Technology+of+your+choice

Technology of Your Choice Report
 * [|NETS.1.6-8:] Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * [|NETS.1.6-9:] Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * [|NETS.2.6-8:] Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
 * [|NETS.3.6-8:] Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
 * [|NETS.6.6-8:] Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations.

__Objectives__-


 * 1) Students will understand and utilize different Presentation tools to keep the attention of their audience.
 * * Working with tool bars
 * Using the Formatting Palette
 * Using different presentation views
 * Working with text blocks
 * Navigating through slides
 * Deleting a slide
 * Moving slides
 * Moving slides between presentations || * Navigating to a specific slide
 * Changing the slide show color scheme
 * Customizing the color scheme
 * Setting slide transitions
 * Working with bulleted lists
 * Working with numbered lists
 * Inserting image files from the hard drive
 * Resizing graphic objects
 * Hiding a slide in a slide show
 * Adding a slide
 * include animations
 * changing backgrounds ||

__Warm up__ –Each class I will introduce a skill previous taught or new skills needed for project and demonstrate how to use it with the proper software.

__Tech lab__ #9 - Presentation

__Evidence of best practice__ – students will be able to refer to the video and helpful tips on my wiki at anytime they get stuck as well as students watching a demo of the project before they can begin


 * Technology of Your Choice Report**

Getting Started - The Title Page & Bibliography 1. Pick an electronic technology (i.e.computer, ipod, play station, t.v., etc.).

2. Open Drive - create a new Slides presentation.

Create Your Bibliography Now!

 * As you get pictures and information for your slide show YOU NEED TO put the URL's (website addresses) where you got the pictures and info into the bibliography.
 * Make sure you put the URL (i.e. www.igotmypicturehere.com) of the website that the pictures and information comes from in your bibliography as you go - The pictures DO NOT come from google.com or bing.com. Google and Bing just points you to the website where the picture actually comes from.
 * As you add more slides, drag the bibliography to the bottom in the left column where you see "thumbnails" of all of your slides.

Make sure all slides are designed well!
 **Color Scheme and Spacing -**

Slide 1 **- Title Page: Include title (name of the technology your report is about), your full name, the date, and a picture (The picture should not be the background). 10 pts **

slide 2 **- Table of Contents - Create a table of contents for your PowerPoint. List the titles for Slides 3-8 and create "hyperlinks" to those slides. 10 pts**

The Body (Slides 3-7) You must answer the questions using complete sentences. You must have at least one picture per slide (Square and rectangular pictures need to have a border around them). Do not make it the background of the slide!

Slide 3 - **When was it invented, created, or released? 10 pts**

Slide 4 - **Who invented, created, or released it? 10 pts**
 * - It may not be a single person that invented it. It is most likely a corportation like Sony, Apple Computers, etc**

Slide 5 - **What is it used for? 10 pts**
 * -Give a detailed description of all of its uses. What do you do with it?**

slide 6 - **How does it work? 10 pts**
 * - Explain how you use it. Give the specifics of how you make it work. **
 * -//Use arrows and text boxes to point out the controls and/or buttons.// **

//**DO NOT USE A PICTURE FROM THE INTERNET THAT ALREADY HAD THE DIAGRAM DRAWN OUT!**//

Slide 7 - **Why did you choose the technology that you chose? 10 pts**
 * - Explain your reasons for choosing the technology you chose. Please have a good detailed explanation.**

Slide 8 - **Bibliography 10 pts - All pictures used and information gathered needs to have a citation. Please put the URL (www...) where you got your pictures and info. Do not put google.com! Google just finds it for you.

(80 pts)


 * **Animate the text on each slide (except Bibliography) (not the titles) 14 pts **
 * **Include a transition for each slide. 16 pts **
 * **When you have finished all of your slides, you will create Hyperlinks to your pages. 14 pts **

(44 pts)

Adding a drawing into slides: In Google Slides, you can also easily copy the drawing by clicking ** Ctrl+A **and then ** Ctrl+C **on your keyboard (** Cmd+A **and ** Cmd+C **on a Mac) and pasting it onto a slide using ** Ctrl+V **(** Cmd+V **).
 * 1) Sign in to Drive at [|drive.google.com].
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Open a drawing.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Click the ** Edit ** menu.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Hover over “Web clipboard” and select ** Copy entire drawing to web clipboard **.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Open the Google Doc or Slide where you want to insert the drawing.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">Click the ** Edit ** menu > Hover over “Web clipboard” > Click the drawing name.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; vertical-align: baseline;">A copy of your drawing has been added to the file.

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