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Summercore 2007 at Portsmouth Abbey School (RI) 285 Cory's Lane, Portsmouth RI 02871

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Lizzie wins the $33 at 9:33 am on 6/20/07 ... Blake and Dan each win $5 for second place on 6/21/07 Click to see the picture or click here to see Lizzie in Vatican or click here to see Lizzie with color change

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Click to see our graduation picture

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Carnival Prep re Thursday ... your choices for tomorrow ("please be selfish") include: Inspiration, Making a Web Site, HTML Programming, Powerpoint, Basic Skills with Microsoft Word, Photoshop, Blogs, Wikis, Smartboard, Excel, Google Earth, You Tube, iPod and the iTalk, Searching the Web, Using Google, Webquests

Blogs & Wikis (Kendra, Kevin, Eamonn)
Google Earth (Ceci)
Inspiration (Christine, Dan)
Smartboard (Elliot, Dan, Kevin, Lizzie)
Photoshop and Yearbook software (Janice, Jay)
Powerpoint (Jay, Cliff)
Web page/site (Alex, Blake, Bo, Colleen, Derek, Fred, Lizzie, Michael)
Web page/site via HTML programming (Guillermo)

• Alex Marx ... English faculty, 9-12 ... Web site
• Blake Billings ... Build a Community Service Web site ... Humanities & Director of Community Service ... Web site
• Bo Smith ... History Teacher (Irish History & Humanities) ... Web site
• Ceci Schilling ... Spanish Teacher (9-12) .. Google Earth
• Christine Sahms ... Study Skills Specialist ... Inspiration
• Cliff Hobbins ... Powerpoint ... Instructor of History, 11&12
• Jay Bragan ... Powerpoint ... Head of Performing Arts (English and Drama, all ages)
• Colleen Sanchez ... Web Site ... Head of Art Dept ... Web site
• Dan Hodes ... Inspiration with syllabus on smartboard ... Humanities/Theology Instructor & Director of Spiritual Programs ... Humanities grade 10 & Theology grade 12
• Derek Gittus ... History Teacher, Grade 11 ... Web site
• Eamonn O'Brien ... Wikis ... click
• Elliott Moffie ... Smartboard ... English (Fr/Sr.) Humanities (Soph.) ... Mathematics Teacher
• Fred Zilian ... Web site or second choice of blog ... (alum from Summercore 2002), Head of History Dept, Ancient-Medieval History; AP World History ... winner of $5 in June 2002 ... click
• Guillermo Moronta ... HTML programming ... click here ... Spanish and Mathematics Teacher ... Web site
• Janice Brady ... Photoshop and Yearbook software ... Chemistry Teacher 10-12
• Kendra Smith ... Blogs or second choice of Photoshop ... Mathematics teacher(9-12)/dorm parent/coach ... Web site Blog
• Kevin Morrissey ... Blogs or second choice of Smartboard ... Mathematics Teacher (AP Calc AB/12, Honors)
• Lizzie Benestad ... Web site or second choice of smartboard ... Latin Teacher (Latin 10-12, Greek 9-12) ... Web site
• Michael Bonin ... put AP English syllabus on Abbey's Web site ... Head of English Dept (Fifth and Sixth Form English/11th-12th grade) ... Web site

Highlights, Day By Day

1. Monday 6/18 ... we worked at the majority of the 33 questions in the first half of the morning and then finished up the last 10 after lunch, with Kendra volunteering to be an "inspiration scribe" ... click here to see her work from class ... in the late morning, we learned about bloglines and RSS feeds ... click here to see the A1 assignment summary now posted on our the Summercore BLOG which we would love you to contribute to ... this is posted on our Summecore blog at summercore.edublogs.org

   in the early part of the afternoon, we learned about Inspiration and then worked in groups of two to create some of our own samples
   

   ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7
   ... in the late afternoon, we went on a "field trip" and used 4 smartboard rooms led by pioneer wagon leaders Alex, Fred, Kendra and Dan ("thanks") ... HW for Monday night involved Chapter 1 and the 33 questions for everyone except for Blake who chose to browse the Weizenbaum book and Lizzie who checked out the video iPod
2. Tuesday 6/19 ... we began with a Lesson/Lecture on the Web
   • adding favorites and organizing
   • text size
   • setting the home page
   • using history and clearing history
   • working with multiple windows
   • google images
   • finding powerpoints in google
   • google advanced search
   • using the linkto feature
   and then each person wrote a short A3 paragraph on which items he/she knew previously vs which items were new ... this is posted on our Summecore blog at summercore.edublogs.org

   Tuesday late morning, we worked on Powerpoint with Varsity upstairs and JV downstairs ... here are several samples of Assignment A4

   Tuesday afternoon, we worked on You Tube and Google Earth and then split up yet again for Excel with Varsity upstairs and JV downstairs ... here are several samples of Assignment A5

   Tuesday at 4pm, we all met together downstairs for more Smartboard Tips followed by hands on using 5 different smartboard rooms

3. Lesson/Lecture on Edublogs

Pink Card Questions (from you to us)

1. How do I transfer info from e-mail to files in my documents? (Christine Sahms) ... answer: for e-mail that contains an attachment, you will need to download or save each attached file to your computer ... for e-mail that contains no attachments, you can save each one as a file onto your computer or you can copy and paste a bunch of e-mails into a Microsoft Word document ... it is possible there is a feature to SUMMARIZE A BUNCH of e-mails at once ... we will look at this together (Steve)
2. next?

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