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Monday June 3, 2013 -Today, we will start the END TASK. In addition, we are working towards completing our E-PORTFOLIO. Please ensure that the following items are on your website.
MS WORD
a) NAAM Restaurant
b) Tables- the last assignment in the book and any one other of your choice.
c) Tables- the last assignment in the book and any one other of your choice.
d) Personal Business Letter-the classified ad letter. You can post the ad if you like.
e) Business to Business Letter - the sales letter.
PHOTOSHOP
a) 9 of Me
b) Backgrounds Assignment-your original photo and your four different background images
c) MR. B's PhotoChallenge- your original and your 5 plus images
d) Sportscard and/or gum wrapper
e) Hair colouring assignment
CONFECTIONARY WEBSITE
SPREADSHEETS
a) Veggie Spot
b) Baxandahl Ford
c) Report Card
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
a) any two (or more) images that you worked on.
END TASK (at this point, this is optional, but we'll see how the next few days go)
a) A page or two for your restaurant

Links to look at before you start your logo:
o Principles of Great Logo Design
o What Makes a Great Logo
o Just CreativeDesign
o Johnny Flash
o 9 Principles of Logo Design

Monday May 27, 2013 - Monday June 3, 2013 -Today, we will have a few minutes to wrap things up from Friday. Then, we will jump into Adobe Illustrator and work on some drawing stuff. Please ensure that your charting booklet gets handed in today. Also, your Website Rubric is due tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. For Adobe Illustrator, I would like you to work at your own pace. Please complete the following assignments IN ORDER to the best of your ability. Try to learn as much as you can this week in Illustrator as you will need this for your end task. Adobe Illustrator Assignments in order are:
1. Screwdriver and Wrench booklet
2. Cute Smiley Guy
3. Simple Vector Tree
4. Landscape Scene
5. Cartoon Character
6. Traffic Lights

Friday May 23, 2013 - Today, we will wrap up our Charting booklets, have a spreadsheet quiz, and hopefully hand in our Website rubrics... if your websites are done.

Thursday May 22, 2013 - Today, we will finish a tutorial on charting. We will work on our charting booklets and have our Parts of the Screen Quiz.

Wednesday May 22, 2013 - Please work on the following:
a) Make corrections to your Baxandahl and Report Card assignment. Do NOT reprint. Post on your website.
b) Work on the Charting booklet the best you can... I didn't get a chance to finish the tutorial yesterday, so do the best that you can.
c) Study for the parts of the screen quiz tomorrow. You have NO excuse not to ACE this quiz.

Tuesday May 21, 2013 - We will finish up the Baxandahl Ford assignment. Please submit the spreadsheet and the formulas.

Friday May 17, 2013 - We will finish up the report card assignment. Please submit the spreadsheet and the formulas.
When this is finished, you can:
a) Post your Veggie Spot to your website. BEFORE POSTING, MAKE ALL CORRECTIONS. Remember to save is as the old version and to save it in your website folder.
b) Ensure your entire website is finished.
c) Start on the Baxandahl Ford assignment.

Thursday May 16, 2013 - We will work on the Report Card spreadsheet assignment.

Wednesday May 15, 2013 - We will finish our tutorial on Spreadsheets and start the Veggie Spot assignment.

Tuesday May 14, 2013 - We will be starting spreadsheets. We will work on a tutorial for spreadsheets.

Thursday May 2 - Monday May 13, 2013 - We will work on our E-Portfolios. Please post the following assignments onto your BTT100 page.
1.) WORD PROCESSING
A.) The NAAM Restaurant
B.) Tables Assignment - The last one from booklet AND one other of your choice.
D.) Lists and Outlines Booklet - The last one from booklet AND one other of your choice.
E.) Personal Business Letter - The Classified Ad letter (ad is optional)
F.) Business to Business Letter - The sales letter

2.) PHOTOSHOP (posted as jpg)
A.) Nine of Me
B.) Backgrounds Assignment
i. Your original photo
ii. Your four different background files ________
C.) Mr. B’s Photo Challenge
i. Your original photo ________
ii. Your five “spin off” photos
D.) Sportscard and/or gum wrapper
E.) Hair colouring assignment
Remember that any Microsoft file HAS to be saved as the 1997-2003 version (.doc, NOT .docx; xls, NOT xlsx). Also remember that these files need to be resaved into your Dreamweaver/Website folder.

