Today we were supposed to have a test on DreamWeaver MX, even though I was able to study with the CD i still wont do good because the wording was too confusing, even though i could understand I can't extract all the information out of it. It actually turned out that we do not need to do the test today, it was postponed to Tuesday. Instead in today's class we were supposed to summarize movies, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 in our blogs. And the following summaries are:
Movie 1: In the beginning it talked about what was DreamWeaver MX, which was a tool used to make a website. It also talked briefly about what workspace you want to work in to build your website. It teaches you how to chose your workspace. If it is your first time launching it there will be a pop up window for you to choose your work space. You can choose the dreamweaver 4 layout workspace if you want by clicking on the box. Some people may just want to work with codes so on the left side with the dreamweaver MX work spaces there are 2 option one states Home Site/ Coder style, this is for people who like using coding more. You can also choose the Dreamweaver Mx Workspace. It works the best if you are in the most comfortable workspace for you so choose the most comfortable workspace for you. It mentions that DreamWeaver MX can support Mac operating systems (OS). The second half of this movie talked about how dream weaver MX has a new site set up wizard, which is a tool to help you make a website and the wizard is just a walk through that helps you set up the steps for dream weaver to make a website. The steps to get there are: Site, New Site, Insert a name for the site, Next, Choose if you want server technology if so choose the server (a server is a something that provides service or help for use by other computer, in other words a server is a computer that provides something for a computer to use, so a web server provides services for web pages or brings web pages to other computers) Dream weaver also detects what type of sever technology you are using there are many companies that provides services with a computer, and each computer is using a different server technology, something that provides you with services. After this step it just tells you how do you want to work on you website things like editing it and testing it, so do you want to test it on the server. If you chose to work on it locally, so basically in one computer, then you will need to store the information somewhere. Then you get to choose if your web gets shared with anyone, and then you will see all the option, once you fish, it will make the "initial site Cash" which is a program like thing that when you edit something on dream weaver it edits it on the website, once its done something will appear in the files panel, on the site tab, and you can access the files on it.
Movie 3: It teaches you about the lessons you will learn using 2 fake websites to teach you how to make on. This movie teaches you how to start a lesson in the lesson folder. The Steps to do so are:
Site, Site Files, Site (on pop up), Import, select site file, open, then locate what folder that it is in without going into the file, then click select, if your file is a folder, enter it then click select.
This will bring one of your sites or lessons to dreamweaver, and you can use them.
Movie 4: This movie talks about what happens when you launch DreamWeaver Mx for the first time and the choosing of the workspace, and it mentions what type of workspace they will be working on in the training. It also tells you how to change to workspace layout in the preferences, a buton. This one also show you a little about the layouts. It talks about the pannels that are on the right side of the work space, and how to enlarge it by clicking on the arrow, they are grouped so it wont get confusing have som on one side and some on the other. It tells you how to remove a panel from the group by just draging it out and droping it, to put it in again you just drag it back to the spot where you want it and drop. It also talks about how to hide the groups of pannels, by click on a arrow button pointing to the right on the left edge of the box. It also talkes about the insert bar, and what it is used for (used to insert objects), which is just putting in some code for that object it. It also talks about the 3 types of view you can change you workspace into, a coder view whith only codes, a coder and desighn view with codes and desight, and a desighn view. Code view is used to insert objects but with code, the desighn view is to move things around, but you can use the insert bar to insert objects, and the desighn and code view is just a little bit of both. An important bar that this movie went over was the properties bar, it allows you to edit the colour and other properties of the objects and words/text. Depending on what object you click, it determines what type of properties edits you can make on that object becuase not all properties changes aply to an object only some do, so dreamweaver only shows you the one that could be done.
Movie 6: This movies starts by reviewing how to "undock" pannels or removing it from the group and putting it onto the website and how to expand it. There are option menues for the pannels, when you expand a pannel you will see a object under the close button, and that is the options button. Later this movie introduces to you what options can you do in the options button, some options are rename the pannel, maximize it, which you can do on the options menu or by double clicking the title. It also tells you how to add tabs to a pannel, create a new pannel (which you do by click options new pannel), and deleting one.
Movie 7: This movie talks more about the properties bar, and at first it tells you how to acess it (Windows, Properties) and tells you what does the properties bar do (lets a person edit the characteristics of an object that is selected. I also mentions that you can even select objects even when they are in code. It talks about how to edit the characteristics, to do so just click on the boxes under the titles that state what will be edited. It also reviews that different objects can edit difrent characteristics. It also talks about a icon in the properties menu call point to file. By click on an object and using this you can make a link. (Click on Object, click on point ot file key, move to files panal, move down (it will automatically expand) and choose the file you want to hyperlink the object to. I also mentions that the properties menu have a options menu in it.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Test About Excel and PowerPoint
When we walked into the class room a few days ago, our teacher told us that we were writing a test on power point, and excel. We were informed of this but we were not informed about the date. Even though we didn't know when we still did the test. The excel test had pretty simple questions but some of the questions asked things we didn't learn, and even if we did it wasn't in depth. This applies for the power point test. Overall most of the questions of the test is simple, but a few of them were very confusing, and I know I cannot get perfect on the test, but i hope i at least pass.
After writing the test, Mr. Case showed us a new software that is used to create websites called Dreamweaver MX. He talked about how its a good software for making a website. The following class after this were told about a folder in the pickup folder that has the movies to tutor you about this software and how it works, we were informed that we will have a test on this on the video lessons and the knowledge you get from it on monday. I don't quite understand about the videos because the introducers acent was wierd, and the terms he used was pretty complicated, and also everyone was talking making it hard to hear it. Since there was so much problems, I asked Mr. Case to borrow the lesson CD so I could study for the test at home.
After writing the test, Mr. Case showed us a new software that is used to create websites called Dreamweaver MX. He talked about how its a good software for making a website. The following class after this were told about a folder in the pickup folder that has the movies to tutor you about this software and how it works, we were informed that we will have a test on this on the video lessons and the knowledge you get from it on monday. I don't quite understand about the videos because the introducers acent was wierd, and the terms he used was pretty complicated, and also everyone was talking making it hard to hear it. Since there was so much problems, I asked Mr. Case to borrow the lesson CD so I could study for the test at home.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
More About Excel
Today the teacher taught us more on Excel. The teacher told us one point about Microsoft that was very useful, that most of the tools in Microsoft Office programs are the same, there are only a few differences in each one, so if you recognize all the tools in 1 of the Microsoft Office Programs you basically know most of the tools in other programs, so this is very useful information. We learned how to name sheets it is quite simple:
Naming Spread Sheets:
Double click the sheet number, type in the name
It is a very simple thing to do. You can reorder the sheets by left clicking them and drag them to whatever place you want. This applies for cells too because if you wrote it in some test, a value, or a formula in a wrong cell you can just drag the cell into the right place so you can prevent rewriting it. this is very useful information for excel.
The teacher also taught us how to arrange the information from ascending and descending order. There are many ways to do it but for every way you must highlight all the values with the text in the columns and rows or else it will bet messed up:
Arranging infromation (Microsoft Excel 2007):
1. Highlight, Home, Sort Filter, there are 3 choices (sort z-a, sort a-z, custom sort), if custom sort (you can sort on column, type of sort ex value, order of sort), choos the sorts, and ok.
2. Highlight, Right Mouse Button, Sort, 3 choices, If custom sort fill in (column, type, and order), then enter
The teacher also taught us how to insert columns and rows just go to insert, then click on rows or colums you want to inser it in between. This class was basically a review for Microsoft Excel and we just went over the things like tools on excel. We also reviewed how to colour cells and also many new neat things.
Naming Spread Sheets:
Double click the sheet number, type in the name
It is a very simple thing to do. You can reorder the sheets by left clicking them and drag them to whatever place you want. This applies for cells too because if you wrote it in some test, a value, or a formula in a wrong cell you can just drag the cell into the right place so you can prevent rewriting it. this is very useful information for excel.
The teacher also taught us how to arrange the information from ascending and descending order. There are many ways to do it but for every way you must highlight all the values with the text in the columns and rows or else it will bet messed up:
Arranging infromation (Microsoft Excel 2007):
1. Highlight, Home, Sort Filter, there are 3 choices (sort z-a, sort a-z, custom sort), if custom sort (you can sort on column, type of sort ex value, order of sort), choos the sorts, and ok.
