Critical Skills
May 12, 2008
Bell Work:
Submit Letter to Board to the FASST Site
Class Work:
Work in groups to create a presentation for the board
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Points Possible |
| Presentation |
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| Speaks Loudly |
10 |
| Faces Audience |
10 |
| Persuasive |
10 |
| Knowledgeable in Subject |
10 |
| Only uses Helpful Images |
5 |
| Slides |
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| Preview/Review |
10 |
| Large Font |
5 |
| Group Theme |
5 |
| Avoids Wrapping Lines |
5 |
| Research |
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| Accurate Information |
20 |
| Considered All Perspectives |
10 |
| Total |
100 |
May 7, 2008
Bell Work:
Map Testing
Class Work:
Continue Food Court Project - Skit and Proposal
Write a one-page proposal to the School Board with your recommendation of restaurant choices for the food court. Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion. Include a paragraph for each restaurant choice that justifies your decision. Consider the income generated by each restaurant along with other factors that influenced your decision. Use your best persuasive writing skills to impress the school board.
Home Work:
Finish your Proposal
May 5, 2008
Bell Work:
Map Testing
Class Work:
Continue Food Court Project - Profit Calculations
Home Work:
Think of 5 questions that could possibly be on the final exam in this class. Write your five questions in a post on your blog. Topics might include excel, powerpoint, word, Alice, computer hardware, binary/decimal conversions and gimp.
April 30, 2008
Bell Work:
Class Work:
MAP Testing
Start the HIGH SCHOOL FOOD COURT FINAL PROJECT
BLOG PROMPTS:
What do you think are the most important issues the Student Council must consider?
What are the positive and negative features of each restaurant?
April 28, 2008
Bell Work:
Ultrakey Typing
Class Work:
Import Pictures into the Computer
Begin working on the Proverbs Collage
-At Least 5 Pictures
-At least 3 pictures that are NOT from the internet
-No more than 2 pictures from a FREE stock photography website.
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
http://www.freephotosbank.com/
http://www.dreamstime.com/freephotos
April 23, 2008
Bell Work:
Ultrakey Typing
Class Work:
Frontier Collage
Import Pictures to the Computer
April 21, 2008
Bell Work:
Read this:
Programming: The New Literacy
Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.
by Marc Prensky
Already, various thinkers about the future have proposed a number of candidates for the designation "twenty-first-century literacy." That is, what are the key skills humans must possess in order to be considered literate? Some writers assume that the definition of literacy will continue to be what it always has been: "The ability to carefully read and write a contemporary spoken language." Others specify that the term will apply only to fluency in one or more of the languages spoken by the largest numbers of people, those certain to be important over the next nine decades of the century; candidates include Spanish, English, or Mandarin Chinese.
Still others expand the notion of twenty-first-century literacy beyond spoken and written language to include the panoply of skills often collected under the umbrella term multimedia (being able to both understand and create messages, communications, and works that include, or are constructed with, visual, aural, and haptic -- that is, physical -- elements as well as words). Some go on to find important emerging literacy in interactivity and games. And there are those who say it includes all of the above, and might include other factors as well.
I am one of these last, in that I believe fluency with multiple spoken languages will continue to be important, and that multimedia, interactivity, and other game-derived devices will be increasingly significant tools for communicating twenty-first-century thought. Nonetheless, I firmly believe that the true key literacy of the new century lies outside all these domains.
I believe the single skill that will, above all others, distinguish a literate person is programming literacy, the ability to make digital technology do whatever, within the possible one wants it to do -- to bend digital technology to one's needs, purposes, and will, just as in the present we bend words and images. Some call this skill human-machine interaction; some call it procedural literacy. Others just call it programming.
Seem strange? I'm sure it does. Today, people with highly developed skills in this area are seen as nerds. But consider that as machines become even more important components of our communication, our work, our education, our travel, our homes, and our leisure, the ability to make them do what we want will become increasingly valuable. Already, today, a former programmer in Seattle, one of these very nerds, is one of the richest people in the world.
