224+126, Week 35, Day Three, Photobooth+My Name+HW 2

Good morning.

Welcome to day 3 of Creative Writing. Open your journal and get started. Check this website everyday for tips, instructions and assignments. Below is the agenda for the day:

• Write your daily thoughts.
• Go to Day 3 in your journal and begin writing about your name.
• Get out your homework and place it on your work station table top. (*If you forgot, ask for a note card from Mr. Loreto)
• Introduction to Photo Booth (Beginner’s Guide to Photo Booth for Review)
• Your Photo Booth Assignment: You need to take the following 7  photographs.
• 3 photographs of you (portrait, right profile,  and left profile), 4 photographs of your HW assignment.
• Save all your photographs in your folder and rename them all.
• Delete all photographs from Photo Booth.
• Save
• Logout

224 + 126, Day 2, Things that make me happy and HW1, Week 35

Good morning.

Welcome to day 2 of Creative Writing. Open your journal and get started. Check this website everyday for tips, instructions and assignments. Below is the agenda for the day:

• Open your journal and write your “Daily Thoughts” (Remember to changed the date, write your thoughts and rate your day).
• Save your journal by going up to the Menu bar and clicking on “save” or holding down the command key and tapping “s”.
• Scroll down to Day 2 of your journal and start to complete the table for Day 2, “Things that make me happy”
• Firefox,  “image search” and saving images into your folder.
• HOMEWORK, Bring in an object from home. Some thing that belongs to “YOU” below are the requirements for the object:

1. It must belong to you.
2. It must fit in your pocket and/or book bag.
3. It must be something that reflects something about you.
4. Some ideas of things to bring to write about: (A photograph, A drawing, A small toy, A small ball, A bracelet/jewelry, et cetera)
5. If you have questions about it, ask Mr. Loreto.

• Save
• Logout
• Dismissal

128, Week 25, Creative Writing Agenda

Friday, March 12, 2010

• Write in your journal about your homework item. Describe it using your senses. Write 1 statement for each sense.
• Copy and past if it helps.

1. My homework looks like….
2. My homework smells like….
3. My homework feels like…
4. My homework sounds like…
5. My homework tastes like….

• Photo Booth
• Create Photograph folder in your File Folder.
• Take four photos of your HW.
• Rename all your photos (click on photograph and press return)
• Place on in your journal.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Second Day of Creative Writing.

• Write in your journal. Today’s option four is, if I were to go into your home, what would I see that belongs to YOU. Describe it.
• Write in your daily check table.
• Your Grading Table
• Homework Assignment Number 1
• Class website
• Writing Activity 1 My Crazy Exploratory Journey….
• Take your list from your journal and choose on exploratory class.
• Write a story about one of your exploratory classes. What is the best thing about it? What is something funny that happened in Exploratory? What did you learn?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

First Day of Creative Writing. YEAH!

• Get to know your iMac
• Create your Creative Writing Folder
• Create your Creative Writing Journal
• Save all of your work
• Write in your journal

130 and 228, Week 23 Creative Writing Agenda

• LOG IN to your computer (User: Student)
• OPEN Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• OPEN your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
• OPEN your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
• Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.
• Or write about the following:

(1.) What is on your mind?
(2.) How you are feeling?
(3.) Something that learned
(4.) ask Mr. Loreto for a writing idea.

• Check- in

Monday, February 22, 2010

Today, we will be writing more about your homework item. On Thursday, you wrote a list about the things you think about when you have that item in your possession. Today, we will be writing a paragraph to describe it. Describe your item without naming it. Use your senses to help you describe it. Here are some questions to help you write about it.

• What does it look like?
• What does it sound like?
• What does it smell like?
• What does it feel like (when you have it in your hands)?
• What does it taste like (is it something you can eat)?

Lesson:

Keynote Introduction. Today we will be learning how to use Keynote, a slide show creation program. Keynote is a lot like Microsoft PowerPoint, except it has a different personality. In order to know it well, you have to get to know Keynote. In class, we will be going over the following:

• Starting up Keynote
• Choosing a Template/Opening a slide show
• Creating a Title Slide
• Saving your slide show
• Adding Slides
• Using Masters
• Changing Themes

You will have time in class to work on your slide show.

• Save/Logout
• Checkout
• Dismissal

Tuesday and Wednesday,

February 23 and 24, 2010

Tuesday, in your journal tell the story about how you got your homework item. Give the setting (time and place). Give details. What were you wearing? What noises do you remember?

Write until you can write no more.

Order of Slides in Slide Show

Slide 1: Title and Heading
Slide 2: Introduction
Slide 3:First Journal Entry 2.18.10
Slide 4: Photograph
Slide 5: How did I get it? 2.23.10
Slide 6: Photograph
Slide 7:Description 2.22.10
Slide 8: Photograph
Slide 9: Story
Slide 10:Credits
Slide 11: Thank You
Slide 12: Blank

Wednesday, in your journal, tell the most memorable story about your homework item. What do you think about the most vividly when you see that item? Give details.

Lesson. Keynote: Setting up your slide show.
Today will will go over how to:

• Review steps from yesterday.
• Add text from your journal (copy and paste)
• Format Text
• Format
• Insert Pictures
• Re order Slides
• Inspector Tool Bar (Document Button)
• Loop Slide Show
• Self Playing Slide Show
• Inspector Tool Bar (Slide Button)
• Insert Transitions
• Slide Background
• Inspector Tool Bar (Builds Button)
• Builds options

130 and 228, Creative Writing Agenda Week 22

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Introduction to Creative Writing.

Check in. Say your name and a word to describe your state of being. (Mr. Loreto will give an example.)

Expectations for Creative Writing.

• General 313 Expectations and grading in Creative Writing
• Participation, Attendance and Passes
• Procedures and Routines in Creative Writing

1. LOG IN to your computer (User: Student)
2. OPEN Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
3. OPEN your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
4. OPEN your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
5. Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.

• Writing everyday.
• Learning how to use Mac Computers as tools to improve your learning and life.
• Orientation to your iMac
• (Login)
• (Opening Firefox)
• (Introduction to class website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• Pages/Journal
• Students create a journal document in pages
• Save to a student created folder saved on the computer hard drive
• Homework Assignment. Bring in an object from home that you can write about. It should be a thing that belongs to you. Bring it to class tomorrow. You will write about it.
• Save/Logout
• Check out/Dismissal

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

• Journal. Finish writing  “Respect is…” statements.
• Respect pyramid poem.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

• Writing about your homework.

You should have your homework with you today in class.

You were asked to bring something from home to write about. It is like show and tell, except it is more like show and write. Your item from home can be lots of different things (a pair of headphones, a book, a stuffed animal), but it must be YOURS. Also, you must tell your parents that you are bringing it to school and make sure it is ok.

Today, in your journal, start a new page and write about your homework. Write a list of things you think about when you see or have your homework item with you. Write everything you can think of in your list. You will have ten minutes to write.

Example. Mr. Loreto’s glasses.

2nd grade, thick lens, falling off my face, hard to play basketball, I lost them on purpose for a summer, so happy when I was old enough to wear contact lens, black, brown, light, square, sight, snow, foggy lens, swimming..

• Photobooth Camera.
• Save/Logout
• Check out.

Friday, February 19, 2010

In your journal today, write about your week. What was good? What would you like to change? Et cetera.

Once you finish your journal, look at the list below and see that you have your assignments complete.

• Respect is list (12 statements that define respect)
• Respect Pyramid Poem.
• Homework writing.
• Homework photographs (4 photos in your folder)
• 1 photo in your journal.
• This week writing.
• Table of Contents (Mr. Loreto will help you with this when you check in.)