Monday, November 22-DUE Menu TODAY! DROP IN YOUR PERIODS FOLDER

READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE BEGINNING: 

SUBSTITUTE SHOULD HAVE HANDOUT FOR YOU ALSO (SAME INSTRUCTIONS AS BELOW)  PLEASE RETURN HANDOUT TO SUB--DO NOT KEEP!

Final Project:  TOTAL Project is 250 points

Students will create using Publisher, XHTML, Movie Maker (images and sound), and MS Word the following: 

           

Restaurant: Menu & theme (i.e. Olive Garden-Italian food), 30-second commercial (using Movie Maker), a basic web page, and flyers announcing the grand opening of your restaurant.

This is a professional presentation and you have been hired to create these products.

Free from grammatical errors, spelling, and capitalization. 

30 second commercial  (MovieMaker & Music)           

INCOMPLETE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!

FIRST PART-Menu due Monday, November 22, 2010!  No incomplete projects will be accepted

SECOND PART OF THE PROJECT—\-30-second commercial. 

Point total 60 points.  Due:  NOVEMBER 30^TH

REMEMBER THIS IS A PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION.

INSTRUCTIONS for Using Movie Maker and commercial

Start, Programs, Accessories, Windows Movie Maker

First:  You want to Import  Pictures (save them to your folder) that reflect the types of food you are offering at the restaurant- remember this a a 30-second commercial!

Second:   You WILL want to write out your commercial

• Under CAPTURE VIDEO Now to to Tools and select Titles and Credits.
• Select IMPORT PICTURES
• Go to your folder, under PICS and import the images you saved.
• Down below in the Movie Maker, make sure "SHOW TIMELINE"  is active.
• Your pictures should/will appear.
• Up top you will notice COLLECTIONS-here you can select Video affects and Video Transitions.  Add an effect and a transition to all of the pictures.
• Add a title to the beginning of the movie/commercial " Name of Restaurant....."
• Next add the script--this would be your voice but since that isn't working you willwrite in your commercial in the appropriate spots so that it flows with the images.
• Now add the Credits  at the end, such as your name and the artist's name from the music you have chosen. 
• Add the music last making sure that it flows (no blurps)!  DON'T USE MORE THAN 29-30 SECONDS OF THIS MUSIC--COPYRIGHT LAWS!
• Save as voice narration
• Save your commercial as:  lastname commercial.  SAVE EXACTLY AS INSTRUCTED..NO EXCEPTIONS Last name first then name of commercial.

                Save it LAST NAME COMMERICAL  (Example:  Gutierrez Commercial)

Step Three:  DOUBLE CHECK, TRIPLE CHECK QUADRUPLE CHECK!

NO INCOMPLETE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED!

WATCH YOUR SPELLING, GRAMMAR, & CAPITALIZATION!

NO LATE WORK!

OCTOBER 29

Students will complete all the lessons so far that they need to finish with XHTML.  The handouts provided (sub) have all the code.
Students will add to their "MY FIRST WEB PAGE" the following:
Using HEADERS, HORIZONTAL RULES, LISTS, LINKS, PARAGRAPHS, CENTER
Separate each area by a horizonal rule
Link this web page to the three others you have already created.
Use proper grammar, spelling, capitalization.

ADD:
A short paragraph introducing yourself and your experience with creating a web page.

example:  Hello, my name is....I am a high school student currently a Freshman, etc at Palo Verde High School.

Add: Using Lists (use more than one) the following terms to your web page:  Blogger, Closing Tag, Nested,  Pixel (hint: definition list will be used here; hint 2:  definitions are in the back of the text sitting by your computers).
Create a list of your favorite musicians and the title of your favorite song by this artist.
Create a list of your favorite foods.

Add:  Use links to add a link to  your favorite web pages..school appropriate
.

This needs to be ready to view on Monday!

OCTOBER 5

We will be slowly moving away from the blog postings and moving more towards me using the projector and demonstrating the work for you.

Students will continue to complete their Quater Project due Octobler 8.

Quater Project includes a Paper and a a PowerPoint on the advances of equipment, tools, etc. have had through technology.  Paper is to be 350 words, Times New Roman 12 or Arial 12 proper grammer, spelling, punctuation.

Students will work on improving their table skills (centering, highlighting, alphabetizing, etc.)  using MS Word and the textbook Century 21 plus beginning on page 58 and moving to the end of the unit.

OCTOBER 4

ANNOUNCEMENT: We will be slowly moving away from the blog postings and moving more towards me using the projector and demonstrating the work for you.

Students will continue to complete their Quater Project due Octobler 8.

