Final Test!

Good morning!

Today is your final test in Computer Applications. You will do a "Copy Cat" project which means you need to do the following:

1. choose one of the projects in the X:/Distribution-secondary/Applications/Fireworks/FinalTest folder.



2. the name of the project tells you what size to make your canvas
   


3. find images to use such as flowers, faces, etc.



4. recreate the banner as closely as possible



5. make sure to review the skills listed in the previous post below.



6. save your Fireworks project as Copycat in your drive in a file called /Fireworks

Good luck on the rest of your exams. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

Love,

Mrs. Romero :)

Fireworks play

These are the skills you have learned with Fireworks.

• create a shape: rectangle, circle, oval



• fill the shape with a style


• polygon lasso to trim away parts of an image


• mirror image


• add text, size, color , font type, drop shadow, style


• how to manipulate layers and changing order of layers


• copy, paste an element


• apply a fade


• import and image

jungle island

empire state

the knife

rosen shingle creek

american eagle

April 25th through April 27th (Mrs. Romero at FBLA Orlando)

Hello, my people. I know you miss me :) even Karl.

READ EVERYTHING POSTED BELOW... YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THIS!

RenWeb
Please check Renweb. Some of you didn't bring your Year in the Life pictures last week. (You know who you are.) I hope you brought in your five pictures today, so I can remove that fat zero (0) and give you a 75.

Also, you may see some zeros if you didn't write all your articles, write them now for a late grade. If you wrote them, I could not find them in your Year in the Life folder. Move them there! I will give you a grade (with points taken for not saving in the right place!

Star Teacher Project
... is on hold. We will finalize and print Star Teacher when I get back on Friday.

Year in the Life
This is it ... the project you've all been waiting for. Woo-hoo! Its time to begin Year in the Life. You have been preparing for this all year. You should have articles for ...

• In the Beginning



• Homecoming



• Christmas



• Spring Break



• Another article (assigned April 6-8)



• Another article (assigned April 6-8)



• Last article (write it today, April 25th, see April 6 post for ideas)

Most of you will end up with a 2-page newsletter, unless you wrote very long articles (Glenn), then you may go on to 3 or even 4 pages.

MONDAY 4/25 - one Quiz grade
Write one final article today. Use a topic from the April 6th post. Email your article to ibfeebs@gmail.com I will be looking at them during FBLA conferences :)

TUESDAY 4/26 - one HW grade
Begin to set up your new and beautiful newsletter. Email me at ibfeebs@gmail.com when you have chosen your newsletter design. Also email any questions you have.

Place articles first!

The "In the Beginning" article should be at the TOP of the FRONT page.
Every other article can go in chronological order.
Remember to make all your article titles the same lovely font, color, size.
Don't forget a pull-quote - maybe on the second page.
Masthead - Students Review or whatever
Headline - A Year in the Life of {your name here}
The DCS logo would be nice. You are a student here :) after all.
Date 2010-2011
Try to place your images near the article to which they pertain.

WEDNESDAY 4/27 -one HW grade
More of the same, work on your newsletter. Email me and let me know how much you miss me. Karl too.

Star Teacher Project

Good morning,

Here are the requirements for the Star Teacher project...

• Five short articles about your teacher, chosen from the topics in the J.C.Educator magazine


• Write articles in third person, (unless you are signing your name!)


• Body text must have a consistent font type and size


• Choose interesting and clever titles for your articles


• Titles need to be the same color, size and font (different from body text)


• Masthead, Teachers' Weekly, The Educator, Teacher Times, etc.


• Headline, i.e. Smith Named 2011 Star Teacher


• Short introductory text stating that the teacher has won the award. Place this below the headline.


• Do not change the width of the pre-designed columns, you may change the length to fit your text


• Three images of the teacher and teacher with students, must fit inside the margins of the column


• Include a star somewhere on the newsletter


• Add a pull quote for more interest


• Remove pages 2, 3, and 4

Tuesday April 12th (Mrs. Romero absent)

Good morning, I will be absent Tuesday, you have a Publisher quiz on Wednesday. Here are the skills you will need...

