Monday, November 19, 2012

Class 16 - Pico Crickets Input

We used Input Sensors to create specific output

  • When Light Sensor Dark = Light
  • When Touch Sensor Pushed = Motor Running
  • When Sound Sensor Spoke at = Sound Made
  • When Circuit Sensor Connected = Display

Friday, November 16, 2012

Class 15 - Pico Crickets Output

Made Robot

  • Light Up
  • Make Sound
  • Run Motor
  • Show Display

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Class 14 - Pico Crickets Output

Made our Robots Make Sounds, Lights, Move and Display

Monday, November 12, 2012

Class 13 - Pico Cricket

Started to work on input vs output and how robots work.  We used Pico Crickets to start this.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Class 12 - Photobooth

Turned on laptop cameras and played with Photobooth (Photo effects and Green Screen)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Class 11 - iMovie

Saw how iMovie works.... we will be using it to make a commercial for our game. Apple iMovie Video Tutorials

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Monday, October 15, 2012

Class 9 - Working on Garageband Song

Worked on making a song for our game.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Class 8 - Garage Band

We started to learn how to make our own music (for our game) by using an Audio Editor Garage Band

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Class 7 - Scratch Programming Time

Students got time to work on making their Scratch Game

Monday, October 01, 2012

Class 6 - Scratch Programming - ASCII Worksheets


Click Here to go to LAST YEARS students Games made in Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/143783

Learn more about this project

Friday, September 21, 2012

Class 5 - Scratch Program

Went over Basics of Scratch Program.

Assigned to make own game (using one of samples to start with) that
  1. Levels Up
  2. Has a Goal
  3. Appearance Changed from Original
  4. Has Directions
  5. Increases in Difficulty
* It is due at end of Quarter









Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Class 4 - Laptop Passwords, Applications

Learned how to add icon to dock, what applications that laptop has, and passwords.

Homework - Pixel Paper Make Own 8 Bit Picture


Friday, September 07, 2012

Class 3 - Binary 0 & 1s How Computers Only Understand ON or OFF

We Went over Pixels and how computers use 1 & 0 to run.


Home work

Pixel Worksheets

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Class 2 - Laptop 101

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

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Class 1 - Overview

  • 7th Graders focus on Communication. They will use their iBooks to create Blogs, Videos, Podcasts, and Online Projects for their Academic Classes. They will also use Robotic Kitsand Building Kits if they meet the teamwork standard. Course Syllabus