So, in a sense, we are going to see as we progress through the twenty-first century a real revenge of the nerds, except that the new nerds will be our programmatically literate children. As programming becomes more important, it will leave the back room and become a key skill and attribute of our top intellectual and social classes, just as reading and writing did in the past. Remember, only a few centuries ago, reading and writing were confined to a small specialist class whose members we called scribes.
BellWork: Write a post on your blog that answers these questions:
- What skills do you think will be important in the twenty-first century?
- Do you agree with the author's suggestion that programming will be the most important skill in the future?
- In what ways do you "bend digital technology to your needs, purposes and will"?
Class Work:
Gimp!
Home Work:
Choose one of the proverbs below and bring at least 5 pictures to use in a collage that portrays the proverb. For example, if your proverb is "Many Hands Make Light Work" you might bring a few pictures of hands, and a picture of feather (to represent something light). The pictures may NOT be from the internet.
Allowed Sources for Pictures:
- Magazines
- Photos from your camera (Bring the camera and cord, a cd, or flash drive)
- Drawings
- Photos from the school camera (Check out the Camera from Ms. Evans during a free-block, access or after school)
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Arab Proverb
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
English Proverb
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Irish Proverb
A penny saved is a penny gained.
Scottish Proverb
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Proverb of Unknown Origin
Every cloud has a silver lining.
English Proverb
Every garden may have some weeds.
English Proverb
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Chinese Proverb
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
English Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese proverb
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
English Proverb
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
Irish Proverb
It takes time to build castles.
Irish Proverb
April 16, 2008
Bell Work:
Class Work:
Create an Alice Story. Include the following:
- A Beginning - A character has a problem
- A Middle - The character tries to find a way to solve their problem
- An End - The character finds a solution
- 3 Characters (People or Animals)
- 4 Objects
- 30 Instructions (lines of code)
April 14, 2008
Bell Work:
New Seats!
Class Work:
Start learning Alice
March 26, 2008
Bell Work:
Review for the test
Class Work:
Test
Finish Million Dollar Project
March 24, 2008
Bell Work:
Submit your million dollar project notepad document to the FASST site.
Class Work:
-Wrapping Lines
-Copy and Paste Formulas
-Bar Chart Vs. Pie Chart
Continue Million Dollar Project
Review for the Test on Wednesday:
Powerpoint: Review the slideshow that is located here: S:\Classes\Evans\Critical Skills Spring 08\PowerPointForGrownUps.ppt
Excel:
- Spreadsheet Basics - Review the Slideshow here: S:\Classes\Evans\Critical Skills Spring 08\Excel1.ppt
- Rows, Columns, Cells
- Formulas - What they do, How to make them
- Wrapping Lines
- Dragging Forumulas
- Formatting Cells (Currency, Number, Date)
- Merge and Center Button
- How to add cell borders
- Bar Charts, Pie Charts, when to use them
- How to make Charts
Home Work:
March 19, 2008
Bell Work:
Continue working on the budget spreadsheet for your store.
Class Work:
Finish Store Spreadsheet
Begin Million Dollar Project
March 17, 2008
Bell Work:
Submit your first excel project to the FASST site. The file should be saved as YourUserNameExcel1.
Class Work:
Review:
Formatting Cells
Merge and Center
Borders
Formulas
Store Project
Part 1:
Markup: How much the price of the product is raised above the cost of purchasing it
Product: Products sold at your store
Inventory Start: The number of each item that you started with at the beginning of the month
Inventory End: The number of each item that you ended with at the end of the month
Quantity Sold: = Inventory Start - Inventory End
Wholesale Cost: The amount that you paid to buy the item
Retail Price: = Wholesale Cost + (Wholesale cost * Markup percent)
Gross Profit: = (Retail price - Wholesale Cost) * quantity sold
Totals: Use the sum formula to calculate the total in each column
Part 2:
Create an additional table in your worksheet called Expenses to determine your operating costs for one month. You can set up the table in a logical way of your choice. You may have to research what items cost. Be sure to include:
Rent - use a reasonable value
Utilities (Power, Water, Heat etc) - use a reasonable value
Wages - For at least 4 HOURLY EMPLOYEES - show all calculations for each employee including rate of pay, hours worked and total pay (use a formula for total pay). Use one column each for pay rate, hours worked and total pay.
