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PPT-3: Unit Project Assignment
Here is what we came up with as a class. Don't forget to continue collaborating on the assignment details through the Google Docs page.
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TOPIC
Pick a specific topic that is school appropriate, interesting, and can hold peer attention for extended period of time.
Use your specific topic to help teach your peers specific learning objectives.
Topics must differ from group to group.
SOURCES
At least 5 dependable sources are used, or at least 2 per group member, whichever is greater.
Any information gathered from the internet, books, magazines, articles, etc. must be cited to avoid plagiarism.
PRESENTATION
Must present to class.
Must use PowerPoint as a presentation tool, not as the actual presentation.
Minimum time of 5 minutes, maximum time of 10 minutes.
10+ slides (should we just say at least ten, ?) of quality information, excluding Introduction, Conclusion, and Works Cited slides.
Required inclusion of media – a song (that doesn’t suck), various images, and at least 1 movie, all of which must pertain to topic.
Use effective animations that do not detract emphasis from topic.
Use same transition throughout presentation that does not detract emphasis from topic.
What about presentation rules like eye contact, rehearsing, etc?
What about PowerPoint design rules?
GROUP DYNAMIC
3-5 people per group (or maximum of 4?).
A group leader.
Required group participation through the Wikispace.
Required to upload PowerPoint presentation to Google Docs so the group can edit the document together and collaborate online.
All group members need to participate. The group workload will be divided fairly and evenly - according to group members’ ability.
Participation grade will be posted every other day (or once a week?) by tracking changes and contributions to group page on Wikispace and on Google Docs.
TEACHER
Advise group progress and help troubleshoot Wikispace, Google Docs, and PowerPoint issues.
Mr. Dude should give everyone A’s?
Give extra credit for any group that brings donuts.
Do we want to use anonymous peer-grading and average with my grade?
Ensure audience is respectful and attentive during presentations.
Three weeks to complete?
SUGGESTIONS / CONCERNS?
- Add any of your questions, suggestions, concerns here.
Comp Apps Wiki
Head over to https://faithcomputers.wikispaces.com/ to check out or next topic - wikis!
Don't edit anything yet (you probably can't as I am hoping I am smart enough to set it to private)!
We'll discuss next class on Thursday 1/31.
Don't edit anything yet (you probably can't as I am hoping I am smart enough to set it to private)!
We'll discuss next class on Thursday 1/31.
Finals
Best of luck to all of you during Finals week.
If anybody needs some help with anything, feel free to ask. I can't promise that I will have all of the answers for you, but I'm willing to help!
If anybody needs some help with anything, feel free to ask. I can't promise that I will have all of the answers for you, but I'm willing to help!
Merry Christmas & Happy Vacation!
Merry Christmas everybody - have a fun and safe vacation!
See you back at school in 2008!
Did You Know?
Here is a thought-provoking video about how technology has and will change the world.
Start a conversation...
Start a conversation...
Cement Trucks
Have you ever noticed the back of cement trucks?? The backs of them look like gigantic gas masks from WWI! They scare me half to death!
HTML (Part 2)
Now that you (supposedly) know how to change the colors, styles, and font sizes of text, I'm going to confuse you even more. Because I can.
If you want to put a picture in something, the first thing you need to do is get the URL. I usually use Photobucket because if you have an account there, you can save pictures to your album and not worry about losing them. If you're too lazy to do that, you can find a picture on Google and copy the image URL.
There are a few different ways to find this. If you're on Photobucket, copy the Direct URL of the picture, NOT the HTML link. This will automatically link it back to Photobucket, and you don't always want to do that. If you've just got a picture from google, right-click the image and choose Copy Image Location. Either of these gets you what you need.
Go back to wherever you're putting the HTML code. Type <img src="image URL goes here">. Make sure you don't forget the quotes around the link, or it won't work.
*Note: Normally you don't have to end this code. However, if you're trying to use it in a marquee, you need to end it with </img>. I don't know why. You just do.
Now back to why you don't want to use Photobucket's HTML link. Like I said, it will automatically link back to Photobucket. If you want to turn something into a link, type <a href="link goes here">Whatever you want to turn into a link goes here</a>. You can put that around an image code and link a picture to another page. Or just put it around text. But that's more boring.
