Summercore 2006 (July 24-28, 2006) at Shorecrest Preparatory School

Click the thumbnail to magnify our graduation picture ... notice the clock says a few minutes after 12:33!

Interns: SW and SN ... Winner of the $33 contest was Kate LaVange (marathoner#2352) representing Academy at the Lakes ... we will have second and third places ($5) perhaps to Imani and Nicole (or anyone else)

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Links and Assignments from the Week

• WIKIS and MORE: we have a new link on www.summercore.com created just for you over the last few days. It is titled "Wikis and More" and is at the bottom right of the Summercore Chart. The goal is help you with: wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, aggregators (and more) ... click here to read and learn ... our Summercore wiki that you can edit without a password is at summercore.wikispaces.com
• Our Summercore blog is at http://summercore.blogspot.com/
• Assignment A1 involved groups of 3 answering the 33 questions and sending to turnin-summercore on first class e-mail ... click here for the A1 summary (22 page pdf document)
• Assignment A2 involved inspiration documents with the JV and Varsity split
  Some samples ("can't post them all ... sorry!"): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
• Assignment A3 involved groups of people looking for webquests and sending to turnin-summercore on first class e-mail ... click here for the A3 summary (7 page pdf document)
• Assignment A4 involved creating a BLOG for your group of three people on www.bloggers.com ... this is the first Summercore in 22 years that has completed this assignment!
  • http://nlksummercore.blogspot.com/ ... Nicole, Katie, Laurie
  • http://cssummercore.blogspot.com/
  • http://khbsummercore.blogspot.com/
  • http://dssummercore.blogspot.com/
  • http://aabsummercore.blogspot.com/ ... Angie, Anne, Bob
  • http://frsummercore.blogspot.com/
  • http://summercore5.blogspot.com/ ... Imani, Jan, Jill D
  • http://s3summercore.blogspot.com/ ... Sonia, Sue, Susan
  • http://summercorejp.blogspot.com/ ... Joni, Joyce, and JillP
• Assignment A5 (Tuesday) involved creating a PowerPoint spreadsheet with Smartboard info and graphics
• Assignment A6 (Tuesday) involved creating an "authentic" picture of Kate and Larry adding attribution to the graphic ... we had a huge number of creative, quality turnins!
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• Assignment A7 (Tuesday) involved creating an Excel spreadsheet

• Assignment A8 (Wednesday) involved the majority of people with Lynne and a separate breakout group for 3 HTML people ... clck here for a summary of A8 from Lynne's group and click here for the Web page created by Steve's group
• Assignmenet A9 (Wednesday) involved using Atomic Learning (as part of several afternoon technoquickies) ... "On Wednesday afternoon we previewed AtomicLearning.Com. Bob says he partenered with Carol from St. Marys Episcopal Day School and they looked at Microsoft Movie Maker and Inspiration. Anne says she partenered with Laurie and they looked at Kidspirition and watched the tutorials on how to begin the main idea for a story. Angie and Carol adventured into Garageband. It shows how to use sound. They also looked at Powerpoint."
• Assignmenet A10 (Wednesday) involved using Tabs and Margin Markers on Microsoft Word (as part of several afternoon technoquickies)

  Some Notes re Day 4, Thursday July 27

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  Becoming more productive with Microsoft Word

  • Turning off checkboxes under AutoCorrect
  • Customizing toolbars
  • Headers and Footers
  • Page breaks
  • Views
  • Searching and Replacing with Spaces (or perhaps Tabs)
  • Working with Columns
  • Tabs and Margin Markers
  • Format Painter
  • Track changes
  • Graphics

  Fascinating post on ISED listserv 7/27/06 by Chris Bigenho from Greenhill School (Dallas TX)

