Sunday, December 13, 2009

PS, Word, & Dreamweaver



PS #21 - Vanishing Point
Word - SAT Voc 51-60
DW - Similar to my Bret Favre link, make a rollover in DW that links to the motion tween you already finished.

Monday, December 7, 2009

A Rainy Day to You



What Flash maneuvers can you be doing with your Flash file?

Slide in / Run Time / Fades (Alpha 0-100) / Tints / Blinking / Zooms (Transformation Tool) / Flips / Stretches / Rotate / Break Apart / Shape Tweens

What can you be doing with your pictures in Photoshop?

Paste Inside / Gradients / Masks / Filters / Clones / Juxtapositions / Vanishing Point / BW / Type / Blurs / Warps / Ovular Pastes / Color Corners / Fixed Sized Alterations

Thursday, December 3, 2009




Flash: Make sure you have around six images for your motion tweens. All the same size, please. Adjust your document size to fit the size of your images.

To be graded: Voc 41-50 and PS #20 in DW.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

PS #20 and Flash



A) PS #20 - quick mask mode + gradient

B) Flash Motion Tween with symbols

Monday, November 30, 2009

To B Graded Today, Monday, Nov. 30



Nov Grades Excel Worksheets (3) for 10 points

Jeopardy pics on your server / short titles / nothing wider than 450 px

Monday, November 23, 2009

Short Week



Add three more Jeopardy statements to your PPt, making your slide presentation up to 10 slides. Add some transitions. To be graded up front tomorrow, Tues.

SAT Voc: Add 31-40 to your current list.

November 16, 2009 Grades in Excel: Three sheets are needed. You may start new cells or modify your former work. This assignment will carry over to the beginning of week Nov. 30.

Friday, November 20, 2009

TGIF



After finishing PS #19 (using the warp tool), add three more Jeopardy slides to your list of statements, which should total around seven by now.

Next: November Grades in Excel following my patterns.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

PS #19



To be graded within the first ten minutes of each period: PS 15-18 in your DW table & Bursitis in Word with four links.

Next Picture: PS #19 - the warp tool.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

SCITECH / Musculoskeletal Disorder



As with carpal tunnel, epicondylitis, and rotator cuff, make a Microsoft Word document that portrays bursitis. Link to where you got your picture and to the three sources for your three paragraphs, which should cover definition of the medical condition, effects or symptoms, and possible treatment.

This is a one-day activity.

Monday, November 16, 2009

2009 Laker Championship Ring



We're now rounding 3rd base and heading for the home stretch.

Next/Now: PS pics 15-18

Friday, November 13, 2009

Grades are being submitted in ISIS.



Open the football summaries for Grant, Belmont, and Eagle Rock. Use your drawing tools to make a connection between Bell's fourth quarter scores.

Use the curriculum page, menu link to add SAT vocabulary terms 21-30 to your ongoing list.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Grading Window Opens Today





In the first half of class, make slide four in your Jeopardy PPt and add SAT voc 16-20 to your list. Sample Jeopardy: Category = NFL Teams / Statement = They have the same mascot as BHS. / Question = Who are the Philadelphia Eagles?

In the second half of class, type the game summary for Eagle Rock.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

2 B Graded & Next



To be graded: A) Trust, B) PS 13 & 14, & C) Belmont

Next: Eagle Rock football summary and SAT voc. 11-15

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Up Next



A) The Value of Trust (rtf, doc-to-doc reflection, & htm)

B) PS pics 13 & 14

C) Bell vs Belmont game summary

Friday, November 6, 2009

Homecoming is upon us.



To be graded: SAT voc 6-10, Jeopardy slide 3 (statement 2), and rotator cuff. Four links need to be on the rotator cuff, one for the picture and one for each of the three paragraphical bits of information.

Thursday, November 5, 2009




Your Next Assignments:

1) Add SAT vocabulary terms 6-10 to your list, plus Jeopardy PowPt/Slide 3, Question 2.
2) Musculoskeletal: Rotator Cuff
3) Character Counts: The Value of Trust as an rtf, doc/reflection, and htm
4) PS: Pics 13 & 14
5) Bell Football: Belmont

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Microsoft Office & PowerPoint



Type the first five SAT vocabulary terms in Word. Fix the ruler accordingly.

Make one jeopardy slide in PowerPoint. Start with a title page and put your answer in the space for notes.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Sports Logo Links: PS Saved for Web & Devices



Any logo-link past 15 is extra credit.

Next Activities: Type the 100 SAT vocabulary terms you got in your HR. Make a PowerPoint Jeopardy Slide Show.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Sports Logos to be Graded on Tuesday



Consider adding an image behind your sports logos.

Your links will be worth one point each. Anything after 15 will be considered extra credit.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Logos on Server Graded Today



Open two folders that contain your sports logos: Macintosh HD and your server.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

To Be Graded Thursday, Oct. 29



October Grades in Excel. I'll be looking at the cells with formulas within boxes.

Next up: Your sports logos in PS with slices that travel to the teams' websites. Save as a PSD, jpeg, and web device.


Put boxes around the cells that contain formulas (=sum(x+y).

