Ms+Caruso's+Class

Ms Caruso's Class Assignments turned in after the due date will lose 5 points per day late.

Blog posts should be posted at [|KidBlog]

Due May 18 Formulas Basic Formatting

Due May 14 Presentation Software Unit Quiz Parts and Navigation

Due May 8 Effects and Views Hyperlinks

Due April 14 Elements and Basic Design Lines, Lists, and Structures

Due March 31 Personal Learning Networks Communicating ONline Unit Quiz

Due February 18 Podcasts Blogs Due February 19 Mapping Due February 20 Community Sites

Due February 10: Overview of Usage

Due February 11: Functions and Formats

Due February 12: Word Processing Software Unit Quiz (counts as test

Due January 30: Alternative Solutions

Due January 29: The research for the attached assignment.

Due January 23 learning.com: Proofreading Creating Original Works

Due January 14 learning.com: Shaping Up Visual Design School Work

Homework over Winter Break Make a flyer on Microsoft Word (or some other word processing program) to convince people not to litter, using the information you found in your two articles and saved in your kidblog post. Make it interesting to look at. Use the header (double click on the top of the page) for your title, which should be size 40 font.
 * Homework Due January 5**

The rest of your information should be 25 font or smaller. Use all 10 of your facts to be persuasive. If your fact is "Trash in the ocean is dangerous both for the water and for the life in the ocean," your persuasive statement could be "When you litter, your trash could wind up in the ocean and harm ocean life as well as the water."

At the bottom of your flyer, put your "Works Cited" - both of your sources from your kidblog post should be there! Here's something to start you off.

Print your flyer and hand it in to me.

Find information about ocean trash.Use an article from National Geographic Kids and one from Searchasourus. (online databases) In a kidblog post, list 10 things you learned from your articles in your own words, explaining anything that is not perfectly clear to someone who does not know about the topic. Include the sources,__**properly cited**__. For help, see the handout from class or the link on the side of this page called "Useful Citation Tips."
 * Homework Due December 23rd:**

For an example statement and citation, see below: 1. Trash in the ocean is dangerous both for the water and for the life in the ocean.

Works Cited "Sea of Trash." Scholastic News 5 October 2009. Available from: Searchasaurus.

All assignments on learning.com up to Ethical Use of Digital Resources
 * Homework Due December 17**

All learning.com assignments from Program Menus and Toolbars (assignment 1) to the Web Browsing unit quiz (assignment 13) as well as the Searching for Scientists assignment (Assignment 17) should be complete. Of your three web sources for Searching for Scientists, 1 should be from our school databases. The username for the databases is hoboken and the password is redwings. The other 2 should not be wikipedia, answers.com, or any similar sites.
 * Homework due December 1**

If you've finished all of these, you can feel free to move ahead on learning.com


 * October 22**

Open Microsoft Word. Write a list of 3-5 things that you learned from Unit 1: Computer Fundamentals. Make sure it is in list form (numbered, or with bullet points), and that it is spell-checked.

Go to KidBlog. Create a new blog post. Click Upload/insert files. Select your Word document and upload it.

Name the blog post "What I've learned Unit 1" Publish the blog.

November 3 It's National Novel Writing Month. If you were going to write a novel, what genre would it be? What would it be about? Do some research into other books within that genre, and figure out what book you would want your book to be like. Explain what that book has that you like, and how your book would be different from that book. Write a blog post explaining the answers to these questions. Then find a picture on the internet that you think would be good for the cover of your book and upload it.