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when received: Sun 9/04/2001 through Thu 10/11/2001
Congratulations!
You have recieved full credit for successfully completing your first assignment
in a timely fashion.
Most of the assignments and class resources will be online for you to
access on the FAIS-IHS website. For instance, if you have any questions
about what we'll discuss in class, (the Expectations, Access to the computers
in the lab, or the TechnoLounge), please visit:
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/access.html
I am available daily in the
TechnoLounge from 12:15 to 12:52 daily if you have any other questions.
Of course, you can always reach me by email:
techno09teacher@mac.com
The next assignment is almost
as easy...
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You can follow this link for the colorful version with links
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/assignments.html
OR
read the plain text below
Assignment 2
Contact another 9th grade student from the list posted in the TechnoLounge,
and tell them about Assignment 1.
Contact a non-greened student . (Green highlighted names are no longer
eligible for this exercise)
Give them a tear-away email address/assignment slip to help them send
their email to me.
Ask them to include your name in the email to me, so you receive the credit
for completing the assignment by finding them.
Questions? Send me an email,
techno09teacher@mac.com
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09 teacher
Still on jury duty, Jeannene
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Sent when received: Tue 10/2/2001 through ÊFri
11/9/2001
Congratulations and thank you
for sharing your most memorable message from the past few weeks. It will
be added to the webpage of the class's collective thoughts and offerings
at
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/messages.html
Most contributions were impressive
and all were powerful. I've received poetry, images, chain letters, lyrics,
thoughtful ideas and much hope for the future.
I appreciate you turning in your assignment.
many thanks and peace, Jeannene
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Sent:Fri 10/26/2001
Dearest Tuesday class,
I wanted to give you the heads-up about the next assignment for Techno.09
class. Of course, you may have already visited the Assignment page at
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/assignments.html
in which case this is no surprise.
On our return to school, we
will be creating web pages. The content of these pages will be a 3 step
How-to or tutorial. You can choose your area of expertise, break it down
into 3 easy-to-follow steps, and ultimately share your knowledge with
the world once your page is added to the IHS website.
There are examples of tutorials at www.learn2.com and www.ehow.com to
give you some ideas/guidelines for writing concise instructions in step-by-step
form. These are examples to jumpstart your imagination, your tutorial
idea should be your own.
So the homework over this October
break is to submit your proposal tutorial topic to me via email [techno09teacher@mac.com].
I will send a confirmation email once I have received your proposal.
Do not hesitate to email questions
if you need further clarification about this assignment.
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09
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Sent:Tue 10/30/2001 12:44 AM
Just a reminder...
Your homework over this October break is to submit your proposal for your
tutorial topic to me via email [techno09teacher@mac.com]. I will send a
confirmation email once I have received your proposal.
The Assignment page is always
available at http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/assignments.html
On our return to school, we will be creating web pages. The content of
these pages will be a 3 step How-to or tutorial. You can choose your area
of expertise, break it down into 3 easy-to-follow steps, and ultimately
share your knowledge with the world once your page is added to the IHS
website.
There are examples of tutorials at www.learn2.com and www.ehow.com to
give you some ideas/guidelines for writing concise instructions in step-by-step
form. These are examples to jumpstart your imagination, your tutorial
idea should be your own.
Do not hesitate to email questions
if you need further clarification about this assignment.
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09
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when received:Wed 10/24/01 through 11/08/01
You were the [2nd, 5th, etc.]
in your class to submit your proposal. Thanks.
Here are some considerations when 'designing' your tutorial...
1. K.I.S.S.
Keep it Super Simple. Ideally, a 3-step tutorial works well for the class
website pages because it will fit on one/your page and succinctly inform
your audience in an easily digestible format. If your original idea is
large and needs more than 3 steps to explain (i.e. How to Rule the Universe),
you might consider breaking it down into a smaller component of the original
idea, (i.e. 3 Steps to a Better Planet or How to Weed a Backyard Garden)
2. Format
Give it an intriguing TITLE.
SUMMARIZE what you are about to guide them through and why you are the
ultimate source of this knowledge to be shared.
