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Middle School Computer 2007-2008
3/25/2008
All middle school classes
We are now working with Google Sketchup. Sketchup is a freeware application developed
by Google for use in creating 3 dimensional drawings.
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1/22/2008
6th GRADE HOYT &
MACDONALD START
STEP ONE: READ THIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH
STEP THREE BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.
The unit you are about to embark on
covers a popular use for computers and the Internet today: SOCIAL NETWORKING
STEP TWO:
Your assignment is to create a
PowerPoint presentation about SOCIAL NETWORKING.
Use the internet to do your research.
In your presentation you should
consider the following questions:
- What is Social Networking?
- Are you personally involved in Internet Social
Networking?
- What are the good things about it?
- What are the negative things about it?
- What are some basic rules of etiquette
(look up the word if you don’t know it)
- What are the most popular Social Networking
sites for teens?
- What are the dangers and security concerns
regarding Social Networking?
- What should the policy be between a teen and
his or her parent regarding the use of Social Networking? Should parents
have access to your site?
- How important is Social Networking as a means
of communication for you?
You may use any tools available (yes,
Photoshop) to create your PowerPoint.
Think in terms of “Design” regarding your
presentation. Is it simple or are you using “effects” just because you can? How
understandable is it to the viewer?
You will be graded on your
presentation.
STEP THREE:
Print out your presentation slides and
hand in to Mr. Z.
6th GRADE HOYT & MACDONALD
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1/14/2008
8th GRADE SHINN START
7th GRADE MARTINEZ &
MOYER START
Section on Malicious software
Questions for you to answer
STEP ONE: READ THIS ALL THE WAY THROUGH
STEP THREE BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.
STEP TWO: Create a simple Access
database. Build a fund of information in Access
as you find material related to the questions below. Treat it as a small
research project
You can use the Viewlets
below if you need help with the database. It should have only a URL field, a
OLE picture field, a notes field and a keywords field.
IMPORTANT: The purpose of the Access database is so that you will use the
Internet to gather data and very quickly save it in your database. Then use the
material in your database to answer the questions below.
You do not have permission to use the
Internet for anything other than researching the material below
STEP THREE: Questions for you to answer
ONLY after you have created and added research material to your Access
database:
1. What do we mean by the term “Malicious
Software”?
2. What are examples of various types of
Malicious Software?
3. What is a Worm? How is it spread?
4. What is Spyware? Why is it harmful?
5. What is a Trojan Horse as it relates
to Malware?
6. What is a Virus? How do Viruses get started?
7. What is Phishing? Why should we care
about it?
8. Why would anyone create Malware? What’s in
it for them?
9. What can you do to protect your computer
against Malware?
10. What are some of the most common means by
which Viruses are spread? Trojan Horses?
11. What are some of the major anti-Malware
products available?
12. Is your computer at home protected? If so
how?
13. Do you have to be on the internet to get a virus? If not, what are other
ways they can spread?
14. Are there differences between different
kinds of computer systems in terms of they’re vulnerability (Mac, PC?).
Why?
15. What is a software patch? What is a
Service Pack? What is the most current service pack for Windows XP?
How can you find out what service pack is on your system?
16. What are automatic updates and how
can they be helpful? How can you set your computer to receive automatic
updates?
17. Go to Microsoft.com. Enter the security section and
summarize the current information.
Use the internet to find sources
for your answers.
Create a simple report using MS Word and
cite the URLs that the information comes from
Print it and hand it in to me.
You have 3 class periods in which to
complete this and hand it in to me.
1/14/2008
8th GRADE SHINN END
7th GRADE MARTINEZ &
MOYER END
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1/14/2008
8th GRADE LAMB START
Section on Open Source, FreeWare and
ShareWare
Questions for you to answer
STEP ONE: READ THIS UNTIL END
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.