2. Highlight, Right Mouse Button, Sort, 3 choices, If custom sort fill in (column, type, and order), then enter
The teacher also taught us how to insert columns and rows just go to insert, then click on rows or colums you want to inser it in between. This class was basically a review for Microsoft Excel and we just went over the things like tools on excel. We also reviewed how to colour cells and also many new neat things.
Charts and Lesson on How to Connect Powerpoint to Excel
Yesterday the teacher taught us how to make charts on Excel, and also how to put information from Excel to PowerPoint. First we must make a data set, it is quite simple you only need text, and values, no formula. You can make one up or actually make a survey here is a sample:
Favourite Food
Pizza 8
French Fries 6
Hamburger 5
Taco 7
Lasagna 10
Pasta 9
But remember you have to put the text and the values in separate cells or else it will mess up. So I suggest you put the text in 1 column and then the values on the next column. After doing so, it is quite simple, just click highligh all the cells that are in the data set then make a chart, it is quite simple to make a chart, the steps are:
Making a chart (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Highligh Information, Inset, Chart, Select your chart
Insert, Chart, Highlight Information, Select your chart
You can highlight information before or after clicking insert chart but i like highlighting it before. When your chart is made you are bascially done. You can edit the coulour by clicking on the bar that you want to change the colour,then click on the right mouse button, then format data point, fill, solid, then choose your colour, when doing this the legend adjusts itself. You can also move it to a different sheet. You can also move the chart to another sheet by clicking on the right mouse button why left clicked it, then go to move chart then chose the sheet you want it.
One important thing you should always save on the sheet that you want to put on the power point, or else it will show someother page instead of the page you wanted. So now save in on the sheet that your chart or whatever you desire is in, now open power point.
When you open powerpoint there are 2 ways to put the chart form excel onto power point:
Insert Excel Chart on PowerPoint (Microsoft Excel 2007):
1. Right Mouse button, Copy, Go to power point, right mouse button, paste
2. Insert, Object, Create from file, browse, choose the saved excel file, then expand it to the right size, double click until it grows then the you can scroll around, scroll until you can see the cart double click outside this space.
Remember when putting things on PowerPoint you should always save at the Sheet you want to be made into a object, this is important. The advantages of the 2nd way is you can change it if you made a mistake on the data set, making life alot easier. When you coppy and paste the object is dead so you cannot change it if you made a mistake you have to change the data on excel, then make another object, which takes alot more time. Using Excel to make charts, and putting these charts on powerpoint makes life alot easyier.
Favourite Food
Pizza 8
French Fries 6
Hamburger 5
Taco 7
Lasagna 10
Pasta 9
But remember you have to put the text and the values in separate cells or else it will mess up. So I suggest you put the text in 1 column and then the values on the next column. After doing so, it is quite simple, just click highligh all the cells that are in the data set then make a chart, it is quite simple to make a chart, the steps are:
Making a chart (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Highligh Information, Inset, Chart, Select your chart
Insert, Chart, Highlight Information, Select your chart
You can highlight information before or after clicking insert chart but i like highlighting it before. When your chart is made you are bascially done. You can edit the coulour by clicking on the bar that you want to change the colour,then click on the right mouse button, then format data point, fill, solid, then choose your colour, when doing this the legend adjusts itself. You can also move it to a different sheet. You can also move the chart to another sheet by clicking on the right mouse button why left clicked it, then go to move chart then chose the sheet you want it.
One important thing you should always save on the sheet that you want to put on the power point, or else it will show someother page instead of the page you wanted. So now save in on the sheet that your chart or whatever you desire is in, now open power point.
When you open powerpoint there are 2 ways to put the chart form excel onto power point:
Insert Excel Chart on PowerPoint (Microsoft Excel 2007):
1. Right Mouse button, Copy, Go to power point, right mouse button, paste
2. Insert, Object, Create from file, browse, choose the saved excel file, then expand it to the right size, double click until it grows then the you can scroll around, scroll until you can see the cart double click outside this space.
Remember when putting things on PowerPoint you should always save at the Sheet you want to be made into a object, this is important. The advantages of the 2nd way is you can change it if you made a mistake on the data set, making life alot easier. When you coppy and paste the object is dead so you cannot change it if you made a mistake you have to change the data on excel, then make another object, which takes alot more time. Using Excel to make charts, and putting these charts on powerpoint makes life alot easyier.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Group Project Work Period
Yesterday, the teacher told us the due day for the Excel project that we we assighned. On the excel project we are supposed to put our report card marks on excel and calculate what we need to get the next few terms and on the summative. The formulas are on the previous posts. I am supposed to be due today, but it was finished a long time ago.
After we were suposed to work on our group project. We were finished the organizer, but for most of last week most of our groups were on trips so we basically assighned their jobs that day without informing them. We told them their jobs and told them they can change or choose whatever topic they want. After divideing the topics, we emailed the organizer to all our group members and told them to right to download it to their computers so they will know what topic each person is incharge of. We were pretty sure that a member in our group might not do his/her work, so we split is evenly throuout us so we can still finish it, even without this member. We have decided that we type our project on Micorsoft Word first because after each person gives us the writing part of the slides we just put it on the slides, hyperlink them, add pictures then we are done. I also asked my teamaltes to right down the sources they got the pictures from, this way we can get a bibliography. I also suggested that in our interactive powerpoint we remove the change slide on click button because it will ruin our project. On of my previous slides will tell you how to do this. The only thing i am worried about is will we be able to finish this project before the winter break?
After we were suposed to work on our group project. We were finished the organizer, but for most of last week most of our groups were on trips so we basically assighned their jobs that day without informing them. We told them their jobs and told them they can change or choose whatever topic they want. After divideing the topics, we emailed the organizer to all our group members and told them to right to download it to their computers so they will know what topic each person is incharge of. We were pretty sure that a member in our group might not do his/her work, so we split is evenly throuout us so we can still finish it, even without this member. We have decided that we type our project on Micorsoft Word first because after each person gives us the writing part of the slides we just put it on the slides, hyperlink them, add pictures then we are done. I also asked my teamaltes to right down the sources they got the pictures from, this way we can get a bibliography. I also suggested that in our interactive powerpoint we remove the change slide on click button because it will ruin our project. On of my previous slides will tell you how to do this. The only thing i am worried about is will we be able to finish this project before the winter break?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
How to colour cells
Today the teacher taught us how to colour the cells in our assignment. On Microsoft Excel 2007 you could just highlight the cells you want to colour than you just go to the home button and the colour button choose your colour and click apply, so that the backgrounds of the cell will change. You can also change the colour of the words, its beside the background colour button with the letter A and the colour under it change the colour if you want but if your background is black then change it so you can see. Another way to change the background in Microsoft Excel 2007 is go to Home than go to cell style than choose a style to make the background of you cells.
Cell Style (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Home, Styles, Cell styles
Colour Backgrounds (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Home, Font, Fill colour
Colour font (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Home, Font Font colour
These are the steps to colour cells with colour styles, you can also add a pictures as backgrounds but I don't suggest you do it because you have to cite it but if you want to know here it is:
Picture Background: (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Page Layout, Page Setup, Background, Choose the picture.
Beware this is a repeat background, and it may look horrible, but it is just for me to know.
To remove or put you value into the decimal point you want it you click on the cell and you can do one of the following:
Removing Decimal places (Microsoft Excel 2007):
1. Home, Number, Decrease Decimal (Be warned it goes 1 by 1 so it may take a long time to remove continuous decimals, you can also add decimal place by clicking on Increase Decimal instead.
2. Home, Cell, Format, Format Cell, Number, Select decimal places
3. Right mouse button, Format Cell, Number, Select decimal places
4. Crtl 1, Number Select decimal places
Any of these ways are fine but I like number 4 because it is the fastest way.
Cell Style (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Home, Styles, Cell styles
Colour Backgrounds (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Home, Font, Fill colour
Colour font (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Home, Font Font colour
These are the steps to colour cells with colour styles, you can also add a pictures as backgrounds but I don't suggest you do it because you have to cite it but if you want to know here it is:
Picture Background: (Microsoft Excel 2007):
Page Layout, Page Setup, Background, Choose the picture.
Beware this is a repeat background, and it may look horrible, but it is just for me to know.
To remove or put you value into the decimal point you want it you click on the cell and you can do one of the following:
Removing Decimal places (Microsoft Excel 2007):
1. Home, Number, Decrease Decimal (Be warned it goes 1 by 1 so it may take a long time to remove continuous decimals, you can also add decimal place by clicking on Increase Decimal instead.
