Novel Series: Publishing as a PDF & Uploading on Wiki

Novel Series: Importing Your Cover into GDocs

Novel Series: Creating Your Cover

Task 20: Create a Podcast Using Audacity! GUEST POST BY MS BONJA!

At Bat: Audacity!

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

Record live audio.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Free Download:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Link to a good tutorial on using Audacity:
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Audacity

Your Task This Week:

Record a podcast using Audacity.

In your podcast, introduce yourself and your period.

Tell me what your ideas are for your novel/short story series!

Be sure to say good bye!

Email the WAV file to me as an attachment!

Until next week... :)

Task 19: Creating a Blog Using Blogger

Your Task:

Create a blog for your 40 Book Challenge!

When done, go to the 40 Book Challenge page on our class wiki, and create a hyperlink that connects to your new blog!

Task 18: Creating a New Page to an Existing Blog Using Blogger

Your Task:

Create a page on your blog for our 40 Book Challenge!

When done, go to the 40 Book page on our class wiki and create a hyperlink that connects to your blog!

Task 17: Creating a Page on Wikispaces

Because we will be using Wikispaces on a regular basis in our classroom, each of you needs to learn how to contribute to the site by making pages, adding links, uploading files, and inserting pictures!

However, before we delve into using technology on a regular basis, we need to understand how to appropriately and professionally use these tools.

For this week's Techy Tuesday, you will be creating your very own Student Page on our class wiki that will focus on Acceptable Use of Technology.

On your page, please include the following items:

1. Five Acceptable Use rules you think should be included in our class policy

2. A brief explanation of each rule

3. Links to at least TWO websites where you found your information about these rules

4. An image that goes with each rule (a total of five images)

5. A resources we can use to better understand how to use appropriately use computers and the Internet

(A video, game, website, etc.)

Mr. Poole and I will choose the top ten Acceptable Use rules to create our own class policy!

Task 16: How To Become a Member of a Wiki on Wikispaces

This year, we will be using Wikispaces as our homebase for all of the technology stuff we will be doing in class! In order to contribute to our site, you will need to become a member of our class wiki.

Please go to our class website: http://msspiezio11.wikispaces.com

And follow the directions in the video below!

BE SURE your user name has an identifier in it! Your first name, last name, initials MUST BE IN YOUR USER NAME!

Become a member by Friday to earn your points for this week!

Task 15: Creating a GMail Account

Email is quickly becoming the most common form of communication used in the workplace, and is becoming the most common form of communication in our classroom!

Because we will be using the Google Applications in class, it is essential for each of you to have a GMail account.

NOTE: Your GMail account is to be used for school purposes only! The address itself should reflect this! Make a professional email address, one that represents you as a young adult!

This week, you will be creating your own GMail account. To earn points for this Techy Tuesday task, you must send me an email from your new account by FRIDAY!

Your subject should be.... "Your Name" Says Hi!

Inside the email, write me a short note about your experience using technology. Have you used it in class before? At home? For fun? What do you typically do on the computer?

Don't forget! It's due by Friday!

Enjoy your Techy Tuesday!

Creating a Google Form: Guest Post by Crystal from P1!

Guest Post by Priya from P6!

How to Embed a Presentation into Wikispaces

Using Picnik: Guest Post by Alyssa from P1

Converting Files and Youtube Videos: Guest Post by Tyler from P1

Make an Image a Hyperlink in Wikispaces: Guest Post by Yasmin from P6

Helpers!

Students,

We've been working so much with technology lately, and we haven't been able to post all of the neat stuff we're doing in our classrooms!

Each of you has been assigned a different technology skill we've reviewed this year! Create your screencast using Screenr. You can sign in with your Google Account and begin recording! Once your screencast is complete, make sure you publish your video and email me the embed code with the title of your skill!

You videos will be posted on Techy Tuesday as they come up!

Task 14: Creating a Movie in Windows Movie Maker Live!

Ladies and Gentlemen!

This week we are lucky enough to have a guest post from Lia in Ms Spiezio's 7th grade class! Lia is an expert at using Windows Movie Maker, and has made incredible movies in her English class, like a documentary about The House of the Scorpion!

Your task for this week:

Create your own video using Movie Maker or an equivalent (iMovie) with a minimum of three images and/or one video. In your video, you must include the following:

- Title slide where you changed the font and color

- Ending credits

- Three images and/or one video

- At least three different transitions between scenes

- Add audio

Your video can be about anything you are interested in! Remember your blogs! These could be great additions to your websites!

Watch the video below for some great tips!

Thanks again, Lia!

Task 13: Embedding a website or blog into your portfolio

Well students,

Now that you are all officially "Techies," it is time to teach you how to use a bit of "HTML." "HTML" is a language that the computer understands and obeys! Today we are going to write an easy bit of HTML in order to embed our blogs or websites into our portfolio.

Please follow the steps below and use the HTML code exactly in order for the computer to understand :)

Step One:
Open up your google portfolio/site you are using to keep all of your work.

Step Two:
Once you have opened the portfolio, click on the button that says "Create New Page" (probably has a green plus sign next to it).

Step Three:
Name the page "Blog" or something similar

Step Four:
Once on this "new page" click on the "HTML" button.
When the screen pops up you will see "<br>"... LEAVE IT ALONE :)

Step Five:
Type the following HTML code directly underneath it:
(Type your blog URL where it says "your blog URL")

<iframe src=http://yourblogURL/></iframe>

Hit "update" and then click "SAVE"

Step Six:
You can play around with the size of the blog by doing the following:

- Click on "Edit Page"
- Double click the top of the gadget
- Click on properties

I like to the the width at around 750 - 800 and the height at about 500

Step Seven:
To get the page to show up in the "sidebar navigation" you may have to follow these steps:

- Click on "Edit sidebar"
- Once on the edit page click on the "edit" button under the "navigation" section
- Click "Add Page"
- Choose the page you would like to add to the sidebar
- Click "OK" and then "Save Changes" and your done!

YOUR TASK:

1. Insert your Blog or website into your portfolio!

2. Share your portfolio with your teacher if you haven't already

Check out the video below to watch these steps in action!