Friday, October 26, 2012

Friday, October 26

Middle School:

French:
No class today - quarterly recognition

Web Creations
No class today - quarterly recognition

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Read and respond to email re:  strategic plans and marketing plan examples
Complete the EverFi lesson on Credit Scores.

Digital Media Communications:
Turn in projects on a flash drive, do a self-review or peer review of your project, and complete a self-evaluation sheet for project.

Thursday October 25

Middle School:

French:
Review games with Classroom objects and classroom commands.

Web Creations
Finish any uploads and corrections to your KomPozer project.  Last day of class!

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Introduction to Financial Plans, work with a partner on brainstorming ideas for a financial plan.  P7:  Following Directions activity.

Digital Media Communications:
Finish HTML projects -- project should be completed at the end of the class period today, ready to turn in on Friday.

Wednesday, October 24

Middle School:

French:
Practice following directions for classroom commands.  Games and review activities.

Web Creations
No class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:
No class today

Digital Media Communications:
Work on your HTML project (see mrssanchez.com for details).

Tuesday, October 23

Middle School:

French:
Work on vocabulary for school commands, classroom objects, numbers and alphabet.

Web Creations
Finish our KompoZer web page project and upload to our arpamaster sites.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
An introduction to Strategic Plan and Marketing Plans.

Digital Media Communications:
No class today.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday October 22

Middle School:

French:
New classroom vocabulary activity, including commands.

Web Creations
No class today
High School:

Introduction to Business:
Body of Evidence quiz 3.1 - 3.4 (Business Structures - sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation).  Set up a basic spreadsheet to track expenses.

Digital Media Communications:
Practice with HTML codes, begin a new project (individual HTML project).

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Friday, October 19

Middle School:

French:
Review games - numbers, colors, letters (listening practice)

Web Creations
Work on your project in Kompozer.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Payment Types and Interest in Everfi.  When you finish this lesson, send Mrs. S. an email.

Digital Media Communications:
Peer Review and corrections (if needed) on partner HTML project.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thursday, October 18

Middle School:

French:
More practice with commands, finish Eiffel Tower video and turn in notes.

Web Creations
No class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Peer review of comic strips, reliability of resources, analyzing a business pitch on Shark Tank.

Digital Media Communications:
Cookie Tin - reverse engineer a web page, then test in the notepad and browser.

Wednesday, Oct. 16

Middle School:

French:
Following Commands, new vocabulary for food, table settings, etc.

Web Creations
Work on your Kompozer project -- set up your home page, page 2 and page 3

High School:

Introduction to Business:
no class today - block day

Digital Media Communications:
Partner HTML project - see mrssanchez.com for details and come in at lunch or after school to make it up.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Tuesday - Oct. 16

Middle School:

French:
Work on commands, classroom vocabulary, and more on the Eiffel Tower

Web Creations
No class today - A day

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Review of vocabulary (see links to practice in your email), work with a partner to make a comic about business structures (get handout from Mrs. S.).

Digital Media Communications:
No class today - block day

Monday, October 15, 2012

Monday -- Oct. 15

Middle School:

French:
Following Commands, practice with classroom vocabulary, watch approx 10 minutes of Eiffel Tower video.

Web Creations
Learn to use Kompozer to create web apges.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Shark Tank, business valuation, review of corp, ptr, sole proprietorships.

Digital Media Communications:
Finish with the E-Z Accounting HTML tutorial.  Print the home page (index.html) from the browser.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Friday October 12

Middle School:

French:
Quiz - Interro #2 - classroom objects (and people from the classroom!)
Begin Modern Marvels:  The Eiffel Tower

Web Creations
No class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:
How Sweet it is -- business structures -- which would you recommend for these businesses and why?  Watch short section of master brands video.


Digital Media Communications:
Add new pages for services, fees and background.  Link each page back to the home page (index.html) and set background colors for all of your pages.  An introduction to hexadecimal color codes.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Thursday, 10-11-12

Middle School:

French:
Practice with vocabulary - drawing, claque-claque and M. Sucre

Web Creations
WRite a reflection on your HTML project, enjoy your free time for earning 50 points as a class.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Short Shark Tank video, send an email to Mrs. S. about why you think business people should support our scholarship business plan competition, go over sole proprietorship, partnership and corporation notes with groups.

Digital Media Communications:
Create the index page for the E-Z Accounting tutorial. Save in your Z: drive.


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Wednesday, October 10

Middle School:

French:
Continue to work on our classroom objects vocabulary, practice borrowing items from each other and

Web Creations
no class today - A Day

High School:


Introduction to Business:
No class today - block day

Digital Media Communications:
New group!  Create a simple web page using HTML codes -- set up page structure, use h1, b, i, u, and ol/li.  Change background color. Set up classroom printer and print a copy of your web page.

Tuesday, October 9

Middle School:

French:
Practice with our classroom vocabulary, finish short section of video on northern France and turn in your facts/questions.

Web Creations
Finish your project, complete checklist and place in the project collection folder on Open Access.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
A brief introduction to business ownership -- student teams take notes on one of the main structures of a business.  Colby Cox, from Convergence Investments introduced the Business Plan project to the class.

Digital Media Communications:
No class today - block day

Friday, October 5, 2012

Friday, October 5

Middle School:

French:
Review of classroom object vocabulary, go over questions from video yesterday, finish the "Northern France" section of the video (5 minutes left for next week).

Web Creations
no class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Complete "Banking" on Everfi.net (see your skydrive for user name and password)

Digital Media Communications:
Upload your home page to your arpamaster site.  Test your own site, a peer's site, and send an email to Mrs. Sanchez with a LINK to your new home page.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Thursday, October 4

Middle School:

French:
Practicing with our vocabulary (Autour de moi), new shape vocabulary, review w/ colors, markets in northern France, an introduction to Brittany.

Web Creations
Create links between pages and create a third page.

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Body of Evidence quizzes 4.1 and 4.2, brainstorming ideas for your busineses plan project.

Digital Media Communications:
Create a new home page to load to the Internet.  Find an image where the copyright allows you to repost (creative commons, with attribution).

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Wednesday, October 3

Middle School:

French:
Work with our new classroom vocabulary, View a short video on Normandy, France (Mt. St. Michel), take notes and ask a question about Mt. St. Michel.

Web Creations
no class today

High School:

Introduction to Business:
no class today

Digital Media Communications:
Using a new program to create web pages - Dreamweaver.  Work with the basics of the program.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Monday October 1

Middle School:

French:
Le Petit Dejeuner Francais!

Web Creations
No class today - A day

High School:

Introduction to Business:
Answer starter email (definitions of economic indicators), read p. 43-44 in your text, go to bls.gov and use the inflation calculator, introduction to the business cycle (expansion, recession, trough, recovery).

Digital Media Communications:
Finish History of INternet video, turnin worksheet.  Answer a review question with your tablemates.