Monday 27 April 2009

Hi Everyone

Welcome back to school, I hope you all had a great holiday. this term some of the highlights for you might be 'Brochures' using Ms Publisher, 'Original Story Writing' then animating your story using 'Scratch' and a new item for this course 'Databases'.

Today you are going to look back over your holiday and write 200 words in your blog about your holiday activities.

the first thing you are to do is to use the planning sheet in Year 10>Info Man>Writing a Report.

When everyone has finished you will read the other student's blogs and then vote for the best one.

Prize for the person with the most votes!

• Remember asking yourself the questions who?, how?, what?, when?, where? and why? will help you to write an interesting and effective report. It must be suitable for a teacher audience.


• Read it through slowly to make sure that there are NO mistakes (proofreading) and then use the spellcheck to make sure!


• Keep your sentences short and then come up with a heading with IMPACT!


• Ask the person next to you to check your work and sign it off with the word Checked and then their name! Then, any errors which I find will not be your fault but the checkers fault.

I'm really looking forward to this term there is some really interesting learning coming up.

Mrs H

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Week 9 Term 1

This week we will complete your PowerPoints and use the check list to make sure that you have included everything you needed to. I want you to take some time to spell check and proofread the whole of your PowerPoint. Make sure that you have answered the Selection and Justification slide correctly including the chair (or workstation) you choose, with the reasons why you choose it and the features which helped you to make up your mind. You also need to say why you did not choose the other chair and include those features which you did not like.

I will need to have your PowerPoint handed into the handin folder in the Year 10 folder. You should also complete and put your check list into the same folder. Save both of them with your name and PPoint or Check List. Don't forget to upload the photo to your blog, add a post and then tell me about all of the important points and why it is so important to sit properly.

When everyone has completed their PowerPoint I will bring in the chocolate cake!

We will then revisit spreadsheets, learning how to prepare the graphs to go with the spreadsheet. I have a Unit Standard for you to complete for spreadsheets which will give you two Level 1 NCEA credits for next year. I hope that we can complete this before the end of the term.

I am looking forward to marking your JAM assessments. Make sure that you have carried out every part of the check list so that I can give you maximum marks.

Mrs H

Week 8 Term 1

This week we are learning about adjectives on the BBC site for the Do Now section of the lesson.

We have been using the BBC site for nearly a term now and I am beginning to see improvement in the writing on some sites. The skills you are learning in 'Do Now' should be put into practice in your posts ie. adverbs, apostrophes, personal pronouns etc they should be used to improve the quality of your writing, which will give you more marks for JAM. Spell checking of every post is also a must. I have commented before on the use of a lower case 'i' - this is incorrect, it should be a capital 'I' when you are writing about yourself and is 'text talk' which is not allowed in our posts. Although many of you have made a good effort and are improving I would like you to make sure that you include some of these features in your posts this week.

I have uploaded a You Tube video on the basics of PowerPoint so if you forget how to do something you can go in and revise it. It includes backgrounds, adding pictures, text boxes and adding notes pages. This would also be useful for students who have been absent and who need to catch up. You will need to use headphones when you view it. It is located on Learning Resources>Information Management>Year 10>PowerPoint Vids.

This week we are focusing on getting the ergonomic chair and workstation slides completed. Remember that you need to choose a chair from the two you investigated for features and say which one you chose and why. Comment on the features which you liked best about the chair you chose and say what it was about the other chair which you did not like and which put you off chosing that one. You do the same process for the workstation.

You should have time to begin the 'posture' slide this week. Read the Tick Sheet again so that you understand what you need to do for this slide. See me if you are not sure on anything at all.

Blog Marking

At the end of this week I want to start marking your Blogs. You will need to make sure that you have uploaded the following items to your Blog by then please.

Setting up your Blog
A short paragraph which tells me about your experience setting up your Blog.

Keyboarding
A paragraph which tells me how you felt about learning to keyboard with the correct finger pathways. If it was not a positive experience for you what would you suggest we should do to improve things next year. How has your keyboard speed improved? What was it when you started at the beginning of the year and how has it improved? Please also comment on the speed part of learning this skill.

Adding your keyboard graphic
Add the keyboard graphic to your blog - follow the instructions at the bottom of this post if you are unsure how to do it.

Ergonomics Tick Sheet
Post your tick sheet in a post.

How to load a graphic to your Blog

1. If you are uploading your keyboard graphic first of all select everything and group it.
2. Copy then paste it into PAINT
3. Select the dot in the bottom right hand corner of the PAINT screen and bring it up to fit around the graphic. This will stop your picture having wide white borders when it goes onto your Blog.
4. Save As and name your document. Then Save As a JPEG document.
5. Open your Blog and choose Add an Image.
6. Browse to the image and select.
7. Set the picture place to centre and upload the image.
   

Where we are at with Blogs

Getting the blogs up and running for the whole class is a slow business. The following blogs are not working yet:

Class 10.1
Johnnie and Ayla.
Class 10.2
Taylor, Malcolm, Tipene, Heremaia, Rangi, Mikayla, Uru and Pararaki.

If the people listed above could please do the following for your Do Now:

1. Logon to Blogspot
2. Go to Dashboard
3. Choose Settings
4. Choose Publishing
5. Go to Blog Spot Address
6. Make sure that it says - yourlogonyear10informationmanagement - in the box
7. Make sure that you have the complete word for year
8. Make sure that information has an r in it
9. Make sure that management has an e in it
10. If you find an error, correct it, and ask your neighbour to check it for you

One other thing could be at fault:

If your logon is not your first name plus the first letter of your surname please let me know. I know that two people have a number 1 at the end of their logon.