Work for the week: A) Finish the candy bar sales by homeroom. B) Assignment 8 - state capitals  C) Assignment 26 - converting temperatures from fahrenheit to celsius  D) Assignment 29 - home computer survey  E) Assignment 30 - working with "countif" formulas  F) Assignment 35 - completing  a grading scale  G) Assignment 36 - percents and absolute vs relative values

If you haven't yet finished it, continue with the final (assignment #32) from the "Information Processing" red buttons. Scores for the airport and circles w/arrows are done.

A) All periods, get a grade for assignment 17 (airports in Excel) and for assignment 24 (Ps).

A) Dictation 57 (You should have snap shots 7 & 57 ready for Dw.)  B) Use the "Information Processing" button for assignment 17 for periods 2-4 C) Juxtapose your Ps and Fireworks pictures side-by-side in a Dw set of double tables w/balanced borders and color.

No timed typing today unless you're in that group.  A) Dictation 7  B) Finish your 200 by 400 links to your surnames.  C) Continue with assignment 24 under "Info. Processing."  See my sample.

All periods, do page 81, 28A.

Periods 2-4, go to the red button ("Info. Pro.") and start assignment #24.

Periods 5 & 6, after finishing the timed typing, go to the red button ("Info. Pro.") and do assignment #17 in Excel.  That is, research "towered general aviation airports in Los Angeles County" and put the same data as I did in an Excel spreadsheet.

A) Page 69, 26A B) Get four pictures from the web for your collapsible panel, one for each set of surnames you chose.  Crop each one 200 pixels wide by 400 pixels high.  See my sample.

A) 69, 25A Add your time to your third subset of times. B) Take four snap shots of your ethnic names, put them into Dw double tables, and link to them from your spry collapsible panel.  See my sample.

A) 60, 24A B) surnames

A) 58, 23A (Start a third subset of times.) B) Get your times table graded after adding your last name as a Fireworks gradient.  C) Continue with your surnames.

A) 56, 22A (Show me your Excel timed averages.  Split your times into two sets of subtotals with one grand total.  See my example. Color your rows using different colors than I did and draw an arrow to the formula you used to calculate your average wpm.)  B) Your times table should be done.  C) Continue with your four sets of fifty surnames, two of which may be from my lists.

A) 47, 21A (Add your time to your Excel list of averages. Your grand total of two subtotals will be graded Wednesday.)  B) Don't forget to add borders and color to your times table.  C) You may use two of my surname lists.  The other two you look up.  Make your formulas fill down and jump columns.

A) 45, 20A B) In Excel, split your typing times into two groups and follow my lead with figuring out averages.  C) Fill series with increments D) Making formulas fill down and jump columns

A) 43, 19A (Put your time behind the page heading with a colon and on yesterday's Excel file as a decimal.)  B) Finish your MLB logos and retired jerseys for each of the six conferences.

A)  42, 18A (Time yourself); B) Grade yesterday's MLB questions.  C) Figure out your wpm in Excel.

A) page 40, 17A (time yourself) B) Answer the MLB spreadsheet questions with your favorite partner.

A) Keyboard Conditioning: Page 36, 16A B) On your MLB spreadsheet of retired jerseys, figure out a way to make Willard Hershberger come out second with a sort by date.  C) Identify those players who had multiple teams retire their jerseys.

A) 34, 15A (Post your time) B) MLB sorts following my lead

A) Time yourself / page 31, 14A.  B) Finish the add-on column for conferences.

A) Do the next conditioning practice on page 29 and make it a daily habit if I forget to post it.  Time yourself if you can.  B) Excel: Go to the web and search for "MLB retired numbers."  Copy and paste your results into Excel.  Wait for further instructions.

A)  Warm up: keyboard conditioning (page 25, 12A); continue on the same file as you started yesterday.  Follow my format.  I made links from my Spry Collapsible Panel.  B) Continue with assignment 24.  There are five teams in the ALW; therefore, you have to modify your table for logos.

