21 Things 4 Stage IV

Jan 31 - Final class!

1. Open Jing. Take a screencast of how to do one thing you learned in this class. (Such as how to do an advanced Google search, how to bookmark and tag a website in Diigo, or how to use Bubbl.us. Or take a screencast of you pointing out the names of different parts of the desktop or web browser.) Then save the file and email it to me.

2. Unanswered questions: Shortcuts? Using Internet more effectively? Dealing with pop-ups? Understanding computer signs?

3. Take the Exit Survey.

4. Unfinished business:

-Nathan, Andy, Noah, Aiden, and Sydney:

Read the 10 rules of netiquette and the 10 online safety tips at http://www.21things4students.net/21/digital-citizenship/mission-cybershield/q1-bill-of-rights/. Ask if there are any parts that don't make sense to you.
Play the Cyber Spy Game http://www.21things4students.net/21/digital-citizenship/mission-protect-your-identity/q4-cyber-spy-game/
Take the Safe Kids quiz http://www.safekids.com/quiz/

-Josh:

Creative Commons: what it is, how to search for Creative Commons images in Flickr.
Find an image in Flickr Creative Commons.

I will send your iMovies to your Roeper email addresses.

Thanks for taking this class with me!

Jan 24 - Copyright, Creative Commons, & Screencasting

1. Think back to the Fair(y) Use Tale. What is Copyright? What is the purpose of copyright?

2. Creative Commons: what it is, how to search for Creative Commons images in Flickr.

3. Find an image in Flickr Creative Commons.

4. How to create a screencast using Jing.

5. Create a Jing screencast of how to search Flickr Creative Commons or do one of the other things you learned in this class. When finished recording, save the file to your computer and email it as an attachment to me. (Ask for help if you don't know how to do this!)

From last week:

Read the 10 rules of netiquette and the 10 online safety tips at http://www.21things4students.net/21/digital-citizenship/mission-cybershield/q1-bill-of-rights/. Ask if there are any parts that don't make sense to you.
Play the Cyber Spy Game http://www.21things4students.net/21/digital-citizenship/mission-protect-your-identity/q4-cyber-spy-game/
Take the Safe Kids quiz http://www.safekids.com/quiz/

Jan 24 - Google Searching & Website Evaluation

*Complete activities from last week that you didn't do yet, listed at the bottom of today's agenda*

1. Watch and discuss Google video as a class: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8aYoVpdz8o

Advanced searching tricks: *, ?, +, -, AND, OR

Website assessment, how to tell if a website is "quality" using the CRAAP test:http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/research/tips/webeval/

2. Compare http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ and http://worldwildlife.org/

3. Use advanced search strategies to find information about Mercury (the god, not the planet), an endangered animal in Oregon, and a recipe for cake that includes vinegar but not eggs.

Jan 14 - Digital Storytelling & Cyber Safety

1. Receive your labeling activity and answer key. Review it and fill in/correct anything you didn't know. Why is it important to know what different parts of a computer screen and web browser are called?

2. Carmen will explain today's plan.

3. Middle Building Students: finish editing your iMovie. I fixed the settings so we can now import the videos that we recorded outside.

Quad Building Students: Work in two teams to create an iMovie trailer using the storyboarding tool.

4. Read the 10 rules of netiquette and the 10 online safety tips at http://www.21things4students.net/21/digital-citizenship/mission-cybershield/q1-bill-of-rights/. Ask if there are any parts that don't make sense to you.

5. Play the Cyber Spy Game http://www.21things4students.net/21/digital-citizenship/mission-protect-your-identity/q4-cyber-spy-game/

6. Take the Safe Kids quiz http://www.safekids.com/quiz/

Jan 16 - Photo Editing & Fair Use (Quad Building)

1. As a class, watch and discuss Fair(y) Use Tale.

3. Take a photo, use a sample photo, or save a photo from flickr.com/creativecommons. Open Aviary Photo Editor or Pic Stitch, then open your photo within the app. Use at least three different types of editing tools (such as "effects," "frames"/"borders," and color editing tools). If you use a photo from the internet, you MUST include attribution by copying the website URL into a text box at the bottom of the image. Make this small but legible.

4. Save your iPad picture to the iPad camera roll. Make sure to include your name on your work.

5. Repeat steps 4 and 5 if you have additional time, using a different tool.

Jan 18 - Late Start Day/No 1st-block classes

Jan 28 - Everything that's left!

