BRMS Computer Elective

Today’s Agenda

8th Grade (Periods 1, 3, 4, 5)

1. Keyboarding warm-up. (10 minutes)
2. There is a fire drill tomorrow. We will review the evacuation procedures for our room.
3. There is a possibility that all of the student folders will be wiped out next week. If you have anything that you want to keep, you will need to save those files onto your flash drive, iPod, or some other external media. Today we will create a place where you will move things you want to save so we are ready for next week.
4. iPhoto - depending on the technical status of this lab today, we will start our next project which is creating a photo-only slide show with music. We will use iPhoto to touch-up/prepare your photos, GarageBand to edit your music files, and PowerPoint to put the show together.
5. PowerPoint Review - If you haven’t turned in your PowerPoint project yet, get it in today. REMINDER - Before submitting your PowerPoint project for grading, make sure you have done the following:
   1. Check your work. Look for errors. Look for ways to fine-tune the appearance of your presentation.
   2. Have your partner check your work, looking for mistakes and ways to improve your presentation. Listen to what they have to say. Work together to improve your final product.
   3. Make the improvements that your partner suggested.
   4. Have your partner check your presentation again, this time grading it.
   5. Reverse the process…you check their work.
   6. When you KNOW you have finished, submit your file to me using iChat.
6. GRADES - They will be ready this weekend and available on this Website on Monday.

7th Grade (Period 7)

1. We are going to take another shot at setting up MasterKey. If the network is horrible again today, we will log in as “student” and work around it.
2. Keyboarding warm-up.
3. There is a fire drill tomorrow. We will review the evacuation procedures for our room.
4. There is a possibility that all of the student folders will be wiped out next week. If you have anything that you want to keep, you will need to save those files onto your flash drive, iPod, or some other external media. Today we will create a place where you will move things you want to save so we are ready for next week.
5. iPhoto - depending on the technical status of this lab today, we will start our next project which is creating a photo-only slide show with music. We will use iPhoto to touch-up/prepare your photos, GarageBand to edit your music files, and PowerPoint to put the show together.
6. PowerPoint Review - I will collect these projects once the network stability issue is resolved. It will NOT be included in your Progress Report grade, but it WILL be included in your Trimester grade.
7. GRADES - They will be ready this weekend and available on this Website on Monday.

6th Grade (Period 6)

1. We are going to take another shot at setting up MasterKey. If the network is horrible again today, we will log in as “student” and work around it.
2. Keyboarding practice. (20 minutes)
3. There is a fire drill tomorrow. We will review the evacuation procedures for our room.
4. There is a possibility that all of the student folders will be wiped out next week. If you have anything that you want to keep, you will need to save those files onto your flash drive, iPod, or some other external media. Today we will create a place where you will move things you want to save so we are ready for next week.
5. GRADES - They will be ready this weekend and available on this Website on Monday.
6. Today we continue report writing. We will continue to discuss looking at Websites and how to use MS Word to collect information for your reports, and you will continue practicing that skill.
   1. MS Word settings and toolbars.
   2. Copy and paste from a Website to a Word document.
   3. Continue locating and bookmarking Websites, then gathering information from those websites.