Using the skills you learned in the “Using the selection tools on Photoshop” and “Photoshop Smuge, Blur, & Transform” tutorials, you will create a vacation destination that you have “virtually” been to. Use your digital photo from your smartphone or classroom camera for use in...
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.
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...
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 –...
Country Research Project Series – Project 3 – PowerPoint Jeopardy Game
Non-Linear Jeopardy Game Power Point Project Overview You will use the data from your Country Research project to create a Non-Linear Power Point Jeopardy Game. Follow each of the parts below, and access the direction sheets from the list of files at the bottom of...
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...
Create a Slideshow Movie with Movie Maker – Country Research Project Series – Project 2
Project 2 in the Foreign Country Project Series - Students will gather images from the internet to use in a mini movie creation. Students will use Windows Movie Maker to create the mini movie.
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.
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...
Fostering Collaborative learning with GoogleDocs
Collaborative Learning using technology is essential to Common Core. Google Docs on GoogleDrive gives teachers an easy, familiar, and free resource to integrate this into their existing curriculum and lessons. (Common Core Standards ELA.W.9-10.6, ELA.W.11-12.6) In the video, Sarah talks about leaving teacher comments for...