There are many online tools that can help you be more organized, establish a professional look, and appeal to your individual talents and interests. In this class you will explore many tools and learn to use them well for your own purposes as well as instructing others. Tools include the Google Apps for Education (mail, calendar, docs, photos, sites), bookmarking services, online video production, animation tools, and a bit of safe social networking. Take advantage of the digital explosion harnessing its power for your own digital (and academic) life.
May 3, 2012 - Open your old (or a new) spreadsheet
- Making/naming a workbook
- Personal budget: income & expenses per month& year, percentage, pie
- Alternative: Browse the ExcellsFun channel on YouTube and find a skill you like and learn and apply it
April 19. 2012: Excel Spreadsheets: A big table of rows and columns that can contain, manipulate, and organize information (usually numbers). - Orientation to Office apps' (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Their common features (menus, toolbars, buttons)
- Overview of a spreadsheet
- Making a personal budget: income, expenses, balance, percentage
- Making a pie chart: contents of a Skittles bag
March 22 & 29, 2012: Programming - Writing "code" that gives instructions that the computer executes
- List of possible programs
- Sample a few, choose one, make something
March 15, 2012: Workday - Check scoresheet
- Finish Prezi
March 8, 2012 Prezi: - Similarities and differences from PowerPoint
- Samples: Halloween, Bassists, Promo, List
- Find online tutorials
- Make your own and post link
March 1, 2012
Google Calendar - Log in to your Google account
- Go to your calendar
- Create an event for FAD
- Make another single event (for anything) and move it
- Make a repeating all-day event (birthday)
- Make a repeating time-bound event (this class)
- Calendar settings: name, view, colors, etc
- Add a public calendar
- Make a calendar and share it
- Other...
February 16, 2012 Print your form, put your name on it, and give it to me
Making Online Educational Activities
January 25 and February 2, 2012: GoAnimate - Class overview and student suggestions
- Gathering email addresses
- On what apps/sites are you a 'pro'?
- GoAnimate: Making online animations
- go there and view 3+ samples
- create an account & get confirmation email
- start your first video... on an academic topic
- enter your link onto our spreadsheet
January 17, 2011 Our Last Session View some emerging technologies and share one
January 10, 2012 How (and Why) to Do A Mail-Merge - I show it, you watch it.
- You do it (or not) and I help out
- Make sure the spreadsheet has a complete row for you
- Open time
January 3, 2012
Spreadsheets: A big table of rows and columns that can contain, manipulate, and organize information (usually numbers). - Orientation to Office apps' (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Their common features (menus, toolbars, buttons)
- Overview of a spreadsheet
- Making a personal budget: income, expenses, balance, percentage
- Making a pie chart: contents of a Skittles bag
December 13, 2011
Three possible activities for today: - Utilize one of the tools we have used so far
- Find another tool and suggest it on the spreadsheet
- Explore one that someone else has suggested
December 6, 2011 Any Prezi progress? Khoi & Malaika's examples
Pixton: - Making comics
- Samples
- Make your own... preferably connected to a school topic
November 29, 2011 Keelin, Michael, Dennis, Rohan -- you have to fill in empty cells before doing today's topics
Prezi: - Similarities and differences from PowerPoint
- Samples: Halloween, Bassists, Promo, List
- Find online tutorials
- Make your own and post link
November 22, 2011
Making Online Educational Activities - View some of my samples: Homophones (JavaGame), Metric Approximations (Columns), Cell Parts (Jumbled Words), Aspects of Us (Challenge Board)
- Create a trial account (as if you were a teacher)
- Choose a game type and create one
- Post the link
- Get someone to test it and give you feedback
November 15, 2011 -field trip to TheTech
November 8, 2011 Google Sites- -name (url)
- -add page(s)
- -theme
- -formats
- -navigation
- -visibility
- -gadgets
November 1, 2011: Google Tools Tutorials
October 18, 2011: Google Forms - Anyone do more with GoAnimate?
- What other similar services are there and what academic purposes can you think of?
- Using a Google form to make a survey
- logging in, naming form, creating text-field questions
- adding multiple choice, checkboxes, scale, and grid questions
- sharing the form via email or website
October 4, 2011: GoAnimate - Class overview and student suggestions
- Gathering email addresses
- On what apps/sites are you a 'pro'?
- GoAnimate: Making online animations
- go there and view 3+ samples
- create an account & get confirmation email
- start your first video... on an academic topic
- enter your link onto our spreadsheet
Winter, 2012 - Amanda Smith 22
- Ben Schouten 22
- Colin Poling 24
- Dev Rangarajan 23
- Dhruval Trivedi 23
- Hagen Hildebrandt 23
- Jerry Lee 23
- Jonathan Abbadasari 22
- Justin Mi 25
- Maher Osman 24
- Miguel Fuentes 27
- Riley Lewis 25
- Tomer Schlomovich 26
- Vernon Bussler 25
Fall, 2011 - Malaika
- Prashant
- Rohan
- Khoi
- Noa Michaels
- Claire Leary
- Michael Hillman
- Dennis Nastarenko
- Ishika
- Keelin
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