2. Home, Cell, Format, Format Cell, Number, Select decimal places
3. Right mouse button, Format Cell, Number, Select decimal places
4. Crtl 1, Number Select decimal places
Any of these ways are fine but I like number 4 because it is the fastest way.
Report Cards with Excell
On Tuesday November 27 2007, we were supoosed to bring our report cards which we got on Monday to the computer class. We are supposed to put our marks on Microsoft Excel. We had the rows stating the courses, and the columns having marks in term, % out of the year, and a column for our goals. We are supposed to write out goals in the goals column and then we are supposed to imput the marks we got on the first term then we divided it by 0.23 for each course to get how much that mark is worth for the year, this is because each term is worth 23% and the sumative is worth 30%, Together you will get 100%. After finding out how much your first term marks were worth out of the year you subtract it from your goals. Since your goals to you is 100% you could do it in two ways. The first way is what I prefer most, you divide you goals by 100 to get the amount for 1 precent and then multiply it along the way byt 23.3 or 30. The second way is Finsh subtracting it and then divide by 76.6 because that is how much % it is after subtracting that 23.3% from your goals to get how much 1 precent is, then multiply by 23.3 to get the marks out of the year. After doing this you multiply divide the amount of marks during the year by 0.23 and then that is the mark you need to get in the 2nd term term to get to your goals. For your 3rd term it is the same as your 2nd term but you divide it by 53.3 after subtracting the marks out of the year from the goals, and then you follow the steps. For the summative it is a little different. You subtract all three terms from goals and what ever is left that is the how much the summative is out of in the year. Then you divide that by 0.3 to get the marks you need to get on the summatives at the end of the year.
Formulas for the marks:
Goals: Remember to right down your goals.
Term 1
First term: Write down the marks you got on first term
Out of the year: To figure out how much does first term wroth out of the year it is very simple, you just multiply it by 0.23 and you will get how much is your mark worth for your yearly mark.
Formulas:
1.=(Term 1 mark for course)*0.23
Term 2
Out of the year: To figure out second term marks you need to find how much marks is the marks that you will get in term 2 worth in the year. To find this out without the term 2 marks it is simpls, divide you goal by 100 and then multiply it by 23.3 or you can subtract the term 1 out of the year marks from the goal and, divide it by 76.6 becuase that is how much percent it is out of the goal, to find 1 % and then multiply it by 23.3.
Formulas:
1.=(Goal/100)*23.3
2.=((Goal-Term 1 yearly mark)/76.6)*23.3
Second term: To find this divide the out of year marks by 0.23, and you will get the marks you will need to get in term 2 to reach your goal.
Fomulas:
1.=(Term 2 yearly mark/0.23)
Term 3
Out of year: To find this it is same for the term 2 but this time you subtract term 2 yearly marks aswell from the goal then divide it by 53.3 to find out how much is 1 % then multiply it by 23.3 if your doing it the hard way. If you are doing it the easy way do the same as term 2.
Formulas:
1.=(Goal/100)*23.3
2.=((Goal-Term 1 yearly mark- Term 2 yearly mark)/53.3)*23.3
Third term: To find this you just divide term three out of yearly marks by 0.23 to get the marks you need to get in each course for term three to reach your goals
Formulas:
1.=(Term 3 yearly mark/0.23)
Summative
Out of yearly: To find this you subtract all three terms from the goal, then divide by 30 to get 1% than multiply by 30 to get the out of year marks for the summative or whatever is left is the marks in the summative this is the hard way. Or you can just divide the goals by 100 than multiply this by 30.
Formulas:
1. (goal/100)*30
2. ((Goal-All three terms)/30)*30
3. (Goal-All three terms) take the answer as the out of year mark for summative
Summative: You divide out of year mark by 0.3 to get the amount of marks you need to get on the summative to reach your goal.
This is the formulas for this assighnment.
Formulas for the marks:
Goals: Remember to right down your goals.
Term 1
First term: Write down the marks you got on first term
Out of the year: To figure out how much does first term wroth out of the year it is very simple, you just multiply it by 0.23 and you will get how much is your mark worth for your yearly mark.
Formulas:
1.=(Term 1 mark for course)*0.23
Term 2
Out of the year: To figure out second term marks you need to find how much marks is the marks that you will get in term 2 worth in the year. To find this out without the term 2 marks it is simpls, divide you goal by 100 and then multiply it by 23.3 or you can subtract the term 1 out of the year marks from the goal and, divide it by 76.6 becuase that is how much percent it is out of the goal, to find 1 % and then multiply it by 23.3.
Formulas:
1.=(Goal/100)*23.3
2.=((Goal-Term 1 yearly mark)/76.6)*23.3
Second term: To find this divide the out of year marks by 0.23, and you will get the marks you will need to get in term 2 to reach your goal.
Fomulas:
1.=(Term 2 yearly mark/0.23)
Term 3
Out of year: To find this it is same for the term 2 but this time you subtract term 2 yearly marks aswell from the goal then divide it by 53.3 to find out how much is 1 % then multiply it by 23.3 if your doing it the hard way. If you are doing it the easy way do the same as term 2.
Formulas:
1.=(Goal/100)*23.3
2.=((Goal-Term 1 yearly mark- Term 2 yearly mark)/53.3)*23.3
Third term: To find this you just divide term three out of yearly marks by 0.23 to get the marks you need to get in each course for term three to reach your goals
Formulas:
1.=(Term 3 yearly mark/0.23)
Summative
Out of yearly: To find this you subtract all three terms from the goal, then divide by 30 to get 1% than multiply by 30 to get the out of year marks for the summative or whatever is left is the marks in the summative this is the hard way. Or you can just divide the goals by 100 than multiply this by 30.
Formulas:
1. (goal/100)*30
2. ((Goal-All three terms)/30)*30
3. (Goal-All three terms) take the answer as the out of year mark for summative
Summative: You divide out of year mark by 0.3 to get the amount of marks you need to get on the summative to reach your goal.
This is the formulas for this assighnment.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Group project Planning
Today the teachers told us something that was crucial to our group project and it was planning. If you don't plan properly the finally product's quality will be effected. For the web page and interactive power points, smart ideas and its mind web will be effieceint, we can put notes on a idea box so lets say its a link to a web page or slide of you advertisments, you have ideas on what it will be like so you make a note on that box which represents the page, on this note this may include things like what will you put on this page or slide. To improve your knowledge of smart ideas, you can just use quick box, so you can make a box imediatley without wasting alot of time making boxes individually. If you think notes help wait till you see leveling. Right click and click on level, thant a new mindweb will pop up and it will be a secondary one, dont wory when you click on go to main it will go back to your original mind web, when you linked it to a box that means that that web is about this page or slide and you should put every one of your ideas for this page on it, this is even better that the notes but its your choice to choose which ever one you want they both work. When you go to the global option you will get too see all the levels, so what level is connected to what.
The 2 ways to explain what each webpage and slide is about and what does it contain
Notes:
-Fast
-Easy make and read
-Less work
This explains in lettle depth but it is useful
Level:
-in depth explaination
-more details
-gives people an outline of what should they put on their page, very useful to ESL's
Lots of work.
For the video the only time you choose to use the smart ideas is when you are making an interactive video so you watch a clip, and you choose what clip to watch next. But since videos are always moving and you cannot change its direction there wont be many ideas to split so its very hard to make a good plan unless its an interactive video. I highly suggest you use the story borad, manufactured for videos. Even Holleywood videos use this to plan. This is where you highlight the main parts of the video, so you draw a picture in a box and write in detail about what main part does that box regresent. You should only use this for videos and use smart ideas for the other two projects it is better.
The 2 ways to explain what each webpage and slide is about and what does it contain
Notes:
-Fast
-Easy make and read
-Less work
This explains in lettle depth but it is useful
Level:
-in depth explaination
-more details
-gives people an outline of what should they put on their page, very useful to ESL's
Lots of work.
For the video the only time you choose to use the smart ideas is when you are making an interactive video so you watch a clip, and you choose what clip to watch next. But since videos are always moving and you cannot change its direction there wont be many ideas to split so its very hard to make a good plan unless its an interactive video. I highly suggest you use the story borad, manufactured for videos. Even Holleywood videos use this to plan. This is where you highlight the main parts of the video, so you draw a picture in a box and write in detail about what main part does that box regresent. You should only use this for videos and use smart ideas for the other two projects it is better.
Excel
Today our teacher taught use how to use excel. It is a very useful program. In average businesses we usually oranguise our profits on spreadsheets but, it on paper so we have to use calculators to add and subtract, but this make life alot simpler. you just right a formula and drag it down the column and every single digit in that column will follow that formula. the formula is as follows.
