This is my COMPUTERS page.
In this class we watch videos & take notes to learn how to use Weebly & other multimedia tools such as Glogster.
Typing Test Certificate
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We took the same test three times to get some practice and then we took the test that you could print out a certificate with and it helped us practice our keyboard skills. I did this same test last year if I remember right and it has every key that the keyboard has so it is a little tricky, but I have practiced with keyboards a lot in my past computer classes.
The Black Death Presentation
In computers we got to choose a subject in an academic class we wanted to do a presentation on. I chose the Black Death, which by reading this presentation you will learn is one of the most devastating plagues or diseases of all time. I already knew how to use PowerPoint so I chose to do that presentation choice. I used PowerPoint in many grades below now so I am used to it. It was nice to get some review about The Black Death though.
The Black Death Glogster
We taught the same lesson as above about The Black Death, but this time we chose from a few multi media tools to help us explain, we could either use Voki, Xtranormal, animate, myths & legends and a few more, but I chose glogster because it is easy. I added pictures and animations and a little bit of text. I also found out how to change the background color and overlap animations. I have used Glogster before now in Science so I knew the basics.
The Black Death Instant Feedback / Review Quiz
As you see below I made a quiz so you can test your knowledge of the Black Death after viewing my Multi-media project & my Powerpoint presentation. Feel free to take my quiz and test your own knowledge. I think you will do just fine after viewing the information in my presentations. I used both glogster & powerpoint for my presentations. And for my quiz I used Google Docs and made an instant feedback quiz. It was quite simple. You just add in page breaks and different types of questions like check boxes and multiple choice. Then you just us ethe embed code to put it into your website! So take this quiz if you would like to see the answers right away.
The Black Death Presentation Quiz
This quiz contains the same questions as the quiz above except for the fact it isn't instant feedback so you won't know the answers right away. Take this quiz only when you feel strongly that you know the material well enough to take this quiz.
Roman Empire Document
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Here is one of my first assignments in computers class. We made these short essays using Google Docs. We just wrote quick little essays about the Roman Empire to make sure Google Docs was working for everyone.
After we made these documents we then used the sharing tool on
Google Docs to share with our friends who can make comments and suggestions to help make our essay better. For example I had a few spelling errors and puncuation errors, so my friend left a helpful comment to fix them. I can also share my document with my teachers. After we shared with our friends, we then shared our Docs with our teachers as well.
After we made these documents we then used the sharing tool on
Google Docs to share with our friends who can make comments and suggestions to help make our essay better. For example I had a few spelling errors and puncuation errors, so my friend left a helpful comment to fix them. I can also share my document with my teachers. After we shared with our friends, we then shared our Docs with our teachers as well.
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With the help of my classmates and teacher I soon had a great document which we then turned into our computer teacher, Mr.Kimbley's dropbox for the first time. By doing this short lesson we practiced typing, we learned the format of an official document, we practiced the sharing tool for helpful criticism, and we also learned how to turn in online assignments to teacher's dropboxes, which will be very handy for other classes as well. All this wasn't to much of a challenge for me since I do use technology a lot at home and at my old school.
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Newsletter
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This is a newsletter we had to make for computers. We could actually choose any topic we wanted to write about so, I of course chose volleyball. Volleyball was a fun subject for me to write about because I added some pictures of the team which was fun and then I talked about what we did in practices and at games and tournaments! Hope You Enjoy taking a look at my creation.
I added captions to every picture,and I talked like I was a real news reporter and I was in third person even though I am Julia. It was weird to say Julia was a captain, but I got used to it. This is the only assignment I actually enjoyed doing in this class because I love volleyball. I organized my text by using center adjustment and justified alignment which really give the look of a newsletter. I have used word a lot in the past so I already knew almost everything we did in this newsletter. I can relate this to when my friend and I tried to make a dog newspaper and thought it would become super popular and we would charge for it, but it turned out not looking like one after all one bit so we canceled it.
I added captions to every picture,and I talked like I was a real news reporter and I was in third person even though I am Julia. It was weird to say Julia was a captain, but I got used to it. This is the only assignment I actually enjoyed doing in this class because I love volleyball. I organized my text by using center adjustment and justified alignment which really give the look of a newsletter. I have used word a lot in the past so I already knew almost everything we did in this newsletter. I can relate this to when my friend and I tried to make a dog newspaper and thought it would become super popular and we would charge for it, but it turned out not looking like one after all one bit so we canceled it.
Digital Citenzship
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Here is a certificate that I earned for finishing My Digital Life. I comleted all the videos that we had to watch, and this ccertificate is proof. All the videos were about digital citizenship. They were short videos, (that seemed to last forever), that had a quiz at the end of every video. There were I believe seven portals and every portal had around seven videos to watch in them. We worked on this for homework and in class. To read more about My Digital Life check out the blog under Friday Free Write. I was surprised to be doing video work because I was always taught by hand and never in videos so I thought this was a different way of teaching.