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Using the selection tools on Photoshop

View the tutorial below to learn how to work with the various lasso selection tools. Making use of the “add to selection” and “subtract from selection” options of each tool will allow you to effectively select areas of your photo.

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Create a Spread Sheet on Excel – SS2 Movies

This activity should be completed after the “Create a Simple Spreadsheet on Excel 1 – Student Data” activity. Using the skills learned in the previous series of activities, you will create a spread sheet listing this week’s top grossing movies at the box office. Step...

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Create a Simple Spreadsheet on Excel 1 – SS1 Student Data

The following project series of lessons will lead you through creating a simple spreadsheet on Microsoft’s Excel. After creating the inital spreadsheet in Spreadsheet Basics – Data Collection – Student Data, you will format the sheet and add formulas in Spreadsheet Basics – Formatting & Formulas –...

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Student Database Project – Microsoft Access

This project will lead you through creating a basic database using Microsoft Access 2010, create forms, and perform searches and sorts. These are live recordings from class, so please excuse the volume and pauses. Part 1 – Creating the Database from Scratch Part 2 –...

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Don’t have Microsoft Office? – Try this free version

OpenOffice.org is a productivity suite that will allow you to read and write Microsoft Office documents for free. According to the site “OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages...

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Country Research Project Series – Project 1

Foreign Country Online Research Project Series Summary/Description Follow the steps to choose and research a foreign country of your choice. You will gather information about the country’s demographics, government, economy, and tourist attractions. Since you will be leaving for this country the first day of...

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How to re-create Flappy Bird on Scratch

With the recent success and subsequent disappearance of FlappyBird, you can make your own playable version on MIT's Scratch software platform. These series of tutorials will give you a good starting point. From here you can elaborate, expand, and enhance.

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Introduce Students to core Computer Programming Concepts

As part of their initiative to introduce computer science and programming to students across the world, code.org partnered with multiple online learning sites to put on the “hour of code” event in 2013. Since then, the code.org website has continued to add to it’s collection...

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