There are 3 things that you could put on microsoft Excel, it is text, value and formula.
Text is what exactly what it is, text is words, sybols and other things that represent somthing but doesn't have a value, even when you wright the number out in words it isn't doesn't have a value.
Each side have their own name. This name is the Cell Adress. The cell adress is determined by the row and column titles. When you click on a cell on the top right corner you can see somthing with a letter and a numeber is is the cell adress bar and it makes it easier to find the cell adress.
Values are numbers and things that worth somthing.
All formulas start with and equals sighn or else it will be a value strand.
Formula formulas are usually operations between cells, so the value in the cells can be added subtracted or in other words could be operated. Some formulas are better that others, for exapmle if your just put formulas with values in one cell, if you messed up one cell with the value you will have to change the formula becuase it is operating with values, but if you operate with cells, if you change the value in the cells the formula will react and the column with the formula will change so the value will change. Formulas using cells have to have specific titles after the equals sighn to determine what operations to use. To make this formula go to the bar beside the cell adress bar, or just double the cell to write the formula, first put equal than the title like SUM(cell,operation,cell). After doing so whenever you change one of the 2 cells this cell will change occoding to the value of what is in the cell and the operation you are using. When you drag this cell down the column or row, the formula will be given to these cells but instead of the same cells you chose its the cells under these cell you chose because depending on where the formula goes it affects the cells you are draging it to, if the cells you chose were the on the left of it, than the cell on the bottom will have the same formula but with the cells 2 left of it so its under the cell and it will be different. Draging drags the formula and the values down the column so if you are recording bottled water sold, you will make a column for numbers of water sold, price, total. You would first make 1 cell under price, lets say 1.00 and then drag it down everything under will have 1.00 and then you just and it on the quantity on the number sold, and thand make the formula on one cell and drag it down. For the total, you just make a formula by putting equals than SUM(Cell+Cell+Cell) and so on so you click on all the sums you want to add. If you are lazy and the sums you want to add are in a strait row just click on the first cell and drag down than click enter, then thats the answer.
The text is usually used to organise things.
There are 3 things that you could put on microsoft Excel, it is text, value and formula.
Text is what exactly what it is, text is words, sybols and other things that represent somthing but doesn't have a value, even when you wright the number out in words it isn't doesn't have a value.
Each side have their own name. This name is the Cell Adress. The cell adress is determined by the row and column titles. When you click on a cell on the top right corner you can see somthing with a letter and a numeber is is the cell adress bar and it makes it easier to find the cell adress.
Values are numbers and things that worth somthing.
All formulas start with and equals sighn or else it will be a value strand.
Formula formulas are usually operations between cells, so the value in the cells can be added subtracted or in other words could be operated. Some formulas are better that others, for exapmle if your just put formulas with values in one cell, if you messed up one cell with the value you will have to change the formula becuase it is operating with values, but if you operate with cells, if you change the value in the cells the formula will react and the column with the formula will change so the value will change. Formulas using cells have to have specific titles after the equals sighn to determine what operations to use. To make this formula go to the bar beside the cell adress bar, or just double the cell to write the formula, first put equal than the title like SUM(cell,operation,cell). After doing so whenever you change one of the 2 cells this cell will change occoding to the value of what is in the cell and the operation you are using. When you drag this cell down the column or row, the formula will be given to these cells but instead of the same cells you chose its the cells under these cell you chose because depending on where the formula goes it affects the cells you are draging it to, if the cells you chose were the on the left of it, than the cell on the bottom will have the same formula but with the cells 2 left of it so its under the cell and it will be different. Draging drags the formula and the values down the column so if you are recording bottled water sold, you will make a column for numbers of water sold, price, total. You would first make 1 cell under price, lets say 1.00 and then drag it down everything under will have 1.00 and then you just and it on the quantity on the number sold, and thand make the formula on one cell and drag it down. For the total, you just make a formula by putting equals than SUM(Cell+Cell+Cell) and so on so you click on all the sums you want to add. If you are lazy and the sums you want to add are in a strait row just click on the first cell and drag down than click enter, then thats the answer.
The text is usually used to organise things.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The Group Project Work Day.
Today we continued to work on our group power point project. Most of our team mates went on a music trip. Yesterday we were supposed to make a mind map on paper about our project, the interactive power point one. Today we were supposed to put this mind map on Smart Ideas, a program used to plan for projects and make mind maps. We put in all the topics to 4 group members could think of and then we started assighning them to people. When we were finished, the tacher told us to assighn jobs for our group members, to keep them busy and out of trouble, but it was also to help make the slides on the topic they chose. In the end I have to do slides on Computer Labs, Library, books, the new batch of computers in them, uniforms the goods and bads of the uniforms, grade Nine which will lead to academic and applied, and a page about to school. Me and david just took some extra jobs because most of our group members were not here so we cannot decide so if they want something one of us will give on of these slides to them. Also since I was the president and david was the vice president we have to do more work than other members, it was what we decided before we chose presidents and vice presidents. It is fair for everyone. So this basically was a work period.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Business Ethics and Computer Ethics
We spent todays class talking about business ethics and computer ethics. Lucky for me I learned all about ethics in Introduction to Business because we just finished the chapter. We talked about what ethics is. Also we discused things about the internet and an incident that occured. The incident was, a principle from a local school baned cell phones, the tdsb baned it basciall, but the students thought that it was the principles choice so they went of face book and wrote bad things about the personal life of the principle taliking about his race, gender, sexual orientation and other things that involve discrimination. Principle found out and suspended them and other students said that they have the right of freedom to speech, and since it is in their home, and it is their computer they think they can do whatever they want but it is not true because the internet is a public place. It is ilegal to say bad things to people about their race, gender or sexual orientation it is harassment. You can say why you dont like the principle and what changes you may want the principle to make but you cant just attack the principle. Since the internet is a public place when you direct somthing nasty about race or sexuality to a person, and another person feels bad because of it you can be sued for harassment, because harassment is a way you act that makes another people feel uncomfortable and the words you direct are making other people uncomfotable so its harassment. The students protest saying they have feedom of speech, but when their speech is attacking a person based on their race or sexuality, it is against the law and the person being harassed have the rights to sew them. This class basically talked about this. The tachers also told us we should check what we write on the internet because alot of the times we are joking around with other students for example sexual jokes, when other people view it they may feel uncomfortable and you and your friend will be in trouble for harassing the person feeling uncomfortable becasue of what you wrote. This applies alot to the wiki. I think I should add rules to the wiki.
Harassment: When you act in a way that threatens or makes someone feel uncomfortable and it is not acceptable in society.
Ethics: Rules that determine right from wrong and encourages us to do the right thing.
Harassment: When you act in a way that threatens or makes someone feel uncomfortable and it is not acceptable in society.
Ethics: Rules that determine right from wrong and encourages us to do the right thing.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Project for Months
On Friday 16, November 2007 our BTT teacher gave us a group project. We are split into 3 groups, 7 in a group. There were four 3 girls and 4 boys in my group, they made me president, and made my friend david the vicepresident, we didnt want to do it because we are sure we have to do alot of work. The tacher asked us for the top 2 choices out of the three projects, a video, a interactive Powerpoint assighnment, or a website. We chose video as our first on and the interactive PowerPoint was our second choice but in the end we ended up with the interactive power point. We need to figure out a name so one of our teamates sugested we name ourselves JungleBook, we have no other ideas so we just used it as our name, that time we were discussing thing about how do we make the slides and we dicided that everyone makes 2 slides, the vicepresident makes 3 slides and the president will make 4 slides and then we will figure out a way to make the power point. The group project is so we can advertise our school to children and parents from the schools feeder schools so Mr. Case can tourture them. I wonder how would we be able to advertise our school through a power point presenation? I sould ask my team mates of monday.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Andersons top three Adventures
Today our BTT teacher gave us somthing to do with the other classes adventures. We are supposed to play the adventures of the other class and rate them and put the top three adventures on the blog post. The top three presentations will be on the bottom:
1. Angela's presentation is the best one out of the hole class because she added sound affects. I never thought of adding sound effects. There may have been no hidden buttons, but the fact that the choices are weird made it fun like chosing the apple or oranges. The presentation was brought to life by the sound affects.
2.Shruti's Presentation is the second best becauseit is very fun and stupid. It is more like a quize but the quize is funny, and there are many choices and most of them lead to death, but most of them is common scence. I is so stupid it is entertaining. To me things that are stupid are usually more entertaining than things that are not so that is why I think Shruti's presentation is good.
3.Asamuddin's presetation is good, it was either Aqsaa's or Asamuddins because both have an interesting story line. I noticed that Asamuddin used hidden buttons in the porject, even though it was poorly done becuase you can still see the lines that means there is a hidden button there, it was preety good and entertaining, that is all that I cared for puting the presentation on my top 3 list.
I noticed that overall most people didn't remove slide transfer with mouse which was pretty annoying, only Angela and Shruti's out of most of the adventures i saw removed it so that is also another reason why they were in my list and they were the top 2.
1. Angela's presentation is the best one out of the hole class because she added sound affects. I never thought of adding sound effects. There may have been no hidden buttons, but the fact that the choices are weird made it fun like chosing the apple or oranges. The presentation was brought to life by the sound affects.
2.Shruti's Presentation is the second best becauseit is very fun and stupid. It is more like a quize but the quize is funny, and there are many choices and most of them lead to death, but most of them is common scence. I is so stupid it is entertaining. To me things that are stupid are usually more entertaining than things that are not so that is why I think Shruti's presentation is good.
3.Asamuddin's presetation is good, it was either Aqsaa's or Asamuddins because both have an interesting story line. I noticed that Asamuddin used hidden buttons in the porject, even though it was poorly done becuase you can still see the lines that means there is a hidden button there, it was preety good and entertaining, that is all that I cared for puting the presentation on my top 3 list.
I noticed that overall most people didn't remove slide transfer with mouse which was pretty annoying, only Angela and Shruti's out of most of the adventures i saw removed it so that is also another reason why they were in my list and they were the top 2.
Monday, November 12, 2007
No mouse click transition.
Today our teacher taught us how to stop transfering the slides with the mouse clicking, which is very useful to our power point adventure because on the power point adventrue. The reason why it is useful is becasue when you are trying to find hidden buttons and you click around you might go to the next page instead, also this will mess up the order aswell because if you accidentally go to another slide it will screw up the story which will make the story line confusing and the power point presentation which is supposed to be fun will no be fun.
To remove it you have to:
Open the slide transition page:
PowerPoint 2003:
Alt, D
Slide Show, Slide transition
PowerPoint 2007:
Animation, advance slides
Then when you have a window you uncheck the box that says on mouse click. This will make you slides unmovable with the mouse. This will make clicking around for hidden buttons alot easier, and make the adventure less confusing.
To remove it you have to:
Open the slide transition page:
PowerPoint 2003:
Alt, D
Slide Show, Slide transition
PowerPoint 2007:
Animation, advance slides
Then when you have a window you uncheck the box that says on mouse click. This will make you slides unmovable with the mouse. This will make clicking around for hidden buttons alot easier, and make the adventure less confusing.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Test + Game
Today our tacher gave us a assinment and infromed us about a test that will be given to us on Friday, November 9 2007. It is about binary, and the stuff we learned about it. I could probably use the wiki to study for the test or read my previous posts but to inform me a litte better. Bits is a piece of information that is only 0's and 1's because computers only can read the 2 numbers. The type of binary we are probably learning about is the ones multiplying up by 2. 8 if these pieces of infromation is a bite. 1000 (1024) bites is a kilobyte (8000 bits). It goes on.
Today Mr.Case showed us some neat things, he showed us how to make a game out of Power point. We first make a shape by going to the shape button click on it and choose a shape. In 2007 office we go to insert, shape and then choose a shape. After we made the shape we click on it than go to hyper link, (Insert, hyperlink) ( CTRL K) ( right mouse button and hyperlink). Than we go to place in this document so you are linking to somthing in you document basically, in other words another slide, choose the slide we want to go to and than click ok now that symbole can link to another slide. We have to make an adventure out of this. We can use Smart Idea to help us make this adventure, it is basically a program that helps us order our thoughts or make a mind web, so you can plan what slide connects to what.
The teacher also taght us how to make hidden buttons. After we make the buttons we just right click it and click hide behind background so there wont be fingures, you just have to click around to find it when you are presenting buttons and having fun with the game in the slide show. This is just for fun if you want to improve you marks on the slide show.
Today Mr.Case showed us some neat things, he showed us how to make a game out of Power point. We first make a shape by going to the shape button click on it and choose a shape. In 2007 office we go to insert, shape and then choose a shape. After we made the shape we click on it than go to hyper link, (Insert, hyperlink) ( CTRL K) ( right mouse button and hyperlink). Than we go to place in this document so you are linking to somthing in you document basically, in other words another slide, choose the slide we want to go to and than click ok now that symbole can link to another slide. We have to make an adventure out of this. We can use Smart Idea to help us make this adventure, it is basically a program that helps us order our thoughts or make a mind web, so you can plan what slide connects to what.
The teacher also taght us how to make hidden buttons. After we make the buttons we just right click it and click hide behind background so there wont be fingures, you just have to click around to find it when you are presenting buttons and having fun with the game in the slide show. This is just for fun if you want to improve you marks on the slide show.
The presentations.
Yesterday, we presented our brand projects. In my personal oppinion the best one was the one about Starbucks, becasue it had many pictures and effects that captured my attention, and also we didn't have to read much on the slides so we focus on her speach more than reading the slides, this is a good stratagy that I think I might want to use in the next power point presentation. Also using all those pictures made the presentation more entertaining. It made me feel that my presentation was horrible, but I am really proud of it because it has lots of tables and charts which were better than my old presentations which were only information, I also thought that my new presentation is less boring. I also learned a important lesson, when the teacher gives us 5 minutes to drop stuff in the drop box we better do it fast or else if it is not there we will get a zero.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Haloween Work Period
Today the tacher gave us a work period for the Brand assighnment. We are supposed to pick a brand, and then we are supposed to make a three slided powerpoint presetation on it. The presentation will not be longer than 3 minuets. I have choses N-Vedia to do this project on. The scheme I have decided to use is to use alot of charts because it will make the presentation have less reading so the people can fucus on me. I actually have 4 pages because of the title page and the title page has no information so i just made 3 information pages. I hope I do good on this project.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
PowerPoint Brand Assignment
Today our teacher gave us another assighnment, the assighnment is about brands. We have to choose any brand like Nike, NVedia or any other brand. We have to basically write 3 pages on one brand that I choose. The presentation has to be only 3 minuets long and cannot be longer or else the teacher will cut us off. The three slides will be on the Brand that we pick, so what they produce and their history. This will be our 3rd prject on the PowerPoint. This project is due next monday.
A brand is basically a image or idea that represents a business or company, it could be symboles, logos, slogan, colour schems, fonts, and design schems. These things is basically used for people to regognized the brand so if you see a yellow M you know its Macdonalds or the swush (checkmark) and you will know it is Nike.
I am planning to do this project on N-Vedia because I am very interested in N-Vedia and I want to know why does N-Vedia have a advantage over ATI and why is it more popular.
A brand is basically a image or idea that represents a business or company, it could be symboles, logos, slogan, colour schems, fonts, and design schems. These things is basically used for people to regognized the brand so if you see a yellow M you know its Macdonalds or the swush (checkmark) and you will know it is Nike.
I am planning to do this project on N-Vedia because I am very interested in N-Vedia and I want to know why does N-Vedia have a advantage over ATI and why is it more popular.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Talk about the BTT Class
Today we spent the class talking about the BTT class, many students feel that they have too much work and it is alot of pressure to them. The teacher asked for our oppinions on the cours to see what changes we can make. Many students feel that the course hurries through the lesson and gets to work on it on the same day makes all the infromation hard to digest, so some students wanted to have a class just for the lesson and to exploring how the thing we are learning about works. Also one very important thing I learned about today is there actually is a brossure on the passwards for research centres like EBSCO, before I coulden't log in because they reqiure a username and password but, they wont let me create and account, but one of my fellow class mates was nice enought to show us the brossure that tells us all the school passwords for research centres, and the web adress for the school webpage. I my oppinion writing on the wiki is very hard, because the topics that you leaned in class usually get taken, like the day we learned hoversnap someone already created a page on it, when I read over it I couldn't find much to edit. We cannot always copy things from our blogs to the wiki because most of the time the infromation and stuff we wrote on the blog is basically summerization of the lesson so other people would have done it and since the other class BTT01 has their class before us in most cases so they probably worte things in the wiki alrady.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Images
Today Mr. Case tought us how to take images of the internet is we cannot save the picture the, and cite images properly. There are two ways to take the image of the internet.
