Today we will add the Right shift key and the W to what we have already learned on the keyboard.
After learning these new keys we will go to a website and do a little practice from there.
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Today we will learn the 5 and the 7 in class.
Just as a reminder...the Crossword Puzzle is due this Friday. You can turn this in today if you have it completed or tomorrow. If you do not get this turned in by tomorrow it will not get graded as it is the end of the 3rd Quarter.
Also, next week is a vocab week, so if you are responsible for definitions for week 6 please get those definitions posted to the Wikispaces page as soon as possible.
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How did Lyndon B. Johnson expand the rights and freedoms of people of our county?
How did Lyndon B. Johnson show positive character traits?
Click on the link above to explore the Lyndon B. Johnson glog.
Record important words that relate to the life of Lyndon B. Johnson to use in your word cloud. Choose words that will help you describe him and his efforts to expand our rights through the Great Society and expanding voting rights.
Go to http://www.wordle.net/ and click on the word "create." Type your words into the first box and click "GO." When you see your word cloud click "Print."
Practice reading through your word cloud, so youll be ready to share it with the class. Youll need to explain how each word relates to the life of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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This week:
Vocabulary
Create Wikispace accounts
Create a Classmarker account
Review of all keys learned
Learn N, G, Left Shift key, period (.)
Technique grade
TODAY:
We are going to begin by talking about the vocab words and vocab lists for the class. If you go to the vocabulary page on the blog youll see a variety of information - well be covering this today. Additionally, youll need to have access to the wikispaces page so that you can submit vocabulary definitions (thats already been done by me - you will need to verify by checking your gmail, and well do that in a little bit).
The vocabulary for this class is really split into 2 parts - on one hand you will be responsible for knowing all of the vocabulary words for any given week, and you will demonstrate your knowledge by completing a vocab quiz. On the other hand you will be required to find definitions for the vocab words and post them to the wiki for everyone to study off of. This "research process" will be graded, just as the vocab quizzes will be graded (our first vocabulary quiz will be this Friday, and it will be taken online on a website called Classmarker).
When you post a definition to the Wiki, your definition should be easy to understand. Sometimes, after finding a definition, you will see that the definition that you have found doesnt help you to understand what that vocab word means (or is). Therefore, find definitions that are easy to understand, and if you cant find one that makes sense please see me so I can help you write an easy-to-understand definition.
Additionally, if you have a vocab word that is an acronym (GPS, WWW, or FAQ) then please include what the letters stand for (for example, WWW stands for World Wide Web, and when you enter your vocab definition on the wiki make sure to include that).
This will seem a little foreign to begin with, but we will be talking about this every day between now and the end of next week, which is when your first quiz will be.
You could set up a calendar reminder in Google so that you receive an email - this way you will be reminded several days in advance of when you need to have a definition posted on the wiki. And, since you already know the words that you will be asked to define, you could find a definition for each of your words and save those definitions in a Google Doc - then when it is your week all you have to do is copy from your Google Doc to the Wiki.
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Preparing for Pitch Day. Im am preparing for Pitch Day, Pitch Day is when I go and pitch my idea to a school board and they ask questions and think my idea is good or not. For Pitch Day I need to have a video to show to them that shows my idea. I need to make the video about computers and Im going to talk about my way Im going to build computers. In order to be ready I still need to make a video and figure out how Im going to explain my idea. I also need to probably post a little bit more on my blog so look out for that. I may or may not need to but still look out for more posts in the future I might try to put a calendar for when they come out to so. Thats a little bit about pitch day.
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Please visit our grade level blogs (to the right of this post)! Youll find lots of lists of educational sites by grade level and subject area. Enjoy!
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We are still working on our Internet Safety project. Since I havent said anything about it in a while, please make sure to check the rubric at the bottom of the Internet Safety page on the blog to remind yourself what you need to accomplish. Also, keep in mind the theme of "Would a 3rd grader understand what you are creating?" In other words, make it simple.
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Wow! Most all of our classes were able to earn 4 points each time they visited the lab! If your class earned 16 points, then this week or next youll have 15 minutes of free time on your choice of sites or programs we have worked with over the last 4 classes! Congratulations!
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We are going to start by reviewing all of the keys, with a concentration on the keys we learned yesterday (the U and the C).
After reviewing we are going to take a speed test to see how fast you are keying. This will not be for a grade, but it will give us an idea as to where you are now, and then when we do this later how much you have improved.
After the speed test we will head back to learning two new keys - the W (L4) and the Right Shift Key (R4).
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Huawei Mobile Partner Troubleshooting for Windows 8
Here we discuss a serious issue related to the Huawei Mobile Partner latest version on Windows 8 machine. As we all know, Huawei Mobile Partner latest version has an built-in functionality of sharing internet through WIFI Hotspot if you are on Laptop device or having Desktop with external WIFI cards.
Few users including myself found a serious issue when using Huawei Mobile Partner latest version on a Windows 8 system where Connectify Hotspot was already installed.
Since Connectify Hotspot is a very well known tool for sharing any available internet connection via Hotspot. It is a very useful tool but due to both softwares having a same functionality at some point as they both having WIFI Hotspots, they have a compatibility issue when installing both softwares on a single machine having Windows 8.
So if you are finding trouble using Huawei Mobile Partner latest version on your machine and you are getting frequent driver issue or getting frequent blue screens of death, check if you have Connectify Hotspot any version installed.
If you have installed Connectify and in order to use Huawei Mobile Partner, you unfortunately need to remove Connectify Hotspot.
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Today you only have a 1/2 day of school (the teachers still have to work a full day...be sure to think of us when youre out riding your bike or playing with your friends this afternoon!), and so we are going to use the shortened time to learn 3 new keys. They are the Caps Lock key (L4), the question mark (Left shift + R4), and the TAB key (L4).
There is a vocab quiz tomorrow so please prepare yourself accordingly.
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Today we are going to use to catch up with whatever you dont have done. Here are some possibilities:
Crossword puzzle 1-6
Any formatting activity that has been due during the 4th quarter (FA2 - FA8)
Wiki spaces definitions
Vocab quiz make ups (Quizzes 6 - 8)
Spring Break blog post
If you have been doing what has been asked and you have everything completed you have three choices:
Practice websites
Read a book
Homework from another class
As Ive stated before, it is important for you to get your assignments submitted as any score you receive would be much better than a zero. For those with missing assignments youll notice that your grade dramatically improves once you turn in an assignment that had previously been scored as a zero and score points - depending on the assignment and your grade sometimes as much as one whole letter grade!
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