Insurance = 5% of Total Gross Profit
Advertising - use a reasonable value
Taxes = 39% of Total Gross Profit
Car if your store needs one
Anything else that you think is necessary
Part 3:
Calculate the total expenses of your store
Caclulate the Net Profit: = Gross Profit - Expenses
Rename the worksheet to be the name of your store
Save your project as YourName-StoreProject
Submit it to the FASST Site
March 12, 2008
Bell Work:
Remember your blog? It's been a while, so open your blog and write an entry that lists guidelines you follow to stay safe online.
Class Work:
"Growing Up Online" Video
Intro to Excel
First Excel Project
- Collect unique data from (choose one):
- A class survey - You may conduct a survey in this room quietly and quickly
- Data from the Internet (sports scores, etc.) Don't spend a lot of time surfing.
- Present unique data in a well-organized table.
- Remember a table is different from a chart. Each person must record different data.
- No two polls, research sets, data, can be the same. Ask around if others are doing the same topic.
- Use appropriate column and row labels.
- Make it easy to read by using good borders, colors, etc.
- In your table, create at least one formula for sum or average.
- Create one bar or column chart illustrating your data table. Label your x and y axis.
- Give your chart a title
- Make this chart very easy for everyone to understand.
- Make this a quality project that you would be willing to share with the rest of the class.
- Save on your M drive as YourUsernameExcel1.
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Do experiment with formatting colors, borders, etc. and share what you learn with each other
This is due at the end of the class period, so use your time well.
March 5, 2008
Bell Work:
Class Work:
Space Settlement Project
Home Work:
Finish presentations for Monday
March 3, 2008
Bell Work:
Review Tests
Class Work:
Space Settlement Project
Home Work:
February 27, 2008
Bell Work:
Review for the test
Class Work:
Test
Space Settlement Project
Home Work:
February 25, 2008
Bell Work:
Find your new seat
Class Work:
Space Settlement Project
Home Work:
Study for the Quiz
Hardware Vocab
Hardware Diagram
Sorting Networks
Binary/Decimal Conversions
February 20, 2008
Bell Work:
Growing Up Online Video
Class Work:
Computer Hardware Video
Hardware Notebook Sheets
Hardware Worksheet
Typing
Home Work:
February 13, 2008
Bell Work:
Growing Up Online Video
Class Work:
Work on Final Draft of Biography Paper
Home Work:
Finish Final Draft of Bio Paper
February 11, 2008
Bell Work:
Be sure you have your printed version of your first draft biography paper and your works cited page.
Class Work:
Growing Up Online Movie
Binder Check
Tab for each class (5)
All papers are filed neatly (5)
Critical Skills Tab (2)
Critical Skills Syllabus (5)
Business Logo (5)
Writing Rubric (5)
Science with Beckman Tab (2)
colored periodic table (5)
periodic table basics (5)
mole conversion worksheet (5)
4 dividers with labels (4)
grade sheet (5)
Peer Evaluations
Home Work:
February 6, 2008
Bell Work:
Open MS Word and begin typing the first draft of your biography paper.
Class Work:
Work on first draft of the biography paper.
Home Work:
Finish your first draft
February 4, 2008
Bell Work:
Write a new blog post that answers these questions:
What is plagiarism?
- What is Frontier Academy's Plagiarism policy?
- What are some of the negative consequences of plagiarism?
- How can you avoid plagiarism?
Class Work:
Make Corrections to your outline
Common Outline Mistakes:
- You should not have paragraphs in your outline
- Be specific.
- Good: Born on December 9, 1906
- Bad: When she was born
- Avoid Plaigerism!
Add parenthetical documentation to your outline
Use parenthesis after each statement and list the author of the source you used for that info.
Example:
On the works cited page:
Maisel, Merry. "Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist." San Diego Super Computer Center. Sand Diego Super Computer Center. 4 Feb. 2008 <http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html>.
