Google Maps

My page contains the instructions for what you will do on the google map page.

Go to maps.google.com

Basic movements:
Clicking and dragging allow you to pan.
Middle Mouse allows you to zoom.
Right Mouse button give you options.

Activity 1:

1. Click on Street View


2. Click on the camera next to San Francisco


3. Click on "Zoom in"

4. Type in Golden Gate Bridge in the search bar



5. Click on the blue outline of the bridge

6. When the image pops up, explore what the different arrows do.

7. Explore the streets of San Francisco

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Activity 2:

1. Type in New York in the search bar
2. Explore the streets of New York

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Activity 3:

If you know the latitude and longitude of a location you can put this in the search bar as well.

1. Copy and paste "17 47 S 177 29 E" into the search bar.
What island are you in now?

2. Copy and paste "36 55 S 174 47 E" into the search bar.
What country are you in?

3. Copy and paste "20 40 N 103 20 W" into the search bar.
Where are you now?

4. Can you find our school*?
5. Can you find your house?

*Hint: Try using the satellite or hybrid views.

Assignment: Using the Computer without the Mouse

Without using the mouse:

1. Open the start menu
2. Open Word
3. Open Paint
4. Press Window+M
5. Press Alt+Tab until Word is selected
6. Type your name and push Enter twice.
7. Type "The shortcut for making text bold is:"
8. Find the answer to this question by pushing the Alt key and navigating to the help menu.
9. In the help menu type "shortcut"
10. Scroll down to the Character and Paragraph Formatting heading
11. Click the + next to Apply character formats
12. Find the shortcut for making text bold and type in the answer in your document in bold.
13. Type the shortcuts for making text italic and underlined and make that text italic and underlined.
14. Find two more shortcuts and type what they are.
15. Select everything with Ctrl+A
16. Copy it with Ctrl+C
17. Atl+Tab to Paint
18. Paste with Ctrl+V

Lesson: Using the Computer without the Mouse

Purpose: To save you time and in case your mouse stops working.

Modifier keys - Windows Key, Control (Ctrl), Alt, Shift


Note: Modifier key + key = Push and hold modifier key and then press the desired key.
Ex. Ctrl+A = Hold the Ctrl key and push A.

Operating System Shortcuts

The task bar tells you what programs are open.

Alt+Tab

Holding down the "Alt" key and pressing tab allows you to switch between programs.

Alt+F4

When a program is selected, holding down "Alt" and pressing F4 closes the current program.


When no programs are open, Alt+F4 opens the dialog box to shut down Windows.

Window Key

Pressing this once is the same as clicking the "Start" button (Ctrl+ESC does the same)

Window Key + M

Holding the Windows Key and pressing "M" minimizes all programs

Alt

When any program is open pressing the "Alt" key allows you to navigate the menus with your arrow keys. You can then select command with the letter that is underlined. In this picture, if I wanted to select "Print", I would push "p" on my keyboard.

Program Specific Shortcuts

Almost every program lists the shortcut keys in the menus beside the command.

There are often a lot more and you can find them usually by going to the help menu of the program you are in and typing "shortcut."

Ctrl+A

Selects everything

Ctrl+X

Cuts the text

Ctrl+C

Copies the text

Ctrl+V

Pastes the text

Internet Safety

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/help/safesurfing/dongle.shtml

http://disney.go.com/surfswell/index2.html

Typing

http://sense-lang.org/typing/

Games

Here is a link to some very challenging flash games:
http://www.banja.com/home2004/uk/

Mouse Exercises

Here are some great links for practicing basic mouse movements:

http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/games.htm
http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/mousercise.htm
http://www.kaizenstudios.ca/tutorials/cptutorials.html

Lesson: MS Office Modifying Pictures

Sometimes, we want to rotate, resize or crop a picture or multiple pictures.

1. Open up MS Word.
2. Open Mozilla Firefox, and copy 3 pictures from this website (mrjohnchin.blogspot.com) and paste them into your document.

• You can do this by right-clicking on the picture you want and clicking "Copy Image."
  
  
  
  
  
• Then go to MS Word, making sure nothing is selected, right-click in the white part of the document and click paste.
  
  
  
  

3. In MS Word, select a picture by clicking on it.

• If you do not see the picture toolbar:
  

Right-click on any toolbar and then click on "Picture" to bring it up:



4. Change the text wrapping to "square" so you will be able to move the pictures around.



5. Select all the pictures at once by holding the Control key down and clicking on the pictures. Once they are all selected, resizing one, resizes them all.



6. Click in the white space of the document or push escape to deselect everything.

7. Click on one picture and click rotate from the picture toolbar.



8. Click on another picture and click on crop.



9. Using the handles located around the picture, click and drag to cut off parts of the picture you don't need.

Student Work 2 Point Perspective Week 2

Here are some examples of what students came up with:

Lesson: 2 Point Perspective

This week, I showed how depending on where you place the vanishing point and where you place your initial point, it changes which side of the object you will see.

The Horizon Line is where the sky meets the earth or your eye level.



Every vertical (straight up and down) line should connect to each vanishing point from at its top and bottom.

The Assignment:

Remembering to use our shift key, draw the horizon line. (Using the shift key enables us to draw perfectly straight lines.)



Draw a line from each vanishing point that meet somewhere below the horizon line.


Do the same for above the horizon line and then using our shift key, draw a vertical line from where each of these lines meet.


Make lines from the vanishing points to the top and bottom of these vertical lines.


Make more vertical lines using the shift key to build the sides of the shapes.


From the top and bottom of these lines, make a line that goes back to the opposite vanishing point.


Outline your shape with a thicker line and color it in.

I had students draw at least 2 boxes - one above the horizon line (HL) and one below. You can see the bottom of the object when it is drawn above the HL and you can see the top of the object when it is drawn below the HL.

When an object is drawn on the left side of the screen, you can see more of the right face and visa versa.

Depending on how the object is colored changes how it is perceived as well: