Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Friday, October 28, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

Week 7 - Sketchup Prototypes

Individual Cars - Still Shots

Friday, October 07, 2011

Week 6 - Sketchup Tutorial Time

Early in Year Google Came and did a video about the 8th grade projects

Friday, September 30, 2011

Week 5 - Sketchup Tutorials



Worked on doing our Sketchup Tutorials

Friday, September 23, 2011

Week 4 - Started Sketchup

Going over basic Tutorials for Google Sketchup 3d Design.  Downloaded them so could complete 12.
Self-Paced Tutorials   Video Tutorials



Friday, September 16, 2011

Week 3 - Automoblox and Car Design



Went over the Design Aspect of the Automoblox Projects we will be doing.  Students will design a toy car for a competition.
jaylenosgarage interview of inventor





http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/Reinventing-the-Wooden-Toy-Car/1264303

Friday, September 09, 2011

Week 2 - Prototyping

Watched Howe & Howe Tech Video on Prototyping Tracked ATV called Mini Rip

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Class 17 - Saw Howe and Howe Tech

We had skyped Geof and Mike Howe from Discovery Channel Howe and Howe Tech (Black Ops Brothers) TV Show.  They are two brothers from Maine building high end tracked vehicles for Military and Private Industry.  Some students meet them at Maine Manufacturing Association Conference at Owls Head Transportation Museum.
 

Friday, March 04, 2011

Class 7 - Dynamic Components



Early in Year Google Came and did a video about the 8th grade projects

Monday, February 28, 2011

Class 6 - Sketchup Tutorials

Went over basic tutorials 1,2,3,4 and started Introduction to Dynamic Components
here is a link to a variety of video tutorials

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Friday, February 11, 2011

Class 5 - Sketchup

Going over basic Tutorials for Google Sketchup 3d Design.  Downloaded them so could complete 12.
Self-Paced Tutorials   Video Tutorials

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Class 4 - Online Tutorials for iMovie and Garageband

Talked about how you can find a variety of online Tutorials (Video) about most software.

Video Editing - iMovie http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
Getting Started

Audio Editing - Garage Band  http://www.apple.com/findouthow/music/
Getting Started

Photo Editing - iPhoto http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/
Getting Started

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Class 3 - Google Docs - Portfolios

We went through the process of making a Middle School Collection (folder)
in our Google Documents.  



 
  1. Login into out Google Account
  2. Make Middle School Collection (folder) in our Google Docs.
  3. Then put all our collections (folders) in the middle school collection (folder)
  4. We then shared Middle School with Portfolio@rsu19.org
  5. We then went to LearnEveryWhere.org
  6. Clicked on Middle School then our grade
  7. Clicked Portfolio we want (LA, Math, Science, Social Studies)
  8. Clicked on Yes Make a Copy
  9. Renamed Portfolio with our name
  10. Copied URL (page address)
  11. Went to are Google Doc and refreshed page showing ALL to see portfolio page we moved to proper collection (folder)
  12. Then went back to LearnEveryWhere.org to middle school proper grade at bottom Hand in form
  13. Filled in Form and hit submit
  14. Repeated Process for each courses portfolio
  15. Went to each portfolio page and started copying document addresses to proper location





Monday, February 07, 2011

Class 3 - Automoblox Project

Went over the Design Aspect of the Automoblox Projects we will be doing.  Students will design a toy car for a competition.
jaylenosgarage interview of inventor

Friday, February 04, 2011

Class 2 - Quick Time Screen Recording

Learned How to Record our Screens with Quick Time Screen Recording Program

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Class 2 - What we Need? Want? and Know?

What we learned?
Google Suite - Docs, Presently, Spreadsheets
Garageband
iMovie

What you should know?
Photos - Editing them, Web Albums
Internet - How to publish to the internet
Google Suite - Online Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Forms, Calendars
Blogs
Email
Video - Editing and Uploading to Internet
Audio - Editing and Pod Casting 
Texting

What do you want to know?
Programing - Games (Scratch) 
Prototyping - 3d (Sketchup) 
Chating - Video/Audio/Online (Skype) 
Games - How made? Work? Interface 
Google Earth 
how to foot note 
set page numbers on a word doc
google calendar

Used Stickies

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Class 1 - Reaction Grid

Went over how we will be building a 3d Virtual World using Reaction Grid 


Monday, January 31, 2011

Class 1 - Overview 8th Grade Sebasticook 2011

Welcome this website will provide information on your classes.

I am looking forward to a great start! Remember if you catch me wearing the same neck tie at any time during the school year you can win a Chocolate Tie!


8th Graders will focus on Planning. They will create projects for the School learning how plan, budget and implement a project from start to finish. Course Syllabus

You will use Google Sketchup to create projects for Car Design
Automoblox 

You will use Reaction Grid to create a Virtual World