STEP TWO: Create a simple Access
database. Build a fund of information in Access
as you find material related to the questions below. Treat it as a small
research project
You can use the Viewlets
below if you need help with the database. It should have only a URL field, a
OLE picture field, a notes field and a keywords field.
You do not have permission to use the Internet
for anything other than researching the material below
STEP THREE: Questions for you to answer
ONLY after you have created and added research material to your Access
database:
1. What is Open Source? How is
OpenSource different than something like a Microsoft or Apple product?
2. What is FreeWare or ShareWare?
Is there any difference between the two?
3. What are some potentially
useful applications that you can find on the internet for AntiVirus? For
WordProcessing? Spreadsheets?
4. Find the URL for SourceForge….
What is SourcForge? How might it be
useful to you? Give some examples of things you find in it that you think you
could use to help you with school.
5. Why would FreeWare products be
offered to us?
6. What might motivate someone to
develop OpenSource applications?
7. What is Linux? Give some
history as to its development and usefulness.
8. What is the difference between
Google Apps and OpenOffice? Give examples.
What is the URL for OpenOffice? What do you find when you research
Google Apps?
Use the internet to find sources
for your answers.
Create a simple report using MS Word and
cite the URLs that the information comes from
Print it and hand it in to me.
You have 3 class periods in which to
complete this and hand it in to me.
1/14/2008
8th GRADE LAMB END
Microsoft Access Lessons
Access
1 Creating a New Database
Access
2 Creating a Table in your Database
Access
3 Building a Data Access and Entry Form
Access
4 Placing Your Picture and Keywords Fields on your Form
Please make sure you have read,
signed and then turned in the “Computer Acceptable Use” Form. You need to have
done this before you will be issued a password for this year.
This is a link to that form if you
need it: Computer
Acceptable Use Policy
For 7th and 8th
Grade, we are starting a project about databases. We will be using Microsoft Access
to build our databases.
I am handing out some printed
material published on Microsoft’s website to get us started thinking about what
a database is and how we might design and use our own.
The link to that information on
Microsoft is http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA100644501033.aspx?mode=print
To watch “SHIFT HAPPENS” a thought
provoking display about technological change, use the links below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q&mode=related&search= for the Version with Music instead of
Narration ( I think this one is better ).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqfunyCeU5g for the Narrated Version
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SPRING of 2007
We’re starting a new project. We
will be learning about Microsoft FrontPage and webpage design.
Use the links below to get
started. Use your headphones to listen to the sound.
FrontPage Create One Page Website
FrontPage Create One Page Website 2
FrontPage Create One Page Website 3
3/26/2007
FrontPage Create One Page Website 4 SAVING YOUR SITE TO YOUR SERVER DRIVE
FrontPage Create One Page Website 5 WORKING WITH THE DESIGN GRID AND CLOSING
YOUR PROJECT
FrontPage Create One Page Website 6 MORE WORK WITH PAGE VIEWS
FrontPage Create One Page Website 9 USING TOOLBARS
FrontPage Create One Page Website 10 ADDING AN ADDITIONAL PAGE TO YOUR SITE
FrontPage Create One Page Website 11 LINKING YOUR PAGES TOGETHER (HYPERLINK)
4/3/2007
Start by watching the QUICK TOUR
viewlet by using the link directly below:
FrontPage Website A QUICK TOUR OF THE TCS WEBSITE
Then:
READ EVERYTHING BELOW FIRST:
Listen to the tutorial below, then
follow the link beneath it to go to the help file called “HYPERLINKS: THE
BASICS” on Microsoft’s website. You will
Need to do this using Internet Explorer
on your local desktop rather than from fileserver or you will not have sound available.
Read below before you click:
1 .READ and LISTEN TO HYPERLINKS: THE
BASICS.
2. Listen THROUGH ALL the material in “Hyperlinks and URLs”, “Absolute and
relative URLs” and “Hyperlink Destinations”.
Do “Test Yourself” under “Hyperlinks and URLs” and “Test Yourself” under
“Absolute and relative URLs”.
