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Exam and Grade Discussion

Tell Me About it:
Please look at your grades and complete any of the warm ups that you maybe missing. If you have questions about your grade come see me during lunch. Also check your email, i might have sent you information about your grade.
(15 min)

Class Activity:

1. Get ready to take the Google Story quiz 3. open a new google doc and name it GoogleStoryQuiz3. (30 min)
   
2. Continue Reviewing Questions for the Final Exam. (20 mins)
3. Take the following online CSS quiz, click here . (20 mins) Answer the questions without asking a partner, that way you will have a good idea of what you know and what you don't know. Try over and Over again until you get them all right. Take a screen shot of your score once you get them all right and Email the image, on the subject write Practice CSS Quiz.
   

Entrepreneur Website Presentation and Creation

Tell Me About it:
Email and let me know what grade you would give your partner on the entrepreneur website. please give me examples of the work they did and also oh how they contributed to finishing the website. After you are finish, continue with activity 1.


Class Activity:

1. Start reading pages 30-38 on the Google story. You may open your pdf file if you do not have your book.

2.You will now create a PPT presentation of your experience with the entrepreneur website. Remember the 10/20/30 rules please!!! Your presentation will be more of a self evaluation of your experience with the project, not about the entrepreneur. I am more interested in the process that you went through than the final product. Therefore you need to explain your process and method for completing the project. Please be critical when answering the following questions.

• What did you learn through the process of creating the entrepreneur website? mention social , life skills, entrepreneurship skills and technical skills.
• How did you manage working with a partner? What did you learn about working with a partner?
  
• What challenges did you find while creating the website? How did you overcome those challenges?
  
• What was your favorite and least favorite experience of finishing the project?
  
• Were there any skills (ideas) that you learn from your peers? please explain, im sure you learn at least one new skill. If someone helped you, make sure to thank them in your presentation.
  
• what advice would you give someone who would want to create a site for a business owner (think about what made the process easy)?
  
• Did you use any online resources? if so please mention them and how you used them, we can all learn from them.
  
• What made you the most happy and sad about the project?
  
• How can we make the project better for next year?
  
• Would you consider starting a business? why or why not?
  
• What motivated you to finish the project? Did you take pride on the project, why or why not?
• Upload your presentation to Google Docs( share it with me ) and be ready to present.

Read the Google Story and Write summary

4TH PERIOD STARTS @ 12:25PM ENDS @ 1:15PM
5TH PERIOD STARTS @ 1:20PM ENDS @ 2:10PM

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

Email me your the HTML structure you have thus far. You should be done with the HTML structure for the entrepreneur website. (10 min)

Class Activity:

1. With your partner read "The Google story". Read from pages 35-45. Take turns reading out loud. After your are done reading, write a one page summary using word document. In your summary please describe key points, information you did not understand, and also tell me what impressed you the most and why. Once you are finish email me your word document. (30 min)
   

PLEASE BEHAVE! JUAN RAMIREZ HELP THE SUB OUT (4TH PERIOD). CYNTHIA DIAZ HELP THE SUB OUT (5TH PERIOD)

While im abasent!

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

Email me and tell me what parts of the entrepreneur website you have done and what are you having a hard time with. (10 min)d

Class Activity:

1. As a class read "The Google story", pages 30-35. Take turns reading out loud. (15 min)
   
2. Continue working on your HTML structure (45 min). It needs to be done by today!
   
3. Start working on CSS layout (due tomorrow.)

PLEASE BEHAVE! JUAN RAMIREZ HELP THE SUB OUT (4TH PERIOD). CYNTHIA DIAZ HELP THE SUB OUT (5TH PERIOD)

Start Creating The Entrepreneur Site

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

Email me and tell me about your interview with the entrepreneur. What did you learn? How did you get in contact with the business owner?

Class Activity:

1. Read "The Google Story"!
   
2. Discuss Website planning!
   
3. Begin sketching and structuring your site. (due today 30 min)
4. Start HTML code (30 min)
   
5. H.W Finish CSS and first website draft!
   

Planning Website and Role Play

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

Using twitter! tweet something new you learned after you read the first 15 pages of the "Google Story". please no talking while doing this activity and no you cant use your book!

Class Activity:

1. Finish writing a business letter to an entrepreneur.(15 min)
2. With your partner review the Project Description and Instructions. Come up with two questions that you want to ask about the project. We will discuss the questions with the entire class (15 min)
3. Q & A about the project (15 min)
   
4. Discuss how you are going to divide the work with your partner (20 min)
   
5. Check for H.W completion!!! Those of you who do not have the h.w done will get Detention with me on Monday!! you do not want detention with me.
   

• Give three reasons why you are thinking of choosing each of your entrepreneurs? Think about how they would benefit and how the project can help them.
• With your partner describe how you will approach the entrepreneur and how you will contact the entrepreneur.
  