A) Warm up in Word: Use the text, page 23, 11A, keyboard conditioning.  Make your work look like mine.  Title is 18 pt / subtitle 16 pt / automatic numbering for 1-3 is 14 pt.  B) Assignment 24 in Word

A) Type page 20 (9D & 9E) from our text.  For both samples, try to match the font used in 9D.  See my sample from my Spry Collapsible Panel.  As I did, include a red box around your text and insert two pictures from clip art.

A) Take a snapshot of your parent-conference memo and link to it from your spry tabbed panel. I put mine with "memos" and the lock downs.  B) Do assignment #23 in Word, using quick tables.

Type today's handout.

Period 2: Stay where you are until I grade your spry tabbed panel, in particular, your link between California (text on a path) and yesterday's Photo Booth (first & last names on a circle).

A) Show me your rollover and text-on-a-path pictures linked from your spry tabbed panel.  B)  Put your first and last name on a circle around your picture.  Your last name has to be on the bottom of the circle/path, to be read from left to right.

The last items for your spry tabbed panel are dictation 6 & 56, lockdown 1-3, and text-on-a-path, which hasn't been taught yet.

A) Get your spry tabbed panel up-to-date.

A) Finish the last two warm-up questions for the week.  B) Make a spry tabbed panel for your gradient name, your lyrics, and your resource links. (See my sample. Follow my directions.)

A) Answer two more warm-up questions.  B) Continue with your six lyrics in Word or your resource links in Dreamweaver.

No  Master Key for the week.  Your third set of warm-up questions for the week are 114, 129, 96, 71, 201, 283, 552, 592, 312, & 343.  Do two a day.

A) See the agenda for the midterm week on my spry menu bar under "assignments."

A) Take a snap shot that proves you did five Master Keys this week.  Link to it from your Spry Menu Bar.  B)  Open your gradient first and last names.  Add a red, one pixel stroke to your diamonds.

A) Use your school account for one Master Key.  B) Finish your first name with three levels of gradients (background, diamonds, & first name).  Save both ways (psd to preserve layers & jpg for the web).  C) Start another Photoshop file with a white background for your last name.  Use gradients for the background, the diamonds, and your letters.

A) Do one M. Key w/your account.  B) Add your name to your dictation 5 and 55 snap shots.  See my sample.  C) Link your "shattered dreams html" with your "universal no html."  See my sample.

A) All this week, log in with your school account and do one Master Key.  By Friday, be able to prove from your Spry Menu Bar that you did five Master Keys.  B) Log back in with my account and get your carpel tunnel and shattered dreams graded.  C) Do another "paste into" with Ps, using the universal no symbol.  For example, "no guns" would work.

A) Get your carpal tunnel and shattered dreams linked under your "Medical" and "Photoshop" tabs respectively.  See my Spry Menu Bar as an example.  B) Dictation 5 and 55.

A) After using your school account for two Master Keys, log back in our way for assignment 16, which asks you to make a hot link to a video of carpal tunnel.  Put this link under a new tab called "Medical."  See my sample.  You may not use my snap shot.  B) Next Ps picture idea.

A)  Copy and paste character counts #6 (teacher-coach).  Add a reflection above your paste by describing several ways a person your age can earn money.  Insert clip art w/text wrap.  Put a snap shot into a Dw double table and link to it from your Spry Menu Bar.  (17 min.)  B) Get your history brush tool pictures ready for grading.  (1 nature and 1 text like my volcano and Jackie Robinson pictures)  C) Finish your South Gate football stats.  Snap & link it.  D) New Ps toward the end of the period.

A) Continue with the second half of your football summary sheet (assignment 36).  B) Use the history brush tool for a second picture that isolates text like my Jackie Robinson sample.  In other words, after turning a picture into black and white, use one of the select tools to highlight the text before applying the history brush tool.

A) Start assignment 36, 2010 football, #4 South Gate Game.  Use alignment and tabs to structure your paper.  Save your document in a football folder within your assignments folder. B) Get your history-brush-tool picture linked under Photoshop.