My guess is that at least one person reading this has tried to make a marquee by now. Well, you can just type <marquee>Stuff</marquee> and have a normal one, but it's also fun to make it scroll different speeds. Creating this code works just like "font"; you can have all the different attributes in between only one set of tags.
"Scrollamount" controls how fast the marquee moves. scrollamount="50" is a pretty fast speed. The one I put on the Computer Apps blog is set to 50. Most people use something around 10 or 20. You can edit the font colors and styles the same way you would normally. Just keep the "marquee" tags outside of everything.
I would explain how to make borders on this, but the only way I can explain that is using CSS. Which I might do later. But not now. Because I spent about 8 hours working on it yesterday and it drove me insane. 0.0 I'll help you guys with that once I understand it better.
And now I present:
THE COMPLETELY RANDOM DANCING CHICKEN!!
If you want to put a picture in something, the first thing you need to do is get the URL. I usually use Photobucket because if you have an account there, you can save pictures to your album and not worry about losing them. If you're too lazy to do that, you can find a picture on Google and copy the image URL.
There are a few different ways to find this. If you're on Photobucket, copy the Direct URL of the picture, NOT the HTML link. This will automatically link it back to Photobucket, and you don't always want to do that. If you've just got a picture from google, right-click the image and choose Copy Image Location. Either of these gets you what you need.
Go back to wherever you're putting the HTML code. Type <img src="image URL goes here">. Make sure you don't forget the quotes around the link, or it won't work.
*Note: Normally you don't have to end this code. However, if you're trying to use it in a marquee, you need to end it with </img>. I don't know why. You just do.
Now back to why you don't want to use Photobucket's HTML link. Like I said, it will automatically link back to Photobucket. If you want to turn something into a link, type <a href="link goes here">Whatever you want to turn into a link goes here</a>. You can put that around an image code and link a picture to another page. Or just put it around text. But that's more boring.
My guess is that at least one person reading this has tried to make a marquee by now. Well, you can just type <marquee>Stuff</marquee> and have a normal one, but it's also fun to make it scroll different speeds. Creating this code works just like "font"; you can have all the different attributes in between only one set of tags.
"Scrollamount" controls how fast the marquee moves. scrollamount="50" is a pretty fast speed. The one I put on the Computer Apps blog is set to 50. Most people use something around 10 or 20. You can edit the font colors and styles the same way you would normally. Just keep the "marquee" tags outside of everything.
I would explain how to make borders on this, but the only way I can explain that is using CSS. Which I might do later. But not now. Because I spent about 8 hours working on it yesterday and it drove me insane. 0.0 I'll help you guys with that once I understand it better.
And now I present:
THE COMPLETELY RANDOM DANCING CHICKEN!!
A Fun Prank!!
When you have the time, take a video camera and film the inside of your bathroom for about 10 minutes. The next time that you host at a party at your house, have the video with you. When someone goes to the bathroom, put the video in your TV and play it. While you play the video, be sure to pretend to laugh. When the person comes out of the bathroom, they will see you and everybody else laughing at an empty bathroom. Get it?? HAHAHA!
Woo!
Mr. Dooley told me how to type carrots now. So I'm going to do that. Because I can.
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All this means to you is that I changed the HTML guide a bit so now you can see what tags actually look like. So...hooray.
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All this means to you is that I changed the HTML guide a bit so now you can see what tags actually look like. So...hooray.
HTML (Part 1)
A lot of people are wondering how to do the cool scrolly things that I have on my blog, among other things.
Well, it's not that difficult, really. HTML is your friend and it's a good thing to know. I learned the basics from the guide on Neopets (yes, Neopets). I also took a class on web page design (which is where I learned the scrolly thing). But I'm going to be nice and not make you do that. ^_^
(Keep in mind that I don't know everything about HTML. I just know what works most of the time. I'm going to use that Neopets guide to help me as I write this, so don't sue me for plagiarism.)
HTML is what websites are made out of. Hit Ctrl+u (press and hold "control" and press the "u" key) and you'll see a nice little window pop up showing all the HTML code on the page you're on. Chances are it'll overload your brain a bit, but don't panic. You don't have to be that fancy just yet. Unless you just...want to...O_o
The first thing you need to know about HTML is that all the codes start with a < and end with a >. They're known as brackets, but I'm going to call them carrots. Because they look like little sideways carrots to me. Yeah.