One of the ways is to go to the web page and use our fingers to click on the Print Screen this makes you copy the whole screen (web page), button, and go to the we open the paint porgram, there is 2 ways to put the Printed screen on the paint program:
Control V
Edit, Paste
After you just strech and do whatever you want with the copied page, you can cut out parts of the page and then save it so you have the picture.
The second way to get a picture off the internet if you cannot save the picture is to use hover snap, it is a modual that you use. You get it off a the following website: http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
You just have to first instole the modual, Then we can save it into any Snapshot fromat we want (ex. JPG) and then there are three ways we can snapshot the page:
The whole Page ( like Print Screen):
Just click on print screen
Only the Active window:
Alt printscreen
Custom Area:
Ctrl printscreen
I highly suggest using Custom area because you may want a small area an not the whole page. For Custom Area you curser will turn into a plus sign, you just have to click the left mouse button and hold it down and drag it across the page until you get the picture you want and then click the left mouse button again. When you are done it will automatically save to the hover snap folder.
The Citaions is on the previous post.
One of the ways is to go to the web page and use our fingers to click on the Print Screen this makes you copy the whole screen (web page), button, and go to the we open the paint porgram, there is 2 ways to put the Printed screen on the paint program:
Control V
Edit, Paste
After you just strech and do whatever you want with the copied page, you can cut out parts of the page and then save it so you have the picture.
The second way to get a picture off the internet if you cannot save the picture is to use hover snap, it is a modual that you use. You get it off a the following website: http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
You just have to first instole the modual, Then we can save it into any Snapshot fromat we want (ex. JPG) and then there are three ways we can snapshot the page:
The whole Page ( like Print Screen):
Just click on print screen
Only the Active window:
Alt printscreen
Custom Area:
Ctrl printscreen
I highly suggest using Custom area because you may want a small area an not the whole page. For Custom Area you curser will turn into a plus sign, you just have to click the left mouse button and hold it down and drag it across the page until you get the picture you want and then click the left mouse button again. When you are done it will automatically save to the hover snap folder.
The Citaions is on the previous post.
Citations
A few weeks ago Mr. Case taught us how to use citation machine. We have the go to http://www.citationmachine.net/, then go to MLA. Than we click on the webpage button in the same column as we clicked the MLA. We will arrive on a page where there is a blank space and a subtitle. The subtitles consist of, Authors First Name, Authors Last Name, Page title, Site title, Publishing/rivsion date, Organization, Date Accessed, and URL. We have to fill in the infromation on this page by finding this infromation on the website. We first find the authors name, if we cant find it we type in Author Unknown, but if Mr. Case finds it than we are in trouble, The same thing goes for Authors last name. The Page title is on the blue bar where the minimize, maximize, and the close button is on. The Site title is the name of the site. Try to fid the date when it was las edited or when is was published but if you can't type in Date unknown, but if Mr. Case catches you your in trouble. The coporation is usally in the bottom of the website. The day you accessed the infromation is when you went on the website and got infromation on it. And the URL is Basically the Website adress itself that you type in.
We learned how to cite pictures aswell today. We put in all the infromation that we do for citing a website, but there is only one difference, we put "Online image" (we only put online image if we saved the image directly from the internet) or "Screen Capture" (We only use this when we use Print screen or hoversnap when we cannot save the image) infront of the organization part of the Citarions.
We learned how to cite pictures aswell today. We put in all the infromation that we do for citing a website, but there is only one difference, we put "Online image" (we only put online image if we saved the image directly from the internet) or "Screen Capture" (We only use this when we use Print screen or hoversnap when we cannot save the image) infront of the organization part of the Citarions.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The Second Article for the PowerPoint Summery
This article is called: POWERPOINT 2007.
This is the second article for the summary
The Aurthor: McCracken, Harry
Magazine: PC magazine
Type: Review
Website: http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=5&hid=112&sid=f5fc6de8-1f44-48ad-bb76-04865a174846%40sessionmgr107
The PowerPoing 2007 has a lot of tools that is used to desighn and other things. The power point 2007 has alot more new themes and it has more colours so your presentation isn't as boring, and more coulourful. There is a new application called smart art, it is used to create graphics. The new PowerPoint has Charts and graphs along with smart art which could create graphics. The tables from PowerPoint 2007 are improved so they wont give you a head ache and they made it simpler to apply. Also transporting data from Microsof Excel to microsoft PowerPoint is easier so you could put it on tables making life alot simpler.
If you are presenting there is usually 2 monitors or screen but you could now block out the presentation screen if you want to remove something. There is lots of new tools in the PowerPoint 2007, one of them is a new chart engine, it makes charts look alot better. There are many flaws in the PowerPoint 2007 but its good points back it up, if you like to your presentations to look flashier and better update to power point 2007.
This is the second article for the summary
The Aurthor: McCracken, Harry
Magazine: PC magazine
Type: Review
Website: http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=5&hid=112&sid=f5fc6de8-1f44-48ad-bb76-04865a174846%40sessionmgr107
The PowerPoing 2007 has a lot of tools that is used to desighn and other things. The power point 2007 has alot more new themes and it has more colours so your presentation isn't as boring, and more coulourful. There is a new application called smart art, it is used to create graphics. The new PowerPoint has Charts and graphs along with smart art which could create graphics. The tables from PowerPoint 2007 are improved so they wont give you a head ache and they made it simpler to apply. Also transporting data from Microsof Excel to microsoft PowerPoint is easier so you could put it on tables making life alot simpler.
If you are presenting there is usually 2 monitors or screen but you could now block out the presentation screen if you want to remove something. There is lots of new tools in the PowerPoint 2007, one of them is a new chart engine, it makes charts look alot better. There are many flaws in the PowerPoint 2007 but its good points back it up, if you like to your presentations to look flashier and better update to power point 2007.
PowerPoint Article
My first PowerPoint article: Animate PowerPoint Backgrounds
Author: Bradley, Helen
Magazine: PC magazine
Type: Teaching article
Web: http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=4&hid=105&sid=f5fc6de8-1f44-48ad-bb76-04865a174846%40sessionmgr107
It is by Bradley, Helen, and it is from PC magazine.
This Artilce is about how the new PowerPoint 2007 softwere has s many new features, but it is basically saying that the power point presentaion is still boring unless you have pictures backgrounds and animations. It tells us what to use to animate things like oure background, we just have to use the Picuture mangaing application. To make the background animated you first make the picture the same hight as the computer monitor and make it a little wider than your screen. Then you save you save the file as JPEG, and you should make the quality of the picture high or medium so the size of the file wont be as big.
Most of the article tells you how to insert pictures, add animations, adding movement and add zooming effects to make you feel there is movement to finish the slide. After doing these things you preview the slide, and check if the animation fits what you wanted. After you finished the background you add it back to your slide and add the text and infromation that you want. If you want the text to be seen clearly add the text shadow effect.
This article doesn't include to much infromation about PowerPoint presentaion but this this one of the few presentations that I found on EBSCO. I basically tells us how to edit animate backgrounds and the 4 steps you have to follow. 1 Add the photo and make it the size of your screen. 2. Add animations to the Photo , 3. adding the zooming effects to make you feel there is movements, and finally 4. add the text.
Author: Bradley, Helen
Magazine: PC magazine
Type: Teaching article
Web: http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=4&hid=105&sid=f5fc6de8-1f44-48ad-bb76-04865a174846%40sessionmgr107
It is by Bradley, Helen, and it is from PC magazine.
This Artilce is about how the new PowerPoint 2007 softwere has s many new features, but it is basically saying that the power point presentaion is still boring unless you have pictures backgrounds and animations. It tells us what to use to animate things like oure background, we just have to use the Picuture mangaing application. To make the background animated you first make the picture the same hight as the computer monitor and make it a little wider than your screen. Then you save you save the file as JPEG, and you should make the quality of the picture high or medium so the size of the file wont be as big.
Most of the article tells you how to insert pictures, add animations, adding movement and add zooming effects to make you feel there is movement to finish the slide. After doing these things you preview the slide, and check if the animation fits what you wanted. After you finished the background you add it back to your slide and add the text and infromation that you want. If you want the text to be seen clearly add the text shadow effect.