3.) Confectionary Website. Ensure that you have a link to this.

Wednesday May 1, 2013 - We will start our E-Portfolio. This will be worth 10 percent of your final mark.

Tuesday April 30, 2013 - We will finish our websites on the Chocolate industry. Please use your storyboards as a guide.

Monday April 29, 2013 - We will carry on with our Chocolate Industry websites.

Friday April 26, 2013 - We will finish up our storyboards for our the Chocolate website and get started on building the site. We will define our sites also.

Thursday April 25, 2013 - We will finish up any remaining TravelDestination presentations and then work on our Webpages.

Wednesday April 24, 2013 - We will start making webpages with Dreamweaver.

Tuesday April 23, 2013 - We will finish up the Travel Destination presentations.

Monday April 22, 2013 - We will have our Travel Destination presentations. Please ensure that you practice.

Friday April 19, 2013 - We will have the judging for the Photoshop Challenge. Good luck to all. Make sure that you get ready to present on Monday.

Thursday April 18, 2013 - We will have some time to work on our Travel Destination presentations. We will also do some communication exercises to work on our public speaking skills.

Wednesday April 17, 2013 - Continue to work on your Travel Presentation assignment. Please ensure that you are ready to present your Mr. B's PhotoChallenge soon.

Tuesday April 16, 2013 - Continue to work on your Travel Presentation assignment.

Monday April 15, 2013 - Finish up your PhotoChallenge Assignment. Then, you can start on your Travel Presentation assignment. You will need to do lots of research. I would really encourage you to use Prezi. Remember that this is more of a presentation assignment than a software assignment. Please follow the Electronic Presentation Tips Sheet that we went through on Friday.

Tuesday April 9-Friday April 12, 2013 - We will have the class to work on Mr. B's PhotoChallenge. Be creative, be original, have lots of variety. Don't be afraid to Google some Photoshop tutorials. Remember to jot down some of the techniques that you used so you can explain them to us in your short presentation.

Monday April 8, 2013 - Please make sure that all of your other assignments are completed. You will need them for your website. Today we will start Mr. B's PhotoChallenge.

Friday April 5, 2013 - Today, we will finish up the Gum Label/Sports Card assignment.

Thursday April 4, 2013 - We will work on the Gum Label/sports card assignment.

Wednesday April 3, 2013 - Today, I would like to mark your "Multiple Me" and your Backgrounds assignment. I would then like you to work on either the Sports card assignment or the Gum Label assignment.

Tuesday April 2, 2013 - We will learn a few new selection tools - The Quick Selection Tool and the Quick Mask Mode. Then, I would like you to work on the Hair Colouring tutorial.

Thursday March 28, 2013 - We will work on completing the following Photoshop assignments:
a) Multiply You
b) Creating Transparent Backgrounds
c) Paint your Face
d) Backgrounds

Wednesday March 27, 2013 - We will work on completing the following Photoshop assignments:
a) Cloning Assignments
b) Multiply You
c) Creating Transparent Backgrounds
d) Paint your Face
e) Backgrounds

Tuesday March 26, 2013 - We will work on finishing up our Photoshop Cloning assignments as well as work on our Multiple You project.

Monday March 25, 2013 - Working on Photoshop! Our Clone Stamp projects.

Friday March 22, 2013 - Working on Photoshop! Our Clone Stamp projects.

Thursday March 21, 2013 - Working on Photoshop! Our Clone Stamp projects.

Wednesday March 20, 2013 - We will work with the Magic Wand tool. This will be used with the Nine of Me Assignment.

Friday March 8, 2013 - We will be watching a great movie - Monsters Inc.

Thursday March 7, 2013 - We will have some time to finish our Inversing Selections assignment. Please remember to complete one with your own pictures as well.