Quater Project includes a Paper and a a PowerPoint on the advances of equipment, tools, etc. have had through technology.  Paper is to be 350 words, Times New Roman 12 or Arial 12 proper grammer, spelling, punctuation.

Students will work on improving their table skills (centering, highlighting, alphabetizing, etc.)  using MS Word and the textbook Century 21 plus beginning on page 58 and moving to the end of the unit.

OCTOBER 1

Students will continue to work on their Technology Reports and PowerPoints.  This particular project is due OCTOBER 8.   THIS IS YOUR QUARTER PROJECT.  Make sure it is done well (better than your best)  Worth 100 points.


Students will continue to develop their skills in table formatting using MS Word, Tables and Century 21 plust textbook.  Lesson begin on page 58 (please read intro before beginning the activities and move through to the end of the Unit 66.  Please follow all instructions. 

SAVE AS YOUR LAST NAME AND HOW THE TEXT TELLS YOU TO SAVE IT.  EXAMPLE:  GUTIERREZ CA4-2A.

REMINDER:  TECHNOLOGY REPORT AND POWERPOINT ARE DUE OCT 8, 2010.
                           I DO NOT ACCEPT LATE WORK.

SEPTEMBER 29 & 30th

Students will continue to work on finishing up their My Life PowerPoint due SEPTEMBER 30.  TODAY

Make sure you drop it in the appropriate folder.

Students will continue to work on their Technology Reports and PowerPoints.  This particular project is due OCTOBER 8.   THIS IS YOUR QUARTER PROJECT.  Make sure it is done well (better than your best)  Worth 100 points.


Students will continue to develop their skills in table formatting using MS Word, Tables and Century 21 plust textbook.  Lesson begin on page 58 (please read intro before beginning the activities and move through to the end of the Unit 66.  Please follow all instructions. 

SAVE AS YOUR LAST NAME AND HOW THE TEXT TELLS YOU TO SAVE IT.  EXAMPLE:  GUTIERREZ CA4-2A.

REMINDER:  TECHNOLOGY REPORT AND POWERPOINT ARE DUE OCT 8, 2010.
                           I DO NOT ACCEPT LATE WORK.

SEPTEMBER 27 and SEPTEMBER 28

Students will continue to work on Millan PowerPoint, My Live PowerPoint, Short tables assigment in Text on page 58 PLUS research on a tool, machine, everyday piece of equipment to see how "technology" has influenced change.  Please review Friday's post for more information.

REMEMBER WITH THE TECHNOLOGY PAPER/POWERPOINT--NO DUPLICATIONS IN WHAT IS CHOSEN.

POWERPOINT FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT SHOULD BE 10 SLIDE...Title slide should include the name of the product and your name period and date.  Introduction and conclusion. 

SEPTEMBER 24

TGIF

Students will continue to work on their PowerPoints (Millan Due Monday September 27 and My Life yet to be determined)

Students will review PowerPoint Presentation on blog regarding Technology Presentation and Paper.
When choosing your "technology"  you are actually looking at things like ovens, refrigerators, stoves, phones, computers any piece of equipment that has evolved over time.  Please make a post to either September 24th's post or the 23rd's post as to what "technology" you want to research and write about.

I WILL BE GIVING TITAN BOLTS TO ALL WHO WEAR THEIR ID'S!  THE DAY I CHOOSE WILL BE RANDOM SO GO TITANS AND WEAR THOSE ID'S

SEPTEMBER 23

Students will open and review PowerPoint button to examine what they need to do for a final presentation using PowerPoint.  This assignment will be due before the end of the quarter.
When choosing your "technology" please post a comment to this post.  We want to make sure we don't duplicate the "technology".  Thank you!

Paper associated with the above assignment must have a header (insert header>blank three columns> left text box (full name) middle (period)  last has name of the assignment Technology Research)

Students will continue to work on completing their PowerPoints (Millan and My Life).

SEPTEMBER 22

Students will continue to work in PowerPoint creating two presentations:  What Your Pet Can Teach You by Cesar Millan and  My Life
Student will edit their presentations for proper grammar, punctuation, etxc.

Students will make sure that the bullets are limited in text.  NO PARAGRAPHS

New Lesson
Students will open book Century 21 plus  follow and create the Table Lessons beginning on page 58 (instructions/reading) Exercise 2a and  when completed save as your last name CA4-2A

SEPTEMBER 21

Students will continue to create in Publisher a movie review brochure.  Movie brochure, for grading will be dropped into my drop folder Tuesday, September 21.  Assignment must be dropped into the correct folder or it will be deleted and NOT graded.

Students will create a PROFESSIONAL PowerPoint for Mr. Millan.  Items need to be bulleted NO paragraphs..summarize the information into talking points.  Follow instructions on the handout.