A) Log in with your school account and do three master keys.  B) Log in with your classroom account and prepare for the next picture by getting a pretty nature picture.

A) Finish your bevel and emboss bird.  Link it under Ps.

A) warm up question 424  B) Photoshop picture to be explained (bevel and emboss)

A) Complete your stroke without a fill pictures.  B) Get your eight dictation links ready.

A) warm-up question 574 and dictation 54  B) Ps to be announced

A) Warm up question 264 and dictation 4  B) new material at the halfway mark

A) Get assignment 9 (geometric shapes) graded: 7 pts for Word; 8 for a snap shot in Dw double tables; 10 for a spry menu link.  B) Add another feathering picture to your previous two.  (See my eye-of-the-tiger-steve-martin link.)

A) Show me assignment 8 (do's and don'ts) for a grade: in Word = 7 pts; linked in spry menu bar = 10.
B) Begin assignment 9 (eight geometric auto shapes w/the object palette); be sure to add text, color, and a shadow.  Notice the two center tabs to guide your text.

Add assignment 8 to your spry menu bar.  See mine.

A) Begin assignment #8, my old "Do's" and "Don'ts" with two background objects on each list.  Notice how the bottom picture is either above or below the colored shape.  Pay attention to coloring and caps.  B) With free time, take care of loose ends, like finishing yesterday's notes or two feathered pics, like adding three pictures to your Spry Menu Bar, or like further organizing your assorted files and folders.

A) Part of yesterday's "Christmas-in-July" deal was starting over with a free "A."  Some of you were able to keep your extended Spry Menu Bar going, and some of you started a new shorter one with a Photoshop link to a feathered item.  Add another feathered picture to any other picture to yesterday's html page. I added Stan Musial and a cardinal underneath my Chihuahua-lightning picture.  (See my link to my Spry Menu Bar.)  B) Underneath the "Assignments" tab, link to your notes for connecting to the server.

Let's make a deal.

A) Get your Master Key link graded.  B) Chance to get a "B" for yesterday's cop-donut picture.

A) Warm-up question #81 B) Discuss with your neighbor your experience with last week's code purple.  C) Assignment 75:  Add an object to the picture in the link.  Down size your final product to 450 or 500 pixels wide.  Add it to Dw w/double tables and link to it from your Spry Menu Bar. D) Get your Master Key link graded. (Results, Statistics, & Log)

A) Warm up questions: 448 and 563  B) Go to the web and get some backgrounds for your Dw pages.

A) Master Key.  When you're done, take three snap shots: one of your results, one of your statistics, and one of your log.  Put them in your dictation folder and make a spry menu link to them.
B)  Get your Power Point spry link graded.

A)  Make edits to your Character Counts / Journal Topics by putting your name at the top of page one guided by a left tab at the four, by moving your reflection from the bottom to the top, and by moving your clip art to the top with text wrap.  Then take your snap shot for Dw double tables.  B) Continue with your Spry Menu Bar links for parent conference night.

A) Spend all of your time making your Spry Menu Bar links in Dreamweaver.  Remember, you're linking to the html that shows a snap shot of your original work.  Do not link to a jpeg, docx, xlsx, psd, pdf, or other odd extensions. B) Working with a Spry Menu Bar is touchy.  Dw crashes.  Therefore, save frequently.

A) Warm-up question #102 B) Add one slide to your Headline News.  C) More

First half of class: A) Warm up question #89  B) Dictation 3 and 53 with snap shots.
Second half of class: C) editing the syllabus in Word

A) one round of MK B) Start a new warm-up-questions answer sheet with the decimal tab at .5 and the hanging indent at 75.  Do questions 31 and 241.  C) Add to yesterday's computer-terms notes and get it graded.

A) The grading window opens for all of your teachers. B) No MK  C) Practice with the decimal tab.  Open Word and put a decimal tab at .5 (point 5 on the ruler).  Put the left indent (the hanging indent) at .75.  Put a left tab at the 4.  Wait for further instructions.

