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Friday, October 3, 2025
Continuing on with Drawn To Animation. Let's go!
Today's typing lessons is #275-276!
I CAN: Learn how to create fluid animations that communicate a message effectively!
Thursday, October 2, 2025
We're working through the Drawn To Animation assignment now, and I'm excited to see how you handle it!
Today's typing lessons is #273!
I CAN: Learn how to create fluid animations that communicate a message effectively!
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Today, we begin to watch the tutorial for Frames, a new project we're starting in relationship to our Digital Citizenship unit. Pay close attention and then read the Drawn To Animation assignment.
Today's typing lessons are #271-272.
I CAN: Learn how to create fluid animations that communicate a message effectively!
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
For our final Digital Citizenhip lesson, we're concentrating on digital media and your brain! How do they interact? How do you protect yourself? Here's a video and handout!
Today's typing lessons are #269-270.
I CAN: practice safe and responsible use of technology and become an informed, responsible digital citizen.
I CAN: find new and inventive ways of communicating ideas and thoughts to an audience.
Monday, September 29, 2025
Today, we're talking about Hate Speech online. What is it? What can be done to counter it? Let's watch a short video and take a look at a handout.
Today's typing lessons are #267-268.
I CAN: practice safe and responsible use of technology and become an informed, responsible digital citizen.
Friday, September 26, 2025
What happens when someone from the internet asks you to meet in real life? What should you do? We'll talk about it as we move along today. Here's a video and the gist of the handout for today.
The typing lessons today are #265-266!
I CAN: practice safe and responsible use of technology and become an informed, responsible digital citizen.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
We're going to make a little turn here and use the next few days to talk about Digital Citizenship. We'll watch a short video and discuss it, in addition to having some discussion about how to use AI ethically. Here's today's handout and the AI research areas!
The typing lessons today are #263-264!
I CAN: practice safe and responsible use of technology and become an informed, responsible digital citizen.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Today, we finish A Unified Game! Finish strong!
The typing lessons today are #261-262!
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Today and tomorrow will finish up the A Unified Game project! Work hard! Be tenacious!
The typing lessons today are #257-259!
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Friday, September 19, 2025
You've got a few more days for the A Unified Game project!
The typing lessons today are #254-256 !
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Thursday, September 18, 2025
There are so many options for the A Unified Game project! Choose what excites you!
The typing lessons today are #251-253!
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
We're gonna be working on A Unified Game until next Tuesday, so let's get the party started!
The typing lessons today are #248-250!
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
You're off and running on A Unified Game!
Today's typing lesson is #244!
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Monday, September 15, 2025
You're choosing from the menu format for how you'll handle the A Unified Game project today! Choose wisely!
Today's typing lesson is #242!
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Friday, September 12, 2025
We're jumping into an all-new project that's loosely linked to Begin The Game--it's called A Unified Game! Today, to prepare, we watch a short Unity tutorial, and begin to prepare to blast off!
The typing lesson today is #240!
I CAN: execute higher-level coding functions in order to assemble a playable game in a professional engine!
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Today is the final in-class day for the Shopping Spree assignment! If students do not finish this today, they will have to come in during intervention, homeroom, before school, or after school. TRY NOT TO PUT THIS OFF! Assignments can snowball if they aren't taken care of! Don't let your life become a snowball.
Don't forget!: Today, we have a new homework assignment: the Google Sheets exit slip.
The typing lesson today is #238!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
It's the week of the Shopping Spree! We'll have it until tomorrow. Go hard!
The typing lesson today is #236!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
You're likely done with buying stuff by now--concentrate on making your Shopping Spree beautiful!
The typing lesson today is #234!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Monday, September 8, 2025
We are knee-deep into the Shopping Spree assignment, and will be working on it for quite a while. Students are to have Google Spreadsheets open during the course of this week and start their shopping, formatting, and editing.
The typing lesson today is #233!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Friday, September 5, 2025
We have finished with tutorials, and will be working on the Shopping Spree assignment for most of next week! Students will be putting finishing touches on their assignments by 9/11, hopefully.
The typing lesson today is #230!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
On this, the final day of Shopping Spree tutorials, we handle the the final part of the tutorial, in which we discuss charts and graphs within the program. Once students have a professional understanding of this topic, they are well prepared to begin the actual assignment. This assignment will continue into next week!
The typing lesson today is #228!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Today, we learn the ins and outs of Google Spreadsheets today as we move further into the program. We watched the the second third of the tutorial as we moved along. Today, we also formally introduced the Shopping Spree assignment in class, and gave the students a chance to understand how they're applying the skills they've been learning to the assignment itself.
The typing lesson today is #223!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Now that Begin the Game is complete, we begin a new project, the Shopping Spree! Today, we watch the first third of the tutorial video that is going to teach us how to use Google Sheets, the program we'll be concentrating on with this assignment. We will be doing a bit of practice with the program.
Today's typing lesson is #220!
I CAN: use spreadsheets to create real budgets to use in your everyday life.
Friday, August 29, 2025
Today, we finish the Begin the Game activity.
Today's typing lesson is #218!
I CAN: learn simple coding concepts and functions.
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Still moving forward with Begin the Game! I am super excited to see the results of your hard work. We'll have until Friday to work on it!
Today's typing lesson is #213!
I CAN: learn simple coding concepts and functions.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
We're continuing our work on Begin the Game! If you love coding, awesome! I'm down with that. You can try to do all five of the criteria listed on the assignment page for a fun challenge! If you hate coding, that's okay! Thank you for trying it out with me. Do, at minimum, two of the criteria on the assignment page, then move on to anything else on the What Do I Do board.
Today's typing lesson is #211!
I CAN: learn simple coding concepts and functions.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
It's a quick project, but Friday will be the the final day to work on Begin the Game! It's short and simple, and is meant to be a quick primer on coding to see if you're interested in moving on with the activity at the end of the year. We'll talk more about that soon!
Today's typing lesson is #209!
I CAN: learn simple coding concepts and functions.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Today, we finish the basics of the Scratch activity. Now that we've learned some very rudimentary skills of programming, we'll see if we can refine them by doing an assignment that dives further into Scratch from Tuesday to Friday.
Let's start the typing lessons with #205!
I CAN: learn simple coding concepts and functions.
Friday, August 22, 2025
Let's start off with a fun mini-activity: coding! Today, we're doing an activity on MIT's Scratch program that teaches us how to make Pong (well, Breakout, really, but let's not split hairs) on our very own! We'll be focusing on this activity today and tomorrow.
Let's start the typing lessons with #203!
I CAN: learn simple coding concepts and functions.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Welcome to Computers with Mr. Alexander! Today, we simply went over the guidelines and regulations of the classroom. I handed out the syllabus and we discussed various classroom rules.
I CAN: learn about my classroom.
I CAN: familiarize myself with a webpage.
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