Thursday, April 10th, 2014

Today, we are learning about digital citizenship. 

That fancy word means who we are when we are on the internet. 

We are going to watch two videos by ourselves.

Then, we will break up it groups of students who watched the same videos.

Your group will make a Keynote to show the class

about what you learned from your two videos. 

Here is where you find your videos:

http://www.netsmartz.org/TeensTalkBack

http://www.netsmartz.org/RealLifeStories

Your videos will be on either link. 

Use the rubric as a scratch sheet to record notes. 

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014: Emoji Poetry

Today, we are taking the classics into the modern age. 

You will be given the choice of 4 poems.

Choose one

and then rewrite the poem using emojis/emoticons.

Here are some websites that will be helpful:

http://emojipedia.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

http://cool-smileys.com/text-emoticons

but also, to find emojis, just type into google what you need plus emoji on the end and 

then search in the image section. 

Here are some examples of emoji illustrations:

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"

A famous line for Shakespeare's play Hamlet

the original lines:

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

Chamillionaire's "Ridin Dirty"

Michelangelo's famous painting Creation of Adam

Thursday, March 20th, 2014: Creating Infographics

Today, we are learning about INFOGRAPHICS.

First, we will watch my keynote. 

Then, we will create infographics at this website

using this statistical information or this statistical information.

Happy infographic-ing!

If you like what we are doing today in class, 

try out this other infographic website. 

It is more advanced.

Below is my keynote presentation. Follow along.

Thursday, November 7th, 2013: Learning Layers on Pixlr

Today, we are going to make sure we understand pixlr to create our animations. 

Thursday, October 31st, 2013: Dog Animation (Second to last day)

                                         Today, in class, the only website we will be using is pixlr editor. 

Tuesday, October 29th, 2013: Saints Movie Posters

These are the websites we are using today to create movie posters of Saints and their rockstar lives. 

To find your Saints photos, search on google. 

Once your photo is found, you can quickly alter your photo at Pixlr express editor. 

Your altered Saint photo will go into your movie-poster-making website. 

Here is an example of our final product: