Summercore 2006

Details!

The time is 8am to 4:30pm for Monday to Thursday. Friday will be a shorter day, finishing by 12:30 probably. We will meet on the ground floor of the Middle School.
The reading assignment -- if time allows -- involves the 28 pages posted within "Chapter Samples" on the main www.summercore.com Web site ... click here for a direct link ... and yes it is totally fine to read the 28 pages on line without wasting paper (even if you are a Yankees fan)

Allyson Cockrum ... studies in Taos (New Mexico)
Connie Alexandre ... France's connection to the Middle East
Glenys Quick ... Tom Sawyer, a banned book
Karen Roberts ... reading instruction
Kathy Townsend ... Immigration (with Pat)
Kay Boruff ... poetry (values of)
Kendall Savage ... contemporary grudges (Romeo & Juliet)
Lara Guerra ... growth of organic food industry
Olga O'Reilly ... Beach erosion
Pam Glaros ...
Pat Coggan ... Immigration (with Kathy)
Patti Black ... Global warming
Rene Perry ... plusses and minuses of the calculator
Rod Skaife ... Fitness testing
Sheri Le ... Numbers in Italy ... winner of the $33 contest Tuesday afternoon ... click here

Media Literacy ... click
Technorati ... click
Atomic Learning ... click ... you will need a login that begins with S (10 byte word) and a password that begins with c in lowercase
Smartboard Resources on our main Web page ... click
Web, blogs and wikis on our main Web page ... click
Newseum ... click

A1 ... Medial Literay (and write in your blog on First Class)
A2 ... www.Technorati.com (and write in your blog on First Class) ... or go to www.google.com and click on MORE (this allows you search blogs)
A3 will involve these 10 areas of Microsoft Word and will culminate in our Summercore exercises

Becoming more productive with Microsoft Word
- Turning off checkboxes under AutoCorrect
- Customizing toolbars
- Headers and Footers
- Page breaks
- Views
- Searching and Replacing with Spaces (or perhaps Tabs)
- Working with Columns
- Tabs and Margin Markers
- Format Painter
- Track changes
- Graphics
Becoming more productive with First Class
- auto-forward e-mail
- mail folders
- change the overall look to "classic" or "explorer" or "whatever"
- address book items
- voice recording
- changing the text size of your mailbox
A4 ... each person needs to edit or add to the WIKI document on First Class on the 33 questions
A5 ... each person needs to pick a topic for Media Literacy and find pictures from google or flickr and create an attribution document
A6 ... PowerPoint project with Media LIteracy slant
A7 ... each person creates an Inspiration "cover page" for the Powerpoint file, saving as a JPG or GIF and adds it to the Powerpoint project
Thursday afternoon projects ... please take advantage of www.atomiclearning.com ... we will give you the login and password
Click here to access the Web base Typing Pal system we use at Chapin

our First Class template can be found at http://mail.hockaday.org/~summercore/ ... for each person in the workshop using the URL of mail.hockaday.org/~eee will access his or her Web page (where eee is the actual e-mail nickname)
The main Web page is www.hockaday.org ... quick links lead to
home.hockaday.org leads to the school Intranet (password protected)
mail.hockaday.org provides a menu of 5 items including the ability to access the Intranet or download the First Class client ... it is important that AFTER downloading the client to change the SETUP so that the SERVER says mail.hockaday.org