Wednesday's Schedule

As you read this entry you'll notice our new and improved schedule. Let's try to add at least 24 sites today. This means each of you will need to review (or play with) at least 2 sites.

12:30-12:45 Introduction -Mrs. Poulin goes over the schedule and tasks

12:45 - 1:15 Task 1 - Review a specific content area site and add it to the Delicious site - use the Newest links to the right on this page or the wiki page to find some sites

1:15 - 1:45 Task 2 - Review another site of your choice from the blog or wiki page that has NOT been added to the Delicious site yet and then add it to the Delicious site

1:45- 2:00 Break (no matter when the break starts it ends at 2:00)

2:00 - 2:30 - Task 3 - Visit any site on the blog, wiki page or Delicious site to just play around on
2:30 -2:40 Group Review of Delicious site with Mrs. Poulin

2:40 - 2:50 - Post a comment to this post, log off and shut down computer

Tuesday's Schedule and Sites to Visit

You all did GREAT yesterday! We saved 11 sites to the Delicious list for teachers and students to use!! Do you think we can reach 100 sites by Friday? For Tuesday our goal is between 10-15 sites. (Then we will need to start averaging 20 a day to reach 100 by Friday.)

Today's goal will be to review/play with two sites and save them both to the Delicious site. The first sites you visit today will be centered around sites that teachers and/or students can use to make life easier or to help create presentations. With a parnter you will visit one of the sites I have listed below. The 2nd site you visit can be an educational game/fun site from this blog (make sure someone else has not already saved it to the Delicious site). You can continue to do this with a partner or work alone.

Things to Remember (TTR) - Use RIGHT CLICK to open Delicious in a NEW TAB. Use RIGHT CLICK to open any website you are reviewing in a NEW TAB. Keep Blog and Delicious site open so you can keep going back. You can hit REFRESH every now and again to see new posts in either sites.

Your schedule:
1. Read the blog - you are doing that right now! (read the post just under this one to see your graph)
2. Answer the poll (survey) below, if it works or do it at the END of class.
3. Partner up (Mrs. Poulin has sat you next to a partner) and visit the site assigned to your group - the links are posted on the SummerScapesTechCamp Wiki. (right click the link to open).
4. Play around and learn about the site, then add it to the Delicious site.
5. Visit another site from the link list on this blog on your own or with a partner. Add it to the Delicious site.
6. Reflect on what you did today by posting a comment to this blog post.

Welcome to Tech Camp 09 - Monday's Schedule

I hope you have come ready to surf, play and of course learn! Each afternoon when you arrive you will sign on to the computers and read my latest post to the blog. At the end of our time together, before you sign off, you will post a comment to my post reflecting on what you did today. My post will serve as our schedule for the day. It will contain the a list of things we will be doing and possible links for you to visit. So, lets get started . . .
1. Have you ever?
2. What is a Blog? (watch a quick video)
3. Read Mrs. Poulin's blog post - you are doing that right now!
4. Answer the simple poll (survey) at the bottom of this blog. 5. What is social bookmarking? (watch a quick video)
6. What is Tagging?
7. Delicious Introduction and sign-in
8. Visit a site in the link roll, explore the site and then add to Delicious account with tag(s) and a comment and/or explanation of the site
9. Reflect on today's activities and what you learned by posting a comment to this post.

Our 6th Fall Session! - Adding Audio to Movie

Today we need to add the audio to the movie and insert the commentary from the voice recordings that were created over the summer. We might try to do this part as a group for a bit and then we will post your write ups to the blog for others to view. We only have this and week and next to finish up our video and learn more about internet technology.

Discover Discovery Games!

Visit this link for Discovery Games for the entire session and work your way through it. When you open a link use "open in new window" so you do not lose the original site. Visit all the different areas you are intersted in.

At around 4:40 stop playing and write up your opinion of this web site. Follow the procedure from the previous post. (#a-e).

4th Fall Session - More Movie Making and Visiting Web Sites

Good Afternoon! We need to continue editing the movie while others visit links on the blog and then write a review of the website. Refer to the last post for what you are required to include on the write up. Remember to RIGHT CLICK the link on the blog and OPEN in NEW WINDOW, so you can visit the blog while you write up your review in word.

1. Read this post on the blog!
2. Look at the Previous Post for the write up outline.
3. Open up a link by RIGHT CLICKING the link.
4. Visit the link and work through all the activities on that link.
5. Open a new Word Doc and write a review (use the previous post #4 a-e to help you write it.)
6. Save the document to your folder on the network as "Link Write Up" (if you already wrote one then name your next one "Link Write Up #2" and so on).

