Week 16, Dec 16 - 20

Students will be able to create presentations with Google Docs.  Students will be able to create a bibliography.

1. Typing Web - games
2. Finish presentations
3. practice your presentation with the person next to you
4. Vokis!
• directions
• reflection - Why are vokis important to protect your online presence?

week 15, Dec 9-13

Students will be able to create presentations through Google Docs.  Students will be able to create a bibliography.

Monday

1. MapWing
2. Google Presentations - Planets
• How much per slide?
• No more than 4 bullets
• no more than 3 words per bullet
• Notes
• Those are the paragraphs
• Inserting images

Wednesday

1. EasyBib
• Last slide should be your sources
2. Google Presentations - Planets
3. Done?  
• Go over the presentation yourself.
• Get a friend to go over it for you too.

week 14, Dec 2 - 6

Students will be able to create a presentation.

Monday

1. Presentation pre-test
2. Typing Web
3. Planet presentations (rubric was given by Mr. B and should be in your technology folder)

Wednesday

1. Typing Web (5 minutes)
2. Planet Presentations
• How do I add animation to my presentations?

week 13, Nov 25

1. 5 minutes - Hoodamath
2. Warm-up:  Using Microsoft Paint, draw the thing.
3. Go over common assessment
• One Small Tweet article
4. Social media close reading activity from last week

Week 12, Nov 18-22

Students will research future careers.

Monday

1. Typing Web practice
2. check Infinite Campus for grades
3. Drive of Your Life
4. complete the Career Research Notes Worksheet

Wednesday

1. Typing Web practice
2. Reading Activity
• worksheet 
3. Complete the Drive of Your Life game if you need to
4. Finish Career Research Notes worksheet
5. Start Career Prezis

week 11, Nov 11-15

week 10, Nov 4 - 8

Students will explore career options.

1. Free Rice - choose any subject you want.
2. Finish "Who Am I?" worksheet
3. How do I insert a drawing?
4. Career Research worksheet
• Cluster sheet
• Video
5. Create a resume using Microsoft Office!

week 9, Oct 27 - Nov 1

Monday

1. typing practice
2. Digital Organization! ~~ We will be getting digitally organized today.
1. Create folders for last year's school year, and this year's.  (2012-2013, 2013-2014)
2. Take a screen shot of the folders (Print Screen)
3. Create a document in Google Drive.  Paste your screen shot into that document.
4. Move all of your documents from last year into the appropriate folder.
5. Create a folder for each of your classes that you have this year.  Put them in the correct folder (2012-2013 OR 2013-2014)
6. Take a screen shot of the folders that you just created.
7. Put this image into the same document as your last screen shot.
8. Label the document "Last Name_Digital Organization"  
9. Share it with me
10. Don't forget to put this document in the correct folder!
3. Career Prep game
• Print the screen for the last page of the game.
• Paste the image into a document on Google Drive.
• Label it: "Last Name_Show me the Future"
• Share it with me!
4. Check the links on the "I'm done!" section

Wednesday

1. typing practice
2. Infinite Campus 
3. Who am I? worksheet
4. Complete step one on worksheet
5. take personality test
6. With the personality test results, and true colors results, explore career options at the Career Options Game web site
• choose a career to research and email me your choice
• There are also resources on the CTA website!

Week 8, Oct 21- 25

Monday

Data notebook checklist

Wednesday 

1. Typing web (5 minutes)
2. Make sure that you have everything on the checklist for your data notebook.
3. Check the assignment sheet to see if you need to correct any errors
4. Check the "I'm Done!" links

week 7, Oct 14 - 18

Monday - No class.

Wednesday - 
Students will create graphs to chart their learning throughout the trimester.  Students will post reflections and goals for further learning.

1. Using your data that you have been given by your teachers, chart your learning.  Place it in the appropriate page.
2. Explain what the data means and what you have learned so far in each class.
3. Create 1 goal for each class and post them on your home page.
4. Finish any projects that you might need to.
• Digital Presence presentation
• Sun spot graph
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5. Typing practice.

week 6, Oct 7-11

Day 1

1. Students will create a digital presence in the form of a blog.  
2. Students will begin using Google Spreadsheets to create graphs.
3. Students will learn proper typing skills.

• typing practice
• Creating a Digital Data Notebook 

Day 2

1. Students will understand how to post an item to their digital notebooks.
2. Students will understand how to use Google Spreadsheets to create graphs.
3. Students will learn proper typing skills.

• Infinite campus??
• How do I share a document in Google Docs?
• What should I post on my blog?
• How do I make a graph with Google Spreadsheet?

week 5, Sept 30 - Oct 4

Digital Footprint guidelines

Creating a web site

week 4, Sept 23 - 27

Day 1 - Digital Footprint (Monday)

Students will understand the importance of their digital footprint.  Students will be able to reflect on their digital footprint.  Students will be able to use appropriate vocabulary when discussing technology.

