IOTA Homeroom: July 23

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Overview of our next 8 days

Tonight's Learning by Playing

I. Opening

1. Site of the day (Joy). Word of the day (Alex).
2. Remember to turn in your forms and money orders for lane credit.
3. Why not try Learning by Playing tonight?
   Email questions or comments to Jay or Joy, or send anonymous comments through the suggestion page.

II. Reviewing and enriching knowledge of Composer

1. Mentors review some of the functions of Composer: inserting links and inserting email links
   Normal links look like: http://www.amazon.com. They must be completely written out including the "http://www/. . ..
   Mail links look like: mailto:jay@cuip.net
2. Inserting images: "Insert">"Image"
   Explain "Alternative Text"
   Remember the image should be in the same folder as the page you are creating.
   Be sure that "URL is relative to page location" is always checked.
3. Changing background color or inserting background images: "Format">"Page color and background"
   Explain how browsers create background by automatically repeating images.
   When using an image background instead of plain color, choose very small images to reduce download time.
4. Introduce way to link with parts of same page (Anchor).
5. Introduce way to link with self created web pages.
6. Students practice these techniques and continue work on webquests.
   Teacher sections of webquests should be finished on Friday!
   Teacher pagers must include reference to Illinois Learning Standards which can be found at: http://www.isbe.net/ils/Default.htm
   

   Mentors go around checking if the pages appear correctly from the server, and if they look the way that would be expected.

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III. Introduction to PhotoShop for more advanced image processing

Mentor gives brief introduction to PhotoShop and its advanced capacities. Students are encouraged to play with it at home, trying out the various functions on the toolbar that sound helpful

III. Students work on WebQuests with help from roving staff.

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Learning by Playing for July 23

Open Photo Shop on your Home Computer.

Download any picture from the Internet.

Play with it!

Thanks for Learning by Playing today!

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