Mr.
Zdeb's Computer Lab
Week of November 28
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"The Prairie Hill
definition of publishing is: combining text
and graphics in a layout."
from an ancient Prairie Hill proverb.
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| 3rd Grade Reintroduction of
typing skills with Mavis Beacon. |
4th Grade Introduction to "PrairieHill Publishing". Start with simple bitmap graphics in G.I.M.P.
Students will be introduced to 'bitmap'
graphics and allowed to explore the nature of bitmaps using the GIMP
(GNU Graphics Manipulation Program).
Basic GIMP tools will be introduced.
Later students will be re-introduced to PowerPoint and challenged to
explore the similarities and differences between bitmaps (GIMP) and
vectors (PowerPoint) graphics.
Basic bitmap tools/concepts introduced
will include. File creation and saving, color selection, paint brush
and brush selection, magnifying glass, RGB characteristics, erasure,
copy and paste, rectangular and oval selection, smudge/smear, and
file loading/saving.
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Grades 6
Student topic selection and 'Search and Surf".
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G.I.M.P.
(GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an Open Source program originally
written for the Unix Operating System. As such, it is totally
free!!! You
can download it and use it easily at home!! It is an extremely
powerful and professional package. In its second version it
has been ported over to the Windows Operating System. For
more information on GIMP licensing, versions, tutorials and availability
visit gimp.org
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7th and 8th Grade
Who's in the News?
- Students are to use a search engine to find 10
different news and information sites. The first five stes can be
'common' news sites. ie. cnn.com, nbsnews.com etc. The
second group of five should be foriegn sites and foreign news services'
English language sites.
- For each day of the project students will visit each site and 'note' the major stories in each site/newspaper .
- Students will create a MSWord document that:
- a) lists their selected web sites
- b) writes a brief one or two sentences on the top story for each sites.
- c) then they will go through each site for local news and note that on their daily 'logg'.
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