Current homework from Mr. Bergen Yes, you are responsible for HW assignments when absent! Those of you who do not get your HW done will no longer have laptop privileges. this page last updated: 6/1/08 ... REFRESH often!

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Reminder re Typing Pal and June 6th End of Semester

Music Assignment given out 5/27 (Wednesday) to Grade 8 and due 6/3 (Tuesday, day before Field Day)

• Using QUICKTIME PRO which will be installed on all the BLACK MACBOOKS make a short clip from one music song related to the paper you wrote earlier in May ... to do this, you insert your musical CD and launch iTunes which may auto-launch ... you then navigate to the CD and UNCHECK all the songs on the CD except for the one tune that you wish to RIP ... before you RIP that one song, you want to create a folder on the desktop with your name and use ADVANCED PREFERENCES under ITUNES, then PREFERENCES then ADVANCED ... click CHANGE at the top right and POINT to your folder as the place where the song will be ripped
• once your song is ripped, you quit out of iTunes
• now find the file on your desktop and launch it into Quicktime ... you do this by holding down CONTROL and choosing OPEN WITH or you can drag the file to the Quicktime ICON in the dock
• Quicktime Pro (black Macbooks only) allows you change the duration of the song by moving the left and right sliders ... the feature called PLAY SELECTED PORTION ONLY allows you to hear just the 20 or 30 seconds ... the feature called TRIM TO SELECTION removes the rest of the song ... now you will EXPORT (not SAVE) the file with your intials as a MOV file, for example JAD.mov
• To post onto your Web page, open First Class and drag the file to your Web publishing folder ... you can use the standard A HREF command or the fancier one to automatically play on open command ... both commands can be found on our HTML page ...click here
• Here is one of many Web sites about "computer honesty" ... click
• You are allowed to put "no more than 10 per cent and no more than 30 seconds of music" on your Web page ... see http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml or http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/ccmcguid.htm

Drawing Assignment given out 5/27 (Tuesday) to Grade 5 and Grade 6 due 6/3 (Tuesday)

• Using the software called FLASHPAINT on the Student Section of our Web Site, create a picture of our computer lab as if you were 33 feet in the air looking down ... make sure you label the 4 sides as N, S, E, and W ... make sure you label the 4 corners as NE, NW, SE and SW
• Save the file with our standard naming procedure, e.g. May29JaneDoeDrawing.jpg ... you can save it ONLY on the computer where you created it ... please send me e-mail telling me which computer you saved it on (if you are in grade 6)
• Send your picture to the gallery and indicate

  NICKNAME? Storefront
  DRAWING TITLE? May29JaneDoeDrawing.jpg (using the date and YOUR name)
  E-MAIL (hidden)? use my e-mail
  COMMENTS? make sure you use your initials and your grade
  

PowerPoint Assignment given out 5/20 (Tuesday) to Grade 5 and Grade 6 due 5/27 (Tuesday) ... beware that there is no school on Monday 5/26 (Memorial Day)

• You need to create a PowerPoint file that emulates the writing quiz sample that I showed you
• It needs to be saved with our standard naming system, e.g. May21JaneDoeWriting.ppt and needs to be in your file server folder
• The first slide -- the MAIN CARD -- should contain 3 sentences that are complete sentences ... if you are in grade 6, then 4 sentences
• One of the sentences should be flawed. The others must be good sentences that satisfy standards of grammar, spelling and standard English.
• When the user -- pretend Ms. Egmont -- clicks on each sentence, she gets told whether she guessed correctly and found the faulty sentence correctly.
• In order to accomplish the above, you need to become a PROGRAMMER and use ACTIONS SETTINGS after highlighting the sentence or a portion of the sentence. You are programming each sentence to take you to the YES, YOU FOUND THE FAULTY SENTENCE or NO, YOU DID NOT FIND THE FAULTY SENTENCE card.
• Extra credit? include one graphic with citation and program it to take the user back to the MAIN card
• Here is a sample of a working PowerPoint ... click

To Grade 8 (Wed 5/21 due 5/28) and Grade 7 (Thurs 5/22 due 5/29) ... you need do all of the above PLUS

• what is marked as EXTRA CREDIT ABOVE for grade 5 and grade 6 is REQUIRED FOR YOU ... include one graphic with citation and program it to take the user back to the MAIN card
• you need to have 5 sentences on the first main page, with one incorrect sentence
• you need to have your name FLY IN on the main page when the presentation is run
• you need to have a fake page 2 that prevents the user from going forward by accident

List of common writing mistakes

1. alot should be a lot
2. colums should be columns
3. Complacated should be Complicated
4. dinasours should be dinosoars
5. her and her twin sister were born in Germany. should be she and her twin sister were born in Germany
6. jelousy should be jealousy
7. jumpping should be Jumping
8. make shore should be make sure
9. she is none as the lady of soul should be she is known as the lady of soul
10. your already living alone should be you're already living alone