On the Outline:
Born on December 9, 1906 (Maisel)
If your source has no author:
Use the title of your source (the first part of the works cited entry)
On the works cited page:
"Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist." San Diego Super Computer Center. Sand Diego Super Computer Center. 4 Feb. 2008 <http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html>.
On the Outline:
Born on December 9, 1906 (Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist)
Every fact in your outline must have a source! Every source must be included on the works cited page.
Check for plaigerism:
- Do you have a source cited for every fact?
- Do you have all quotes in "quotation marks"?
- Did you avoid copying and pasting someone else's writing?
- Did you avoid using the same phrase or words as another author?
Home Work:
Finish your outline
January 30, 2008
Bell Work:
Be sure to submit your annotated bibliography to the FASST Site. Write a post on your blog that explains what question your paper will be about and what your three answers to the question will be.
Class Work:
Outlines
- Intro
- Background
- Early Life
- School and Beyond
- What makes them famous
- Inventions
- Important Events
- Accomplishments
- First answer to your question
- Supporting Details
- Second answer to your question
- Supporting Details
- Third answer to your question
- Supporting Details
- Conclusion
Home Work:
Finish your outline
January 28, 2008
Bell Work:
Be sure to submit your list of 3 questions to the FASST Site. From your three questions, choose one that you want to write you paper about. Write a blog post with the name of your person, the one question you will write about, and why you chose that question.
Class Work:
Home Work:
Finish your Blog Post
Have 3 biography questions and answers
January 25, 2008
Bell Work:
Write a post on your blog listing the five people about whom you would like to write a biography. Include why you chose that person and at least one interesting piece of information about their life.
Class Work:
- Be sure your Memo is turned in on the FASST Site
- Choose final biography topic
- Review example and writing rubric
- Biography Assignment
Home Work:
Finish your Blog Post
Have 3 biography questions and answers
January 23, 2008
Bell Work:
Write a post on your blog that is a list of what kinds of technology you use. Try to think of as many kinds of technology as you can. Technology isn't just computers!
Here are some questions to help you think of ideas. You don't need to answer all of these questions!
What technology do you have in your backpack or locker?
What technology do you see in the classroom?
What technology do you see in other classrooms and locations in the school?
What technology do you see in the car?
What technology do you see on your way from home to school?
What technology do you see in the mall or grocery store?
What technology did you see or use when you were younger?
Class Work:
- Be sure your Grand Opening and Letterhead are turned in on the FASST Site
- Memo Project
- Start the Biography Project
Home Work:
Finish your memo
Have final list of five people you're interested in
January 16, 2008
Bell Work:
Review for the quiz
Class Work:
- Lab Basics Quiz
- MS Word 2007
Home Work:
January 14, 2008
Bell Work:
Class Work:
- Driving from California
- Finish Lab Basics
- FASST Site Review (turn in Business Plan)
- Set Up Blogs
- 1. Do you have a computer at home?
2. What are your most common uses of the computer?
3. What type of websites do you visit and why?
4. Are you part of any social networking websites (myspace, facebook, etc..) ?
Home Work:
Add a new entry to your blog. Rate your computer ability from 1-5 (1 is low, 5 is high). Rate your interest in computers from 1-5 (1 is low, 5 is high). Write about what you would like to learn this semester in Critical Skills.
Read at least 3 other blogs and leave a comment on them.
Study for the Lab Basics Quiz
Finish your Business Plan
January 11, 2008
Bell Work:
Class Work:
- Map Testing
- Review Saving on the Network
- Work on Business Plans
- Type your business plan in Word 2007
- Save it to your M: Drive
- Submit it on the FASST Site
Home Work:
Finish Business Plan
January 9, 2008
Bell Work:
Class Work:
- Map Testing
- Work on Business Plans
Home Work:
Finish your hand-written version of your business plan.
January 7, 2008
Bell Work:
Class Work:
Home Work:
Create a logo for your imaginary business. The logo should be on a blank (not lined) 8.5x11 piece of paper (for example, printer paper). The logo should include your business name. You may create the logo with any medium you would like - crayon, marker, magazine cut-outs, etc. If you choose to use a computer to create you logo, the artwork must all be original (no clip art). The logo should be put in your binder under Critical Skills.
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