Showing posts with label RSS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RSS. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24

Video; Logo handout answers; FA4


Let's take a look at the vocabulary page here on the blog - I have made some changes to how we are going to do the vocabulary definitions from this point forward (it won't affect those people who had to do definitions for this week).

Get out your Logo sheet - we will go over the exterior angles for the shapes that were on our worksheet.

After we go over the Logo sheet we will begin learning about how to set tabs in Microsoft Word.  Before we do that, though, you need to understand the difference between left justified (or left aligned), centered (or center aligned), and right justified (or right aligned).  Below are visual examples to show you the difference between the three:

this is left aligned
(or left justified)
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this is center aligned 
(or center justification)
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this is right aligned 
(or right justified)
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As you can see from the above examples, left aligned means that all lines are lined up on the left side.  Right aligned is just the opposite - all lines are lined up on the right side.  Center aligned means that the information you enter is going to be split in half and half of what you enter will be on the left and half will be on the right.

We also will be working with a "dot leader" tab.  This is a type of tab that puts a series of dots in front of (or leading up to) the tab that you set.  What you don't do with this is type in a bunch of periods between the actors and the characters - instead you set up tabs to create the dots for you.  Here is an example of what a dot leader tab might look like:

Christopher Warwick...............................................................................Bob Cratchit
Lisa Fournier.......................................................................................Mrs. Cratchit
Benjamin Watson..................................................................................Uncle Scrooge


Thursday, October 27

Vocab videos

Here is today's first video we will be watching.  It is on RSS feeds.  Basically an RSS feed (RSS stands for Really Simply Syndication) is a free online subscription to a website that frequently posts new articles; or in the case of blogs new blogposts.



The second video for today will discuss what a blog is.  You have been accessing my blog for most of the semester, so you should have a basic, beginning understanding of what a blog looks like and what you can do with a blog.  The video below explains blogs:




We will continue our learning of new symbols on the keyboard in an effort to try and get all of the symbols done.  Today we will cover the % (right shift + left index/1st finger), < (left shift + right middle/2nd finger), > (left shift + right ring/3rd finger), # (right shift + left middle/2nd finger), & (left shift + right middle/2nd finger).

After completing those symbols we will be working on creating your own blog using Blogger.  Creating a blog is relatively easy to do.  It also requires the use of an email address (you have a Google account so that will work perfectly).  We will use the blogs we create for several different purposes in class, but I want you to remember that since this is used for school everything must be school appropriate that is posted on your blog.  There will be no games on your blog while you are in this class - after this semester is over you can add whatever you want to your blog.

HAVE YOU CHECKED THE BOARD FOR MISSING ASSIGNMENTS??!!! If your name is on the board then you need to get the assignments that are missing completed and handed in.  Before school, Homeroom, lunch recess, REAL time, and after school are all available for you to use to complete work.