• Be ready to discuss your ideas with the class.
• H.W, with your partner type a business letter to the entrepreneur to introduce yourself and describe the "entrepreneur project

Community Entrepreneur 2

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

How to write a business letter: please read the following article and be ready to discuss with our class, How to write a business letter.

Class Activity:

1. Discuss writing a business letter to an entrepreneur.
2. 4th period, we need to choose partners!! ahhhh we are behind!!! 5th period is kicking butt
   
3. Brainstorm and Identify 3 entrepreneurs in your community. Two groups can not choose the same entrepreneur.

• Give three reasons why you are thinking of choosing each of your entrepreneurs? Think about how they would benefit and how the project can help them.
• With your partner describe how you will approach the entrepreneur and how you will contact the entrepreneur.
  
• Be ready to discuss your ideas with the class.
• H.W, with your partner type a business letter to the entrepreneur to introduce yourself and describe the "entrepreneur project

Community Entrepreneur

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

If you have $5000 how would you invest it in our communities, while using technology. Give a descriptive detail on how you would leverage the dollars. Explain how the community would benefit. BE CREATIVE!!! BUT NOT CRAZY!!! BE REALISTIC.

Class Activity:

1. Discuss the "Tell me about it" ( everyone will present their idea)
2. Finish Calendar Website presentations
3. Randomly choose "Community Entrepreneur" partner
4. Discuss "Community Entrepreneur" project!
   
5. Brainstorm and Identify 3 entrepreneurs in your community. Two groups can not choose the same entrepreneur.

• Give three reasons why you are thinking of choosing each of your entrepreneurs? Think about how they would benefit and how the project can help them.
• With your partner describe how you will approach the entrepreneur and how you will contact the entrepreneur.
  
• Be ready to discuss your ideas with the class.
• H.W, with your partner type a business letter to the entrepreneur to introduce yourself and describe the "entrepreneur project".
• H.W read pages 1-15 of "The Google Story" by friday. You will have a quiz on Friday!
  

Creating a Table!

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

Go over your homework and be ready to discuss tables with the entire class.

Class Activity:

HTML Tables and Sketches

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

Go over your homework and be ready to discuss tables with the entire class.


H.W/Check Materials: Composition books!!!!


ANNOUNCEMENTS: GO SUPPORT THE TEAM!! TODAY AT 7PM!



CLASS ACTIVITIES: Today we will go over web planning, sketching, and Tables.

1. Discuss Web Planning!
   
2. Sketching is important!
3. Sketch a table!
   
4. Go over table and its tags!
   

Web Planning

Visit the Following website, PLANNING A WEBSITE.
Go to the planning part and answer the following questions on a word document. Make sure you answer in complete sentences. After you are done, email me a document as an attachment. You will have the period to complete it.

1. What is their first advice before you start creating a website?
   
2. How can you be successful in the creation of your website?
   
3. What requirements and specifications should your group think about while you plan the website?
4. What is the authors tips when using images?
   
5. How can you organize your website into categories?

Create a CSS Site

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!: in your composition book answer the following.

What do you think were the factors that made the entrepreneur you choose succeed? What mistakes did he/she made while creating their business?


H.W/Check Materials: USB CHECK!!!!


ANNOUNCEMENTS: YOU NEED TO PURCHASE THE BOOK by Oct. 13. 2009!

1. You will need the "Google Story" book in three weeks. If you want me to purchase it for you, please bring your money by Today!
   

CLASS ACTIVITIES: Today you will create a website using what you have learned till today.

1. Go over DIV tags
2. Go over UL and LI tags
3. Review and Explain CSS Sheet Cheat
4. Recreate goals page!
   

Value and CSS

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!: in your composition write the following.

What were the challenges that the entrepreneur you choose had to overcome when starting their business? take 15 minutes to google search and write a paragraph on them.


H.W/Check Materials: USB check and Collect website! I will be catching up on grades this weekend. Put your composition books back. Thanks!


ANNOUNCEMENTS: YOU NEED TO PURCHASE THE BOOK by Oct. 2nd. 2009!

1. You will need the "Google Story" book in three weeks. If you want me to purchase it for you, please bring your money by Today!
   

CLASS ACTIVITIES:

1. Discuss "Tell Me About It".
   
2. Products: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
   
3. Creating Value Activity: You will be divided into groups of four. (These are not your official groups yet.) You will be given an object and you are going to try to convince the rest of the class that your object has more VALUE than the rest of the other objects.
   
4. CSS Discussion and Introduction
   

NEW HTML PAGE!

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!: in your composition write the following.

Who is "Steve Jobs" and why is he so good at making presentations?


H.W/Check Materials: none!


ANNOUNCEMENT: YOU NEED TO PURCHASE THE BOOK by Oct. 2nd. 2009!

1. You will need the "Google Story" book in three weeks. If you want me to purchase it for you, please bring your money by Tuesday( last day!)
   

