Day 8

6th:      Todays vocabulary word is Font.   Font is a particular sort of lettering (on the screen or on paper). Arial is a font. Times New Roman is another.

First, we need to begin downloading the new software we will be using for the next few classes.  Please go to scratch.mit.edu then click on "Download Scratch."  Follow the prompts and allow the software to download in the background while we work on finishing up This reading and then get started and hopefully finish activity 1 & activity 2. 

After completing the activities we will watch a short demo video on our new software.  We will be creating coding to generate interactive video games, stories, music, and art.  It's a super sweet program with limitless possibilities! It just takes a little getting used to : )

Here's another tutorial for our benefit : )

7th:  First, we will be downloading google Chrome on all of the machines in the Computer lab.  This will help our fellow classmates TREMENDOUSLY!  Go to google.com and download the application to your computer.

Then,   We will continue to develop our company websites.  You will then work on your own to customize your site.  If you finish with the content before it is time to leave you can add some new areas to your web such as Links (links to other websites that have similar items), 

Employment Opportunities (paragraph about what you are looking for in an employee, questions you would ask in an interview, what positions you are hiring and how much they pay, etc.), Grand Opening (Information about your grand opening as well as any special promotions you are running that day or contests you will have, stuff you will be giving away, etc.).  You can also be creative and add anything other information that you would like to include on your website. 

We will also take come time to check out each others websites.  Use this time to get ideas of things that might work for your own site.  We will be critiquing each others websites another day, so please save your comments for another time.  Just look and enjoy your classmates hard work.


Kacper
Oscar
Brittany
Juliet
Amy
Emily
Amethyst
Juliet

8th:  Great job on your blogs,  I strongly encourage you to keep up with your blogs on your own time from home!


We will be moving on to photo editing today : )  Your homework was to bring in an image that you would like to edit...did you remember?  Good.  We will begin watch watching a demo on the program we will be using to edit our images.  It's called Sumo Paint and it is probably the coolest free tool on the internet.

After watching the video we will go to sumopaint.com and we will spend the remainder of class exploring the features of this the Sumo Paint program.  Prepare yourselves....... this is so cool your  head might explode- consider yourself warned.


Below are some more demo videos you can check out for tutorial.