NUMBER THE STEPS for clarity.
3. Visualize the visuals
The next step of this project will be to illustrate your tutorial with
photographs or drawings or screen grabs. One image per step would be ideal
if it helps to clarify your words. The written word has the ultimate power
to inform, add a strong visual and your information comes alive. Write
the tutorial first, we'll talk in class about how to gather images to
enhance it next.
Please don't hesitate to ask
questions if any of this is unclear, the only dumb question is the one
you don't ask.
See you in class, Jeannene
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Sent: Thu, 08 Nov 2001
Subject: Proposal due today!
Grade Alert!
I'm missing Assignment 5 for you, your tutorial proposal. There is still
time to send it and get full credit before I post grades tomorrow. Don't
let your grade slip away...
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09
Assignments can always be found at
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/assignments.html
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Sent:Sun
12/2/2001 7:40 PM
Hello!
The semester draws to a close and your final project for Techno.09 will
be due the week of December 17. There will be no final exams for Techno.09
(thank you, Jeannene), but your webpage tutorial must be handed in before
the winter break.
The in-class webpage demo has
fallen victim to 'gremlins in the machine' so I must redirect you to the
online 'recipe' for this assignment.
Everything you need to build your webpage in Dreamweaver is located @
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/webpage.html
You can print it out to use as a guide to follow while you work.
For the purposes of this project
and your grade, I ask that you follow these design guidelines to create
similar looking pages for inclusion in the Techno.09 website. Your own
creativity will be unleashed in future pages and projects.
If you still need to size and
save your gathered images for the webpage, check out
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/imagegathering.html#sized
to refresh your memory of these Photoshop procedures.
You will have time to work
on this project in class in the next few
weeks. As always, I am available in the TechnoLounge and by email
[techno09teacher@mac.com] to answer questions and clarify.
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09 teacher
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Sent:Sun 12/9/2001 7:49 PM
Hello!
I am accepting finished webpages until Friday noon, December 21, 2001.
Remember finals week starts December 17. Use this week to finish your
webpage in class and avoid the last minute rush.
Check out the checklist @
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/checklist.html
This is not a completed assignment if it is not handed in completely.
Happy holidaze, Jeannene
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Sent:Mon
12/31/2001
Dear
Class of 2005!
Visit
your
classwork
on the World Wide Web
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Exciting
Extra Credit Opportunity
I know of ten uncorrected
spelling errors on these fresh webpages, there may be more...
Find them and receive a point for each misspelling.
Print the page, circle
the mistake, add your name, hand it to me within the first week
of school.
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Happy New Year,
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09 teacher
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Sent: Mon 1/14/2002 12:24 AM
Dearest Class of 2005!
Your
completed webpage ratings are due at the beginning of class this
week.
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If you have lost or misplaced the rating sheet, there are extras
in the TechLounge (back bulletin board) or you can print a copy
of both pages from this
webpage.
Please include your choice
of Top Five webpages from this
project on the rating sheet.
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Just
a reminder,
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09 teacher
P.S. Extra
credit for finding spelling and grammar errors will be
accepted until Thursday, January 17 by 4:20pm.
There are still 10 uncorrected mistakes on the webpages. Last week,
fellow students found over 30 more mistakes!
The website looks great because of your efforts.
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Sent: Mon 2/11/2002 9:45 PM
Dear Class of 2005!
Besides the quiz on the Photoshop
toolbar and other keyboard
shortcuts
this week in class, a first version of your splash page will be due.
The document dimensions should be 480 x 360 pixels,
Your first name or alternate text with text effects should be on a separate
layer
from the other images and layers (disguised portrait, found web images
or drawings).
Please deposit a copy of your
Photoshop document on the designated server in the Splash folder.
Name the file with your name to receive proper credit
Of course, missing this deadline will affect your grade.
Technically yours, Jeannene
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Sent:
Tue 2/26/2002 10:52 PM
Dearest Class of 2005!
We'll be going over the quiz
in class this week. Your grades
are posted online.
What's next? Two things for
the week you return to school.
Please email techno09teacher@mac.com and yourself
- The title of the book
you have chosen to review.
