After arriving at your new seat, you may want to bookmark the following websites:
Classmarker
Edmodo
Class blog
Google (Gmail)
Speaking of Edmodo...remember that you have an assignment in Edmodo that is due tonight. The writing prompt is as follows if you have not yet entered your original response:
List one new vocab term you've learned and how, why, or in what way it will be important to you as you continue to live in a world dominated by computers.
Also, for those of you who are responsible for defining vocab words for this week, you need to get that done by tomorrow night! If you need to use time here at school to do that you are perfectly welcome to do so.
Get out your blue handout from Friday...we will go over it in class (it has "Exercise 1" at the top).
Today in Logo we are going to start drawing shapes. When drawing shapes we must keep in mind a couple of mathematical ideas. First, supplementary angles are 2 angles that when added together add up to 180 degrees. 180 degrees is also a straight line. Knowing that information we can make turns in order to draw shapes.
Additionally, we have been typing all of our commands in short "phrases". We can type in our information in the Commander Window all at once if we want to. For example, here are the steps to drawing a square, and you can type this all on one line (try it!):
fd 100 rt 90 fd 100 rt 90 fd 100 rt 90 fd 100 rt 90
For today's exercise we don't necessarily need to use Logo to complete the marking of angles on our paper, but you are welcome to use Logo if you feel that using it will help you complete each shape.
By the way, if you are interested in downloading this freeware on your home computer (or laptop), you can go to Brian Harvey's website and download it from there. You will not have any problems downloading from this website in terms of getting viruses or malware on your computer - it is a completely safe website to use (Brian Harvey is a Computer Science professor at U. of California-Berkeley).
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