Continue with the final.

Be aware of the two standards for your Fireworks/Dreamweaver slide show: 1) Use appropriate software to design and produce professional-quality images. 2) Use graphics as supporting visual aids in presentation products. Timeline: Add 550 BC, the third wonder of the ancient world, to your timeline. Slide Show: A) Add text on a pen path to one of your pictures. B) Add text on a circular path to another one of your pictures. C) Add a radial gradient to a third picture. See "39 a" for samples.

A) Add the second wonder of the ancient world to your timeline, plus the two entries above and below it. That means add 632, 600, and 563 BC. Please don't ask me how to insert a row or make a link in Dreamweaver. B) Get scores for as many feathered pictures that you completed last Friday, November 30th. C) Text on a Path

A) Get your PE document graded. B) Feathering: Assignments 32 & 33

Type a one-page Word document explaining your PE class to me.

A) Add 2560 BC to your timeline. B) Combine assignments 8 and 22. In other words, add a Photoshop tree to the do's and a Fireworks tree to the don'ts. Use 300 by 300 for your trees.

Periods 1, 5, & 6, get your Olympic tear drops graded. A) Get last weeks warm-up questions [514-447] graded. B) Sat Sch: Main idea - vegetables article. Copy/Paste the article and multiple choice possibilities into Word. Underline and make bold the answer. C) Assignment 13.

A) Warm-up Q's 332 and 447 B) Finish 3 Olympic tear drops with puddles. C) Sat Sch: Week 2, hour 1 (Main Idea - Vegetables)

A) Warm-up Q's 51 & 122 B) Assignment 27 (your first name in ASL) was graded yesterday. C) Continue with assignment 26Q (Olympic Tears) in Ps or Fw.

A) Warm-up questions 112 and 194 B) Finish your first name in sign language (assignment 27). C) Wait for teacher to play tutorials on the Ps pen tool for Assignment 26Q - Olympic tears.

A) Warm-up questions 74 and 61 B) Put snap shots of your Halloween flyers into Dw double tables. (assignment 31) C) Show me your first name in sign language. Add a gradient. (assignment 27)

A) Warm-up questions 514 and 73. B) Assignment 31 C) Edits to your Greek names: Add the following ten names to your list: Loris, Loukas, Macris, Papa, Papadakis, Pepi, Tocci, Valli, Vlahos, and Xenakis. Alphabetize entire list.

A) Put your dictation snap shots for 1-4 into Dw double tables. Save each file as an html. (sample = dictation01.html) B) Finish yesterday's assignment 27: first name in Ps. Last name in Fireworks. C) Open your times table and add 16's. Make the columns fit on a single page. D) If time, do assignment 31 (two Halloween flyers).

A) Warm-up exercise: Dictation #4 (See assignment 73.) Take a screen shot of your final percent and ten sentences. B) Assignment #5 (Red Square) in Microsoft Word. C) Gradient Name (Assignment 27): Your first name in Ps and your last name in Fw.

A) Warm-up q's: 94 & 176 B) Points for your hot spot link and your 75 Greek surnames C) Continue developing your one-page scenario of an Olympic winner who gets rejected by his home city-state.

A) Warm up q's: 413 & 302 B) Adjustments to times table C) Hot link from 291st Olympiad (assignment 26 L) D) Continue w/75 Greek surnames.

A) Warm-up q's: 42 and 603. B) Homonyms Quiz 1 orally. C) Hot-spot link D) Time for scenario

Agenda for Tuesday, Oct. 23: A) HR warm-up questions 38 and 87. B) In Excel, list 75 Greek surnames. (See Sample.) Consider this the registration list for the final ancient Olympic Games. Follow the numbering scheme in my sample. Use formulas to connect the columns. C) Work on your scenario for the remainder of the period.

Warm up: HR questions 1 and 31. Put your answers on a Microsoft Word file called wu_questions. A) Color coded times table B) Time for your scenario

A) Finish your spreadsheet. B) Flyer links. C) Think about a scenario where an Olympic winner might not get perks from his home city-state.