3rd Fall Session - Movie Making Time

Good Afternoon! Today we must work on the movie. Check out the schedule posted on the Wiki page created just for that. The others not working on the Movie may visit any of the links on this blog. I encourage you to stay with a game or program long enough to learn something from it. Today's agenda:
1. Read the Blog (you are doing that right now)
2. Visit the Wiki to see our Movie Schedule
3. Check out any link on this Blog and "play" around long enough to learn something from the program.
4. at 4:40 today OPEN a NEW WORD DOC and do the following:
a. Type the NAME/TITLE of the link/web site you visitied today and Copy/past the LINK you visited at the top of the page
b. Describe what a person can do at this link; what might you learn or how is it fun? (2 sentences)
c. Answer this question: Did you like the site - WHY or WHY NOT (1-2 sentences)
d. Should other students visit or use this link. Who is the link best for elementary, middle and/or high school students? (1 sentence)
e. SAVE this document as "LINK WRITE UP" to your personal folder on network
5. SHUT DOWN computers at 4:55

Friday's Schedule - Our Last "official" Day as a class

We have to finish the DETAILS of the movie. I've tried to organize things so we do a lot of copy-n-paste into for the title slides and title overlays. While 2 people work at the main computer the rest of you need to do a few things today. When you are NOT working at the main computer then you can work through this list of activities.


1. Check the blog. Keep reading below this about how yesterday went. Do the Survey.
2. Journal on your Wiki.
3. Start a NEW Word Document. Using your ANSWER from yesterday's wiki question about what you would like to talk about at our presentation TYPE 3-5 statements/phrases (you can use bullets if you know how to) you would share about the topics you chose.
4. Type your name, home phone # and e-mail, if you have one at the top of the page.
5. SAVE the document and PRINT it
6. Post a COMMENT on two other blog entries on this blog.
7. Play STOP DISASTER, at least one time. (If you played and succeeded, choose a different level or disaster to stop.)
8. Visit at least 5 DIFFERENT links listed on the RIGHT SIDE - NO FUN BRAIN TODAY!! :) Let your BRAIN do other things, try to beat some of the other games or puzzles you can get to.
9. TYPE an actual BLOG entry for our class, which will discuss the which links/games are the ones you like.

Thursday's Schedule

This is an important day for movie making. We have to get all of our slides created. We can deal with color, animation, and background later. The students who worked on it yesterday spent a bit too much time on those "extras." Here is the plan:
1. Check the blog
2. Type your WIKI journal entry
3. Meet at SmartBoard to get into groups and gather last remaining photos and voice overs needed
4. Photo and recording groups head out; others stay behind to work on movie
5. We need to find and decide on music TODAY!
6. We need to decide on a TITLE today!

Wednesday's Schedule - It's going to be busy!

Today is really our last day to collect information, data, photos, and graphics for the movie. Someone once told me that for every 1 minute of a move it takes about 7-10 minutes of work. Here is your schedule for today:


1. Read the blog (you are doing this now!) :)
2. Do the survey at the bottom of the blog
3. Meet at the smartboard to view the start of your Movie and decide upon a title/subtitle
4. Interview faculty/staff, Record Quotes from faculty/staff/students, take photos, copy/save other photos from internet, make PPT slides for movie
5. Finish your Inspiration Fact Collector outline
6. Choose your music for the movie.

Tuesday's Activities

During our second day together you need to focus on collecting the information we need for the final movie/slide show.
1. Check Blog posts from class yesterday and answer the survey at the bottom.
2. Do the warm-up exercise using this link to get your Web License (if you need help reading the fun questions let us know)
3. Meet over at the smart board to design your movie story board
4.Complete the Inspiration Scavenger Hunt (collecting facts and information for the project)
5. Collaborate together in small groups to plan next collection method
6. Visit our Wiki and post your answers to the prompts.

"Have you ever . . ." and other Introductory Activities

Good Morning!! It's Monday, our first day together. There are a few things we will do together as a class and other things you will be able to do on your own.
1. Play "Have you ever . . ." using excel to collect data and create a graph.
2. Develop our Full Value Contract as a class using the SmartBoard.
3. Get to know your student Desktop and folder options.
4. Visit the class Blog
5. Visit the class Wiki
6. Discuss the class project goal.
7. Brainstorm about our class project using Inspiration.