East-West Sylvan

• Overview & Grade Standards (slides)
• Oral Presentation Grade Standards
• Timeline 
• Help sheet 
  • Video Lesson 01 - getting started, opening powerpoint, & saving your work
  • Video Lesson 02 - inserting slides, slide layouts, & undo
  • Video Lesson 03 - slide backgrounds
  • Video Lesson 04 - deleting slides & changing the slide order
  • Video Lesson 05 - inserting, moving, deleting, & formatting text
  • Video Lesson Extension - creating custom slide backgrounds
  • Video Lesson 06 - advanced text formatting (text box fills, outlines, and more)
  • Video Lesson 07 - WordArt
  • Video Lesson 08 - downloading internet images
  • Video Lesson 09 - inserting images
  • Video Lesson 10 - compressing pictures
• File Naming Conventions
• Spell check- what does spell know?
• Extension - Mystery PowerPoint
  • Video Instructions
  • printout
• Resources (sound, images, animations, etc)
  • flashkit
    • Working with zip (compressed) files
  • soundjay
  • findsounds
  • soundbible
  • simply the best sounds 
  • heathers animations
  • www.sitevip.net/gifs
  • http://www.virtuallandmedia.com/ani-text.htm
• Name Origins
  • http://www.babynames.ch/ 
  • http://www.justparents.co.uk/babynames.html 
  • http://www.weddingvendors.com/baby-names/ 
  • http://www.babynamescountry.com/baby_names_by_origin.html 
  • http://www.behindthename.com/ 
  • http://www.meaningofnames.in/ 
  • http://www.infoplease.com/spot/nameorigins1.html (just for fun)
  • fairy name generator (just for fun)

The Elements of Art

Odosketch (create a drawing)

• Go to odosketch
• Use the tools at the bottom of the screen to draw and erase
  • Note - Drawing slowly results in a thin line; drawing more quickly results in a thicker line
• Click the Reload button at the bottom to see a replay of your drawing
• Take a screenshot of your creation or click the "Save" button
  • Note - You will need to set up a free account to save your drawings

Odosketch (viewing a SlideShow)
It is fun to look at art created by others, and Odosketch provides a gallery of featured sketches that can be viewed individually or as a slide show.  The best part is that when viewed, you will see a replay of the creation from start to finish so you can see exactly how the artist composed the piece.

• Go to odosketch
• At the top of the screen, click the Sketch Slideshow link
• A slideshow will begin and will randomly replay sketches from the gallery

Google Art Project (step #1)
Start by learning how to navigate the website. Click here to begin

Google Art Project (step #2)
Learn about and explore famous artwork! This is an assignment which will be graded. Click here to begin

If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be and why? Share some interesting facts about your location and tell us why you would want to live there!

We will gather data using a Google Form/Spreadsheet and then map the results using the BatchGeo tool...

Step #1 - use the Internet to gather interesting information about where you would like to live

Step #2 - fill out the form

Step #3 - you will go on a scavenger hunt looking through the information your classmates have shared...use the following links: coming soon!

• scoring guide
• history of keyboarding

• Test your typing skills
• http://sense-lang.org/typing/
• http://freetypinggame.net/
• http://typeonline.co.uk/(keyboard lessons, number pad lessons, or speed test)
• http://flmenterprises.com/typing/typingtest.htm

Mystery Songs & Virtual Keyboards!

• Virtual Piano #1
• Virtual Piano #2
• Mystery Keyboard Songs #1