A Little Social Media Fun

What a miserable weekend of weather!!  I saw some snowflakes flying around on Saturday.  I thought it was an April Fool's joke, but it was not.  You weren't even born yet the last time we had an April Fool's Day blizzard.  It was crazy!!!  Check it out:  20 Years Later:  Remembering the April Fool's Day Blizzard. I am so glad history did not repeat itself this past weekend.

This week you will take a break from the last two units we have been working on and have a little bit of social media fun.  During class one you will be working on some Mad Lib like emoji stories.  Have you seen the 2017 release of new emojis?  Take a look at All 69 New Emojis for 2017.  Once you have finished this video, please go to Google Classroom.  I have left a new assignment there for you.  Once you have read the assignment you will work "old school" with paper, scissors,  and glue sticks.
Good luck and have fun with this Emoji Lesson.

Please continue reviewing your Blogging and Commenting Study Guides.  You will have this assessment during class two this week.  If you missed tech last week be sure to get a copy of the study guide and answers from Ms. Shepard.

During class two you will take your Blogging and Commenting Assessment.  You will find a link to this assessment in an announcement in Google Classroom.  I have discovered some students have been using the chat component of Google Classroom to cheat on assessments.  This is very disappointing.  I have disabled this feature in classroom.  I would expect you to all be on your best honor when taking assessments.
Once you have finished and submitted this assessment, you will read quietly at your work station.

Have a great week!
   ~Mrs. White 

Checking Out!

MCAS scheduling has messed up our tech class schedule for the last time this year.  HOORAY!!!!  Congrats to my students for their hard work and determination on testing.  With that said, I will only see most of my students once this week.  Have no fear!!!  If you continue to use your "Effective Effort" strategies you will have no trouble completing your digital story on time.
This week you will finish finding, saving, and citing the images for your story.  Please be sure to upload them all to ONE web album in Picasa.  Make sure you are using the correct URL on your Google doc for the citations.  AFTER you have found all of the images from your shopping list, you will then go to find, save, and cite the music for your story.  Remember, we are using copyright free music for this project.  The best place to look would be where you found the music for your podcasts.  Do you remember where that is?  I also found a great site with some other music options.  Read carefully though as some of the suggested sites require buying a membership to be able to download.  Check it out- Top 10 Places to Get Free Music.  You could also try, Audio Archive or Freeplay Music.
The due date for this project is May 31st!!  I have been so impressed with the search techniques being used by my students.  You are doing a great job using filters and advanced search tricks to get what you are looking for to use in your stories.  Yeah tech kids!!!