Sunday, 24 March 2013

DigLit March 25th - 28th

Welcome Back Everyone!

Here's what we've been learning in Digital Literacy to date:
  • Powerpoint Basics + How to Save Slides as .jpg (photos, Mr. D's tribute video)
  • Internet Safety, Privacy, & Digital Footprint (poster assignment, digital literacy)
  • Keyboarding Tutorials (individual goals, perseverence, productivity essentials)
  • Photoshop Basics (navigation, toolbar, layers, filters, contrast, saturation, creativity)

Our Next Steps are to:
  • Develop your Digital Story--a digital biography of yourself for your eportfolio (powerpoint slides, iMovie or MovieMaker) due Friday April 12th
  • Create a basic eportfolio using Wordpress in SD8Learns (TBA)
  • Major Project
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Monday March 25th/ Wed March 27th  /D2 P2 (Apples):
1.Digital Footprint Poster overdue (Zach, Tanisha, Benn, Ezra, Kody, Bruce, Brandon, Jasmyne, Mary Rose, Shawn, Mikki, Alex, Roanne, Reid)
2. Photoshop Review & Online Quiz (10 points) 
     (see Ms. Malloff for your username and password/quiz password)
3. My Digital Story: See example, develop criteria, begin your own (due Friday April 12th)
4. Introduction to SD8VLC! (15 minutes)

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Tuesday March 26th /D1 P2 (Androids):
1.Digital Footprint Poster overdue (Rosie,Kelsey, Conrad, Finn, Logan, Jenna, Jared, Shyanna, Max, Myah, Breanna, Riley, Teya, Sierra, 
2.Digital Story: See example, develop criteria, begin your own (due Friday April 12th)
3. Photoshop Review & Online Quiz (10 points) 
     (see Ms. Malloff for your username and password/quiz password)

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One of the Excellent Examples of a Digital Footprint Poster (Thanks, Makenna!)


Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Digital Literacy Week March 4-8th


1.Keyboarding Skills (we’re done this week!)
1.Grab your drill sheet
2.What was your goal? How did you do, and why?
       (reflections on the back of your sheet please)

2.Digital Footprint & Online Safety Poster Due
1.Criteria Sheets, Peer and Self-Assessment
2.**Put Digital Posters in Gr 7/8 Shared Folder

3.My Digital Story
1.Colours Inventory/Learning Style
2.Example—Criteria---Build your own (3 classes)
1.-Must have at least one Photoshop edited photo
2.Of you! (One “classic” and one “experimental”)