Please think about the following project for this school year in preparation for the 9/11 Rememberance Activities, Veteran's Day in November and Memorial Day in May:

WHAT IS A HERO? (Click Here For Video)  Click Here For Another Video

While we remember the terrible events of 9/11, celebrate our Veteran's in November, or reflect on Memorial Day in May, please bear in mind that these days should be a solemn time for us.  The following excerpt from About.com explains the difference between Veteran's Day and Memorial Day like this:  "Many people confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Memorial Day is a day for remembering and honoring military personnel who died in the service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. While those who died are also remembered on Veterans Day, Veterans Day is the day set aside to thank and honor ALL those who served honorably in the military - in wartime or peacetime."

Use the following links to find out more about the history of Memorial Day, and why you should be thankful for the sacrifices made on your behalf.  We are not a perfect nation, but the blood of a few has been given so we can enjoy the freedoms we have.  

Reference Article Links:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/a/memorialday.htm
 
http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html

HISTORY OF VETERANS DAY VIDEO LINK (CLICK HERE)

HISTORY OF MEMORIAL  DAY VIDEO LINK (CLICK HERE)

PART A:  TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE
Today you will use class time to complete a Constructed Response Assignment and write a paragraph (4-5 Sentences)  about how you might be able to serve your community or country someday.  This service does not have to be in the armed forces.  I want you to really think about how you can repay the gifts of liberty and freedom that you have because you live in the United States.  Consider the sacrifice of others, both in uniform and out, while this country grew and up to the modern era.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VETERAN / HERO SLIDE SHOW FOR 2016/2017

PART B:  HERO PROJECT 2017-2018

3rd Herd - Prior to Deployment (Fall 2007)

Please talk to a veteran that you know. (NOT MR. S!)  This assignment is due prior to the end of the First Marking Period.  You must find a relative or friend that has served our country in the armed forces and interview them.
  
Find out when and where they served.  Create a Single-Slide Presentation to be added to our class project for the year, and SHARE it with Mr. S for credit.  

Make sure to include how long the person served, why they joined, what was the hardest and easiest part of their service, and what they feel about others serving.  Try to include a picture of the person in uniform if possible.  Please SHARE this interview with me so I can add them to the overall project.   Make sure you end your slide with how you feel about service, and how your view might have changed in light of the interview you conducted. Why is it important to serve your country/community in any capacity?

HERO PROJECT 2017-2018 (CLICK HERE FOR ACCESS)

THE KEY TO THIS ASSIGNMENT IS TO INTERVIEW SOMEONE AND COME AWAY WITH THE CONNECTION BETWEEN A WILLFULLY SELFLESS ACT AND THE IMPACT THAT ACT HAS ON OTHERS!  MAKE SURE YOU MAKE THAT CONNECTION WITH YOUR SLIDE PRESENTATION. 

IF YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT FIND SOMEONE YOU, OR YOUR FAMILY KNOWS, THAT HAS SERVED IN THE MILITARY, YOU MAY INTERVIEW SOMEONE WHO IS A LEADER IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND SERVES YOUR REGION, COUNTY, OR AREA IN SOME SUBSTANTIAL WAY.  YOU MUST GET PRIOR APPROVAL TO INTERVIEW A NON-VETERAN FROM MR. S!

Thanks for your input on this project.

- Mr. S

ACADEMIC/LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Today students will use a time in class to reflect on how they might be able to serve their country someday.  Students will be assigned a Journal Entry to write about what they think the meaning of military service is.  Students use the balance of class time to complete the MyBIO Project and anything else that is outstanding to date.  Students will create documents and upload files appropriately for credit.  Students are required to finish a homework interview outside of class before the end of the 1st Marking Period.

STUDENTS WILL ENTER THE CLASS QUIETLY AND BEGIN WORKING!

Students will review ALL of the directions below prior to starting the project!  Students will go to begin by writing in their TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL about the question above.  Finally, students will utilize class time to complete the MyBIO Project assigned last week.  All other outstanding work will be submitted for credit prior to the end of the 1st Marking Period.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE TODAY!
Standards Covered In This Class  

PA 3.7.7 & 11 Section C / ISTE 2011 / CSTA Tied With Common Core ELA/Math rev. 2014 

"HERITAGE"

Please read the following article "What Is Heritage" below and write a Constructed Response in your Technology Journal (4-5 Sentences) about why learning about your own family heritage should be important to you. Please include a brief description of where your family is from, and how you could spend time in search of your ancestors (What sources could you use to help find out about your Heritage?)