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1. vocabulary review
2. work on Digital footprint unit - see rubric for everything that you need. Check web site for directions on how to complete the different components of the unit.
3. if no computer or you get done, work on the crossword

Day 2 - Digital Footprint (Friday)

week 3, sept 16 - 20

Day 1

Students will understand their digital presence.

• Create a folder in your "technology" folder titled "digital footprint"
• What is your digital footprint?  Using your digital devices log, your digital footprint survey, and your digital footprint visual, write a 5-6 sentence paragraph about what types of media creates your digital footprint.
• Take your digital devices log and graph it!
• You will need your completed log.
• Go to this graphing site.
• Follow the directions given in this presentation. (You will need to be logged into your CTA Google account for you to view this presentation.)
• When you are done - get in your assigned groups to compare and contrast your data.
• You will create a separate graph showing your groups data (add everyone's times together).  This time you may choose the type of graph you use.
• Again, print this graph (see the instructions above on how to create and print the graph.)
• Answer:
1. Why did you select the type of graph you choose?
2. How is the digital footprint represented within your group?
3. How does the digital footprint of your group compare to your own individual usage?
• What is your digital presence?
• Watch video 
• Complete your full digital footprint.  You will place the name (or draw a picture to symbolize) any web site you may have left a footprint on.
• examples: Twitter, FaceBook, gaming sites (addictinggames.com), shopping sites, learning sites, etc.  

Day 2

Students will understand their digital presence.

• watch digital footprint video
• Go to wordle.com

• list all of the sites, and digital devices you have listed so far in this unit.
• When you are done, create your "wordle".  You can change the colors around once you are done.  Remember that these will be printed in black and white, so be mindful of the colors you choose (try to have a white background.)
• Hit the "print" button at the bottom of the wordle image.
• DO NOT PRINT THIS.  You will check the box. "Print to file" (see picture)
• Save this document as "your login ID_digital footprint"  (ex: trose_digital footprint)
• Upload this document to Google Docs and move it to your digital footprint folder
• Next to the "create" button in Google Drive, you will see an arrow pointing up.  Click on it.
• Select the document you just saved.  When done, share it with me so I can print it for you.
• Drag the digital footprint document into your digital footprint folder in your technology space on Google Drive
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• What is a "digital dossier"?  - watch video below
• Using Google Docs - create a document titled "Digital Footprint Reflection".  Write a reflection answering the following questions.
1. When do you think that your digital presence started?  (look at your survey if you need to)
2. Google "Martin Luther King, Jr."  Now, Google yourself.  (Use quotation marks ("  ") to get a more accurate search.)  What did you find?  Was the information accurate?
3. Look at all the digital footprint visuals we created.  If that was all the information that someone had to look at you with, what would they think about you? 
4. What does your digital presence say about you?

week 2 (Sept 9 - 13)

*** The next 3 weeks Technology will be in Mr. B's room! ***

Students will...

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Day 1

• Name game 
• Go over "What are all these things? / Now, what do they do?" worksheet  
•  Practice using a mouse! (I know its basic, but we get to play fun games while doing it.)
1. Practice #1 
2. Practice #2
• Digital Organization!
• Edit the document.
• Work on being a typing PRO!  (When playing the games do not pass onto the next lesson until you have passed with a 90% or higher.)

Day 2

• What is my digital footprint?
• What is a digital footprint?
• Watch videos!
• video 1
• video 2 
• Go over digital footprint tips
• My Digital Footprint  - What is your digital footprint?  What have you used in the past 24 hours that would create an online presence? (What web sites have you used in the last 24 hours?)
• HOMEWORK: 
1. Complete the Digital Footprint Survey with your parents.  
• Lost it?  Print off a new one here.
2. Complete the log for your digital devices usage. For 4 days you will write down any digital device that you use!  (Examples: phones, gaming systems, computer usage, texting, TV, radio, tablet, e-reader, etc.)
• Lost it?  Log your usage on a sheet of paper.

• Done early?  Work on mouse or keyboarding skills.

Welcome! week 1

1. Team building
2. How do we use technology everyday?
3. What technological device would you have difficulty living without?
4. Practice logging on to the computer and your email account.
5. Send me an email (with introduction, complete sentences, and a closing) telling me something interesting about your summer.
6. What are all these things? / Now, what do they do? worksheet  

• Please write your name on your paper.  You will not be leaving the classroom with it.  IT IS OKAY IF YOU DO NOT HAVE EVERYTHING FILLED IN!
• Make sure that you turn your paper into me before you leave the classroom.

Students will...

• A.2 - use appropriate technology terminology
• A.9 - identify a variety of information storage devices (e.g., floppies, CDs, DVDs, flash drives, tapes) and provide a rationale for using a certain device for a specific purpose
• A.10 - identify technology resources that assist with various consumer-related activities (e.g., budgets, purchases, banking transactions, product descriptions)
• B.9 - identify uses of technology to support communication with peers, family, or school personnel