attention.

For those of you that will miss this lesson or those of you that have questions about "what" and "how" we did, I will leave a screen cast for you so that you can also follow along later.

Here's what we are going to use:

Now OPEN GOOGLE DOCS to a NEW BLANK TEMPLATE and you are ready to go!

1. Open Google DOCS and select a BLANK document
2. Split the screen and place the above post on one half and your Google DOC on the other
3. Follow the directions for creating a business formatted letter
          Either from Mr. Winkelman or from the Video below
4. Embed your finished letter in your BLOG
5. Submit your POST URL to Google Classroom

Here's the Screen Cast with the directions for the lesson:

Here is what your finished letter should look like:

Purchase a Computer

Use the worksheet attached to the following link. Find a computer that you would like to purchase and fill in the worksheet with the data about your computer. In the COMMENTS section write why you chose this computer, and what purposes would you be using it for.

Goto : Worksheet

When you open the worksheet --- First, go to FILE and then go to MAKE A COPY. Once a copy is made close the worksheet from the link and go to YOUR Google SHEETS and open the COPY WORKSHEET. this is the only way that you can edit the worksheet.

Tour Inside of a Computer

Field Trip through a Computer

Imagine, if you will, that there is no longer any need for you to leave the comfort and safety of your classroom to go on a field trip. Suppose, that you are now in a future so much more advanced than that of today. A future were a student, such as yourself, may be handed a small device that could quite literally sit upon your lap, and that through this device you could be granted access to a new and amazing world of science and computer technology.

Today is that day, your "lap-top" device will take you on a Virtual Field Trip Tour of what in the future we will call a computer.

How will this happen? You ask. Well it can only happen in the...

1. Click the "ZONE" to begin your Field Trip
2. Please select each computer part image
3. Read the content and watch the video

4. Answer the following questions:

What Shall we do TODAY?

<Click Here>

Creating a Valentine's Day Card Template

Creating a Google DOCS Template


It is so easy to use Google DOCS, especially when the hard work is already done for you.
But TODAY... you're the one that is doing the hard work for someone else. But, don't worry, the hard work is just as easy.

You are going to create a template and help us build a HUGE database North Star Charter School Valentine's Day cards.

What's a TEMPLATE? 

If you often find yourself creating the same kind of Google Doc, you can save a lot of time with a custom template. Custom templates can contain boilerplate language like your address and logo or preset fonts and colors

Before you make a template, make sure you are comfortable with it being public, as Google Docs doesn't allow these documents to be private. There is a way to create a similar kind of document that stays private, but that workaround doesn't use the Google Docs Template service.

PART ONE: Making a Google DOCS Template

*** New Student's Only***

net·i·quette

ˈnedəkət,ˈnedəˌket/

noun

1. the correct or acceptable way of communicating on the Internet.

Click on the following link and read the data on the web-page.

At the end of the page is a SCAVENGER HUNT

Copy the questions to a BLOG post. Make your questions one color.

Answer each question with you answer following the question, make your answers an opposing color to the color selected for your questions.

The Core RULES of NETIQETTE

Typing.COM - Honing Our Keyboarding Skills

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. -- Vince Lombardi

#1. Intermediate - Typing.com

There is always more room for practice. Great piano musicians, don't stop at greatness, they practice. Football teams that are made up of the best players in the world, still practice. The same is true for BUSINESS SKILLS, practice. Keyboarding is a skill that although useful right now today -- may not even be practiced in the future. It just may be a SKILL that is no longer needed as technology continues to advance.

My goal is to help get you ready for ALL possibilities of the FUTURE and for right now; that includes KEYBOARDING -- SO, we are going to practice.

You should have set up an account on the website TYPING.COM earlier in class. You should also have started the beginner portion of the STUDENT LESSONS (just for practice). Now it is time to get into it!

1. Create a POST in your NEW 2nd Semester Blog   
     a. Title the POST: "Typing.Com - Common English Words"
     b. You will create a new post for every Intermediate Lesson. 

2. Open the website Typing.com (click on this link)


3. Select the INTERMEDIATE LESSONS


4. Begin at LESSON 1 - "Common English Words"
     a. In your POST record the results of each of the 19 lessons
     b. EXAMPLE: 
Lesson 1: 3 Stars; 57wpm; 98% Accuracy; :10 time; Y problem key
Lesson 2: 3 Stars; 55wpm; 97% Accuracy; :15 time; L, S problem key
Lesson 3: 2 Stars; 52wpm; 92% Accuracy; :13 time; W, Q problem key
Lesson 4: 2 Stars; 61wpm; 91% Accuracy; :12 time; Y, H, P problem key
      all the way through to lesson 19
Lesson 19: 1 Stars; 52wpm; 88% Accuracy; :20 time; U, K problem key


5. At the end of each LESSON (1 through 19) You will take a timed typing test, you can chose either 1 minute, 3 minutes, or 5, minutes.
6. At the end of your TIMED TEST you will get a page that show your test results. PRINT SCREEN your results. CROP out all of the page except your results, SAVE your results as a JPG file, and upload that picture to your POST for that lesson.
7. In the end you will have a total of 11 POSTS in your 2nd Semester Blog.



This lesson will have BLOG POSTS 1 through 11 in your NEW 2nd Semester Blog for Computer Science. Each POST will have the same title as the lesson from the INTERMEDIATE section of lessons in Typing.Com.

Example of a POST for : "Typing.Com Easy Home Row Words"

Welcome Back to Second Semester!

Welcome Back to School Computer scientists!

It is good to be back and to get started once again. You hare now half of the way through with your 6th grade year of school--you are also half way through with all of your pre-college education! That is exciting!

My goal is to help get you ready for ALL of that FUTURE education. Part of getting ready is also how well you engage with technology and some of the applications and systems that you will experience in your future education. It is TIME to move on!

Here at North Star Charter School we are dedicated to offering our students every opportunity to explore both areas of advanced study and areas of potential career opportunities. This course is designed to offer this exploration into the many aspects of computer implementation in business, personal finance, Art, broadcasting, gaming, and animation.

I am looking forward to exploring the future with you 6th grade students of North Star Charter School!