TF Digital Tech Literacy: NEW YEARS RESOLUTION & PIXLR.COM BASIC TRAINING

Introduction

Digital Literacy Class: We are going to learn about so many incredible ways to be creative, collaborative, and to communicate. We will focus on computer skills and applications. Some topics you already know about, and you will know better, and other topics and applications will be new to you! Either way, we will work together to find the ones you are able to use best. This class consists of Project-Based-Learning. You will be given plenty of time to learn the skills and applications that you will use for a lifetime. I hope you enjoy the material we will cover. - Mr. S

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION & PIXLR.COM BASIC TRAINING

Happy New Year to Everyone!!

Welcome back to Crossroads! I hope your Holiday Break was relaxing and
peaceful, and that you were able to spend some time with family and
friends in harmony. Today you will create a journal entry (Weebly.com)
that will help you to explain how you are going to be a better overall
person this year. We all try to make resolutions and keep them, but
rarely to they turn into habits that last longer than a few weeks.
Please read the following article "New Year's Resolutions for Teens" and open a new Journal Entry (Weebly) describing (2-3 Sentences Each) how you might set and keep at least two new Resolutions.

Today we will be working online with pixlr.com. This is a powerful website (CLICK HERE) to help you work with and manipulate digital photographs. Please use
the time today to explore this software using pictures from Google
Images. We will eventually be learning to take pictures and create a photo project book for the entire school. This will be an artistic project aimed at helping you to use photography, journalism, and Mac Pages. We will be learning to use this software so you can create your own part of our Yearbook later this year. Next week we start our section on Research and MS Word.

ASSIGMENT: Find a picture online or take on (Ask Me To Use A Camera) and use PIXLR.Com to change it and make it your own. Email me your finished picture and then put a copy of it on your Weebly.Com Front Page. Make sure to label it appropriately.

I hope you enjoy this project as we start to think 2014.

- Mr. S

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Overall Academic Class Standards

SELF-ASSESSMENTS

Student Self-Assessments refer to training students to evaluate themselves, and their work, for the purpose of improving outcomes. To become capable evaluators of their work, students must have:

- a clear target (goal)

- the opportunity to help create definitions of the quality of work.

- the opportunity to correct, or self-adjust, their work before turning it in.

Students are also prompted to reflect and evaluate strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement. These skills will allow for planning, improvement, goal-setting, and reflection. Emphasis will be placed on integration of previous learning across the school curriculum.

ISTE 2. Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others:

a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media

b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats

3. Research and Information Fluency

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information:

a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry

b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media

General Computer-Based / Project Based Classroom Standards Met:

PA Common Core 8.5.6-8G: Integrate visual information (e.G. charts, graphs, maps, video, etc.) with other information in print or digital format.

ISTE 3.3A: Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information, and other resources, for intellectual and other pursuits.

ISTE 3.3D: Students build knowledge by actively exploring real world issues and problems, developing ideas, and pursuing answers and solutions.

CSTA Collaboration 1: Apply productivity/multimedia tools, and peripherals, to a group collaboration and support learning throughout the curriculum.

CSTA CPP1: Use advanced tools to create digital artifacts.

PA CEW Standards Met

PA 13.1.8A Career Awareness and Preparation

Relate careers to individual interest, abilities, and aptitudes.

PA 13.1.8G Create an individualized career plan including, but not limited to Assessments, Career Goals, individual interests and abilities, and Training/Education requirements.

TF Digital Tech Literacy

Introduction

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION & PIXLR.COM BASIC TRAINING

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