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>> (presentations in class on Monday) || ||
 * [[image:Week17.gif]] || ==January 5th - 9th, 2009==
 * **Monday**
 * Summatives - Create a Home-Based Business Plan
 * **Tuesday**
 * **Wednesday**
 * **Thursday**
 * **Friday** ||
 * || CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS ||
 * [[image:Week16.gif]] || ==December 15th - 19th, 2008==
 * **Monday**
 * Summative Outline - Create a Home-Based Business Plan
 * **Tuesday**
 * Research "Business Proposal"
 * Text Book
 * Web
 * Observe Timelines
 * **Wednesday**
 * Business Proposals Due!
 * Develop Budgets, Databases, Logos, Website!
 * **Thursday**
 * **Friday** ||
 * [[image:Week15.gif]] || ==December 8th - 12th, 2008==
 * **Monday**
 * Links
 * Personal Christmas Card Project
 * **Tuesday**
 * (Supply Teacher) Complete Christmas Cards and submit them for printing
 * **Wednesday**
 * SNOW DAY (Classes Cancelled)
 * **Thursday**
 * Complete Christmas Cards
 * **Friday**
 * Christmas Cards Printed ||
 * [[image:Week14.gif]] || ==December 1st - 5th, 2008==
 * **Monday**
 * HTML
 * Tags & Parameters
 * BGColor
 * **Tuesday**
 * HTML -
 * Photoshop - Happy Faces
 * **Wednesday**
 * Matching Photoshop colour with HTML BGColor
 * Image Filters
 * **Thursday**
 * Photoshop Face Logos
 * **Friday**
 * Colour using Hexidecimal values
 * Christmas Wishlist Webpages ||
 * [[image:Week13.gif]] || ==November 24th - 28th, 2008==
 * **Monday**
 * Complete the Budget99 exercise
 * Databases
 * **Tuesday**
 * IMDB.com
 * Databases and Privacy Video
 * **Wednesday**
 * Create a Typing Database
 * **Thursday**
 * Read 234-236
 * Do Q1-7
 * **Friday**
 * Create an AddressBook Database ||
 * [[image:Week12.gif]] || ==November 17th - 21st, 2008==
 * **Monday**
 * Review Survey results
 * Anim8or snowmen
 * **Tuesday**
 * Spreadsheet Intro
 * Three functions: Data storage, formatting, calculations
 * **Wednesday**
 * Spreadsheets: Wishlist Exercise
 * **Thursday**
 * Print Wishlist Exercise
 * Start the My Marks Spreadsheet
 * **Friday**
 * Start the Budget99 exercise ||
 * [[image:Week11.gif]] || ==November 10th - 14th, 2008==
 * Monday, Nov 10th
 * Introduction to Surveys
 * Tuesday, Nov 11th
 * Research "How to create effective surveys"
 * Create a simple survey for this class to complete
 * Text it out by inviting our class through the mail list we made last week
 * Wednesday, Nov 12th
 * Complete Surveys
 * Thursday, Nov 13th
 * Report Survey results through wikispaces
 * Friday, Nov 14th
 * No Class (PA Day) ||
 * [[image:Week10.gif]] || ==November 3rd-7th, 2008==
 * Monday, Nov 3rd
 * Present Technology Research Assignments
 * Tuesday, Nov 4th
 * Finish Presentations
 * Read p263 - 269 - particularly pg 266
 * "Clean up" your slide shows for evaluation - consider:
 * The requirements of the exercise
 * The rules of [|good slidshow presentations]
 * Wednesday, Nov 5th
 * No Class (Take Your Kids to Work Day)
 * Thursday, Nov 6th
 * Slide Show Presentations
 * Friday, Nov 7th
 * Final Slide Show Submissions ||
 * [[image:Week09.gif]] || ==October 20th-24th, 2008==
 * Monday, Oct 27th
 * Validating Web Research - checking for
 * Update History
 * Original Source
 * Including Citations
 * Read pg127-130
 * Do Q1-7 pg131
 * Tuesday, Oct 28th
 * Complete yesterday's assignment
 * Wednesday, Oct 29th
 * BEGIN Technology Research Assignment
 * Thursday, Oct 30th
 * Presentation Software Overview and "Rules"
 * Continue working on Technology Research Assignment
 * Friday, Oct 31st
 * Complete and Submit Technology Research Assignment
 * [[image:Week08.gif]] || ==October 20th-24th, 2008==
 * Monday, Oct 20th
 * **Read pg 75 - Internet Censorship - Discuss Q1-4**
 * **Read pg 97 - Net Neutrality - Discuss Q1-4**
 * **Tuesday, Oct 21st**
 * **Search Engines**
 * **Wednesday, Oct 22nd**
 * **Video: Google Boys Biography**
 * **Thursday, Oct 23rd**
 * **Using Search Engines**
 * **Read 106 - 114**
 * **Create a GoogleDoc Document called WebSearch Notes and create the headings listed below. Complete the notes for each heading from the book:**
 * **Types of Search Engines**
 * **Limitations of Search Engines**
 * **Tips to achieve better quality**
 * **Search on the web for MORE Tips on using Google effectively, and build those into your notes! What was your BEST new Google Search Tip?**
 * **Friday, Oct 24th**
 * **Wikispace your best Google tips!**
 * **Finish the Google Boys Biography video**
 * **Video: Wifi** ||
 * [[image:Week07.gif]] || ==October 13th-17th, 2008==
 * Monday, Oct 13th
 * **HAPPY TURKEY DAY!**
 * Tuesday, Oct 14th
 * **Homework Review**
 * **The Speedtest Exercise**
 * **The Network Vocabulary GoogleDoc**
 * **The Internet and WWW - pages 64-68 - Complete the reading and answer Q1 on page 69 using a GOOGLEDOC. You are allowed to collaborate with up to 3 others in the class if you set up the SHARE functions.**
 * Wednesday, Oct 15th
 * **Read 70-74 and create a Vocabulary document defining the following terms. Add appropriate graphics where possible:**
 * **The Net**
 * **The WWW**
 * **W3C**
 * **Hypertext**
 * **Hyperlinks**
 * **Hyper**
 * **HTML**
 * **Web Browser**
 * **HTTP**
 * **URL**
 * **Domain Name**
 * **Answer Q 1-7 on page 74**
 * Thursday, Oct 16th
 * **Complete Q 1-7 on page 74**
 * **Read "Government Regulation" and answer the questions on page 75**
 * **HOMEWORK: the MyFiles Exercise**
 * Friday, Oct 17th**
 * Crossword Quiz: Network Vocabulary (p64-74), Desktop Vocabulary (p53-55), Word Processing Terms
 * [[image:Week06.gif]] || ==October 6th-10th, 2008==
 * Monday 6th
 * Computer Interfaces
 * Windows Desktop Tricks ie.
