3/31/15

DO NOW:

Finish any missing projects (Teacher Websites, Travel Website)

OBJECTIVES:

Guest Speaker - Adam Binder - Creative Click Media
Wordpress.org customization

Description:
We had a guest speaker talk about and help us set up our WordPress.org accounts. We took a mini test on what we learned about WordPress.org and it's components. The guest speaker showed us how to edit your main page and add pages. He also taught us how to put in images and Logos.

3/30/15

DO NOW:
Study for Quiz (DO NOT GO ON COMPUTERS)

OBJECTIVES:
Create WordPress.org account
Applied MAth

Description:
We set up our WordPress.org account and also took a quiz of coding and web design. We have math and it's about budgeting on buying a home and things of that nature.

3/27/15

DO NOW:
Finish/Submit Travel Websites

OBJECTIVES:
Dreamweaver/HTML Quiz Review
Introduction to Wordpress

Description:
We continued thw Wordpress worksheet and also we created a blog on WordPress and posted something. Did a review on Dreamweaver.

3/26/15

DO NOW:
Finish Travel Website (Don't forget to hand-in rubric and copy files to the shared folder)

OBJECTIVES:

1. Travel Website Presentations
2. Introduction to Wordpress

Went over what WordPress was and some of teh terms involving it. We presented some of the Websites and went over the requirements of it and what could have been better.

DO NOW:
Vote on DVC Shirt Design on Google+

OBJECTIVES:
Submit Travel Website
Project Reflection - (Type the following)

1. List and describe as many tools/palettes/procedures as you can remember about using Dreamweaver & Photoshop to make a website.
2. Based on what we have learned so far, rate skill on a scale of 1-10 and explain why.

Applied English - Biography Presentations

Description:
I edited my CAP Logo and I handed in the project reflection sheet to Mr. D. Then we had English and more kids presented their projects.

3/24/15

DO NOW:
Print "Travel Website Requirements" from the Shared Folder (not google drive". Have a classmate look at your site, circle missing items, initial and turn-in to me.

OBJECTIVES:
Email link and Interactive Form in Dreamweaver
CSS

Description:
I continued to work on and finish making my website. I also graded someone else's progress in theirs. I organized some of the information a bit more using table.
I fixed one of the slide shows and I learned how to put an email link and us CSS on DreamWeaver.

3/23/15

• Do Now: Find at least 5 images that might relate to your travel site

OBJECTIVES:

• 1.       Create a slideshow using Adobe Photoshop (Animated GIF)
  2.       Insert Video into a webpage using HTML
  3.       Create an email link

        Description:
      Made slide shows for my website on Photoshop. I made a slide show for each page to show interest. I changed the color of the background to orange and added some information to some of the pages.

         

3/20/15

DO NOW:
Type and print the answers to the following:
What is a slice in Photoshop? Why is it created?
What is a layer effect? Give an example.

OBJECTIVES:
Insert "Rollover Images" in Dreamweaver
Create slideshow (Animated GIF) in Photoshop
Applied Math

Description:
We worked on our links, by adding them into dreamweaver. I tested it out in Chrome and it seemed to wor. There was a few bugs but I was able to fix it. We also discussed the Do Now and I got some pictures for the slide show that we're doing later on. We are alos going to discuss college funds and money in math today.

3/19/15

DO NOW:
Help revise a logo by doing two things:
Add to the following logo the text "Community Art Project" or "CAP" and
Add a graphic that will reflect sculpture or art

OBJECTIVES:
Make graphical navigation bar in Photoshop/Insert into Dreamweaver

Make a slideshow in Photoshop/Insert into Dreamweaver

Desription:

We worked on a Logo design for DownTown TomsRiver's CAP and submitted to a folder in google docs. We also worked on our navigation tabs and made them into buttons. We used the slice tools to on photoshop to help create the buttons and saved the two different colors into two foldering on the image folder. 

3/17/15

DO NOW:
Open Dreamweaver and be prepared to show me what you added to your pages yesterday.

