Friday, March 29, 2013

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.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

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.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Let's make a deal.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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

Monday, March 25, 2013

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)

Friday, March 22, 2013

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

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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.

Monday, March 18, 2013

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

Friday, March 15, 2013

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

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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

Monday, March 11, 2013

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.

Friday, March 8, 2013

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.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

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.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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

Monday, March 4, 2013

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

Friday, March 1, 2013

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.