Prezi Day

Today we learned about Prezi you can get there by clicking here.
You can look at my Prezi presentation that gives an overview of my webquest by clicking here

American revolution: Loyalist or Radical on Prezi

Microsoft Photo Story

1. What is Photo Story 3 for Windows and how do I get a copy? My photo story intrudes my unit to the American Revolution. You can look at it by looking here
2. What is the file type for a MPS project?JPEG
3. What is the file type for an exported MPS movie?WMV
4.Where do MPS projects open?WMV3
5.Where do exported MSP movies open?Windows Media Player Mine will open in youtube if you click on it.
6.Can you do transitions between images in MPS project? Yes you can.
7.Describe the image editing options in MPS. You can change the start and end point of your photos and change the look of them with watercolor and other opitions.
8. Describe the image viewing options in MPS (include motion/duration). You can change the starting and ending position of your images and how long each picture is shown. You can also change the angle the pictures enter with transitions.
9. How do you turn a PowerPoint presentation into images? You must save your project in an image format. I used JPEG.

You can create your own photo story 3 by downloading the free software here and following the instructions once you have downloaded the program.

Webquest Roles

Webquest Title: Revoutionary War Debate
Student #1 role: Common Loyalist of Great Britain in the Colonies- You will be looking at the reasons the British Government is passing acts that affects on their colonist. Tell us why the acts were accepted by the loyal colonist.
Highest order thinking skill question: What is parliament doing to balance the British Government, and is it working The question is on the understand, describe, and explain of Blooms Taxonomy-Revised.
Artifact: Produce a presentation that explains the reasoning of their loyalty to the crown. Student will use Microsoft Powerpoint to do this.

Webquest Post

Today in class we looked at webquest and it is a site to create online lessons for classes. You can go to it by clicking here. We ranked different lesons on webquest today in groups of four you can view these lessons for yourself by clicking here. The lessons were all pretty good to me because I was the tecnophile and they all used internet links. Some were better though because of the task of making a powerpoint.

Presentation Day

Today in class I presented my slide show presentation to introduce my Unit on the American Revolution

Review of Curriculum Questions

Today in class we reviewed the difference between esential questions, unit questions, and content questions. Also, we examined how to use a visual aid through a powerpoint presentation. We learned the difference between a good presentation and bad one , too.

Here are my questions for my unit on the American Revolution and the time leading up to it.

Essential Question
American Revolution: Why did we want it all?

Unit Questions
Describe the governments of Great Britain and the American Colonies.

How should people be treated where they live?

How did our geography effect events leading to the revolution?

Content Questions
What events lead up to the American Revolution?

What did Great Britain do to prevent the revolution ?

What geographic limitations/assets complicated the revolutionary process?