  Here is a direct link to a podcast sandbox. You will see several simple podcasts that were made with cell phones as well as directions on how you can test this out in the "sandbox". Feel free to give it a try. I got the seed of this idea from a recent conference and have been working on testing several setups and methods. I will be further developing this information and "sandbox" for training purposes with interested faculty and staff at Greenhill. While not ready for primetime, there should be enough here for most people to at least see one way where anyone that can use a phone can post an audio file on a blog (a podcast). Give it a try. Have fun and I hope people find this "sandbox" helpful. Podcast site and instructions found at: http://ghtestpodcast.blogspot.com/ Chris Bigenho Director of Educational Technology Greenhill School, Dallas, TX

Roster of 27 Participants

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Pink Card Questions (and answers eventually)

1. More bananas at breakfast (Larry Bird doll)
2. How would you integrate thinking maps and inspiration? (Laurie B)
3. I have a a file of JPG pictures that I need to rename in order to change their order ... however on my laptop (no mouse) when I click the name below the thumbnail, I can't seem to get a text box to open? (Deanna)
4. How are MP3 and MP4 files different? (Imani R-R)
5. How can I make Mozilla (not Safari) my default browser? (Imani R-R)
6. If you e-mail a file w/hyperlinks, how do you keep the linked documents accessible? (Imani R-R)
7. Why do you recommend bloglines? (Imani R-R)
8. Can we talk about services like FURL? (Imani R-R)
9. I would like my students to e-mail their assignments. What is a good way to receive these assgnments? (Carolyn C)
10. How do I add Equation Editor to my toolbox? (Christine I)
11. What is the difference between Safari adn Firefox? (Christine I)
12. What is rapidfile in Inspiration? (Christine I)
13. Do you know of a way to type accents into e-mail or other places that the symbols chart does not show up and when the manual ctrl + / + e do not work? (Deanna)
14. I would like to know more @ mark up C 15 pp 54 and 55 (Deanna)
15. How can I change the Admin password for my keychain when I don't remember setting it the first time? (Carol Sukoneck)

Click here to hear some answers to some of the 33 questions recorded by previous Summercore participants

1. One byte = _____ and equals __ bits
2. One K= ________ and is metaphorically the same as _________
3. One meg = ______ and is metaphorically the same as _________
4. One gigabyte = ________ and is metaphorically the same as _________
5. One terabyte = ______
6. A floppy disk holds about ___ meg which is the same as ___K or _________ bytes
7. A typical memory stick holds ________ meg (yes, they come in many sizes)
8. The word blog first used in 1999 is short for ______
9. A CD ROM holds about ___ meg which is the same as ___ K (hint: click here to see a pile of 650 floppy disks)
10. A DVD disk holds _______ between __ and __ gigabytes
11. RAM stands for R__ A_____ M_____ and refers to __
12. ROM stands for R___ O___ M______ and refers to __
13. Larry Bird's initials (LB) in ASCII code are __ and __
14. Zip Drives, Digital Still Cameras and Memory Sticks tend to use the _____ port
15. Digital Video Cameras use the _____ port
16. Baud Rate refers to ______ and is expressed in _____ per second
17. A File Server is a __________
18. The Red Sox last won the World Series in __
19. An MP3 file is ___________ and typically might be ____ megabytes
20. A new type of Web site that allows users to easily add or edit content is called a _ _ _ I (hint: "quick" in Hawaiian)
21. When you aggregate dozens of blogs into one, you are using the technology involving _S_ feeds
22. The Rule of 3 refers to the following 3 reminders when saving: ___ and __ and ___
23. The fourth tip when saving is ________
24. The point size of ___ equals 1 inch
25. Use __ space(s) between sentences
26. Pushing the ____ button repeatedly is a sign that you have not reached computer maturity
27. Two PC suffixes or extensions are ___ and ___
28. Audio files that Web users subscribe to are called ____
29. HTML stands for H_____ T_____ M_____ L______
30. A computer virus can be defined as __________________
31. Two popular graphic file types are ____ and ____
32. Two popular audio file types are ____ and ____
33. Larry Bird's uniform number in binary is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Winners over the Years