Start working independently on writing this review for a favorite book
you would recommend that others read. Consider this a
sales pitch; convincing, positive, and intriguing for any potential
reader. Include the title, author, number of pages, and your
insights and opinions.
We will also include a thumbnail of the book's cover with this review.
You may be able to find the thumbnail at
www.amazon.com or scan a copy from the library or your personal collection.
- The quote, lyric, line
of poetry, or personal credo that you plan to use on your opening
splash screen.
These are words you live by or find inspiring. If they are someone else's
words, you must credit them, of course.
I look forward to receiving
your email with these two items enclosed.
This email assignment is due before next week's class meets.
Welcome back !
P.S. Start thinking about the
classwork you are most proud of and the best way to display it on a web
page...
All this assignment information is accessible
online. Check it weekly to stay on top of your Techno.09 classwork.
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Sent: Mon 4/1/2002 12:53 AM
Dear Class of 2005!
Only 26 Book Reviews are online @ [ http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/reviews.html
]
If yours isn't there or not linked, check the bulletin board in the TechLounge,
a final round of corrections
are hanging patiently, waiting for pickup.
Yours must be corrected and
a fresh printout handed to me by the end of class this week.
The printable checklist
is your friend...
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/checklist2.html
Be sure to complete
the reading for this week, before you arrive in class.
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09.04/assignments/12searchin.html
There will be a short in-class
assignment, also due by end of class.
Of course, all this information
is online in the usual
place.
Technically yours, Jeannene
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Sent: Mon 4/8/2002 1:20 AM
Dear Class of 2005!
Catching up with pending projects
during this short week before the break...
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/assignments.html#break
Homework over the break:
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/imagine.html
Need help with your community
research project? Your classmates have compiled their summaries
of search engines.
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09
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Sent: Sunday 4/28/2002 3:00PM
Dear Class of 2005
1. The Assignment
The last weeks of this semester will be devoted to digital storytelling.
Your final project will be a 1 to 3 minute digital movie incorporating
still images (webfound, scanned, or created in Photoshop), a scripted
voice-over narration to be recorded or videotaped as part of the soundtrack
along with music, you may choose.
2. Getting started: Making
your predictions for the future
There are several steps to creating a good movie. First and foremost,
you will want to start with a strong foundation: your script. Since you'll
be illustrating the future you are predicting, consider your words as
the guide to the visuals you will eventually create. You can brainstorm
on this outside of class, so below are some ideas to jump-start your imagination.
Your prediction/narration script
can have the viewpoint of:
a fortune teller, seeing into the future and telling how it will be
OR a newscaster reporting the days events as if they were happening at
that moment in time
OR your future-self reminiscing about the changes you've witnessed in
your long lifetime
OR anything else, after all, this is the future.
For those of you that work
from the visual to the verbal ...
You can describe the 'world you foresee' as: a futuristic locale, your
home, a place for future pastimes
OR a series of postcards from your future world travels
OR what you wear, eat, drink, how you will communicate with others, tools/gadgets
you will use in your daily life
OR the present day world plus time (10 years, 20 years, 30 years)
3. Due dates and deadlines
for this project
Because of the limited time we have in class each week, as always, I will
encourage you to plan ahead and come to class prepared to work on this
project. Each deadline will be a portion of your final grade. Miss a deadline
and your grade will suffer. The script of your story is just the beginning*.
Bookmark http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/index.html
for easy reference to the deadline calendar.
You will need to submit your
finished script for my approval via email or hand me a hard copy before
Monday, May 6th! prior to recording it as your voice-over. Email a copy
to yourself (cc:) to use for the storyboard deadline.
*The next step is storyboarding
or planning which images you will match up with your voice-over/script.
Stretch your creativity and
imagination to its limits.
Yours so very truly, Jeannene
P.S. Still due: Classwork webpage.
Check the guidelines @ http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/classwork.html
Your grade is degrading each week you don't complete and hand in this
simple assignment.
In class this week of April
29th: short show and tell about linking your webpages to your completed
splash page to complete your website. Website is due by end of your regular
class, the week of May 6th
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Sent: Monday 4/29/2002 6:00PM
Dear Class of 2005!