Continue with your Dw flyer links: General Invite, Truce, Day One, etc. Day 5 should link back to the start.

Take a snap shot of your flyers, put them into double tables in Dw, and link them to each other like I did mine in assignment 26 I.

A) Yesterday you pasted a picture inside your rounded rectangle for 10 points. B) Today, put your jpg inside a double table in Dreamweaver for another 10 points. C) New Fireworks picture: expand canvas size, clone, flip horizontal for 10.

A) Get a background picture for your rings and lighten the transparency. B) Finish two more flyers.

A) Look for five images to go inside of your Olympic Rings. Open your Fw rings.png. B) Continue with your flyers.

Assignment 26 (I, J, & K) due this week

A) The seven flyers: 1) General Invitation to the last Olympic Games in Olympia for the citizens of the Greek city-state to which you have been sent 2) Olympic Truce to protect you 3) Day One of the Games 4) Day Two 5) Day Three 6) Day Four 7) Day Five B) Here's an additional link for another five-day Olympic program.

A) Finish inserting the ten Roman emperors who persecuted Christians into your timeline. B) Assignment 26 - flyers

A) Back your work up and prepare to change seats. B) Get a grade for your discus link to discobolus.

A) See my timeline, do a search for "Nero," and put all the entries for him in your timeline. B) Make a link to Discobolus.

A) Timeline: 313 AD - The Edict of Milan granted religious freedom to Christians and tolerance of whorship to non-mainstream Romans. It has been calculated that between the first persecution under Nero in 64 to the Edict of Milan in 313, Christians experienced 129 years of persecution and 120 years of toleration and peace. (See Reasons for Persecution.) Make a list of the reasons.

A) From my timeline, copy the two entries for 112 AD and make the corresponding links.

A) Timeline: The Temple of Zeus, which housed the Statue of Zeus, was built in Olympia, Greece. B) Timeline: Socrates was indicted as an offender of public morality. "The accusation ran thus: 'Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing new divinities, and, secondly, of corrupting the young.'” C) Timeline: Rewards and prizes for Olympic victors in their home towns D) See my links. Beyond receiving a laurel wreath for being a victor at the Olympic Games, make a list in Word of other prizes a winner would receive from his home town.

A) Timeline: During times of war and battle, differences were put asid so that the Olympics would be conducted in a peaceful manner. Even the games of 480 BC took place in the middle of the Persian War. B) Discuss Olympic Truce. C) Photoshop, page one, picture 1

A) Assignment 2 (Character Counts) "What I Know About Life". Type it; don't copy and paste. B) Assignment 73 (dictation #3); take a snap shot of your percent and results.

A) Assignment 26: Link your Vesuvius Dreamweaver file with last week's "stroke w/no fill" Dw file for ten points. See my sample. B) Timeline: 392 AD: Theodosius I became emperor of the whole Roman Empire (the last one to do so).

A) Timeline: Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. An estimated 16,000 people perished on that fateful day. Pliny the Elder died August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder was a friend of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, who ruled from AD 69 to AD 79. Vespasian also ordered all descendants of the royal line of David to be hunted down, causing the Jews to be persecuted from province to province. (Make five links.) B) Finish juxtaposing two pictures (Ps Vesuvius & Fw Victim) in a Dreamweaver double table with colored cells. Add a third picture equal to the combined width of the first two. (See assignment 26.) C) Take last week's two pictures (stroke w/o a fill) and juxtapose them like this week's two pictures. (Again, see assignment 26 for a sample.)

A) Put this in your timeline and make a link: Wrestling (called pale) was added to the 18th Olympics in 708 B.C. B) Put yesterday's Mount Vesuvius and victim(s) in a double table in Dreamweaver. Make a timeline link to your Dw file.