 * Right Clicking the Taskbar
 * Tiling Windows
 * Islay began developing the Windows XP Vocabulary
 * Begin the Inpics OpenOffice Tutorials
 * Open Office Writer
 * Create, Cut, Copy, Paste
 * Format Words
 * Format Paragraphs
 * Use Bulllets & Numbering
 * Adjust page settings
 * Check Spelling
 * View Pages
 * Tuesday 7th
 * Word Processor Alternatives
 * Open Office Writer
 * Wikispaces
 * GoogleDocs
 * Formatting
 * Text
 * Paragraph

|| >> >> Try to add graphics to your vocabulary document - >> find the most appropriate graphics on the web, and copy and >> paste them beside your definitions >> ANY terms we learned this week could be on that quiz! ||
 * Weds 8th
 * GoogleDocs
 * Word Processing Format Testing
 * Thurs 9th
 * Networks
 * What are they and how do they work?
 * Do the Speedtest Exercise from home - it IS homework, and is only meaningful if you do it from home.
 * Friday 10th
 * Networking Computers (Read pg 57-60)
 * Use GoogleDocs to create an outline describing the following terms:
 * Computer Network
 * Router
 * LAN
 * WAN
 * Client
 * Server
 * NIC
 * Peer-to-peer
 * Topology
 * Find small (100-300 pixel) graphics to illustrate each of those terms, and insert it into the document
 * Format the document as effectively as you can
 * If you're done early, you can begin reading pages 64-68
 * [[image:Week05.gif]] || ==Sept 29th-Oct3rd, 2008==
 * Monday 22nd
 * 5-10 minutes of all the right type
 * HANDIN Vocabulary Exercises
 * Take up Q1&2 on page 41
 * STUDY for the Quiz
 * QUIZ!
 * Tuesday 23rd
 * 5-10 minutes of all the right type
 * Take up the Quiz
 * Peripherals: Read 42-46 Do Q6
 * Operating Systems: Read 48-49 - Create Outlined Notes
 * Wednesday 24th
 * 5-10 minutes of all the right type
 * Application Software: Read 52-55
 * Add notes to your Vocabulary Outline Document
 * Try saving your Vocab document into the following APPLICATION FORMATS:
 * DOC
 * ODT
 * TXT
 * RTF
 * HTML
 * Open each file and double click it to see what application opens it.
 * Thursday 25th
 * 5-10 minutes of all the right type
 * Networking Computers: Read 57-60
 * Friday 26th
 * PA Day - no School! ||
 * [[image:Week04.gif]] || ==Sept 22nd-26th, 2008==
 * Monday 22nd
 * Review Quiz01
 * Theory: Computer Input / Storage / Processing / Output
 * Computer Purchase Exercise due
 * Tuesday 23rd
 * Content vs Format
 * Word Processing - "Open Office" Writer
 * Computer Vocabulary exercise
 * Wednesday 24th
 * Continue Computer Vocabulary exercise
 * Thursday 25th
 * Computer Storage, Filesizes
 * Friday 26th
 * 5-10 minutes of all the right type
 * Read pages 38-41 in the textbook; Do questions 1 and 2 on page 41
 * Complete the Computer Vocabulary exercise:
 * STUDY YOUR DEFINITIONS we will have the vocabulary quiz on MONDAY.
 * [[image:Week03.gif]] || ==Sept 15th-19th, 2008==
 * Mon 15th -
 * Reviewed "Ergonomic Office" exercise
 * Freecycling Video
 * Read p24-26
 * Tues 16th -
 * Ergonomic Office exercise due
 * Chapter Review - Do Pg27 Q1-4, 8-12, 16-18
 * Weds 17th
 * All the Right Type
 * How ICT Works - INPUT STORAGE PROCESSING OUTPUT
 * Review CH1 for tomorrow's quiz
 * ATRT Student Accounts
 * Thurs 18th -
 * ATRT - Guest for 5mins
 * Chapter1 Quiz!
 * INPUT STORAGE PROCESSING OUTPUT
 * Fri 19th -
 * ATRT - Guest for 5mins
 * Begin Computer Purchase Exercise ||
 * [[image:Week02.gif]] || ==Sept 8th-12th, 2008==
 * Mon 8th -
 * Review File Rules exercise results
 * Textbooks assigned
 * Tues 9th -
 * Collaboration and Wikis - Read pg11, Do pg12 on the class wiki site
 * Weds 10th -
 * Ergonomics - DVD:
 * Thurs 11th -
 * Started "Ergonomic Office" exercise
 * Fri 12th -
 * Supply teacher - completed "Ergonomic Office" exercise ||