Ms+Pearly's+Class

Blog posts should be posted at [|KidBlog] late assignments will lose 5 points a day.

Due May 21 Basic Formatting Charts and Graphs

Due May 14 Presentation Software Unit Quiz Parts and Navigation

Due April 29 Effects and Views Hyperlinks

Due March 26 Elements and Basic Design Lines, Lists and Structure

Due February 26 Mapping Community Sites This will allow everyone who has once again fallen behind to catch up.

Due February 9: Audio/Video Due February 10: Graphics Due February 11: Desktop Publishing Due February 12: Databases Due February 17: Multimedia and Databases Unit Quiz (test grade) Blogs Podcasts

Homework Due January 30 All learning.com assignments up to Proofreading and Correcting

Learning.com assignments up to Word Processing Software Unit Quiz If you are up to date, that means Alternative Solutions and Word Processing Software Unit Quiz (counts as a test) Research should be completed for flyer project.
 * Homework Due January 28**

Learning.com assignments up to Creating Original Works (If you are up to date, that means School Work and Creating Original Works)
 * Homework Due January 22**

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. 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."

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;">At the bottom of your flyer, put your "Works Cited" - both of your sources from your kidblog post should be there! <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;">Here's something to start you off. <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">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: <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;">1. Trash in the ocean is dangerous both for the water and for the life in the ocean.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;">Works Cited <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;">"Sea of Trash." Scholastic News 5 October 2009. Available from: Searchasaurus.

learning.com: Overview of Usage Functions and Formats Shaping Up Visual Design
 * Homework Due December 16:**

Learning.com assignments up to Ethical use of Digital resources
 * Homework Due December 8:**

All learning.com assignments from Mobile Devices - Online Safety should be completed. Finish Searching for Scientists if you did not already do so. Of your three web sources, 1 should be from our school databases (Searchasaurus is a good source). 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 2:**

If you would like to move ahead on learning.com assignments, you may do so.

October 25

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 post.