2008-2009 Computer Applications 7 & 8

Book Publishing

As book publishers there are certain responsibilities you have:

    * Getting the content
    * Formatting your book
    * Editing the copy (there are many types of editing that are required, but this is the one we will worry about)
    * Organizing all the book parts
    * Creating an appealing cover

I'm thinking, instead of asking you to write a book (time constraints), we will just take a book that's already written (whatever book you wish) and you can publish it in your style.

This project will cover Technology, English, Art, Math, Individual Creativity. We need to clean up our rooms! (I mean desktops) Put everything EXCEL in an excel folder. Create a WORD folder for everything WORD.

Steps:

1. Get Content Save as  BookProject (demo again?)
   
2. Make a copy Save as BookProjectPractice
3. Practice different formatting styles

Book needs:

• Front Matter—copyright, acknowledgements, etc
• Back Matter—index?, publisher information, picture
• Cover—later...

Wednesday before BREAK!

Finish where we left off on block day.
Start Book publishing project.
Ohh, I almost forgot—the quiz...

Resources:

Public Library

http://www.questia.com/publicdomainindex
http://www.bored.com/ebooks/
http://www.readbookonline.net/
http://www.starry.com/novel/authors.htm
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=271
http://truly-free.org/
http://www.ebooks3.com/

Block Monday/Tuesday MSWord Bonanza!

We will take advantage of our block day time by including the kitchen sink!

• MS Word Handout and Demo
• Download Quiz7_MSWordInterface
• Download MSWordTaskBasics
• Download MS Word Practical Final from last year—review and do!

Did I leave anything out?
Oh yeah:

 

I did mention something about a kitchen sink...

Some Digital Book Resources

Thanks to Shrreya we have some websites to look for digital content!

http://www.questia.com/publicdomainindex
http://www.bored.com/ebooks/
http://www.readbookonline.net/
http://www.starry.com/novel/authors.htm
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=271
http://truly-free.org/
http://www.ebooks3.com/

The Future... What do you think?

Tuesday we will wrap up your group Excel project and share the results with the class. Let's all see what you have...

So, we have some things to think about and I would like your feedback, so that we can make the projects I have in mind as fun for you as possible!

2 projects that I have in mind are:

1. Book Publishers Project
   
2. Time Capsule Project

As book publishers there are certain responsibilities you have:

• Getting the content
• Formatting your book
• Editing the copy (there are many types of editing that are required, but this is the one we will worry about)
• Organizing all the book parts
• Creating an appealing cover

I'm thinking, instead of asking you to write a book (time constraints), we will just take a book that's already written (whatever book you wish) and you can publish it in your style.

This project will cover Technology, English, Art, Math, Individual Creativity.

Any ideas or suggestions?

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The Time Capsule Project

The Time Capsule idea is that we are going to store (electronically) some selected items that could tell future generations a little more about each of us.

Like a journal format (book publishers, need to edit, format, organize in a logical order, etc)
(some possible questions and suggestions)

• Who are you and what are you all about right now?
• What do you want to be when you're older?
• What's one thing you wish you could tell someone in the future you can't tell them now? (they won't find out about it until the time capsule is opened)
• What is something you would like to accomplish in your lifetime?
• How do you see the world in the future (countries, governments, disasters, accomplishments, etc)
• What kinds of events do you think will happen in your lifetime?
• Who are your heroes? (name 5 in different areas of life and why—for example don't pick 5 different sports players, but you could pick one)
• What is you favorite music or songs/artists?
• What are your favorite movies?
• Things that you strongly believe in (politics, religion, science, rights of individuals, etc)
• Whatever you would like to tell the future: Maybe a video/audio/PowerPoint/etc message/prediction/warning/suggestion for future generations...

Then I would like you to think about pictures, music, videos, audio recordings you would like to include. There will be limits such as standard Pinewood appropriateness, space on whatever storage device we use, and time that we have to do this.

This project will cover Technology, English, Music, Art, Math, Individual Creativity.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Friday 13...

Boo! (it's not Halloween!)

We will start the next few days by starting with a Gettysburg Address typing assessment and record the results.
I will make the updates and put in my public section with my drop box on the server.
You will need to pull it down and update you group work.
This will save time for all of us—thanks for the assist John!

Today you should start getting back together with your group and give each other a status update. Make adjustments to your individual work. Each one of you needs some analysis in Excel of the data—it shouldn't look like anyone elses in your group.

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Next week we will become book publishers using MS Word to organize, edit, format a book!

Only 12 Weeks of School Left...

3/09/09  Block Agenda:

TTTT warm up—Finish by recording results of keyboard accomplished and error percentages.
Assessments: Gettysburg X 2—record results

In workbook TypingTrack Set up New Table—INSERT new worksheet label it Typing Results

Group Activity:

Lets do something with all this data already!

• Discuss in a group different ways to analyze the data.
• Come up with a list for each member of the group.
• Make new tables displaying the data. (this will require thought and planning)
• Put these new tables on new worksheets and label them accordingly
• Save as you go...

Monday E period needs to swap new Keyboards for Spanish Test

(takeout of box, unplug old keyboards put off to one side, unwrap new one and plug in.)

Agenda Tuesday

Ten Thumbs warm up
Ten Thumbs baseline
TTTT

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor

Review typing: TTTT

We will speed through a review of Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor.