Friday, September 28, 2012

Friday, September 28

Middle School:

French:
Hand back quizzes, le concours (prize game), Mac Lab -- send an email to Mrs. S. (2 questions about France), watch short video on Eiffel Tower, send another email telling Mrs. S. something that you learned.

Web Creations
Continue to work on your HTML page.  Search for and download an image, add to your page.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
EverFi -- login and work on "savings" lesson.  This should be complete today.

Digital Media Communications:
Finish w/ video:  The Internet:  Behind the web (internet history).  Complete and turn in worksheet.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Thursday, September 27

Middle School:

French:
Quiz - Roll Call, Numbers, Letters, Plan for Le Petit Dejeuner on Monday.

Web Creations
No class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:
College Fair, Personal Finance game (playracing squirrels)

Digital Media Communications:
Take Body of Evidence quiz 5.1, start with video "The Internet:  Behind the Web."

Wednesday September 26

Middle School:

French:
Practice vocabulary for quiz #2 -- roll call, alphabet, numbers.  Play tic tac toe and claque-claque.

Web Creations
Continue to work on checklist -- adding background color, h1, b, i to your projects. Play "circle the dots" with a partner and share your strategy for winning.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
No class today - block

Digital Media Communications:
Copyright - complete online lesson from mrssanchez.com, complete pre-test and practice "quizzes."  Check with Mrs. S. before you do this make up.  Lesson is online at:  http://mrssanchez.com/classes/digicomm/assign/copyright_web/index.html


Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Tuesday, September 25

Middle School:

French:
Alphabet practice with M. Sucre, practice listening and speaking with the posters we made, practice with roll call vocabulary.

Web Creations
No class today.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Work on Introduction to Economics Lessons  -- see links on mrssanchez.com.  http://mrssanchez.com/classes/business/intro_econ/intro_econ.html

Most important to finish if you missed class:  Circular Flow of money and items after that.  You will watch the video and answer the questions on quia. 

The learn360 login and password and your quia.com login and password are on your SkyDrive document.

Digital Media Communications:
No class today.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Monday, September 24

Middle School:

French:
Practice with numbers 1-31 -- how fast can we say them with M. Sucre?  Create posters with letters, numbers and shapes/colors to practice with our speaking skills.
Web Creations
Solve a brain-teaser problem about dice -- working with a partner.  Start on our HTML project (personal project).

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Read and reply to email about creative destruction, read email about Pandora, and set up an account at everfi.net (for learning personal finance).

Digital Media Communications:
Work with a partner to create a poster to explain HTML and how web pages work.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Friday, September 21

Middle School:

French:
Practice with roll call vocabulary, play name game in French, practice with vocabulary using the Tic Tac Toe boards we created yesterday.

Web Creations
no class today -- A day.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Internet down -- watch a series on Nike.  Read and respond to email (before Internet was shut down) -- topic is creative destruction.

Digital Media Communications:
Complete self-review and peer review for HTML projects.  Turn in on flash drive.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Thursday September 20

Middle School:

French:
Practice with greetings and numbers.  Hand back quizzes.  Learn new vocabulary for roll call (what to say if you were absent or late).

Web Creations
Work with a partner to create a web page that shares your favorite food.  Create a link from your home page to this new page.  Discussion of nesting.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Free Trade.  Reply to email with free trade terms, and watch Free Trade video.  Discussion about creative destruction.

Digital Media Communications:
Finish your personal HTML project, copy to flash drive and print grade sheets.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Wednesday, September 19

Middle School:

French:
Quiz on letters, numbers, colors.  Writing questions about Paris.

Web Creations
No class today.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
No class today -- block

Digital Media Communications:
Work on your HTML choice assignment.  The projects you select must be worth at least 10 digipoints.  See mrssanchez.com for more details.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Tuesday September 18

Middle School:

French:
Picture day -- practice with colors, upper and lower case alphabet and numbers to prepare for our quiz on Wednesday.

Web Creations
Partner work on an html web page.  Send an email with  your partner answering the question:  What is a web page?

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Answer email about making a pencil.  Watch the visual essay "I, Pencil."  Read section in text p 10-11, factors of production, major types of economic systems, test personal finance game (playracingsquirrels.com).

Digital Media Communications:
no class today -- block day.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Middle School:

French:
Finish with World Food Markets  video, turn in worksheet.  Practice with numbers....

Web Creations
No class today.

High School:


Introduction to Business:
Review grades on PowerSchool -- let Mrs. Sanchez know of any problems.  Check your email for a link to vocabulary practice for Ch. 1.  Read articleon keyboard cleanliness, read first several pages of Ch. 1.

