1) Continue with your Flash car-logo fades in practice for #2.
2) Make ten changes to one picture and fade them in Flash.
3) Immortals: 41-50.
4) Character Counts #11.
5) Journal Entry #8: Are there any circumstances underwhich mandatory Global Positioning Chips ought to be installed by law? In other words, think about animals, cars, children, alzheimers, sex offenders, etc.

Next Assignments

1) Begin with Journal Entry #7 in Word. Rank your classes w/reasons.
2) Immortals 31-40 in DW. Every other line is light grey.
3) DMV practice test #1. Snap shot your score.
4) Character Counts #10 in DW. Bulleted items are in a table.
5) Flash Cadillac logo. Use your own car logo. Two pics are necessary.

Search and Rescue

Flash: You should have a space background, a couple of planets, an astronaut, and something to be retrieved.
Review: Spin, stretch, and object-on-a-path
Sample Search and Rescue

Pluto not a planet

JE #5: Finish your pictoral display of your freshman year. For example, Pluto was declared not a planet in 2006. Due Wednesday.

JE #6: Road trip or memorable event. Due Thursday.

Begin gathering pictures for a "Search & Rescue" Flash assignment where something is retrieved. Due Friday.

Save your American Wars Excel file according to the above extensions. The .txt file gets imported into DW as a tabular data file.

A Simple List in Excel

Use Excel to produce a list of wars in which this country has been involved. Include casualties and a won/lost column.

Journal Entry #4 should be done.

Grades Have Been Turned In.

Finish part two of the leader tabs; that is, do the "ragged" leader tabs on page two of yesterday's Word document. Show me your work at 50%.

Grading Window Opens for All Teachers

To be graded tomorrow, Tuesday: PS, page 2, 11-15

Put your Excel "events" snap shot into a patriotic set of tables, each 40 pixels greater than the inner table. Due today.

PhotoShop, page two, pics 11-15. To be graded Tuesday.

PowerPoint Presentations

Add transitions under "Slide Show" / "Slide Transitions."

This Week in Room 107

Assignments:
Last week's Flash ad: due Today, Monday, May 3
Journal Entry #3: due tomorrow, Tuesday, May 4
Flash Tic Tac Toe: due Wednesday, May 5
Lyrics + Picture + link in Word / Snapshot in DW w/background: due Thur., May 6
PowerPoint Presentation on an artist / minimum 15 slides: due Friday, May 7

Personification

In the Spring 2010 menu, see "Personification," which means giving human attributes to inanimate or nonhuman objects. Follow my sample and type a page wherein you personified an object. It could be a football, bottle of perfume, tape at a finish line, animal, or some other object where your writing is from the point of view of the object chosen.

Secondly, get a commercial logo and use it in a Flash ad lasting ten seconds, which is 120 frames. Must include animated text.

Flash

Put your five Cleopatra sets of three juxtaposed pictures into a Flash document.

Mid-Term

Your midterm is worth fifty points.

Back to Body Health / Medicine

SciTech: Musculoskeletal Disorders / Sciatica. Show me one picture of the sciatica nerve, three chunks of information about sciatica problems, and three links to different websites.

PS: page 2, 6-10

Grading Window Opens for All Teachers

Spring 2010 Menu: Scroll to Immortals. Type 21-30 in a DW table. Make every other row grey and white, respectively.

Do spelling, quiz 2, for knowledge.

Alternate NBA brackets

Catch up with work not yet completed.

Typing/Writing: Critique the Day of Silence website or respond to the question "How can Bell High be a safer campus?"

For those who wish: Begin the NBA brackets in InDesign.

Tax Day

Continue with PS page 2, 1-5. Start a new DW page for these pictures.

Typing in TextEdit: Do character counts / Michael Josephson: Who's Watching the Watch Dogs?

Save three ways: 1) as TextEdit, 2) as Word Format, and 3) as html without your name

Photoshop

Page 2: pics 1-5

Journal #2

Get your double rollover graded.

Do journal writing #2. Question is at the bottom of the link page from the Spring 2010 menu.

A Double DW Rollover

Do PS pic #31. The first rollover links to the 2nd rollover, which links to a website.

Make the 2nd rollover 1st so the 1st rollover has its link destination.

Make up for some 0's: Homo One

Grading for the brackets and PS 26-30 is over. If you have them, they're considered "late work" when you show me, and therefore, worth less points.

Next, especially for those with zeroes, go to "Homo One" in the Spring 2010 menu and type the homonym sentences with the correct homo. underlined.

Pics 26-30 in a DW table

Make sure your bowling ball is on a different layer than your gradient background.
Go to "Window" / "Animation" to begin your position animation.

March Madness Ends Tonight.

Add two commercial sponsors to your brackets. That is, get two logos in PS and go to "Edit" / "Place" in ID. Tomorrow, Tuesday, make the national champion bold for your final bracket grade.

Due Wednesday: PS pics 26-30 in a DW table, centered. Your DW page needs a background (modify / page properties) and your talbe cells need color.

Photoshop

InDesign: Add where the regionals were played with a filled text field.

Photoshop: 26-30 for all students, regardless of your race, creed, color, or team.

Points for Rosa Parks and the Leon substitute assignment were given.

Time to show me the right-side brackets and teams or the "compromise" paragraphs as a snapshot in a DW table.

What's next? Gold team: Type The Immortals 1-10 in DW. You'll need a table 3 columns by 12 rows to start with. Others: Add the rounds and tournament cities.