Heritage is the full range of our inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture. Most important, it is the range of contemporary activities, meanings, and behaviors that we draw from them. Heritage includes, but is much more than preserving, excavating, displaying, or restoring a collection of old things. It is both tangible and intangible, in the sense that ideas and memories--of songs, recipes, language, dances, and many other elements of who we are and how we identify ourselves--are as important as historical buildings and archaeological sites.

Heritage is, or should be, the subject of active public reflection, debate, and discussion. What is worth saving? What can we, or should we, forget? What memories can we enjoy, regret, or learn from? Who owns "The Past" and who is entitled to speak for past generations? Active public discussion about material and intangible heritage--of individuals, groups, communities, and nations--is a valuable facet of public life in our multicultural world.

Heritage is a contemporary activity with far-reaching effects. It can be an element of far-sighted urban and regional planning. It can be the platform for political recognition, a medium for intercultural dialogue, a means of ethical reflection, and the potential basis for local economic development. It is simultaneously local and particular, global and shared.

Heritage is an essential part of the present we live in--and of the future we will build.

Article taken from the following website: WHAT IS HERITAGE ARTICLE (CLICK HERE)

MyBio Google Slides Presentation

MR. SCRIBNER'S EXAMPLE PRESENTATION (Click Here)

SEE EXAMPLE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (CLICK HERE) 

Your assignment is to create a GOOGLE SLIDES PRESENTATION Slide Show that is all about you. Here is a list of the requirements and some suggestions for what to include in your slides.

A) PRESENTATION
(1) Saved as “(Your Name) Bio” and emailed to Mr. S

  

(2) Have a logical order to your slides

     (a) Do NOT follow the slide suggestions order
  

(3) Use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation
  

(4) Have 10 Slides
     (a) Include a Title Slide
     (b) Include a Birth Information Slide

(5) Have at least 4 Graphics/Photos that are related to their slides

Slide Suggestions: You may use these suggestions or come up with your own (APPROPRIATE CONTENT)

Title: First and Last Name **
Birth Information: Birthday, Birthplace, Length, Weight, and Time **

Accomplishments: List at least three accomplishments.
Career: What you want to be? How you will do this?
Class Schedule: What is your schedule this semester?
Dislikes: Identify your dislikes.
Family Information: Family Size, Parents Names, Siblings
Favorites: Identify your favorite things.
Friends: Who are you friends? What do you do with them for fun?
Goals: List short-term goals (for the year). List intermediate goals (for the next 3 years).
List long-term goals (for the next 10 years).
Hobbies: Identify your hobbies.
Job: What is your job? What are your job duties?
Likes: Identify your likes.
People: Have different people make comments about you.

** Required Slides

STEPS TO COMPLETE PROJECT (READ ALL DIRECTIONS FIRST!)
1. Sign into Google Drive
2. Open NEW Slides Presentation
3. Rename SLIDES "MyBio (Your Last Name) P(?) S1"

     Example: MyBio SCRIBNER P1 S1

4. Open new Browser Tab to Google Images
5. Select VIEW IMAGE of Full Size Pictures (You need at least 4 images in your project)
6. Save Images or Image URL's for Use In Presentation
7. Choose Template Style
8. Begin to enter personal information on each Slide.
9. Complete each slide by adding information and photos
10. SHARE with Mr. S for credit! DO NOT EMAIL! JUST SHARE IT!
11. Be Prepared To Present This To The Class In The Future!

OBJECTIVE & STUDENT OUTCOMES

 Students will use online collaboration tools (Google Drive) to create a 10-slide multimedia presentation.  Students will follow directions and use photos, text, and color to highlight specific facts about their topic.  Students will be able to understand the difference between a written report and how writing for a presentation requires bullet-style sentences.

STUDENTS MUST READ ALL DIRECTIONS ON THIS WEBSITE PRIOR TO STARTING ANY ASSIGNED TASKS.  PLEASE FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS AS GIVEN FOR FULL CREDIT!

  Students will log into their Google Drive and open a New PRESENTATION.  Students will learn the basic tools used to create a presentation.  Students will create a MY BIO Presentation about themselves.  Students will use Google Images to select pictures for use today.  Students will Copy the pictures selected to the desktop of the computer they are working with.  Students use PIXLR.Com to upload, manipulate, adjust, save and add pictures to their project.  Students must complete the steps below to CREATE and SHARE a MY BIO Presentation for credit.

Google Drive Introduction: Collaboration Made Easy!

Today you will be learning the basics about using your Google Drive and other online and computer-based tools.  Read the passage below as an introduction to these tools, and be prepared to follow along in class while we Log-In, Create, Share, and Collaborate on different projects! 

