Tuesday, October 14, 2014

PLC II: Keyboarding and Scratch

1. Dance Mat Typing

2. Follow directions on a Scratch card - discover what interesting things you can make happen

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

PLC: Keyboarding and Scratch

1. Dance Mat Typing

2. For Scratch, you can get another activity card to try out for you can try to make . . .

A Scratch Maze Game
Part I: Shows you how to make a character and make him move

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

PLC III: Keyboarding and Scratch

1. Dance Mat Typing

2. Follow directions on a Scratch card - discover what interesting things you can make happen

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Transformations

1. Transformations

Transformations Keynote - Part One

Transformations Keynote - Part Two

Transformations Keynote - Part Three

2. Rock Around the Park - Solve all three puzzles

3. Pumpkin Multiples - Get 20 correct and more that 60% correct

4. Space Race or Swimming Otter

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Erosion Animation

Erosion
wind and water carrying away bits of rock

The following three videos will show you how to make a animated video showing erosion:

Part One
This part will show you how to make a desert background on a Keynote slide

Part Two
This part shows you how to make the rocks and make them fly off the screen

Part Three
In the final part, we add some text and a wind sound effect


Tuesday, April 15, 2014

PLC III: Keyboarding and Scratch

1. Dance Mat Typing

2. Pick one of these two games to make -

Scratch Pong Game -
Part I: Shows you how to make the game paddles
Part II: Shows you how to make the ball and get it moving
Part III: Shows you how to keep score

Or . . .

Scratch Maze Game - Pick the part of the project you're going to work on next
Part I: Shows you how to make the character and make him move

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

PLC Special II: More Keyboarding and Scratch

1. Dance Mat Typing

2. Scratch Pong Game -
Part I: Shows you how to make the game paddles

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Fractions and Proofreading

Video Directions

1. Improper Fractions

2. Identify Fractions

3. Fill Fractions

4. Power Proofreading

Start with first story in grade 2
     If you get up to 200, you can do stories in grade 3
     If you get up to 500, you can do stories in grade 4


Study Island

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

PLC III: Keyboarding and Scratch

1. Dance Mat Typing

2. Scratch - Pick the part of the project you're going to work on next
Part I: Shows you how to make the character and make him move
Part II: Shows you how to make the maze
Part III: Shows you how to fine tune your game, how to display a win and one way to make the maze stop the character

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

PLC: Keyboarding and Scratch

1. Dance Mat Typing

2. Pick one of these two games to make -

Scratch Maze Game - Pick the part of the project you're going to work on next
Part I: Shows you how to make the character and make him move
Part II: Shows you how to make the maze
Part III: Shows you how to fine tune your game, how to display a win and one way to make the maze stop the character

Or . . .

Scratch Pong Game -
Part I: Shows you how to make the game paddles
Part II: Shows you how to make the ball and get it moving
Part III: Shows you how to keep score
Part IV: Shows you how to finish the game

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

PLC II: Keyboarding and More Scratch

1. Dance Math Typing

2. Scratch Directions #3: This will show you how to turn a sprite into a game character. If you finish your character, let me know and I'll show you part two a week early.