Rosa Parks or Community & Compromise

Show me a 5-slide Rosa Parks PPT presentation or Community & Compromise.

Continue with your brackets. Right-side brackets and teams to be graded tomorrow, Tuesday.

Get 100 on this spelling challenge.

Adjustment

Efrain Solis, Period 3, reminded me that I said your Flash fact was pushed back to Friday. Therefore, several adjustments are in order. If you have Mr. Leon and you made a PPT presentation on what education would look like twenty years from now, you may substitute that assignment for the Flash Fact and get full credit. For other students who wish to swap out the FF, you may do a five slide Rosa Parks PPT presentation.

All students are to work on your 2010 NCAA Men's brackets in InDesign. The brackets for the left side should be completed by tomorrow, Wednesday. Three-fifths of the team names should be entered. Use the word "Team" for unknowns.

Luck-o'-the-Irish

To be graded: a rollover launch-link to your main rollover page; that is, a start-up page that links to your bigger rollover page. Both pages must have a background, which you can get from my red-button Dreamweaver page.

Insert assignment: Make an Excel worksheet of fifty surnames. Example: O' Henry.

Insert assignment: Put your rollover images into iMovie.

Push back due date from next Wed. to next Fri. for the Flash historical fact (300 frames or 24 seconds).

Roman Helmet

Next Flash Project: Take a fact of history, ancient or contemporary, light or heavy, trivial or magnanimous, and illustrate it in Flash. See sample by clicking on Julius Caesar or hit the Caesar link from the Spring 2010 menu. (Due next Wednesday.) After viewing my Flash on the "Ides of March," type verbatim in Word the text that I used in my Flash on Julius Caesar. Should be done within the first fifteen minutes of class time.

Due this Wednesday: Your 12/24 thematic rollovers like my Tiger Woods or Dodger samples.

We will start charting the 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Brackets tomorrow.

Yesterday's grade was PS 21-25 in a DW table.

Today: Continue working on your 12/24 rollover theme pictures - to be graded next Wednesday.

PS Pictures 21-25

Put pictures 21-25 into a Dreamweaver table. Use your old one or create a new one with the above dimensions. Remember, the dog picture has to be a rollover.

Do It. Just Do It.

To be graded first thing tomorrow: PS 21-25 in a DW table.

Continue with your 24 rollover pics. See Tiger or Dodger blue.

Dreamweaver Rollovers

New: See "Tiger's Family" for an example of Dreamweaver rollovers.

Old and ongoing: Syllabus A-E, PS 21-25, and one journal entry in Word.

Journal Entry

Would you rather be attacked by a killer whale, killer bear, killer bee, or poisonous snake? Please elaborate in Microsoft Word.

Continue with the Syllabus A-E and PS pictures 21-25.

Reggie Bush w/Kardashian Girl

Continue with the course syllabus (A-E) in Microsoft Office during the first half of the period. Prepare for a norm-referenced grade by showing me your saved-syllabus in your server.

In the second half of the period, move on to Photoshop pictures 21-25.

Mester 5

Type the course syllabus in Word as a method of review.

Finish your Flash motion tween (240 frames / 20 seconds).
Use Microsoft Word for Sat Voc. 1-20 and for the Grant vs Bell football stats.
Shopping list #2.
A Valentine's Day Flyer.

Use four websites to complete an Excel database for football quarterbacks.

American States: http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html

Sports Illustrated: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/stats/?eref=sinav

AFC and NFC Teams: http://www.neworleanssaints.com/Game%20Day/Seasons/2009%20Schedule/NFC%20Championship%20Game.aspx

Mean, Mode, Median, & Range: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/meanmode.htm

Xiao Xiao Kung Fu Fighting #1

In class work: A) SciTech / Carpal Tunnel B) Microsoft assignment #2 / Presidential bio C) Photoshop pics 11-15 D) Headline News ongoing. E) Microsoft gold team

Next in line: F) Microsoft assignment #3 / Cleopatra G) Juxtapose 3 pics like the Kardashian sisters H) Audio from this site:
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/xiaoxiao.html

Character Counts by Michael Josephson

You should have PS pics 1-10 inserted into your Dreamweaver table.

You should have typed "What I Know About Life" into TextEdit.
From TextEdit, you should have selected all, copied, and pasted
into Word.
From Word, I want you to "Save As" normally and then "Save As Web Page"
without the first four lines (Student name - Date),which renders a .htm file.
Open your .htm file as a Firefox file.
Then in Word, write a one paragraph journal reflection completing the phrase,
"As I mature in life, ..."

Championship Ring

1) To be graded: Both Rosters, one alpha by last, the other sorted by first, or column C.

2) Open Dreamweaver, insert a table 485 pixels wide with 10 rows and 2 columns. Center the entire table.
The left column will number your pictures, and the right column will show them. Each of your pics
should be no greater than 450 pixels wide.

3) Type the first "Character Counts," which is titled "What I Know About Life," into TextEdit.

Brittany Murphy

Assignments Made Thus Far:

A) Syllabus in Microsoft Word
B) Student Roster in Microsoft Excel
C) Five pictures in Photoshop

Next: A Journal reflection in word processing and Headline News in Microsoft Powerpoint

Pups

7:30 - 8:30: Photoshop pictures 1-5
8:30 - 9:30: Type the Intersession roster in Excel, using eight columns.