Digital Media Communications:
REview grades in  PowerSchool -- let Mrs. Sanchez know of any problems.  Read article on keyboard cleanliness.  Start on HTML assignment.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Friday, September 14

Middle School:

French:  Watch Food Markets of France -- an introduction to Paris, Marseille and French food (culture lesson)


Web Creations:  The Name Game!

High School:

Introduction to Business:  Services -- government-provided goods and services (public) v. privately-provided good and services (business)Check grades (read and respond to email).  Set up your quia.com account (get handout from Mrs. S. -- take practice quiz).


Digital Media Communications:  Set up your quia.com account (get handout from Mrs. S. -- take practice quiz).  Setting up a class folder in email, set up a rule to sort Mrs. S.'s email into that folder.

Thursday, September 13

Middle School:

French:  Play claque-claque with numbers, review of colors and alphabet.


Web Creations:  no class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:  Answer emails (scarcity, opportunity cost), China blue follow up.


Digital Media Communications:  Work on partner web page (turn in on flash drive, peer review and pre-grade your own project.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Wednesday September 12

Middle School:

French: Colors activities -- cut out colors, practice following directions, games with tic tac toe and bingo (VOIILA).

Web Creations:  With a partner, create a web page using TextEdit (meet in room 109).

High School:

Introduction to Business:  No class today - block

Digital Media Communications:  Work on the Partner project -- turn in on flash drive on Thursday.

Tuesday, Sept. 11

Middle School:

French:  Work on letters, numbers, introductions, spelling names

Web Creations :  no class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Answer starter email, watch China Blue, and complete final email.

Digital Media Communications:
No class today

Monday, September 10, 2012

Monday, September 10

Middle School:

French:   More practice with letters, numbers, upper and lower case letters, games to practice.

Web Creations:  Meet in room 109 -- Dance activity (give and follow directions). Complete a reflection activity and turn in.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Finish with Levi Strauss activity (see mrssanchez.com for assignments and links).

Digital Media Communications:
"Cookie Tin" activity -- reverse engineer a web page.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Friday September 7

Middle School:

French: Practice with our new French names, letters of the alphabet, numbers 0-10, "Le ballon" -- what can you say in French?

Web Creations:  No class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:  Work on Levi Strauss case study (http://mrssanchez.com/classes/business/mindset/strauss_case/levistrauss.html), reply to email from Mrs. Sanchez.

Digital Media Communications: Work on E-Z Accounting -- put in an external link, change text, link and background colors.


Thursday, September 6, 2012

Thursday, September 6

Middle School:

French:
 Select your "French" name for class, make a name card for your desk.  Review of alphabet and numbers.

Web Creations
Create a simple web page using HTML codes.  Put in colors using the 147 "safe" color names.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Topics:  Capital-intensive businesses, Labor-Intensive businesses, Barrier to Entry.  Read and respond to starter email, a brief introduction to the entrepreneur "Levi Strauss."

Digital Media Communications:
Work on E-Z Accounting web site, play "name game."

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Wednesday, September 5

Middle School:

French:
Work on numbers 0-10 (cut out practice squares, practice), spelling with alphabet, review colors, practice greetings, and go over list of French names

Web Creations
No class today!

High School:

Introduction to Business:
No class today

Digital Media Communications:
Begin the E-Z Accounting tutorial.  Create the index page, plus a page for services, fees and background.

Tuesday, September 4

Middle School

French:  Today we practiced with letters, numbers, and the alphabet.  We practiced greetings and colors, too!

Web Creations:  Today we created our first web page using TextWrangler and HTML codes.  More to come on Thursday!

High School

Digital Media Communications:  no class today

Introduction to Business: Today we discussed goods-producing and service businesses, and played the lemonade stand game to think about entrepreneurship, opportunity cost, customer appeal, inventory, and calculating income, expenses and profits.  Answer the lemonade stand email to get your points for today.





Sunday, September 2, 2012

August 29-31

JHMS:

French:  This week, we learned to use the French alphabet and count from 1-10.  We also learned basic colors, and how to say Hello and thank you.

Web Creations:  Class on Thursday only this week.  We got logged into the computers, and started up the TextEdit program so we can create our own web pages next week.


JHHS:

Introduction to Business: 
This week, we went over the course expectation form (bring back signed from your parents for extra credit), used our email to send mail to Mrs. Sanchez., played the trading game PIT and on Friday we spend some time thinking about the definition of a business.

Digital Media Communications: 
This week, we went over the course expectation form (bring back signed form from your parents for extra credit), used our email to send a message to Mrs. Sanchez, and used HTML to create our first basic web page.