Google Drive is a great way to create, store, share, and collaborate files such as documents, spreadsheets, photos, slide shows and PDFs.  If you create a personal Gmail account (ONLY WITH PARENTAL PERMISSION), then you automatically have 15 GB of free space.  If you have an education account, like all CCS Students, then you have unlimited space to store files.  Your files in Drive can be reached from any smart phone, tablet, or computer with an Internet connection. So wherever you go, your files follow.  What a deal, right?

You can quickly invite others to view, download, and collaborate on all the files you want.  There is no email with an attachment needed. One of the best things about Google Drive, which makes it a much better option than Dropbox, is the ability to work on your files with up go 50 people at the same time.  No more multiple versions of a document to keep up with .  No more carrying a thumb drive to and from school.  Everything is stored and updated immediately in Google Drive.

With Google Drive your files are private and for you to see only, until you decide to share them. You can quickly invite others to view, comment, and edit any file or folder that you choose.  This is great if you share lessons with other people on your team or at another school.  You can create a shared folder where everyone on the team can see and add to the shared lessons or unit. This is also perfect for student group projects.  Groups of students could each take a chapter of a novel an create a slide show that summarizes it.  Each student in the class could build a reaction slide to something that was covered in class and then those slides could be combined into one giant slide show.  The possibilities are endless.

Every file in Drive stays safe no matter what happens to your smart phone, tablet or computer. Drive uses the same security protocol used on Gmail and other Google services.

  

- Excerpt taken directly from http://evscicats.com/digital-tools/day-11-30dc14-what-can-google-drive-do-for-me/ 

VOCABULARY LIST 

GOOGLE DRIVE- THIS IS WHERE YOU SAVE EVERYTHING--think of it kind of like DROPBOX or the H DRIVE.

DOCS-DOCUMENTS (Like MICROSOFT WORD)

SHEETS-SPREADSHEETS (LIKE MICROSOFT EXCEL)

SLIDES-PRESENTATION (LIKE MICROSOFT POWERPOINT)

FORMS- CREATE FORMS, SURVEYS, QUIZZES

DRAWINGS- CREATE PICTURES USING TEXT, SHAPES, ARROWS, ETC. (MUCH LIKE YOU WOULD DO IN MICROSOFT WORD).

WHAT IS GOOGLE DRIVE?

 

 GETTING STARTED WITH GOOGLE DRIVE

ACADEMIC/LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Students will learn to use Google Drive to Create, Collaborate, and Store Documents and Files for Class.  Students will understand that this or Gmail is the ONLY way to turn in assignments unless specific instructions offer additional options for each project.

STUDENTS MUST START BY READING ALL DIRECTIONS ON CLASS WEBSITE!

Students will SIGN IN to their Google Account.  Students will create a NEW Google Document to use as a Technology Journal.  Students will learn how to upload files and create new documents.  Students will participate in a collaboration project to find out how to work on documents together in real time.

We will be learning how to use our new Google Drive to Create, Save, Store and Collaborate on documents and projects.

This Google Account (Gmail and Google Docs) is your Personal-Professional account.  It is only to be used for school, and will stay with you for as long as you are a student here at Collegium Charter School.  Today you will create two documents!  Please follow the directions below to complete your work today.

To create a NEW document in your Google Drive, you must sign in to your Google account as follows:

Go to Google.Com and click the SIGN IN button in the upper right corner. 

Students simply log in using their @ccs.us Gmail address and password, which for students is their firstname.lastname#@ccs.us.  You should have created a password when you signed on to the network.  

Your password should be at least 8-digits long, and contain an Upper Case Letter, Lower Case Letter, and a 

Number.

In the upper right corner of your screen you should see a small grid of little boxes ("the waffle").  This is your link to other Google Applications.  Please choose the button for your Google Drive.  You can now select the NEW button (Blue Button Upper Left Side of the Screen).  This will allow you to create Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, and upload files.  We will discuss each today.

Your project today is to create a NEW Google Document and name it "Technology Journal".  Once created, you will create your first post (See Instructions Below).  Any time you are in class, and you are instructed to create a Journal Entry, you will use the following format:

Today's Date:

Topic:

(Body of Post)

Each entry will be made at the top of the page so the entries "push" each other down the page.  Your most recent entry will be at the top, and other entries will be listed in chronological order.

When instructed, please copy the following items into your first, newly created Google Document (Technology Journal):

05 September 2017

Topic:  Personal Information

Name:

Homeroom:

Computer Science Period: 

City/Town where you live:

Favorite Food:

Favorite Animal:

Favorite Class:

Favorite Color:

One Thing People Should Know About You:

Please SHARE the link to your new "Journal" document with MR. S for credit.  During the next class you will be writing a one-page Autobiography of yourself and you will be creating a basic Google Presentation to present to the class.

Good Luck!

-Mr. S