Your Book Reviews are almost
ready to link to the library online...
10 day window of opportunity
for Extra Credit?
There are at least ten uncorrected spelling or grammatical errors on these
webpages, there may be more...
Find them and receive a point for each misspelling.
Print the page, circle the mistake, add your name, hand it to me by Thursday,
May 9th
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09 teacher
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•Whew! you made the deadline
and made the grade! Congrats on your A!
• One day late so you
recieved a B!
• Whew! Two days late
so you recieved a C!
Print out a storyboard (or
pick one up in the TechLounge) and start doodling and planning the images
you need to collect to match/illustrate your script.
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09.04/assignments/16storyboard.html
Break up the script into manageble
chunks/sentences and draw (stick figures are OK) or describe what you'll
see when you synch it with your voiceover. I'll need to spot check your
storyboard by next class.
More deadlines to come in the
future, Jeannene
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Sent:
Saturday 5/18/2002 2:00PM
Dear Class of 2005!
Most of you know, I was super
impressed with the scripts turned in for the Future/Prediction movie.
After talking to several diligent students about assignments expected
from you in your other classes, I am adjusting this assignment to aide
in completion before the school year ends.
From your amazing script, choose
2 to 3 sentences from your story to record and illustrate. They should
total about 1 minute of recorded voice time (instead of 3 minutes). Choose
your most vivid and expressive verbiage about the future and those which
will yield the most rich and dense imagery you can collage in Photoshop.
This is an editing process, which will ultimately cut down on the time
it takes to finish this movie project. I will assemble these shorter movies
into a larger collaborative effort from the mighty Class of 2005.
You must still:
Record your voiceover • http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09.04/assignments/18audio.html
Gather and prepare rich and dense images • http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/prep.html
Assemble these parts in Premiere to create your movie • http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09.04/assignments/20premiere.html
Time is slipping away, so I
will expect you to come prepared to class (check the Assignment page)
and use your class time to complete these final tasks.
Plan for your success in this class!
For those that have not handed
in the checklist: Your website is STILL DUE!
Jeannene
Techno.09
P.S. Meanwhile, your complete
future stories and predictions are online!
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/future.html
If you need to give me a revised version for posterity, please do so by
email.
Please spell check before handing in a fresher version.
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Sent:
Friday 5/29/2002 11:29AM
Dear Teachers & Staff,
If you are looking for something beyond www.google.com or www.altavista.com,
the Class of 2005 has some helpful insights online about search engines
@
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/searchthem.html
Speaking of insights, most
of the students have posted scripts about their predictions for the future
@
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/future.html
The main entry page for all
their webwork this year is accessible from the main page @ http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/
Bookmark and enjoy...
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09
P.S. Other classwork from this
year (Macbeth, French) and years past are accessible @ http://www.jeannene.net/
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Sent:
Friday 5/31/2002 11:44AM
Dear Straggler of 2005!
I have not found evidence of your completed (yet overdue) work on the designated server
in the Classwork or Website folder.
The classwork webpage was due
before the April break (!!!!)
This assignment is complete
when...
your completed xxwork.html
file
and any linked image
files
are copied to the designated server's
Classwork folder
and I have a clean printout
Since the classwork webpage
must be completed before you can link to it from your Splash page to complete
your Website, I will accept it along with your completed website folder,
along with that clean printout.
To ensure that you receive
proper credit for completing your website (splash page & linked files),
you must place a copy of your folder on the designated server in the Website folder and
hand me a signed and completed checklist.
You are very close and there
is no reason to receive an incomplete on this project you have worked
on throughout the semester.
I will be in the TechLounge Monday thru Thursday for the next 2 weeks
to answer questions and assist you with meeting this essential goal.
Yours very truly,
Jeannene Hansen
Techno.09 Resources for your
convenience:
All the links to the tutorials in pretty picture form
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/remedial.html
The all important checklist
to hand to me once you have completed your website
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/checklist3.html
Inspiring work by your classmates
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/sharing.html
http://www.jeannene.net/techno.09/classwork/classworkz.html
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