CLASS ACTIVITY:

1. Create a Personal HTML Page. You need to have the following requirements.
   

a. Name is Namepersonal.html
b. The content should have the following: Write about your Short term goal for the year
and your long term goal for the year. Make sure to be descriptive and use proper
English.
c. Two images: 1 that represents your short term goal and one that represents your long
long term goal.
d. Make sure to include a DIV tag in your page in one way or another. You decide how you
will use the DIV tag.

e. a link to any other webpage, which represents your long term goal. It can be any page, as
long as it has images that can represent your goal or has a description of your goal.

IF YOU ARE DONE EARLY, FINISH THE FOLLOWING: If you are done with the following, Go to CSS Tutorial and try it out.

1. Go to Presentation Zen , read the Blog and answer the following questions in your composition book. YES GO GET YOUR BOOK, PUT IT BACK AT THE END. The answers might not all be in the article, you will have to think critically to give your best answer.

a. What is the "Takahashi Method"?
b. How can we apply the "Takahashi Method" to our presentations in class?
c. If we were to follow the "Takahashi Method" to grade our presentations in class, How
can one receive an "A" on a presentation?
d. What do Words and Phrases resemble in the "Takahashi Method"?
e. What do you think the author means by "All text, are visual"?


2. Google "PowerPoint the Kawasaki way" and tell me what is Guy Kawasaki's rule when creating power point presentations. Tweet the answer to this question!
   

Continue HTML, Twitter, and Presentations

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!:

Get a computer and check twitter. Take the next 15 minutes to create an Avatar for your twitter profile and also to change the background image. After being done send a tweet to @apbgryphons letting us know that you are done.


H.W/Check Materials:

1. Connect USB to your computer
   
2. Put your composition book on the puzzle table, which is on the side of the room.
   

Announcement:

1. You will need the "Google Story" book in three weeks. If you want me to purchase it for you, please bring your money by Monday.
   

In Class Activity:

1. Continue entrepreneurship discussion. Be ready to present in 5 min. The presentation will be worth 30 pts. You will be graded on Creativity, Oral Presentation, and overall quality of your presentation.
   
2. HTML continue. Open the page we created last week.
a. images
b. Font (size and colors)
c. Links
d. div tag


3. Team Building exercise

HTML and Entrepreneurship

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!

1. If you would to start a business using technology, what would it be and why? please write at least a complete paragraph and be descriptive. ( use your composition book)

CHECK H.W: Lets go over your homework. partner with someone and put together a power point presentation describing your findings on last weeks homework. Make sure to introduce your partner.Have at least two animations. Give at least two skills that you think is necessary in order to become a successful entrepreneur. Make sure you tell us why you feel the skills you chose are important. Be ready to present in 20 min. 

IN CLASS ACTIVITY!!

1. HTML Test. ( take out a sheet of paper and lets do this! ) 30min.
2. Finish HTML page (add an image and go over attributes on webmonkey.com) 30min. 
3. Team Building Activity

HTML and Twitter

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!

1. What is an entrepreneur? Please give us an example of the type of entrepreneurs we have in our communities. Write at least a paragraph.
   

CHECK H.W: Show me your settings page.

IN CLASS ACTIVITY!!

1. Tell Me About it
   
2. Collect H.W
   
3. HTML Activity
   
4. Group Activity (Communication skills )
   
5. USB Drive Folders
6. Go Over Twitter (as a class we will share tips)
   
7. Define Twitter Guidelines as a class
8. Tweet our first message for class
   
9. Inspect Computers
   a. Dreamweaver b. Gimp c.Fireworks d.Firefox f. Microsoft Office g. Sketchup h.Itunes

HTML Continues!

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!

1. Did you study for our HTML test? if so please tell me what was your method of studying? If you did not study please tell me why and how you plan to pass the class without preparing? ! You dont have to present, however I will collect your answers.
   

CHECK H.W: Pass on your sign Syllabus and Contract to the front.

IN CLASS ACTIVITY!!

1. Tell Me About it
   
2. Review Syllabus (4th period)
3. HTML Test
   
4. Group Activity (Communication skills )
   
5. HTML peer review! and depending on how we do, maybe notes!
6. Inspect Computers
   a. Dreamweaver b. Gimp c.Fireworks d.Firefox f. Microsoft Office g. Sketchup h.Itunes

Monday H.W: Go to www.twitter.com and open an account. Make sure your user name is your last name only. No numbers anywhere in your username.

Intro to Advance Technology

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!

1. Choose a partner and ask them to tell you their favorite memory of this summer! In a well written paragraph describe why it was their favorite memory. Please ask your partner for at least two supporting reasons. Be ready to present in 10 minutes!
   

CHECK H.W:

IN CLASS ACTIVITY!!

1. Presentations
   
2. Review Syllabus
   
3. Group Activity
   
4. Introduce first Project (due Friday)
5. Go over HTML
6. Go over test for Friday!