Did you include the "Not Reported" column? Why not?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Next Three Assignments



See the curriculum menu.:

1. In Word, make a flyer for your academy using word art, clip art, and a PS picture.

2. Put the grading data for October 18 into an Excel format that follows the pattern of the September 18 grades.

3. Start collecting the team logos for all the franchises within a given sport. Put them into a folder and convert them in PS.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

http://www.50states.com/maps



To your state gradient picture, add a symbol with a colored background to show where the state capital is. You may find your state capital location at 50states.com

Additionally, expand canvas space and type the capital name.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Photoshop



Add PS pictures eleven and twelve to your DW page.

Continue working on the Grant football game results.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Microsoft Word



Type the results from the Bell vs Grant football game.

The focus is working with tabs.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Next two PS pics



Do the next two PhotoShop pictures (9 & 10). Add them to your DW page along with pictures 1-8.

Show me your "Good Guys" rtf file, doc-to-doc link from the original article to your reflection, and lastly, a web page where your drop shadow and picture are centered.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Next Character Counts in Text Edit and Word



In TextEdit, type the next Character Counts ("Good Guys and Bad Guys"). Use a left tab for your name at 4.5 and a center tab at 2 and 5/8ths for the title.

Copy and paste into Word. Add some clip art. Save two ways, once as a regular Word doc and once as an htm web page.

Link your Word document to a Word reflection on the content of the original "Good-Guys-and-Bad-Guys" editorial.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Epicondylitis



To be graded Friday: Epicondylitis in Word, the Kardashian sisters in DW, and your Preview edit in DW whereby you eliminated IE and established FF as primary and Safari as secondary.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Still Grading



Get your work graded: 8 pictures in DW, Carpal Tunnel in Word, and DW hot links to your career locker suggested pathways.

Next SciTech / Health document = Epicondilytis (Tennis Elbow). Make a pictoral Word document link to three aspects of Epicondilytis.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Dreamweaver links to your career locker results



Put my web directions for logging into Career Locker and the Career Locker side-by-side in Safari or Firefox. Take a snap shot. Put the shot into your last-name folder and convert it to PS. While in PS, add three pictures with text over each following my web sample. Save both as a Photoshop PSD file and a jpeg. Open Dreamweaver and insert the latter image into a double table with black and grey borders, respectively. Make hot links to the Career Locker snap shots you took on Sept. 30, when Mr. Villagran was guiding you through the Career Locker website.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Career Lockers must be finished before graduation.



You must finish your Career Locker in order to be eligible for graduation.

Monday, September 28, 2009

SciTech Medical Info



Continue finishing PhotoShop, page one, pictures 1-7.

Make sure your Safari and Firefox bookmarks were graded. Same is true for your character counts two-way links from your bullet data to your reflective paragraph.

Begin a SciTech Musculoskeletal Word document on Carpal Tunnel. I need a picture with three bits of medical data and three links to the sites where you got your information.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Adobe Photoshop CS3



Let's dive into PhotoShop, page one, pictures 1-7.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Switching from Explorer to Safari



Don't forget to highlight your htm file and Apple-I to switch from opening with Internet Explorer to Safari.

In another Word document, type just exactly what you have learned about life. Link to it from your character counts document.

Your bookmarks to the literary analysis websites should be finished.

Character Counts



Finish bookmarking your literary analysis web sites.

Type the first "Character Counts" article using TextEdit by Michael Josephson.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Opening More Than One File




Have your PPt pics in numerical order according to your chronology of slides.

Bookmark DW assignment 24 novel guides in your Safari and Firefox bookmarks in a "lit analysis" folder.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Red Polygon



Finish "red polygon." Grid A / Red Square / Microsoft A

Finish re-titling your PPt images so a sort by name shows 01, 02, 03, etcetera.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Our Work



Don't forget to use the "Blog" and "Fall 09 10" buttons. Hit the refresh button to see the Fall button.

To be graded today: Criteria for dog abuse and late PowerPoint presentations

Re-title your PowPt images to match the slide order of your presentation?

Monday, September 14, 2009

What's due?



Monday: Show me your PowerPoint.
Tuesday: Show me your Grading Scale.
Wednesday: Show me your criteria for dog abuse. Include three hyperlinks and a picture with a border.
Thursday: Show me "Grid A," "Red Square," "Microsoft A," - The Polygon.
Friday: Show me that your Macintosh HD local login and the account on your school server have equal files in a last-name folder.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Dog Abuse



In Microsoft Word, compose a list of criteria that points to dog abuse. My list contained fourteen different criterion.

Find Obama's comments on 9/11 and listen to them using the headphones.

Show me that you set the preferences for both web browsers to http://epic.bell.hs.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Grading Scale



Duplicate your course file (Apple-D) and call the new file "grading scale" without the quotes. On the new file, insert a table and type the course grading scale following my sample.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Table Styles



Make some table adjustments to your class schedule similar to the picture above with regard to inserting and merging cell columns, establishing text wrap, horizontal and vertical alignment, cell shading, and text color. Make the editing changes only to the row representing Intro. to Computers.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

PowerPoint Entrance Effects



After selecting your text field in PowerPoint, go to "Slide Show" in the menubar and drop down to "custom effects" to add an entrance style to your presentation slides.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Don't mistake a burrito for a wrap.



Continue with your "Birth-Year" PowPt slide show.

Before the bell, go to this link and click on "Michael Jackson Laid to Rest." There is an article to read and a twenty-seven picture photo gallery to see.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

KISS (Keep it short & simple.)



Continue adding more slides to your "Birth-Year" PowerPoint presentation.

See teacher sample after roll.