• create a flyer using a selected template


• create and use a new color scheme


• change the font scheme


• select and insert a logo


• add tear-offs with contact information


• edit content such as tag line, phone number


• create a bulleted list


• replace an image with one from the X: drive

Today we begin the Star Teacher Project

1. Go to X:\Distribution-Secondary\Applications\Publisher\starteacher1.pdf to see the article you must read. There are three PDFs in all.


2. After you read the article, select FIVE (5) of the 13 characteristics that best describe your chosen teacher.


3. In a new Word document, write a 150-word article for each of the five characteristics and how your teacher displays those characteristics.


4. Use 1st person, if you are going to put your name on the newsletter project.


5. Otherwise, write in 3rd person.


6. Save your Word document in the Publisher folder.


7. Those students who have made the most progress will be the first group to go on a "mini field trip" to take pictures of teachers on Wednesday. Woo-hoo!


8. Have a great day, see you tomorrow.

Rest of the Year

Please create two more articles for Year in the Life articles. Remember to use 3rd person as you write your articles. Everyone's experience is different, so the rest of the articles can be selected from the following list of suggestions:

• Best Friends


• Dream Job


• Summer Plans


• Another Sport Article


• Ring Ceremony


• Science Lab Scenarios (funny thing that happened in class)


• Earth Day (what did you do?)


• Favorite Class


• Spiritual Journeys


• Grad Night


• Lockerroom Legends


• Cafeteria Food, bleh


• Jr./Sr.


• AP Test Nightmares


• Life in Ceramics


• Mock Trial


• Best Day Ever

Comp Apps Publisher Workshop

Skills for today...

• create a color scheme


• tear-offs


• attention getter


• logo

Assignment: Follow the Team

Wednesday in Professionalism Class :)

Develop an "elevator speech" for the career you want to have.
Here are some guidelines.

Clothes Make the Man (or Woman)

You can also call this project...

"But, Don't I Look Like a Doctor?"
"Put Your Best Foot Forward"
"Dressed for Success"
"Born to Shop"

This is a new PowerPoint project, Yay!

You will select and research three (3) different careers that you might be interested in for the future. Use this website to collect information about what skills, personality, characteristics, image, wardrobe and employers you would need for this career.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Based on what you have learned so far about business images, create a slide show of your findings. You need:

• Title Slide
• Four slides for each career, as follows...
• Slide Title: HAVE YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES? One slide for the typical characteristics for that career (bulleted list of at least 5 specifics)
• Slide Title: WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE? One slide to list 3 or more specific companies, organizations and/or geographic locations where you might be employed and why is that a good place for you to be?
• Slide Title: DRESS CODE. One slide for the "dress code." Put together a collection of images for the clothing, shoes, hairstyle and accessories that you will need for a typical day at the office (architects, don't forget your hardhat!)
• Slide Title: ON THE FIELD. One slide for the "on the field" or special occasion outfit. See examples below.
• Closing Slide - list your sources for information and images

EXAMPLE 1 - Let's say I am an anthropologist/archaeologist. At work (which is on the field), I might wear a safari vest to hold my tools and camera, as well as a big hat for shade. Can't forget my Bermuda shorts and hiking boots. But when I make my big discovery and I have to make a presentation in the convention center in front of millions of people about the bones I dug up, wearing a nice business suit will give me a lot of CREDIBILITY in the scientific community.

EXAMPLE 2 - A male science teacher needs to wear long sleeve dress shirt, tie, slacks, lab coat, etc. But when he takes the class to Sea Camp... a golf shirt or new t-shirt with jeans or Bermuda shorts, Tilley, and sandals are more appropriate.

NOTE: If you select two careers with the same dress code, you still must shop for two complete and distinct outfits!

