Week 5/11-5/21

App Builder- Wrap Up
  1. If you have not completed work from the last 6 weeks, please scroll down and complete those items first.
  2. Complete the ​App Builder
    1. Complete Plan-UI/UX flipgrid
    2. Complete Plan-Features flipgrid
    3. Complete Plan-Design mood board
    4. Complete Prototype & Evaluate
    5. Having trouble staying organized with all your ideas? I have added a slide to the presentation linked above for suggestions on design process documentation.
Nitro-Type Tournament-Monday May 18th
Attention all interested, I will be hosting a live nitrotype tournament on Monday May 18th @ 10am for ALL of my students and any Explo teachers who want to participate.
If interested you need to complete the following things by Friday the 15th
  1. Create a free www.nitrotype.com account (follow family rules and expectations for creating accounts).
  2. Share your user name with me, just reply on to microsoft teams post and type it in, or email it to me.
  3. Accept my friend request (My user name is CooksClass)
  4. Practice so you know how it works.
I will create a channel of mixed classes and grades that can live meet throughout the tournament, so you must have access to microsoft teams.
I will create a tournament bracket to follow.
I will facilitate/start each race.
Hopefully it works, I think it will be fun and a great way to end the year, or it will be a calamity of errors we can laugh about!

As always, there are Daily Journal & Discussion topics you can participate in, boredom buster links, or any of the older assignments (below) to participate in. The expectation is for you to work on my class for at least 90 minutes, any more time is optional. Remember there are no grades this quarter.

Week 5/04-5/08

​App Builder-Continues
  1. If you have not completed work from the last 5 weeks, please scroll down and complete those items first.
  2. Complete the Brainstorm-Focus flipgrid-linked above
  3. Optional: work ahead and complete Plan-UI/UX 
Having trouble staying organized with all your ideas? I have added a slide to the presentation linked above for suggestions on design process documentation.

As always, there are Daily Journal & Discussion topics you can participate in, boredom buster links, or any of the older assignments (below) to participate in.
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Notice we have a new leader this week! Congratulations Elijah G
I am still looking for someone that can beat my speed. Elijah G did, but I have practiced and have a new score up. Good Luck!

Week 4/27-5/01

​App Builder-Continues
  1. If you have not completed work from the last 4 weeks, please scroll down and complete those items first.
  2. Complete the Brainstorm-Audience (slide 6)flipgrid-linked above
  3. Optional: work ahead and complete Brainstorm-Focus (slide 7)
As always, there are Daily Journal & Discussion topics you can participate in, boredom buster links, or any of the older assignments (below) to participate in.

Week 4/20-4/24

App Builder-Continues
  1. If you have not completed slides 1-3 and the review questions from last week, please complete them first.
  2. Complete the Brainstorm-Purpose (slide-4) flipgrid-linked above
  3. Complete the Brainstorm-Ideas (slide 5) flipgrid-linked above
  4. Optional: work ahead and complete Brainstorm-Audience (slide 6)
As always, there are Daily Journal & Discussion topics you can participate in, boredom buster links, or any of the older assignments (below) to participate in.

Week 4/14-4/17

4/17/20: 
App Builder-Continues
Finish step 1 of the App Builder activity below
  1. Complete (slides 1-3} the design process information, video, and answer the review questions-linked above.
  2. You may work ahead to complete the Brainstorm-Purpose (slide-4) flipgrid-linked above
As always, there are Daily Journal & Discussion topics you can participate in, boredom buster links, or any of the older assignments (below) to participate in.
​**Congratulations to this week'swork winners-Also, the typing results for those who have participated in the 4/2/20 agenda.**
4/14/20: This week starts the first 'content' based lessons, as the last couple weeks have just been adapting and checking in.
App Builder
Your assignment is to get started on our App Builder activity.
  1. Complete (slides 1-3} the design process information, video, and answer the review questions-linked above.
  2. You may work ahead to complete the Brainstorm-Purpose (slide-4) flipgrid-linked above
As always, there are Daily Journal & Discussion topics you can participate in, boredom buster links, or any of the older assignments (below) to participate in.

Week 4/6-4/10

4/9/20: So, If you have noticed I am posting an assignment/agenda activity about twice a week. I will continue to do so until I state otherwise. Below is a summary of what I have asked/encouraged you to take part in, you will also see them in MS teams as assignments you can mark complete on.
  1. Daily Journal & Discussion topics, linked above (complete 1 or more a week)
    1. Week 1: 3/26 to 4/3
    2. Week 2: 4/6 & 4/8
  2. Keyboarding practice, 4/2 agenda below, and submit a screenshot
  3. Access MS teams, 4/6 agenda below, and say hi in the chat area
  4. Complete a flipgrid 'hello' linked in the chat and assignments in MS teams.
​Look for content lessons to begin next week, fingers crossed.
Also, NO school tomorrow and Monday!
Remember do what you can and don't stress about it.
******Finally, friendly competition for the student and/or hour that have  the most completed (see below for the hour breakdown).*******
Congratulations to this week's winners:
  • for individual a tie between Nina V and Elijah D
  • 7th hour for the number of students doing something
  • 9th hour for overall completion of activities 
4/6/20: Watch the video linked below, try to access our class in Microsoft Teams, and post a message.

Week 3/26-4/3

4/2/20: How about working on your keyboarding skills! Go to the Boredom Busters page, click on the keyboarding practice page, choose a site, practice or take a test. At some point take a screen shot and share, I will compile all the shots and share too. Click here to share your results.
3/31/20: Hello again. Just a quick video about my weekly schedule, setting up your own daily schedule and all the changes on our site. Notice my schedule has changed, new schedule is to the right.
3/27/20: Hey guys, I am not certain how/what our class will look like in the upcoming weeks.
However, I have added a daily journal & discussion page, linked below, that I thought you may enjoy.
Daily Journal & Discussion Page
Remember:  First names only, do not share your email address, school appropriate responses, and academic vocabulary. Tutorial below