Wednesday March 6, 2013 - We will start Photoshop!!!! Yeah!!!! We will start with the "Harnessing the Power of Layers" assignment. Then, we will jump right into the "Inversing Selections" assignment.

Tuesday March 5, 2013 - We will have our Personal Business Letter Test.

Monday March 4, 2013 - Some of us will be working on our outstanding letter assignments. The rest of us will be moving on to Photoshop.

Friday March 1, 2013 - We will work on the Classified Ad assignment.

Thursday February 28, 2013 - We will work on the business to business letter selling a product from your company to an appropriate local business of your choice.

Wednesday February 27, 2013 - We will use the class to work on the Crane Cover Letter. We will also introduce the Business to Business letter.

Tuesday February 26, 2013 - We will work on the Personal Business Letter-the complaint letter. We will also start the Cover Letter to Crane.

Monday February 25, 2013 - We will work on the Fretz Personal Business Letter. Please ensure that you have labeled all parts of the letter and indicated all spacing. Please submit this.

Friday February 22, 2013 - We will work on the Laporte Personal Business Letter. Please ensure that you have labeled all parts of the letter and indicated all spacing. Please submit this.

Thursday February 21, 2013 - We will start the last unit in MS Word, which is the unit on Personal Business Letters. We will have a tutorial and then work on the Simpson Letter. Please ensure that you have labeled all parts of the letter and indicated all spacing.

Thursday February 14, 2013 - We will do a short tutorial on Lists and Outlines - We will learn how to use the three types of Lists/Outlines (bulleted, numbered, and multilevel).

Wednesday February 13, 2013 - We will be finishing up our tables assignment. We will complete a Lists and Outlines tutorial.

Tuesday February 12, 2013 - We used the class to work on our Tables assignment.

Monday February 11, 2013 - We will work on the Tables assignment all period.

Friday February 8, 2013 - We will have a tutorial on tables and then start the tables assignment.

Thursday February 7, 2013 - We will have the class to work on our setting tabs assignment. Get the individual assignments marked on your screen - one at a time.

Wednesday February 6, 2013 - We will work on setting tabs. We will do a tutorial and then get into the assignment. I will mark all components of this assignment on your screen.

Tuesday February 5, 2013 - We will work on hanging indents.

Monday February 4, 2013 - We will be completing the COMPASS survey for the first half of the class (fun fun!). We will finish the class by moving on to proofreading symbols and Spacing Rules.

Friday February 1, 2013 - We will complete the NAAM Restaurant assignment.

Thursday January 31, 2013 - We will finish up our Journey Inside a Computer. When we are done, we will start the NAAM Restaurant assignment.

Wednesday January 30, 2013 - You may want to bring headphones for today's class. We may need a little bit of time to finish up our "I'm an Awesome Person" assignment. Then, we will work on the Journey Inside a Computer. You can put your answers on the paper worksheet provided or download this worksheet and type your answers. Please bring headphones!!!! Please remember your course outline signed by your parents or guardians.

Tuesday January 29, 2013 - Please remember your course outline signed by your parents or guardians.
We will continue on the I'm an Awesome Person Assignment. Remember to save to your Z/drive and NOT "My Documents". When you are done, email it to me at beats27@gmail.com. Remember to include a subject line, such as :"johnsmith is awesome".
If you need to add a printer, please follow these steps:
1. Go to the start menu.
2. Select "Printers and Faxes"
3. Select "Add a Printer"
4. Select Next and Next again
5. Find the printer in the directory - where it says "Entire Directory", click on the drop-down and select "Dryden" and then select "Find Now"
6. Find the Dell 118 Printer - select this.
7. If you are going to the bulk of your printing in this room, make it your default printer.... just make to change it if you are printing later in another room.

Monday January 28, 2013 - Welcome to BTT1O0/2O0. Today, we will look at an introduction to the course, class rules, lab rules, and then have some fun icebreaker games. Today, we will learn about hierarchies and how they relate to folder/file management. then, we also will go on the computer to set up our folders in our accounts. If time permits, we will start the I'm an Awesome Person Assignment.