Students will create using PowerPoint a presentation on themselves titled "My Life"  ...please see handout for complete instructions.

SEPTEMBER 20

Students will continue to work on finishing up posters if they have not done so already.  Posters were due for grading September 17.  If you were absent please see me.  They will not be accepted for grading after Friday September 17.

Students will continue to create in Publisher a movie review brochure.  Movie brochure, for grading will be dropped into my drop folder Tuesday, September 21.  Assignment must be dropped into the correct folder or it will be deleted and NOT graded.

Students will create a PROFESSIONAL PowerPoint for Mr. Millan.  Items need to be bulleted NO paragraphs..summarize the information into talking points.  Follow instructions on the handout.

SEPTEMBER 16

Early Out
Schedule
Period 1    8:00-8:32
Period 2    8:37-9:12
Period 3    9:17-9:49
Period 4    9:54-10:26
Period 5   10:31-11:03
Period 6   11:08-11:40

SEPTEMBER 15

Students will continue to create their "Posters" using Publisher and their "Movie Review" brochure. 
To create brochure:  Go to Publisher > double click on folder labeled "BROCHURES">choose "Bounce" layout! Get publishing!  Handout for Movie review is on the table.

Please see prior post(s)DATED September 13th for full instructions.

Posters will be graded throughout class tomorrow and possibly Thursday.  Each poster is worth 10 points.

Students will create a PowerPoint for Mr. Millan using the handout provided.  This PowerPoint is to be a professional PowerPoint.  Use bullets as talking points (no complete paragraphs).

Job Knowledge and Skill (Hint: another 1/5 of your class grade/ Daily Grade)

OUR CLASS VALUES

4.  Job Knowledge and Skill is:

• 
  
  Understanding your JOB
• 
  
  Demonstrating Skill in your JOB

SEPTEMBER 14

Students will continue to create their "Posters" using Publisher and their "Movie Review" brochure.

Please see prior post(s) for full instructions.

Motivation and Initiative? (Hint: it's 1/5th of your daily grade!)

OUR CLASS VALUES

5. Motivation and Initiative is:

--Going above and beyond the call of duty.
Doing that little bit "EXTRA" with
out being told to do so.

SEPTEMBER 13

Students will create three posters in Publisher advertising their "favorite" movie, "favorite" book, "favorite" sport.

Students will create a brochure using Publisher for your favorite movie:

Directions for POSTER:

File>New>Blank Publications Folder>Poster (at top of screen)>Create. Choose first template that appears
File>Page Setup. Notice Height and Width settings are available. Change Width to 8.5" and Height to 11" click ok. (you'll find this on the right side of screen). Do not change any other settings!
Make a title using WordArt: Click the WordArt button and drag to create a box on your poster. A dialogue box pops up for you to type in your text. Choose the font. Click on the drop down arrow for the first box in the top toolbar and select a shape for your title. Close the WordArt dialogue box. If you want to make changes to your title just double click it.
Add a text box: Click on the text box button on the left side and click and drag to create a box on your poster. Insert a quote, comment, some advertisement appropriate for your poster.
Add an image from the Internet. Document where you got the image from (full disclosure).
File>Save As: Your last name Poster (example: MorenoPoster). Make sure you save it in your H drive.. Make sure you save it in your H drive.

SEPTEMBER 10

DUE TODAY: POETRY BOOK. PLEASE REMEMBER TO SAVE USING THIS FORMAT: DISNEY POETRY BOOK AND MAKE SURE YOU DROP IT INSIDE THE FOLDER. ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE FOLDER WILL NOT BE GRADED.

Students will be completing their poetry book and submitting it for grading before the end of the period.

Students will create three posters in publisher advertising their favorite movie, favorite book, favorite sport. See prior post for directions dated September 7, 2010

SEPTEMBER 9

Students will continue to edit, add, and create their Poetry Books. Books are due Friday, September 10 before the end of the period in teacher's drop box.

Students will use tabs to create the table of contents and drop cap-no more than three for the book.

Students upon completing this will re-read post dated September 7 for additional assignment.

SEPTEMBER 8

Students will learn how to "drop" work into teacher's drop box for grading.

Students will continue to work on Poetry Book. Poetry book is due Friday September 10, 2010.
Students will drop this assignment into the appropriate folder on Friday.

SEPTEMBER 7

Students will complete make sure they have commented to all posts on "teacher's blog":
The following are those that "require" a comment for grade:

• Post dated August 29th..."Classroom Policies and Procedures
• Post dated August 31st... "Grading Policy and Class Values"

Directions for Poetry Book (reposted here)

Students will continue to collect poems and key into their Publisher Document.