Well, those little carrots form things called tags. You start a code with a start tag (<code>), and at the end of the area you want to be HTML-ified, you use an end tag (</code>) to stop using that particular code.
To do simple things like italics, you use a <i> tag at the start of the text you want italicized and end it with a </i> tag. If you type <i>I like cheese</i>, you would get I like cheese. There are a few codes that don't actually need to be ended, but I'll mention those later on when they become relevant. (Go here if you want to see a better example.)
Some more useful tags are line break (<br>) and paragraph (<p>). Line break is like pressing "enter" on the keyboard and doesn't require an end tag. Paragraph is basically a double line break and also doesn't need an end tag, but it's still a good habit to end all your tags to keep things from getting all messed up.
Want to change your font away from this boring, black, normal-sized text? Well, that's easy too. The "font" tag can be used to change font size and color. You can type <font size=" " color=" "> to change either size or color, and combine them both into one nice neat little tag. Spiffy. You use a number system to change the size. Size 1 font is more this size while size 7 font is more like this.
Color is a little different. For basic colors, most of the time you can just type the name of the color in between the quotation marks. However, this is very unreliable and sometimes you'll end up with really weird colors that make no sense. Either that or they just won't work at all.
*Keep in mind that HTML is spelled using Standard American English, so don't go off using "colour" or anything weird like that. Not that it really applies to you, but just in case it does...well, now you know.
More specific colors require things called hexadecimal codes. (Heh heh...try saying "hexadecimal" three times fast.) A hexadecimal code is made of six letters and/or numbers, each of which represents a different attribute of the color. (When entering a hexadecimal code, don't forget to have the number sign [#] before the code.) Most people use color code charts to figure out these cryptic combinations of letters and numbers, but even then you can't always get the specific shade you're looking for. Here's a few basic ones:
White: #FFFFFF
Black: #000000 (Those are zeroes, not the letter "o".)
Bright Red: #FF0000
Bright Green: #00FF00
Bright Blue: #0000FF
Well, it's not that difficult, really. HTML is your friend and it's a good thing to know. I learned the basics from the guide on Neopets (yes, Neopets). I also took a class on web page design (which is where I learned the scrolly thing). But I'm going to be nice and not make you do that. ^_^
(Keep in mind that I don't know everything about HTML. I just know what works most of the time. I'm going to use that Neopets guide to help me as I write this, so don't sue me for plagiarism.)
HTML is what websites are made out of. Hit Ctrl+u (press and hold "control" and press the "u" key) and you'll see a nice little window pop up showing all the HTML code on the page you're on. Chances are it'll overload your brain a bit, but don't panic. You don't have to be that fancy just yet. Unless you just...want to...O_o
The first thing you need to know about HTML is that all the codes start with a < and end with a >. They're known as brackets, but I'm going to call them carrots. Because they look like little sideways carrots to me. Yeah.
Well, those little carrots form things called tags. You start a code with a start tag (<code>), and at the end of the area you want to be HTML-ified, you use an end tag (</code>) to stop using that particular code.
To do simple things like italics, you use a <i> tag at the start of the text you want italicized and end it with a </i> tag. If you type <i>I like cheese</i>, you would get I like cheese. There are a few codes that don't actually need to be ended, but I'll mention those later on when they become relevant. (Go here if you want to see a better example.)
Some more useful tags are line break (<br>) and paragraph (<p>). Line break is like pressing "enter" on the keyboard and doesn't require an end tag. Paragraph is basically a double line break and also doesn't need an end tag, but it's still a good habit to end all your tags to keep things from getting all messed up.
Want to change your font away from this boring, black, normal-sized text? Well, that's easy too. The "font" tag can be used to change font size and color. You can type <font size=" " color=" "> to change either size or color, and combine them both into one nice neat little tag. Spiffy. You use a number system to change the size. Size 1 font is more this size while size 7 font is more like this.
Color is a little different. For basic colors, most of the time you can just type the name of the color in between the quotation marks. However, this is very unreliable and sometimes you'll end up with really weird colors that make no sense. Either that or they just won't work at all.
*Keep in mind that HTML is spelled using Standard American English, so don't go off using "colour" or anything weird like that. Not that it really applies to you, but just in case it does...well, now you know.