Choose one of the remaining topics or tools (eCommerce, Troubleshooting, Game Design). Learn about it and create a short screencast using Jing to share with others. Then view each others' videos.

Jan 10 - Digital Storytelling (Middle Building)

1. With one or two partners or independently, draft an idea for a story. Create an outline, storyboard, or script that shows your plan.

2. Record video. Keep it to under 4 minutes of raw video.

3. Use iMovie to edit, add effects, combine different shots, etc.

4. Watch each other's movies!

Jan 8 - Photo Editing & Fair Use (Middle Building)

1. As a class, watch and discuss Fair(y) Use Tale.

4. Save your iPad picture to the iPad camera roll. Make sure to include your name on your work.

5. Repeat steps 4 and 5 if you have additional time, using a different tool.

Dec 21 - Catch-up

1. Open the Tracking Sheet. By today, you should have completed Things 1 through 10.

2. Catch up on anything you haven't completed. If you are caught up, help a classmate catch up on missed Things. The instructions are all on this page, so scroll down to find them.

3. Check in with me when you are done. If you have remaining time, you may go to Approved Websites or any of the websites linked from the Children's Library website. Some cool ones can be found under Online Resources and under Look It Up.

4. Have a great Holiday Break!

Dec 19 - Organizing & Representing Information

1. Digital Media Log (let's finish this in 20 minutes!):

G et into your group (girls, 1st-year boys, or 2nd-year boys)
- Work together to combine your logs into one list and total up the number of minutes if more than one person used the same media. You may want to combine some categories or divide others. Aim for 4 to 8 categories. Finish this in about 5 minutes.
- Using Create A Graph, create a bar graph of the data from your group:
  - Design: Together, choose the direction, shape, and style of your bar graph.
    - Change "Legend" to "-no legend-"
- Data: Give the graph a descriptive title that tells what it shows
- Labels: Just type "Min" into the Suffix box
- Preview: Make sure it looks right and makes sense
- Print/Save: Print as a PDF to the Library printer or email it to me (carmen.pianko@roeper.org) and I will print it.

2. Bubbl.us: Bubbl.us is a mind-mapping tool that can be helpful for organizing (and re-organizing) ideas and information. We will learn to use it by mapping out a topic you are an expert in. For example, I'm a book expert so I made one about types of books.

Sign into https://bubbl.us/ with the same username and password you use for Diigo. (Ask me if you don't remember yours.)
Play with Bubbl.us to learn how to use it, or click on "Help" and then "Getting Started" to learn the basics.
Choose a topic that you are an expert in. It can be anything (as long as it's school appropriate).
Map out your topic using "parent", "child", and "sibling" bubbles. (You can see my example in the Sheets window if you click on "Shared by childrenslibrary" and then click on "Books".)
Save it!

3. If you have remaining time, finish up anything left from previous days (labeling, Digital Footprint, Diigo bookmarks). If you are all caught up, add more of your favorite websites from your Digital Footprint or Digital Media Log to your Diigo.

Dec 17 - Digital Footprint

1. Open a Word doc and create a list of websites that you use, such as Google, Minecraft, Poptropica, Cool-math... List as many as you can think of!

2. Watch this video to learn how to create a word cloud of your "digital footprint" on imagechef.com. The instructions are also written below.

Go to http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/.
Copy (CTRL+C) your list of websites and paste (CTRL+V) it into the text box (the picture below shows it inside the red oval).
Click on "symbol" to bring up a menu of shapes.
Type "footprint" into the search box in the symbol menu and choose a foot shape.
Pick your own colors and font.
Click on preview to see if you like it.
When you like it, click Export.
Right-click on the picture and choose "Save Image As." Save it as lastname-footprint to your account and then print it to the STEWARD Library printer. Write your name on it and turn it in.

Dec 13 - Diigo & Online Footprint

1. If you have not finished your labeling activity, finish it today!

2. Learn how to bookmark websites in your Diigo account. Check with me if you need help logging in to Diigo. Here are the instructions from last time:

Bookmark the following websites to your Diigo account and create at least 3 tags for each website:

21 Things 4 Stage IV page (suggested tags: Roeper, 21Things, school, library, StageIV, Internet)
Children's Library DestinyQuest catalog (suggested tags: Roeper, school, library, books, catalog, DestinyQuest, reading)
3 other websites (at least one should be something you already use often and one should be something new you find through a Google search about a topic of interest. The other is your choice. Don't forget to create tags for them!)

3. What is a "digital footprint"? Discussion.

Dec. 11 - Labeling & Cloud Storage

Thank you for the detailed answers to the 21 Things Survey!