OBJECTIVES:
Discuss "Sensitivity" lesson
Create graphical navigation bar
Applied English

Description:
I worked a bit on my website. Edited a few pages by listing out the outline of what I am planning to do to each page. I also edited my header logo so that the navigation was attached to it. I did this in photoshop. We also went over the sensitivity worksheet that we did yesterday.

3/17/15

We did a worksheet on judging people based on their appearances and how bad it is.

3/16/15

         

           Do Now: Get your grade report and finish any missing assignments

           

     OBJECTIVES

1.       Finish Web Banner in Photoshop

2.       Make a navigation bar using Adobe Photoshop

3.       Create table based layout for travel website

4.       Place Header  Image using HTML

5.       Place navigation bar images using HTML

6.       Attend college presentation

Description:

We had a guest speaker on a college in California. It was very informative and interesting. After that, we worked on Dream Weaver and added the web banner to the website and to other pages. We discussed a bit about how coding works and how Dream Weaver works.

2/26/15

 
DO NOW:
What did you learn from career research yesterday? Talk to a classmate about it.

OBJECTIVES:
Website Pricing
Teacher Website Progress


Description:

3/12/15

1. Find a piece of paper and write down as many tags as you can remember and describe what they do.
2. Continue working on your English Powerpoint if not finished.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Creating a table-based layout using HTML
2. Applied Math

Description:

We had a guest speaker for Math and he talked about budgeting and other bank topics. I also got caught up from what I missed yesterday. It was basically doing links with coding and today we were doing coding involving columns and such.

3/13/15

DO NOW:
Get a piece of drawing paper and make 3 thumbnail sketches of a header image/logo for your Travel Website. They should each include the name, a graphic, indicate colors and font style.

OBJECTIVES:
Create a logo for travel website
Set-Up table based layout for Travel Website

Description:

I sketched out and chose an idea to a banner for my travel website. Then I began to make the banner on photoshop and I also used some pictures from google images.

3/10/15

DO NOW:
How do you think we should start the planning for a "Travel Website" design. Reply to this post.

OBJECTIVES:
Travel Website Planning
Insert links, images and background color using HTML

Description:

Most of the travel sites I saw have pictures of the places that would be interesting to travel to, the pricing or at least some examples, some sales to get the viewer interested, navigation and different tabs to choose from if you need to be specific. There are also too many links to different pages.

We discussed how we should design the website and also on some other codes to help design the background and text coloring.

3/9/15

Do Now: Think about your experiences creating the teacher websites. Type 2-3 paragraphs explaining what you would do differently if you could start again? What have you learned from the project either from a technical point of view or in communication skills that you can apply to future projects. Share your writing with OCVTSDVC@gmail.com

OBJECTIVES:

1.       Teacher Website Reflection

2.       Teacher Website Presentations

3.       Net Neutrality Discussion

4.       Intro to HTML coding

Description:

Wrote up Do Now in google Docs and shared to OCTVS. We also went over coding and did a worksheet and a little practice on coding.

3/4/15

What I did today.....

Today I worked on my Biography Slide Show. I got a lot done. I finished most of the slides and just need to add some pictures to a few.

3/3/15

          

    Do Now: 

1.      Open “Net Neutrality” form on Google+. Answer the questions to complete and submit form.

Objectives:

2.     Learn about current internet issues

3.     Finish Teacher Websites

4.     Get Teacher feedback on websites

5.     Submit Teacher website rubric (with teacher evaluation)

6.     Applied English

        Description:

         

         I recieved back the evaluation form from the nurse and my partner corrected the things that needed to be corrected. For our do now we read over some information on the FCC. We had English today

3/2/15

DO NOW:
Continue working on Teacher Website

OBJECTIVES:

1. Finish adding content
2. Get teacher evaluation
3. Submit Rubric

Description: I finished up my stickers and printed them out and gave the Nurse the evaluation sheet. Hopefully she will fill it out by tomorrow.