Thursday, September 15

Today you will have the full hour, once again, to continue to work on your Internet Safety project on Xtranormal.  There are several points to keep in mind at this juncture:

1. The most important thing you need to do is get all of your information typed into your movie.  Don't worry about including character motions, camera angles, etc. because you are not being graded on how many of those you include in the movie.  The information, on the other hand, IS what you are getting graded on - so concentrate on completing that part first.
2. Once you have included all of your information in the manner you want it to appear in your movie, I would suggest that you go back through your text boxes and spell check.  Remember, the website characters are going to say exactly what you have typed in.  
3. If you are done, now is the perfect time to make your movie even that much better.  Continue to add small details that increase the quality of your movie.  Find additional details that your characters can talk about by going back and using a different website from the Internet Safety page to gather information, or do a search on your own.  
4. It is almost impossible to have too much information.  If you imagine your audience being a group of 2nd or 3rd graders, then create your movie so that your audience is able to understand what you are saying.  In other words, the more information you have (or the more examples you give) the easier it would be for them to remember what Internet Safety involves.
5. The Internet Safety project is due at the end of your class period tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 16th).  Plan accordingly!

Our first vocab quiz is also tomorrow!  Prepare by reviewing all the words on the vocab list.  In fact, if you think it would help, you could also view the definitions made by students in the other classes.  To review the vocab words you can go to the vocabulary page, find your wiki by clicking on your class hour, and then review the words for this week.  The quizzes will normally involve mostly multiple choice questions, but there may be a few fill in the blank questions (where you have to type in the correct answer), and there also might be a few true/false questions.

If you haven't posted anything to the FAQ page and you have a question - please post it!  Also, if you've learned anything about computer applications in the 4 weeks we've been in Computer Apps then post what you've learned to the What I learned... page on your wiki.