THIS SLIDE SHOW MUST INCLUDE:

1. slide transitions
2. animation of bullet points
3. choose a background from the selection of styles and change the color scheme
4. speaker notes only for the ON THE FIELD slides - explain the occasion and your choices

What You Missed

These are the activities of Thursday and Friday, February 24th and 25th.

1. View the first 5 slides of the following slideshow:
   X:\Distribution-Secondary\Applications\SoftSkills\Unit A.ppt
2. Read pages 1 - 7 of the following PDF:
   X:\Distribution-Secondary\Applications\SoftSkills\ProfessionalismUnitA.pdf
3. Using Word, do Activity A-1 and A-2 found in the following folder:
   X:\Distribution-Secondary\Applications\SoftSkills\Professionalism-UnitA
4. Save your work in a New Folder, name it SoftSkills

PowerPoint Project

Hi.
I wrote a cheesy poem today.
Because I have so much to say.
Look at the "Skills" post below,
for the PP skills you need to know.
On this project, do your best,
I know I will be impressed.
This is a great project, its true.
Dont forget when its due!

Visit the PowerPoint Project post for your project details.
Due Wednesday, February 23rd - Test grade :)

Computer App PowerPoint Skills

Good morning,

These are the skills you must know how to do in PowerPoint:

• Create a presentation
• Add new slides with desired layout and edit layout on existing slides
• Apply a theme to a presentation and change color/fonts
• Place slide numbering and a header and/or footer on each slide of a presentation
• Place page numbering and a header and/or footer on Notes and Handouts
• Place speaker notes on every slide of a presentation
• Print Notes next to Slides and Blank Lines next to Slides in Word
• Modify the Slide Master
• Apply consistent transitions to a presentation
• Apply consistent animation to bullet points
• Use Slide Sorter view to monitor transitions and animations
• Work in Outline view to edit text

Good Friday Morning, Computer Applications

We are beginning to talk about PowerPoint and its many uses. We will spend the next couple of days in the "PowerPoint Workshop" as follows...

1. Read the Guidelines from Colorado State University located in the following file:
   X:/Distribution-Secondary/Applications/PowerPoint/powerpointguidelines.pdf
   for creating an effective slide show.
2. Focus more on General Guidelines and Style, not the Content section.
3. Use what you learned from Colorado State's guidelines to create another slide show. This will be a checklist of what makes a good slide show, in your own words. (1 Quiz Grade)

• Slide 1 Title and your name
• Slides 2 and 3 Checklist with open bullet boxes (at least 10 items)
• Slide 4 Conclusion, encouraging audience to make a great slide show! ...and give credit to Colorado State for the info.
• Add speaker notes to every page of this presentation.
• Print the final product published to Word with notes next to slides and your name in the footer.
• Print in grayscale.

January 2011 Semester Exam - Applications

Good morning , I wish you the best of luck on all your exams. You may complete these in any order. Your partial score will appear at the end of each section (except the essays, duh.)

CLOSE ALL WINDOWS EXCEPT THIS BLOG.

Word 35 questions - 1 point each
Excel 35 questions - 1 point each
Access 25 questions - 1 point each
Essays (bonus points described below)

Bonus Points:
Question 1 up to 6 points.
Question 2 up to 6 points.
Question 3 up to 6 points.
You can get up to 5 regular and 5 bonus points total from the essays.

Good luck, see you next week, enjoy your looooong weekend!
Mrs. Romero

Fun With Queries

Practice using Properties database.

• Cheap Family ##: Listing ID, address, Price, Agent with 3 or more bedrooms, under $100,000 sorted descending by price.
• Mr.&Mrs. Retiree ##: Listing ID, address, price, agent with exactly 2 bedrooms, wood only, any price
• Starter Home ##: 2 or more bedrooms, less than $90,000, no brick, sorted descending by number of bedrooms.
  