A) MK B) HLN C) Put snapshots of assignments 4-7 into Dw.

A) Do one Master Key.  B) Add one more slide to your Headline News PowerPoint.  C) For Photoshop page one, picture one, where you isolated color for two pictures and black-and-white for one picture, stack all three [at 500 pixels wide each] into a Dreamweaver set of double 1 column by 1 row tables.  D)  New today: Assignment #7 (the curve tool in Microsoft Word).  Cover the corners of any picture using the curve tool.

A) No Master Key today.  B) Copy/Paste Character Counts #5 and respond to this journal topic: If you could do whatever you wanted to right now, what would you do?
  C) For a grade, add clip art to each of your five CC/journal topics.  Make sure your pictures illustrate text wrap.

A) Get a grade for your syllabus links and for your three door signs.  B) If you didn't do it yesterday, make a second picture that isolates color and make both 500 pixels wide.  C) Reverse the process and turn an isolated portion of a third picture into black-and-white, preserving the rest of it in color.

A) one round of MK B) Link Syllabus page one with page two in Dw. C) Make yesterday's picture 500 pixels wide.  Do another picture 500 pixels wide where you isolate color and turn the rest of the picture black-and-white. D) Show me four dictation snap shots in a Dw double table with colored borders.

A) one round of Master Key B) Photoshop, page one, picture one

A) Master Key introduced B) Add a slide to HLN C) more

No warm-up questions or Character Counts or journal topic today.  A) Photoshop / Page One / Picture 1 B) Insert your dictation snap shots into a Dreamweaver double table with colored borders.

A) Character Counts: No Excuses, Just Class and Journal Topic #4 (Describe an event or moment when you realized you were growing up.  B) Assignments 5 and 6

A) Copy/Paste Character Counts number 3 by Michael Josephson.  Underline the vocabulary words you don't know.  Add journal topic number three: How do you feel when your parents are upset with you? Why do they become upset with you?
B) Assignment #4: Make three different signs - one each for three different doors that you pass through during the day.

A) Warm up: Character Counts #2 (Good Guys and Bad Guys) / Copy-Paste and convert to Geneva 14.  Add journal topic #2 (Friends and Enemies).  Write about your views regarding friends and enemies.  B) Get your bell schedule in Word graded.  C) Add a slide to your Headline News.

A) No warm-up question for today.  Prepare your questions and answers for grading by making sure they are aligned left.  B)  Prepare your Excel bell schedule for grading by making sure it is spatially balanced.  C) New today: Character Counts by Michael Josephson and journal topics.

A) WU 108 B) Add two pictures of Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp to your folder.  Take them to Photoshop and save them as jpegs. Wait for further instructions.  C) Headline News in Powerpoint  D) Next two dictations (2 and 52)

A) Open your syllabus and doc it by clicking on the yellow button.  B) Warm-up questions 87 and 104.  C) After typing the bell schedule in Word, move on to Excel. D) Recently, a former Olympic runner killed his girlfriend.  Get her picture on the web.

A) Warm-up question 385. B) Continue with assignment 35 - the Bell bell schedule in Word using three right tabs and one center tab.  Then move on to Excel.

Warm-up questions 131 and 251.
Then assignment 35 in Word and Excel.

A) Warm up questions 654 and 272  B) Finish typing the new syllabus.  C) In the last half of the period, do assignment 73 (Dictation #1 and #51).

Happy Valentine's Day.  Warm up questions 403 and 507:  Put the questions and answers on a new Word document, saved as "wu01.docx".  Remember, use the "HR" button to get to the warm up questions.

Continue typing the syllabus.  Page one needs to fit on page one.  You may use automatic bullets for the bullets on page two.

Continue typing assignment #3, the new syllabus, in Microsoft Word.  You will need to use some left tabs when you get to the double set of bullets in the middle of page one.

Get your program signed, find your seat, log on with a classroom account, and begin navigating the curriculum website.