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WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO?

I have sure missed you since I haven't seen you since LAST YEAR!  I am so excited at the beginning of each quarter to meet my former 5th graders as Middle Schoolers. You grow so much! I may not have a chance to see you for awhile, but I am excited about our new adventure! You are gathering skills that will serve you in college and in life! You might have a job or class that has conferences online, submitting work online or communicating online.  You will be a pro with all of that soon!  

I want to provide you with some activities that will reflect what we were going to cover in class and hopefully you will have some fun too!  I will be adding to this page often so check back now and again--when you are bored with your other classes! REMEMBER NO GRADES IN SPECIALS OR ELECTIVES DURING THIS REMOTE LEARNING! YEAH! You might find some good stuff here! Here are the first few things I prepared for you:

•  Code.org instructions
• Want to practice your keyboarding, enjoy this site: typing.com  You better not start on beginner!

Try this adventure! Learn about the Internet along the way!  Try out the Scavenger Hunt below! Be among the first to finish and email to me (margaret@stmatts.org) and you may win a real world (not cyber world!) prize!  

WEEK OF MAY 11

Too much animation or just enough? How much animation do I add to a presentation.  To answer, you need to know the reason for animation.  You may not want to bore your audience with what you think is fun! Use animation to get your point across, keep it simple and related to the presentation.  

Written Instructions to come week of May 11
 

WEEK OF MAY 4 I forgot next Sunday is Mother's Day!  I am posting next week's instructions about animation, but for this week, make your mom a card!

Let's make a Mother's Day card using MS Word--or any word processor.  I would rate my video as a B-Movie (meaning, not great!) because I had so many interruptions! I hope you will muddle through it and make a beautiful card for your Mom-or whoever provides that love and support in your family! No every  "Mom" has to be a  "Mom"; it could be an aunt, uncle,  sister, brother, grandmother, grandad, or you dad!  Honor that person that loves and cares for you!

I have posted three files to help you: a video, written instructions, and a sample card:

How to make a card video
Written instructions to make a card
Sample of a Mother's Day Card
(Check your printer to see how to print front and back)

Too much animation or just enough? How much animation do I add to a presentation.  To answer, you need to know the reason for animation.  You may not want to bore your audience with what you think is fun! Use animation to get your point across, keep it simple and related to the presentation.  

How to Video adding Animation


WEEK OF APRIL 26

Did you create your slideshow, "All About Me". Let's make it interesting by adding a transition.  A transition is the movement or sound you make when moving from one slide to the next.  Sometimes I like to put a cannon bomb sound in the middle of class PowerPoints to wake up the class! Try adding transitions.

WEEK OF APRIL 19
Try your hand at a PowerPoint or Keynote about yourself
  WEEK OF APRIL 13
This quarter we would be learning to do PowerPoint which is a presentation graphics program like Apple Keynote or Google Slides.  I know you have looked at Keynote or PowerPoint in the past, so here are some tips for making a PowerPoint.  If you don't have PowerPoint at home, here is a presentation and video on using Keynote. 

WEEK OF APRIL 6

Take a ride down memory lane. Click here to see the timeline that we used in 4 ^th grade to learn about computers. (I changed the PowerPoint to a PDF file so everyone can view the timeline.)  Be sure to click the hyperlinks!

But how do you make those hyperlinks? Click here to find out!  Now try hyperlinking to a web page or another document! Make your presentations interesting!

WEEK OF MARCH 30
Welcome back!  I hope you now understand how the Internet functions. Maybe you would like to add your own page on the Internet.  You can create using a program such as Dreamweaver by Adobe or other web authoring software. Some web page hosting sites also give you their own web authoring software. But a basic understanding of HTML the language web pages are written may help you write a better page.  Click here for insturctions to use some basic HTML code.

WEEK OF MARCH 23
We start 6th grade learning how the Internet works.  Watch these videos about the Internet.  Click here

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