Students will add on sheet 8 a short biography of themselves. Text should appear on the "right" side of the sheet. Please review handout.

Students will add no more the FIVE clipart and Five Border Art. Making sure that their publication does not overpower the client with too much "art" and is pleasing to the eyes. To add Border Art right click on text box, dialogue box appears click on button the is labeled "Border Art" select your artwork and click ok.

STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPLETED POETRY BOOK:

Students will create a poster using Publisher: Theme for the poster is your "favorite" movie.

1. File>New>Blank Publications Folder>Poster>Create.
2. File>Page Setup. Notice Height and Width settings are available. Change top to 8.5" and bottom to 11" click ok.
3. Make a title using WordArt: Click the WordArt button and drag to create a box on your poster. A dialogue box pops up for you to type in your text. Choose the font. Click on the drop down arrow for the first box in the top toolbar and select a shape for your title. Close the WordArt dialogue box. If you want to make changes to your title just double click it.
   
4. Add a text box: Click on the text box button on the left side and click and drag to create a box on your poster.
5. Add an image from the Internet. Document where you got the image from (full disclosure).
6. File>Save As: Your last name Poster (example: MorenoPoster). Make sure you save it in your H drive.. Make sure you save it in your H drive.

SEPTEMBER 3

Students will continue to collect poems and key into their Publisher Document.

Students will add on sheet 8 a short biography of themselves.

Students will add no more the FIVE clipart and Border Art. Making sure that their publication does not overpower the client with too much "art" and is pleasing to the eyes.

To add Border Art right click on text box, dialogue box appears click on button the is labeled "Border Art" select your artwork and click ok.

SEPTEMBER 2

Students will continue collecting poems for their poetry book to include the author's name. Collect 10 poems.

Students will format document for Publisher using handout provided.

Students will need to read Class Description page and Grading Policy Post and acknowledge that they read and understand the information by commenting directly on teacher's blog.

Grading and Class Values

Grading at each job is based on these class values. These values model career employability skills, which are vital and transferrable to any workplace.

Work Ethic:
50 points a day based on: Showing up for work, Being on-time to work, and Stayin on task
Work Quality and Deadlines:
50 points a day based on producing work that is acceptable to your client and completed when due.
Work Skills and Knowledge:
50 points a day based on ability to demonstrate knowledge of job and ability to demonstrate essential skills.
Work Leadership and Teamwork:
50 points a day based on ability to collaborate with Team Leadership and co-workers.
Work Motivation andInitiative:
50 points a day based on the ability to go above and beyond what was expected by at least 10%.

Total Possible Points per days = 250
"A" 250-225
"B" 224-200
"C" 199-175
"D" 174-150
"F" 149 and below (unacceptable)
Progressive discipline Fired 1=improvement plan (warning); Fired 2 loss of points for 1 day; Fired 3 Loss of points for 5 days and parent contact.
Students will lose 10% of daily points if they arrive tardy, asked to turn off and put away electronic devices, get off of games or to stay on task.

AUGUST 31

Students will continue to collect poems for their poetry book they will be creating in Publisher.
Make sure you do not copy/paste from poetry site into word document. The "behind the scenes" formatting will transfer with the copy/paste and this makes it difficult to edit text in Publisher.

Students should have a minimum of SEVEN poems by the end of class today.

AUGUST 30

Students will continue collecting poems for their Poetry Book
Students willl create a comment to Classroom Policies and Procedures

Classroom Policies and Procedures

Students will read the Classroom Policies and Procedures page.

Students will "comment" on teacher's blog by typing their names above the phrase:

"I have read and understand the Classroom Policies and Procedures"

August 27

Students will complete this weeks assignments, please refer to previous posts/comments.

The assignments are due today AUGUST 27 --no late work will be accepted. Students must follow me in order for you to receive credit for the work.

Students will begin to select poems for a poetry book www.poetryamerica.com that they will be creating in Publisher.
Do not copy/paste re-key the poems into a word document and save it LastName Poetry into their H drive.

Period 1

AUGUST 26

Students will continue working and editing their blogs.
Students will add these two vocabulary words to the Vocabulary Post...
CSS
FEED
These two terms are blog related.

Students will connect to http://www.mrsgutierrezp4b.blogspot.com/ by going to "follow" and read all the directions to follow me.

Blogs will be graded for spelling, grammar, content (Resume, How to Create A Blog, Vocabulary and Ten Reasons why you should have a blog and how do businesses use the blog.

Blogs will be due end of period tomorrow. 8/27/2010 LATE WORK IS NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS AN ABSENCE HAS BEEN EXCUSED. DUE THE DAY YOU RETURN BACK TO SCHOOL.