3. Write out answers to the following questions. Print them out. Hand
in one copy to me and keep one copy for your notebook.
a. People use many different words when referring to hyperlinks. What
are the ones mentioned on the first page of the HELP article?
b. What is a URL?
c. What is an Absolute URL?
d. What is a Relative URL?
e. What is an Anchor or Bookmark?
f. What other types of Hyperlinks are described under “Hyperlink
Destinations”. How are they used?
4. Get back on Fileserver, open this
same help file from FrontPage Help in FrontPage. Expand “Hyperlink Destinations”
on the left hand side of the help page.
5. Do the exercise under “PRACTICE” in
“Hyperlink Destinations”.
6. Do the “TEST YOURSELF” Exercise In
“Hyperlink Destinations”.
4/10/2007
For fun and practice we’re going to use
FrontPage to build a small website explaining how the Internet works.
The links below will provide you with
valuable information so you will have a better understanding of how
the “magic” of the Internet is made
possible. Use the material in the links as the foundation for your “How the
Internet Works” website.
Use the Viewlets I provide as
tutorials.
Making a website about how the Internet works STEP 1 CREATING
THE SITE AND BRINGING IN A PICTURE
Making a website about how the Internet works STEP 2 BUILDING
ON TO THE SITE BY ADDING PAGES
Making a website about how the Internet works STEP 3 USING
TABLES TO CONTROL YOUR DESIGN ELEMENTS
Making a website about how the Internet works STEP 4 SOME MORE
THINGS TO DO WITH TABLES
Links to Internet Information
The link below is interesting because
it shows you how the Internet looked in its early stages.
What the Internet used to look like
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Link to
remote logon to fileserver. Many of you ask me how to do this, so if you use this link you will get a
small flash tutorial on how to log on to the fileserver as a remote user from
within the school.
November-January
Below are two student-created
examples of the project we have been working on. The screenshot with the
colored maps on it is part of our project with Microsoft Excel. The map of
The URL for the basic black and
white map of
Below is the map that the students
are using. They found it by searching the Google website for images of African
maps. The screenshot below shows the map on a web browser as they would see it
after finding it. By right-clicking the mouse over the picture, the image can
be saved to their server drive on the school network. At that point it can be
opened in Adobe Photoshop for editing and coloring.
Week of October 8, 2006
This week we worked with Excel and
also did timed current event challenges with note taking. The subject was
Week of September 18, 2006
After entering data, we learned
how to develop conversion formulas for temperature and rainfall and place them
in cells in Excel. Then we used the fill feature to populate additional cells
with the formula.
Week of September 11, 2006
This week we are working on
acquiring the data to fill out the Excel sheets. Next week we will insert
formulas into the data sheets to modify the data.
Week of September 5, 2006
Several of my classes didn’t get
to meet with me this week because of Labor Day and the Hidden Pond field trip.
We have continued
researching data about our African countries for the Excel spreadsheet. We have
also done a short web search on Steve Irwin, the “Crocodile Hunter” of TV
fame that died tragically at the start of the week and comparing him to Timothy
Treadwell, the man made famous by the film GrizzlyMan.
Week of August 28, 2006
This week we are watching the
development of Hurricane Ernesto through some web “mining”. We have begun the development
of our
Excel spreadsheets to enter data and build formulas to convert that data. The
goal is to learn something about
Week of August 21, 2006
We are beginning work on the
school’s yearlong theme of the AFRICAN DIASPORA.
Our first project is devoted to
learning about the continent of
in Microsoft Excel using formulas to convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit
and millimeters to inches.
We will use the spreadsheet to log
average temperature and rainfall entries for 15 African nations. The purpose of
the project is to learn to
use Excel to create a formula based spreadsheet and to demonstrate how
the rainfall and temperature figures
vary with latitude since
landmass that contains a huge
variety of climate and living conditions. The students have been given a Rubric
so that they
may understand the requirements of
the assignment.