More specific colors require things called hexadecimal codes. (Heh heh...try saying "hexadecimal" three times fast.) A hexadecimal code is made of six letters and/or numbers, each of which represents a different attribute of the color. (When entering a hexadecimal code, don't forget to have the number sign [#] before the code.) Most people use color code charts to figure out these cryptic combinations of letters and numbers, but even then you can't always get the specific shade you're looking for. Here's a few basic ones:
White: #FFFFFF
Black: #000000 (Those are zeroes, not the letter "o".)
Bright Red: #FF0000
Bright Green: #00FF00
Bright Blue: #0000FF
So if you wanted small, bold, bright green text, you would type:
<font size="1" color="#00FF00"><b>Pie is the best food ever.</b></font>
If you want to find the exact color you want, go to this website. It's actually used for creating gradient text (This is gradient text), but I use it to get whatever color code I want.
If you want to make the pretty scrolly thing, use the word marquee for the code.
To review:
<command>Text to be HTML-ified goes here.</command> All text typed out here would be normal.
<i>Text</i> becomes Text
<b>Text</b> becomes Text
<font > would make small, bright red text.
DO NOT FORGET TO END YOUR TAGS. OR YOUR PAGE WILL BE VERY LOOPY.Well, this is a really long blog entry, so I'll cut it short here. No sense in conquering the whole blog all the time. ^_^* If this is useful to anyone at all, let me know using COMMENTS. It just might make me want to post more HTML help for you;)
Want to embed music into your blog?
For those of you wishing to embed music or audio into your blog, it's easy!
Go to your template tab and 'Add a Page Element.' Select the 'HTML / Javascript' option and then copy and paste the following text:
<embed src="replace with your link" type="audio/mpeg" autostart="true" loop="true"> </embed>
This will only work when you find a song or mp3 file that is ALREADY on a website! Replace the link inside the quotes with the link to the audio file you want to include.
Go to your template tab and 'Add a Page Element.' Select the 'HTML / Javascript' option and then copy and paste the following text:
<embed src="replace with your link" type="audio/mpeg" autostart="true" loop="true"> </embed>
This will only work when you find a song or mp3 file that is ALREADY on a website! Replace the link inside the quotes with the link to the audio file you want to include.
*conquer*
I own this blog entry. *maniacal laughter*
Firstly...
HI!
Don't ask. I left my brain at home today.
Firstly...
HI!
Don't ask. I left my brain at home today.
Blogging
Here is the video that we watched in class on "Blogging."
If you want to search or browse other blogs on the internet, visit the following links:
http://blogsearch.google.com/
http://www.technorati.com/blogging/
If you want to search or browse other blogs on the internet, visit the following links:
http://blogsearch.google.com/
http://www.technorati.com/blogging/
Was the Introduction of our Blog a SUCCESS?
Based on the early commenting rate during class, I'm hoping that all students continue to participate and frequently check our blog - from class or from home. Feel free to comment on this blog entry with your feelings about the world of blogging - be it positive or negative.
Remember: always keep blog entries and comments appropriate and practice constructive criticsim. We all have opinions, and this blog will let everyone have a voice.
On another note, it turns out that most people blog to express themselves creatively and to share with others!
Remember: always keep blog entries and comments appropriate and practice constructive criticsim. We all have opinions, and this blog will let everyone have a voice.
On another note, it turns out that most people blog to express themselves creatively and to share with others!
Web 2.0 Video
Here is a copy of the "Web 2.0 - What is It and How do we use it?" video shown in class.
Please comment about the video to start a conversation about why it is important for YOU to help change the internet!
*Edit* Updated video with an audio remix from freeplaymusic.com
*Content is courtesy of Michael Wesch from KSU - edited by Mr. Dooley*
Welcome to the new Blog!
In anticipation of the upcoming Web 2.0 Unit for my Computer Applications class at Faith Lutheran, I have created a place for students to gather and respond to blogs. I will continue to start conversations about class content, so visit the blog frequently.
Students:
Always feel free to view the blog page at home or in class, and post appropriate comments and questions. Speak your mind, and collaborate!
Students:
Always feel free to view the blog page at home or in class, and post appropriate comments and questions. Speak your mind, and collaborate!