Archive for April, 2008

Wednesday, April 30

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Good Afternoon.

Start with Master.
Then we’ll do a sharing of our Garageband Songs.
Finally I’ll give a demo of what we will do next.

Friday, April 25

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Start with MasterKey for 8 minutes, then work on your projects that you have started with Mr. J.

Wednesday, April 23

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Good Morning,

Start with typing.
There’s more to come…

Floating Houses

Green Homes

Vauban
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Good Afternoon,

We want to finish up our 16 bar Garageband songs today. This may take up most of our time, so we will not be typing. Instead open up your project and get to work!

Tuesday, April 22

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Good Morning.

Welcome back!
Today 5th graders will be doing online science testing.
4th graders I would like you to start with one drill of Master Key. Then we will continue to refine our skills in SketchUp.

Tuesday, April 15

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Good Morning.

Today, please start with about 10 minutes of typing.
We will then work with sketch up using the group and component tools.

Thursday, April 10

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Good Morning.

Today we’re going to look at some designs for a car-free community. It’s an important day, where we will get an idea about scale, design elements, transportation solutions, and some building requirements. All of these aspects will be part of the communities you will build.

Before we start, we will listen to the composer podcast. During this time, please view the two image albums I’ve set up on our Green Community website below.

Green Community
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Good Afternoon.
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Go straight to Garageband.

Wednesday, April 9

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Good Morning.

We’ll listen to the podcast to start the class.
Then, let’s take a few minutes to gather our notes from yesterday and we’ll have a quick sharing.
Afterwards we’ll learn about car-free communities.

Green Community
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Good Afternoon.

Please start with typing.
We’ll then start a new Garageband project. Our new song will be twice as long and contain separate parts.
I’ll explain and give an example at the end of our typing time.

Tuesday, April 8

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Good Morning.

We’ll start by listening to the composer podcast. Durning this short time you may either quietly listen or play paratyper with your volume off.

Afterwards we will continue working on our Green Community project.
I will show you the new website and you and a partner from your table will have a research task to complete.
Below is a link to the website.

Green Community

Friday, April 4

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Please work on your keyboarding for 15 minutes.

Then continue to work in SketchUp on you project.

Remembering Dr. Kings’ Prophetic ‘Mountaintop’ Speech

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Remembering MLK’s Prophetic ‘Mountaintop’ Speech : NPR:
20080403052440 years ago, on April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final public speech. In a crowded church in Memphis, Tenn., King spoke of the injustice felt by the city’s sanitation workers, who were on strike protesting low pay and poor working conditions. But, speaking hours before his assassination, the civil rights leader went beyond that subject, touching on death and his own mortality.

King’s Final Speech

Video: Watch a Key Excerpt

Audio: Hear the Entire Speech at American RadioWorks

Text: Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Mountaintop’ Speech (PDF)