0 Survey

Please take this link to a survey
Answer honestly please.  It is anonymous.

0 If You Complete Your Digital Story....

You spoke and we listened!  We decided to have all students create a second blog for school work.  You will be encouraged to continue blogging about your passions on your original blog.  Please remember this is connected to a school account, you BPS Blogging and Commenting Guidelines should be followed.  You should also be sure the content is school appropriate!  

You will need to go to your Blogger Dashboard and “create a new blog”.  The new interface looks a little bit different, but if you look around you will be able to find this orange tab.  Please name your school blog in the following manner:

         This example would be if I were a student creating a blog:

                  Name of Blog:   Caitlyn’s School Blog

                      URL:   caitlynsschoolblog(.blogspot.com)

**You may need to add the first initial of your last name or a symbol if you have a common first name.  You will know as the new interface will tell you automatically if that URL is not available.*

You will need to choose a template which allows you to make multiple pages easily.

You can now work on the design of your blog.  Please be sure to create the following pages:

1. Home (this will be automatically created and the only page on which you can create a “real post”  I would like you to create a post telling your new teachers a little bit about you. You may want to include your strengths and weaknesses in school, likes and dislikes, etc...
2. English
3. Math
4. Science
5. Social Studies
6. Technology

**You may delete the Technology page from your other blog.  You could put your podcast post on your new blog if you’d like.

You may play around with design, colors, widgets, etc....

Be sure to “Apply” and “Save” as you go!!

1 Creating Your Digital Story

This week you will take your "storyboard," images and music and create your digital story using Photostory3 or Windows Movie Maker.

You will start by watching some tutorials on Atomic Learning to figure out which program you would like to use.

Remember Atomic Learning as a resource if you ever need help using the program you choose. 

 Atomic Learning Photostory 3  (username & password on board) 
Atomic Learning Windows Movie Maker

Music Sites & Download Instructions

How to Download Music for Digital Story

Music Sites

Community Audio

http://archive.org/details/opensource_audio

Freeplay Music

http://freeplaymusic.com/

Instructions on creating a background photo in Photostory for your URLS
http://www.screencast.com/t/0ZtnOqtaHaC

0 Finding Music & Finishing Blogs

As you are working today, please take a moment to copy & paste the link to your blog to the correct document below. I need a working link in order to grade your blogs.


ILT 1 Blog Link Doc

ILT 2 Blog Link Doc


ILT 3 Blog Link Doc

ILT 4 Blog Link Doc

Please watch this video below:

How to Download Music for Digital Story

Music Sites

Community Audio

http://archive.org/details/opensource_audio

Freeplay Music

http://freeplaymusic.com/

Creative Commons Audio

http://creativecommons.org/audio/

If you are using music from home, you must bring it in to school on a CD or a flash drive.  It must be a song you have legally obtained.  You may not bring in music you have downloaded from Limewire or other similar sites.
You MUST have your music in school next week!  There will be no exceptions.

Open Source Music Sites

http://musopen.org/

http://www.publicdomain4u.com/

http://www.soundjay.com/

http://www.soungle.com/

http://freeplaymusic.com/

http://www.podsafeaudio.com/ 

https://magnatune.com/today/ 

http://www.jamglue.com/ 

http://ccmixter.org/

Digital Story Resources

You will use both classes this week to locate images for your digital story & record their URLs, please use the resources below as well as advanced search in Google to help you locate images.

http://compfight.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

Nettrekker also has a great source of clipart links. They are listed below;

• AICT Art & Architecture Images
• FreeFoto.com
• Interesting.com: History Images
• Library of Congress: American Memory
• NASA JSC Digital Image Collection
• Pics4Learning
• Purdue: Clip Art for Language Instruction

Copyright-Free and Friendly Clip Art:

• Barry's Clipart Server

Please take the survey below.  It should only take a few minutes and it is completely anonymous.  Please be honest, your feedback is really important to me.


Student Feedback Survey

Surveys are a useful way to gather information, analyze it, and use it to make a change for the better.  You can also use surveys to see what is popular. We are going to create a survey as a class using a shared form.  When I ask you to, you will take the link that belongs to your class, and type in a question with responses.You may also edit a question that is already on the form if you think it is needed.

When we get back from vacation, we will take a survey belonging to another 7th grade class.

ILT #1Survey
ILT #2 Survey
ILT #3 Survey
ILT #4 Survey


--->  This week you will check out Pamela Fox’s blog post, “Creating a Wordsearch Using Google Spreadsheet.” First you will need to brainstorm 15 words about a particular subject. It can be anything appropriate for school, but does not have to be school related. Once you have created your list of words, you will follow the instructions at the link above. Read carefully and think before asking questions. If you are using your effective effort strategies, you should be able to do this on your own. I will give you a couple of hints below:

Hint #1: Be sure to name your spreadsheet when you create it.
Hint #2: What is a URL and where do you find it?
**You actually can skip this step; as there is a gadget for wordsearches now.**
Hint #3: You may need to enlarge or expand your wordsearch by
grabbing a corner and dragging so you can see it all.