JH Newsletter

I hope you have enjoyed composing the articles for your "Year in the Life" newsletter. This is the culmination of your year at DCS. Here are the rest of the guidelines for this project:

• This project will not be displayed on the wall!
• You will create a 1-page newsletter using any of the Newer Designs templates, only.
• The newsletter must contain 3 three articles and must stay in the original format of the template.
• If you write names of other persons, no unkind remarks or personal stuff.
• You will be able to change the location and number of pictures if you desire.
• Choose any font family, color scheme, etc. but all body text must be the same.
• There is a requirement of 3 three pictures for the newsletter. Due WEDNESDAY.
• A close-up picture of you must be on the front page :)
• At least one pull quote - I will teach you that.
• A small calendar showing the last day of school in color.
• Masthead: Teen Beat, Students' Quarterly, The Informer, ibEduMAcated, Student Life, etc.
• Business name: A Year in the Life of [insert your name here].
• Replace the newsletter date with 2010-2011.
• The order of articles is up to you, except put "In the Beginning" at top of first page.
• Remember to use 3rd person as you write your articles.

Animal Discovery

This is our last outline project.
Using the Animal Discovery worksheet, research information about your favorite animal. Organize the information into three sections:

• what it looks like
• what is eats
• where it lives

Collect at least three facts for each section. Make sure to collect the information about your sources, (three required). Create a list of Works Cited.

You also need a complete and descriptive Topic Sentence.

Once you have completed the worksheet. Make the outline in a Word document just as we have been learning. Include your Works Cited at the bottom.

This is a TEST grade. It is due Friday or beginning of class on Monday Dec. 13.

Computer Applications Dec. 1 -Pop Quiz SOLUTION

Hi, this is a pop quiz, surprise.

In a Word document, impress me with your knowledge of Access databases. Answer the following questions in 4-5 complete sentences, per question. Tell me everything you know about...

1. Databases and tables (6 points)

ANSWER: A database is an organized collection of information that can be retreived, sorted and filtered. Databases are similar to Excel but have more powerful features like better reporting, multi-user and user-based security. Databases have one or more tables in them. The tables contain organized information for one entity, like all the students in a school or all the patients in a doctor's office. Tables are the most important part of a database because they contain the information.

2. Records vs. fields, how are they related? what's the difference? (6 points)

ANSWER: A record is all the information collected for one person, or entity in a table. It is represented by one row in a table. If there are 400 students in a school, there will be 400 records in the student table. It is a one-to-one ratio. In a record there can be many fields, such as first name, last name, address, city, state, zip. Each piece of information you keep for a record is called a field. A field name can be "Address1" and the field value would be "1627 S. Main Street" for that field.

3. What makes Renweb a database? how does it paralell to what we have been learning? Give another real-world example of a database and what tables, records and fields it has. (8 points)

ANSWER: Renweb is a database because it is an organized collection of the students, grades, teachers, classes, etc. for a school. It can be retrieved, sorted, filtered and reported. The tables in Renweb are just like the tables in Access. Students can retrieve information in Renweb just like Access information can be retrieved in queries. Another real world example is eBay. The tables are the lists of stuff for sale that you see when you search it. Sellers add to the table of items for sale every time they post something. When a buyer looks for something for sale by lowest price they are searching certain fields such as "description" and "price."

SAVE and PRINT your Word document for me :-)

Thursday in Computer Applications

Good morning,

Do the following Visual Workshops as practice for a quiz tomorrow.

• open the Coronado spreadsheet and do this one oops, the grey speck should cover the whole chart area
• open the Flintstones in X drive and do this
• open the Education spreadsheet and do this

thanks, see you tomorrow!

Hello my people of the JH Class!

You have two assignments to complete by Friday. Here they are:

1. Please complete your Homecoming slide show with the following requirements:

• one title slide
• at least five day slides - one for each day
• plus one or more for the lip synch
• another slide for the football game/booths/fair
• each slide should have a descriptive sentence telling the story of what happened.

This Homecoming slide show is a Test grade due Friday.

2. Write an article for your "Year in the Life" project. Remember this article must be in third person, as if you are the reporter writing about another person. This article must be at least 350 words long. Save in your "Year in the Life" folder. This is a quiz grade due Friday.