This article doesn't include to much infromation about PowerPoint presentaion but this this one of the few presentations that I found on EBSCO. I basically tells us how to edit animate backgrounds and the 4 steps you have to follow. 1 Add the photo and make it the size of your screen. 2. Add animations to the Photo , 3. adding the zooming effects to make you feel there is movements, and finally 4. add the text.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Home Page On PowerPoint
Today Mr.Case tought us how to make a home page with power point. First we save pictures of pages that we use in school and personal pictures. Then we go to the bottom tool bar and go to the pictures icon beside clip are, we put in the pictures that we saved. To put in a hyperlink of the website where you got it from you go to insert button on the top tool bar, than go to hyper links, and on the adress bar type in the website, or you can just click controle k for a short cut. We make a folder for the HomePage, this folder is where we save the photos, and everything for the home page. After we are done this we can make a title with word art. Then we save as what ever we want. The go to save as again but this time go to htm weblinks, to make it a web link. We can also put this as our home page by draging the e sign and dragging it to the house icon on the top toold bare. The step are as follows:
To put in link:
Control K
Insert, Hiper link
Right button on mouse and hyperlink
To remove hyper link:
Insert, hyperlink, remove link
Right Button on moust and remove hyper link
To Save as HTM:
File, Save as, Website HTM
HomePage:
Drag e icon infront of adress into the house icon on tool bar
Backgound:
Format, background, choose colour
Right mouse button, background
To put in link:
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
More on the Wiki
Today mr case told us more about the wiki, he made a BTT2 page for our class and we were supposed to post a page about the pages we have created, and the pages we have edited. You have to be satisfied with the posts that you made to put it on you home page, and you have to edit alot of work to make the put the edited page on you home page. He taught us more about how to make hyperlinks and to put on avatars on the wiki, and he told us about the test blog on the Wiki and the fourms where we post when we need help, and to help each other. Hope I can do good on the Wiki.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Our Wiki
Today Mr.Case told us about our Woodbine Wiki where we share information about Btt on the Wiki, we can edit each other work, like wikepedia. The website of the wiki is http://www.woodbinejhs.ca/wiki07, and it seemed quite interesting. Mr.Case taught us how to make hyper link to another page in the Wiki. The wiki is only supposed to be about the BTT corse and the things we leaned, we share this page among the 2 BTT classes so we could edit each others post to either make the post more accurate. Mr.Case is the admin so he can check what post we edited and created. If we just edit a few word in the article the admin could check the history of the article to know who created it, if you just do that the whole year, Mr.Case said that we will fail. We also learned about book marks so just by putting the URL of this website or any other website in my tiki (my personal page on the wiki) I can record all the websites that are important to our couse, also Mr.Case showed us the sandbox, it is used to play around with and the things we write on it are not saved that is why it is called the sand box. My username for the Wiki is Anderson, I hope i can pass the wiki.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Finally Presented
Yesteday I finally presentede my computer component project, I am 100% sure I will fail because i was very nervous when I was presenting today. David, and the other people who presented today had a nice presentation and the power point seemed very interesting.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Project Presentations
So far this whole week my class presented but lots of the presentations were long and pretty boring, but it is filled with information, I still didn't get to present yet but lots of people already presented. I am not sure when will I present but the next class is friday and there are still alot of people who didn't present so I might not event present until next week. But I hope I could get a good mark in this presentation because i failed the test.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Death By PowerPoint
We were supposed to respond to the article Death by PowerPoint：
I think that the article was very boring and long, but it had som intersting facts like stating why a powerpoing presentation kill the audience. I liked the part were it stated what should we do to to not make a power point presentation boring, we should be used to the technical things like not getting slides mixed up. I would have condensed the article shorter because this is too long and people wouldn't want to read it all. It is a good reference for me and students everywhere because we now know that we can use pictures and videos to accompany our power point presentation all we have to do is to get our point said and understood and not make our presentatons very long. This article was not very recent but it was very factual and it helpes both students and business eployees understand why they are demoted or failing the becasue of the power point presentation. I would never want to read this article ever again but I know I will have to later on in life because it will help me improve my presentation skills on how not to use the power point, but reading this is very boring and its very long, even though the facts are interesting but the way they presented the infromation was in a very boring way. I feel that they shouldn't include that many quotations because there were atleast 20 quotations in the article from people I don't even know. Also I think the volcabulary in this article is too advance for me right now, I still understand 90% of the words in the article but the rest of the 10% gave me a hard time understanding it. Even though it has so much bad points it is still a good article.
After reading this article I want to redo my power point presentation for my computer component project because I think my project will bore lots of people to death because my presentation doesn't have much coulours or anything not event much pictures hope I do well on the Presentation.
I think that the article was very boring and long, but it had som intersting facts like stating why a powerpoing presentation kill the audience. I liked the part were it stated what should we do to to not make a power point presentation boring, we should be used to the technical things like not getting slides mixed up. I would have condensed the article shorter because this is too long and people wouldn't want to read it all. It is a good reference for me and students everywhere because we now know that we can use pictures and videos to accompany our power point presentation all we have to do is to get our point said and understood and not make our presentatons very long. This article was not very recent but it was very factual and it helpes both students and business eployees understand why they are demoted or failing the becasue of the power point presentation. I would never want to read this article ever again but I know I will have to later on in life because it will help me improve my presentation skills on how not to use the power point, but reading this is very boring and its very long, even though the facts are interesting but the way they presented the infromation was in a very boring way. I feel that they shouldn't include that many quotations because there were atleast 20 quotations in the article from people I don't even know. Also I think the volcabulary in this article is too advance for me right now, I still understand 90% of the words in the article but the rest of the 10% gave me a hard time understanding it. Even though it has so much bad points it is still a good article.
After reading this article I want to redo my power point presentation for my computer component project because I think my project will bore lots of people to death because my presentation doesn't have much coulours or anything not event much pictures hope I do well on the Presentation.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Presentations
2 days ago we were supose to present the computer component projuct as a power poin presentation and hand in a some writen work with notes, but lots of people didn't finsh their projects and there was first a practice lockdown than a real lockdown which consumed alot of our time and my class mate Alvy's pressentaion took a long time so our class didn't get to present on friday and Mr Case told us to present on fridays. I hope I do good on the presentaion unlike the time David and I presented the LCD monitor project and I was nevise and Micheal was supposed to be the speacker, so I screwed up.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Computer project
Today Mr. Case talked about a computer in futureshop and why it is cheaper than other computers in futureshop. He talked about why is the parts of a computer inprotant when you are deciding, what computer to buy. The computer is basically, you are a computer consultant and you are suppsoed to sell introduce 3 computers to each client. There has to be a low end computer a computer in the middle and a high end computer for each client, and the clients are a student, a teacher, and a artist. I shoul talk a little about the clients:
Client one: A Student entering high school wants a computer for playing games and doing homework. Thye are interested in music. They don't have a lot of money.
Low End: Has to be chapest of all 3 and be able to listen to music, do his home work and play games, he didn't mention them having to be the latest games or not, so I am assuming games such as Runescape and other free online games because parents wont buy things for the high school students they have to buy things by themselves.
Middle: Still has to be affordable and reasonable, but can be a little better that the low end computers. So the Middle computer has to be faster to do homework, and listen to music. It also has to have better graphics than the low end computer so you can play better games on it not just online games, like chap $10 games.
High End: Still have to be affordable for a student entering high school, but it has to be better in everything from speed to graphics than the medium and low end computers, so in the high end computer you can spend a little more money than the amount you spend in the low and medium end computers.
Client Two: A Teacher who wants a computer for email and arking student work. They don't want to spend any more than they have to.
Low End: Has to be cheap but still be fast enough to email and mark students work. The computer for the teacher may even be cheaper than the computer for the student because the teacher only want a computer for eamiling and marking students work but the student will play games and listen to music so to play games the computer for the student will need a graphic card and speackers which will cost more than a teachers computer because the teacher isn't using it to listen to music or play games, a onboard graphic card will be good enough to watch movies and speakears are not needed so it is cheaper.
Medium: Price should be only a little more expensive, but just a little faster than the low end computer so it could be able to mark students homework a little faster and check emails better. It should still use a onboard graphic card so you can watch things on your tube atlesat.
High End: Price should be most expensive out of the three computers, but alsot it has to be the fastest out of all three computers for the teacher. I could have alot of extras that is not need but the tacher probably wont buy this computer becuase the tacher doesn't want to spend any more money than they have to on a computer so the teacher only wants a basic computer that could meet his/her requirements and is fast enough that they can mark homework and check email, anything extra like a good graphic card on the computer which will make it more expensive so a teacher wouldn't buy it.
Client Three: An artist wants a computer for creating video and photographs. They also want to be able to play the latest games and use the internet for VOIP.