A) Finish the Grant football file. B) Add the following to your Dreamweaver Olympic timeline and link to evidence of competing in the nude. It is believed that the Greek tradition of athletic nudity started at the games in 720 BC, and it was most likely introduced by the Spartans or Megarian Orsippus. It is from this practice that we have our word “gymnasium” – derived from the Greek word “gymnos” meaning “naked”. Competing naked was meant as a tribute to the gods and to encourage aesthetic appreciation of the male body. C) In Photoshop, crop a picture of Mount Vesuvius with the height being 350 pixels. In Fireworks, show me someone who was killed by Mt. Vesuvius. Adjust the image to 350 pixels heigh. Juxtapose both in a Dreamweaver double table.

A) Grant football file: Add two more quarters of scores. B) Dreamweaver timeline

A) Connect to your server, split the screen and back up your PowerPoint folder. Open your slide show from the hard drive and shade it down with the yellow button. Wait for me to grade it. B) Add the next two quarters of scoring to your Grant football file.

A) Use the red "Sum 2010" curriculum button to get to the "BHS Football" link; after which, select the "Grant @ Bell September 11" football link. In Word, type only the first five lines, using center alignment for the heading, a left tab for the "Score by Quarters," and five center tabs for the actual scores. Save as a docx file. B) Move on to your 15-slide PowerPoint on the Olympic Games.

Assignments 4, 5 & 19

A) Finish the last set of ten immortals (Poseidon - Zeus) in Excel. Save as an xlsx. B) Copy yesterday's medal count into Excel. Compare totals using data validation.

A) The main idea to yesterday's article on the first ladies was "D": The First Ladies are important in American culture. Fix your answer if necessary. B) Go here to this London website and get the "full medal count." Copy the entire list of countries / medals and paste into Word. Leave your document at portrait 100%. Your six-column table should be two pages in length. Make your table properties 8" wide. See my sample under assignment #26. C) Finish immortals04.xlsx (Chiron - Persephone) in Excel.

A) In a new Excel file, type the third set of ten Immortals (Hephaestus - Calypso). B) From the red curriculum buttons, go to "Sat. Sch." / Week 1 / Hour 1: Determine the main idea for the article on "First Ladies." C) Continue with your PowerPoint. It's due before Parent Conference.

A) Continue with assignment #26 (the Immortals) on a new Excel file, called immortals02.xlsx, which should include Erinyes - Helios. B) Dictation #2 with a snap shot of your final score and the ten sentences. C) PowerPoint

A) Using Microsoft Excel, type Immortals 1-10 (Aphrodite - Erida) in column A. Type from left to right, putting the descriptions in column B and the Roman Gods in column C. B) Continue with your PowerPoint slides 1-15.

A) Get your typed syllabus graded today.
B) Go to this Immortals website. Copy and paste sets of ten into Word. Make page and table adjustments so all of your columns and rows fit onto a page. You should wind up with five files, not one file with five pages. (This is assignment #26.)

A) Make the cut-and-return line with me: ------------- (Cut & Return) ------------
B) Olympic Ppt

A) Finish assignment #3.
B) Spend the rest of the period working on your PowerPoint Olympic project.

A) Assignment 73 / Dictation / #1
B) Continue w/assignment #3
C) Last 15 minutes for your PowerPoint

Go to assignment 3 and begin typing the new syllabus.

A) Type the answer to yesterday's blog in Word. Make the date as large as you can.
B) Open assignment one for grading.
C) Gather some pictures from the web for your London 2012 Olympic PowerPoint project.

When did the Dodgers win the World Series where Kurk Gibson did his famous fist pump after hitting a home run in game one of the series?

Finish your grading scale (17 x 5 table) on assignment one.

PowerPoint: London 2012 Olympics

A) Turn in the tear-off from your syllabus. Stand up and put it on top of the microwave. Continue with assignment one. After roll, I'll collect the cut-offs and enter points for compliance.

B) A PowerPoint assignment dealing with the London 2012 Olympics will be given later on during the class period.

Turn in your signed AUP for points.
Type assignment one in Microsoft Word.

Welcome to Introduction to Computers.  I'm Mr. Weightman.
A) Get your seat and program signed.
B) Review AUP and syllabus.
C) Type your program in Microsoft Office Word.