This week has been super exciting, because students presented their animated stories in MSPowerPoint or Google slides. These presentations included an attack of a virus, baseball home runs, and Mario, and some other characters that students used their imaginations to create. Some students needed more time, but next week we will starting working on our word processing skills as well as improving our touch typing skills.
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The Turquoise Room worked on a new project. This is to create animations in PowerPoint using various features. Some students are even using links to make their images to use for games. For example, the if it is a battle type ship game, students will add click here buttons and the ship may launch a missile at a target. It is another way for students to be creative and working as collaborators.
This week the Turquoise Students continued to work on their projects that corresponding to the research of the faculty and students' favorite color/flavor of jelly beans. This week, as a review students began their "Jelly Bean" package design. Students designed a package in either Google Slides /Drawings or MSPowerPoint. There were some very colorful packages and tasteful names: "Turko Turkey" jellybeans, Cherry, and Cinnamon Jelly beans. The packages were fantastic and were designed using the scribble tool. Students were so creative and many remembered how to use the special features in MSPowerPoint.
The Turquoise Room brought their Science Fair data and results for their science fair projects. The students did an excellent job working on entering their data into Google Sheets or Excel, and creating the graphs that represented their data. Students remembered how to apply the features (chart and axis titles)and use the functions (SUM and AVERAGE). Many added extra things such as color coding their bars on their graph (if applicable) to match their data.
This week the Turquoise Students continued to work on spreadsheets, but this week we started a fictitious company that needed help in creating a new package for the BNS faculty and students' favorite color/flavor of jelly beans. Using real data, the students predicted the color that would be their classmates' and teachers' MOST favorite and then used the ACTUAL results to create a spreadsheet and chart. Next week, the students will design a package in either Google Slides /Drawings or MSPowerPoint.
The Turquoise Room continued to work on Spreadsheets. This week's focus was on researching data to enter into the spreadsheet. Then students were to use the Paste Formula function to copy information from one spreadsheet to another.
Some students started to learn about formatting cells and alignment. Turquoise students continued to learn about various types of graphs. Students are using Excel and Google Sheets. This week's focus was on shading specific parts of the data, how to add a legend to a graph, change the scale of a graph, adding a title to a graph. Students seemed to enjoy the projects. Some students are still working on their stories and will start using Excel next week.
This week, the Turquoise students only met once, but it has been a very productive day. Students continued to practice learning more about Google Sheets. The focus this week was on Formatting i.e. alignment of data, shadowing of the cells, using Bold and changing the color of the font. The students continued to practice the sum function.
Welcome back from the Holiday break. The Turquoise Room Group A worked on their stories in MS Word and the students in Group B began the new unit on spreadsheets. In class, I covered what is a cell and how to enter mathematical calculations for specific data. The students also learned some of the basic functions of a spreadsheet: SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, and MAX. We also talked about their Science Fair topics and I explained about the various charts they will learn how to create in case they need it for their Science Fair projects.
This week the Turquoise students in Group B presented their stories. In Group A, the students continued to work on their stories.
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