1. Work on labeling activity for the first few minutes. If you are finished, help another group take the screenshots and print them, and explain the instructions if they need help. If you still have extra time, start on Step 4.

**Tell Carmen a username you'd like to use for the next Thing so she can create the accounts.**

2. Review extensions quiz as a class and why it's important to know these things.

3. Watch What Is Cloud Storage? as a class, then quick discussion/explanation of Diigo and how tags can help you find things later

4. Install Diigolet as an Internet Explorer add-on. Go to http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet and follow the instructions. (Make sure your Favorites bar is visible by right-clicking in the browser bar and checking "Favorites Bar".)

5. Receive Diigo account information and log in to your account.

6. Bookmark the following websites to your Diigo account and create at least 3 tags for each website:

21 Things 4 Stage IV page (suggested tags: Roeper, 21Things, school, library, StageIV, Internet)
Children's Library DestinyQuest catalog (suggested tags: Roeper, school, library, books, catalog, DestinyQuest, reading)
3 other websites (at least one should be something you already use often and one should be something new you find through a Google search about a topic of interest. The other is your choice. Don't forget to create tags for them!)

Dec. 7 - Shortcuts and Vocabulary (Use the links and instructions below)

1. As soon as you arrive, take this survey if you didn't already: 21 Things Survey

2. Watch this video Basic Shortcuts

3. Shortcuts document

Open a Word Document.
Copy the instructions from today's 21 Things Instructions (beginning with Dec. 7 to the end of today's instructions) and paste them into the Word Document.
Cut the words CUT ME and paste them at the bottom of the document.
Find how many times your first initial is in the document. Type this letter and number at the end of the document, after the words CUT ME.
Select all of the text and make it bold.
Also try undo, redo, and any of the other shortcuts you thought would be helpful.
Save it using CTRL+S and labeling it as Lastname-shortcuts in the 21 Things 4 Stage IV folder

*Hint: here is a list of the shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts so you don't have to keep rewinding the video*

4. Review Extensions Quiz aLabeling (partner activity)

Minimize everything that is open so you can see your desktop and take a screenshot of your desktop OR Keep your web browser open and take a screenshot (use the Prnt Scrn key in the very top row of the keyboard) of the website you have open. (Do the opposite of what your partner is doing so together you have two different images.)
Paste it into Paint or Word
Print it
With your partner, take your printed screenshots and label as many of the parts of the two screens as you can. Use this list of vocabulary terms to help (and add any other labels that you know that are not on this list):
- Taskbar
- Icon (bonus points for being more specific about what each icon represents)
- Start Menu
- Pinned Application
- File
- Folder
- Desktop
- Notification Area
- Mouse Pointer
- Back button
- Forward button
- Refresh
- Stop
- Address bar
- Add-on tool (if there are any)
- Close
- Minimize
- Full-screen toggle
- Header
- URL
- Toolbar
- Menu Bar
- Tab
Put both names on your papers and turn in to the wire basket on the computer lab ledge before you leave.

5. Review Extensions Quiz as a class

Dec. 5 - Acceptable Use Policies, Usernames, Passwords (use the links and instructions below)

1. Finish your NETS self-assessment and goals.

2. Discussion about usernames and what makes for a good one. Come up with possible usernames that have personal significance to you, but don't give away too much personal information. When you have three username ideas, move on to step .

3. Carmen will come around to ask you about your username ideas while you're watching and to give you feedback.

4. Watch this video from CommonCraft about creating good passwords: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/secure-passwords

5. Go to http://namechk.com/ to see which of the usernames you want to use is available on a variety of sites.

5. The Roeper School's Student Internet and Network Acceptable Use Policy is available here: Roeper Student Acceptable Use Policy. Open it and begin reading. We will review it quickly as a class, and more thoroughly with your homerooms over the next month. It is basically what you are agreeing to if you use the computers or Internet at school and the consequences for not following the agreement.

Dec. 3 - Basic Orientation, Q1, 2, 3

1. PowerPoint introduction

2. Watch Basic Orientation video and Mission Briefing video as a class at http://www.21things4students.net/21/basics/

3. Where the Secret File Space is and how to save files there

4. Take and save a screenshot

5. Download NETS Goal Setting document. Read the NETS and answer the questions. Turn in.

Documents

Roeper Student Acceptable Use Policy

Keyboard Shortcuts

How to Take a Screenshot Document

How to Take a Screenshot Video

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