Low End: Even for a low end computer the prices are still high unlike the tacher and the student, this may be due to the fact that the artist needs a more expensive computer because they are using it for work, mainly because he uses the computer to create videos and photographs, and also play the latest video games so a good graphic card is needed and a good graphic card could cost from $400-$1000. Also the artist may want the computer to run more than one programs at once so a Dual core processer or a Quad core processer will be needed.
Midium: Should cost more than the low end computer and have better graphics because the money is usually used in hard drive space, cpu speed and cores, and for someone who uses the computer to design will need to spend more money on the graphic card as well so this should be costly but it should be to expensive
High End: This should be the most expensive but contains the best parts and has alot of advantages over all the computer on this project, the graphic card has to be really good so it either has to be 1 really good graphic card or it could be SLI 2 NVEDIA graphic cards or Crossfire 2 ATI graphic cards to improve the performence and graphics of the computer, but doing this is really "pricie" but if the artist wants really good graphics to play games and create videos and pictures on the computer than high end is the one the artist should buy because it should last the longest out of all the computers for the student, teacher, and artist. Even though the computer is very good but it would be really expensive.
VOIP: Requires a router that supports VOIP and headsets to chat through the internet. the headsets is just used to chat to others, while the router is used to connect the internet to use VOIP. VOIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol.
SATA: SATA stands for Serial ATA. It is a computer bus that transfers data between the computer and the storage device usually the hard drive.
For the project we are allowed to sell a laptop or a desktop.
Client one: A Student entering high school wants a computer for playing games and doing homework. Thye are interested in music. They don't have a lot of money.
Low End: Has to be chapest of all 3 and be able to listen to music, do his home work and play games, he didn't mention them having to be the latest games or not, so I am assuming games such as Runescape and other free online games because parents wont buy things for the high school students they have to buy things by themselves.
Middle: Still has to be affordable and reasonable, but can be a little better that the low end computers. So the Middle computer has to be faster to do homework, and listen to music. It also has to have better graphics than the low end computer so you can play better games on it not just online games, like chap $10 games.
High End: Still have to be affordable for a student entering high school, but it has to be better in everything from speed to graphics than the medium and low end computers, so in the high end computer you can spend a little more money than the amount you spend in the low and medium end computers.
Client Two: A Teacher who wants a computer for email and arking student work. They don't want to spend any more than they have to.
Low End: Has to be cheap but still be fast enough to email and mark students work. The computer for the teacher may even be cheaper than the computer for the student because the teacher only want a computer for eamiling and marking students work but the student will play games and listen to music so to play games the computer for the student will need a graphic card and speackers which will cost more than a teachers computer because the teacher isn't using it to listen to music or play games, a onboard graphic card will be good enough to watch movies and speakears are not needed so it is cheaper.
Medium: Price should be only a little more expensive, but just a little faster than the low end computer so it could be able to mark students homework a little faster and check emails better. It should still use a onboard graphic card so you can watch things on your tube atlesat.
High End: Price should be most expensive out of the three computers, but alsot it has to be the fastest out of all three computers for the teacher. I could have alot of extras that is not need but the tacher probably wont buy this computer becuase the tacher doesn't want to spend any more money than they have to on a computer so the teacher only wants a basic computer that could meet his/her requirements and is fast enough that they can mark homework and check email, anything extra like a good graphic card on the computer which will make it more expensive so a teacher wouldn't buy it.
Client Three: An artist wants a computer for creating video and photographs. They also want to be able to play the latest games and use the internet for VOIP.
Low End: Even for a low end computer the prices are still high unlike the tacher and the student, this may be due to the fact that the artist needs a more expensive computer because they are using it for work, mainly because he uses the computer to create videos and photographs, and also play the latest video games so a good graphic card is needed and a good graphic card could cost from $400-$1000. Also the artist may want the computer to run more than one programs at once so a Dual core processer or a Quad core processer will be needed.
Midium: Should cost more than the low end computer and have better graphics because the money is usually used in hard drive space, cpu speed and cores, and for someone who uses the computer to design will need to spend more money on the graphic card as well so this should be costly but it should be to expensive
High End: This should be the most expensive but contains the best parts and has alot of advantages over all the computer on this project, the graphic card has to be really good so it either has to be 1 really good graphic card or it could be SLI 2 NVEDIA graphic cards or Crossfire 2 ATI graphic cards to improve the performence and graphics of the computer, but doing this is really "pricie" but if the artist wants really good graphics to play games and create videos and pictures on the computer than high end is the one the artist should buy because it should last the longest out of all the computers for the student, teacher, and artist. Even though the computer is very good but it would be really expensive.
VOIP: Requires a router that supports VOIP and headsets to chat through the internet. the headsets is just used to chat to others, while the router is used to connect the internet to use VOIP. VOIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol.
SATA: SATA stands for Serial ATA. It is a computer bus that transfers data between the computer and the storage device usually the hard drive.
For the project we are allowed to sell a laptop or a desktop.
Parrents age in bytes
A few days ago Mr. Case gave us homework to tell how old is our parrents in bytes with a chart the. I found out how old my parents were, and they were, My mom is 110000 years old in bits, my dad is 110110 years old in bits, my brother is 10110 years old in bits, I am 1110 yeas old in bits, my grandmother is 1001110 years old in bits, and my Grandfather is 1010001 years old in bits.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Lesson on Bytes
Today we learned about binary of 2's. each column in the binary of 2's is a bite, a bit is a piece of data represented in 1 or 0 only. 8 of these bits equal a byte, 1000 of these bytes equal a kilobyte which is 8000 bits. 1000 of these kilobytes equal a megabyte which is 8 millian bits. 1000 of these megabytes equal a gigabyte which is 8 billian bits. 1000 of these gigabytes equal a terabyte which is 8 trillian bits.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Computer Component Project
Today our teacher gave us a project, the project is mainly about selling a computer to 3 different clients and giving them a choice of three each a cheap and basic one, a reasonable priced and middle classed one, and a very expensive but very good one. The three clients are: a student in high school, a teacher, and a artist. I hope I actually pass this course because i failed the Presentation because I was too nervouse and the test becasue I didn't have enough time.
Test
We had are test last week but im pretty sure I failed this test because i didn't finish about 4 questions on the test but, if i had a little more time to check and finish this the questions I could have gotten better. I hope I could do better on the next test.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Presentation
Today my group presented about the LCD monitor but today Micheal wasn't here so me and David had to present ourselves, we all did a fair shair of the project but I noticed that lots of people do have their project so Mr. Case told us to search on the subject that we are missing for the test is tommarow so im pretty nerouse. I hope I pass. I think i did well on the presentation but all i am hoping is i didn' fail.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Continuation of Computer Research Project
Today we are continuing to reasearch on the LCD Monitor. I hope we can make some progress.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Team Project
Today Mr.Case gave class a project to find out information on parts of a computer. My group (Michael, David, and me) got the LCD Monitor. Today we are doing research on this item at http://computer.howstuffworks.com/monitor6.htm.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
BTT Curriculum
Today we are learning about BTT curriculum form http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/grade9.html , I noticed that business leads to tones of different courses in high school like and many of them are open and some of them are for collage and university. I now know that by the end of the course I will know what are the parts of a computer and how each of the parts work. I will be ablo to keep track of files and folders better, cause I lose them very easily. I will learn techniques to reasearch information better in this cours , without using google and other search engines. In this course I will learn how to use word processing softwere to creat business documents. I will also learn how to use Microsoft Excel to make a spread sheet. In this course i will learn how to use the presentation software like power point to make an effective presentation.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Computer Parts
Today in BTT I leared about the different parts of a computer form http://www.kids-online.net/learn/click/table.html, Todays class is very interesting I learned alot abut the stuff I didnt know. Like what are the main parts of a computer. The main parts are the CPU (prossessor), hard drive, the mother bord, memory ram, and the video card. Todays class is very interesting.
What I Did on the Weekend
I stayed at home on saturday and did some homework, and played my PS3 on sunday. I didn't like this weekend much because I had lots of homework, not like in the summer where I had no homework at all. But it is still nice because it was the first weekend of grade 9 and it was the only time I can sleep in grade 9.
Friday, September 7, 2007
About Me
Hi, my name is Anderson (Theorangedude). My favourite subject in school is computers. I got my first computer in 2000 when I was in grade 2. I love playing computer games, mainly rts (real time stratagy), but Cs is also good too. I currently have 2 computers, one from last year and one in this summer. My favourite food is pizza and most italian foods. I can't wait until next year because starcraft 2 is comming out next year in Agust. I have 18 pet fish, but I didnt name them at all.
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