I Think That It Is Thursday...

But I am not sure. I have been mixed up on the days all week. It feels later than it is.

Today in 1st Period, we continued to do cleanup, relinking old projects, catching up on typing and so forth. We have about 1 and 1/2 weeks to go. The class is pretty well divided into two groups. Two-thirds of the class is all caught up and ready to move on to new stuff, one-third of the class is behind and needs work just to catch up.

I "circled up" with the caught up part of the class and talked with them about what they could work on. Three kids didn't want to work on Flash movie stuff, nobody really wanted to do any Dreamweaver website stuff. Everyone agreed that learning to do some new PowerPoint stuff would be ok. I dug into the curriculum for the "Computer Productions" class and decided that the kids could work on a Commercial. This is one of the first assignments for the Computer II class, they are to think of a product, real or imaginary, and create a 30-60 second PowerPoint commercial for it. The commercial has to run on its own and include graphics and sound. All of the kids seemed pretty excited about it, especially after I showed everyone how to record music from sites like "towerrecords.com."

P.S. The picture shown represents one of the most famous commercials of all time, the "1984" Apple Computer commercial. The Apple folks, being clever, have recently redone the commercial to celebrate their 20th anniversary. In the remake, they have digitally added an Apple iPod to the model's belt. You can see it in the picture. You can read more information and see the original and the remake through links here.