The week you have all been waiting for... making video games!

Students who have all assignments complete can spend Tuesday and Wednesday creating video games, and Thursday will be game day!

1. Go to http://www.sploder.com/
2. CREATE AN ACCOUNT using your Gaggle email.
3. Explore and create!

Students who do not have all assignments complete can complete missing work during class.  

We will be trying out two types of programming.  Scratch is a free online program that allows you to create moving objects by connecting different puzzle pieces.  
Friday we will complete the intro tutorial.  

Next week we will look at actually learning to type computer code.  Coding is the new thing in technology... really it's the oldest thing, but still important to know!  The coding lessons come from Khan Academy!

Final deadline for videos will be Wednesday, February 19.

Final Goanimate Assignment

1. Start a new post on your blog.
2. Write a reflection on your creation process... 

Copy the following questions and paste into your blog post.  Answer each question in detail and give specific examples.  
               What is your video about?               
               What specifically did you find the hardest part to learn.  
               What part was the most fun?
               What is one TIP you would give someone just starting an animated video on GoAnimate or Domoanimate?

    3.  Include a link to your video (see directions below)
    4.  COMMENTS: Watch other's videos and comment on at least two.  


BE SURE TO USE CORRECT SPELLING AND GRAMMAR 
IN ALL POSTS AND COMMENTS!!!


How to link your finished video:

1. Choose "Save and Exit"
2. Now you should be on the PLAY screen.  Copy the URL (web address) from this page.
3. Go to your blog post.
4. Type in some text like "here is the link to my video" or "checkout my animated video story here" or however you want to link your video.
5. Highlight the typed text.
6. Click on the LINK ICON in your editing toolbar.  
7. Paste in the URL and save.  Your link should be ready to go.
8. Finish your post and remember to PUBLISH!!!

By the end of class today students should go to the CMS homepage and find the CMSTechTips blog under the library tab.  

Find the link to your blog site, make sure you have completed the blog post from Friday 2/7, then browse through the other class blogs and make a positive constructive comment on at least two blogs.  

A constructive comment could be a compliment, a polite suggestion, or a question.  

Comments will not show up until I approve them!  Points will be subtracted for any inappropriate or useless comments!

Don't forget to click PUBLISH!

Our class just started creating animated videos using Goanimate.com or domo.goanimate.com.

They are making videos to tell some thing about themselves!  

Today's assignment is to make a blog post explaining:
1. what their video will be about
2. what they have learned about using goanimate so far.
3.  What problems they have had or things they haven't been able to figure out.

 6th graders in Mr. Young's Language Arts classes brought in the mobile devices and learned how to setup apps for our school ebooks on Follett, ebooks from Listen Alaska available with a public library card and a few others like BrainPOP and SkyView.   We had a great time and now our students are more connected!!!

Just found the website called Shmoop. It has tons of entertaining, but informative videos on various content areas broken down into single concepts- like-number line, angles, integers... in math. check it out!! Math starts at pre-alegebra and goes up in difficulty.
http://www.shmoop.com/

  Our District Educational Technologists are working on new resources for teachers and students to be able to complete self-paced tutorials.  I just tried the Google Earth tutorials and the Google Sketchup tutorials.  Both have thorough and easy to follow videos for anyone to learn to use these great tools.  

Just setup an account on SchoolTube for Colony Middle.  That means that students can post and view videos... after they have an account of course.

We just need to start filming!

Here I go with my Q3 Enrichment class trying out Weebly as a blog for students to reflect on the learning in our Exploring the Creative Web class.  

Our first project is using Google Sketchup.  I have each student go through the startup tutorials and create some new project of their own.  I am always amazed at their ideas and quick consumption of new programs!

My challenge this quarter is to learn to use Weebly as our class homepage, and for this assignment I want to figure out how to save a video of their sketchup projects to post on youtube.