Dino class blog

Per 1 and 3 - Rich Media

Daily Journal

• Note: Mr. Dino will be out today to attend a funeral; please respect the substitute teacher and the equipment - I expect each student to be productive!
  
• This Thursday Dec. 1 is the magnet open house from 6:30 - 8pm
  
• We need magnet kids to show off their skills and projects
• All students who attend will get extra credit
  
• What will you be presenting? This is a good chance to meet good adults for work and scholarships.

Read the following passage, then answer the following questions:
"Still, some schools have run into trouble in their efforts to rein in student bloggers. New Jersey's Oceanport School District this month paid a $117,500 settlement to 17-year-old Ryan Dwyer after a district court ruled that the school district violated Mr. Dwyer's First Amendment rights by punishing him for a Web site he created in April 2003, which blasted his middle school and some faculty members. Mr. Dwyer wrote on the site, among other things, "MAPLE PLACE IS THE WORST SCHOOL ON THE PLANET!" and "The Principal, Dr. Amato, is not your friend and is a dictator." The site also included a message board where other students could post messages, but Mr. Dwyer warned students against using profanity or threatening language. Within days, though, one student posted a comment that referred to a teacher as "that dirty Jew." Another wrote of the school staff, "we gotta pull the plug on them."

1. Did the student write any threatening comments on the site?
2. What does First Amendment rights mean? (you will have to research this)
3. How much money was the student awarded?

Classwork

Family History Website Design Project

• Work on your family tree design in Fireworks8
• you need to create two different files in Fireworks, one with your family tree, and the other about your country of origin
  
• see family history website example here
  
• Review color contrasts

Fireworks Tutorials

• Go to Atomic Learning (username: ecis05; pwd: atomic)
• go to FireworksMX 2004 section
• View Section A-Basic Tools and Techniques
• View Section E - layers and Masking!
  
• practice Fireworks as you watch

Per 2 and 4 - Pathways
Daily Journal

• Note: Mr. Dino will be out today to attend a funeral; please respect the substitute teacher and the equipment - I expect each student to be productive!
• This Thursday Dec. 1 is the magnet open house from 6:30 - 8pm
  
• We need magnet kids to show off their skills and projects
• All students who attend will get extra credit
  
• What will you be presenting? This is a good chance to meet good adults for work and scholarships.

Read the following passage, then answer the following questions:
"Still, some schools have run into trouble in their efforts to rein in student bloggers. New Jersey's Oceanport School District this month paid a $117,500 settlement to 17-year-old Ryan Dwyer after a district court ruled that the school district violated Mr. Dwyer's First Amendment rights by punishing him for a Web site he created in April 2003, which blasted his middle school and some faculty members. Mr. Dwyer wrote on the site, among other things, "MAPLE PLACE IS THE WORST SCHOOL ON THE PLANET!" and "The Principal, Dr. Amato, is not your friend and is a dictator." The site also included a message board where other students could post messages, but Mr. Dwyer warned students against using profanity or threatening language. Within days, though, one student posted a comment that referred to a teacher as "that dirty Jew." Another wrote of the school staff, "we gotta pull the plug on them."

1. Did the student write any threatening comments on the site?
2. What does First Amendment rights mean? (you will have to research this)
3. How much money was the student awarded?

Classwork

• Continue to work on your current project
• If Mr. Bob Kois visits, please give him your full attention
  

Per. 5 Adv. Web1
Daily Journal

• Note: Mr. Dino will be out today to attend a funeral; please respect the substitute teacher and the equipment - I expect each student to be productive!
• This Thursday Dec. 1 is the magnet open house from 6:30 - 8pm
  
• We need magnet kids to show off their skills and projects
• All students who attend will get extra credit
  
• What will you be presenting? This is a good chance to meet good adults for work and scholarships.

Read the following passage, then answer the following questions:
"Still, some schools have run into trouble in their efforts to rein in student bloggers. New Jersey's Oceanport School District this month paid a $117,500 settlement to 17-year-old Ryan Dwyer after a district court ruled that the school district violated Mr. Dwyer's First Amendment rights by punishing him for a Web site he created in April 2003, which blasted his middle school and some faculty members. Mr. Dwyer wrote on the site, among other things, "MAPLE PLACE IS THE WORST SCHOOL ON THE PLANET!" and "The Principal, Dr. Amato, is not your friend and is a dictator." The site also included a message board where other students could post messages, but Mr. Dwyer warned students against using profanity or threatening language. Within days, though, one student posted a comment that referred to a teacher as "that dirty Jew." Another wrote of the school staff, "we gotta pull the plug on them."

1. Did the student write any threatening comments on the site?
2. What does First Amendment rights mean? (you will have to research this)
3. How much money was the student awarded?

Classwork
Begin designing your home page for your portfolio. Your portfolio will showcase your work at North High and your activities after school.

The first two items your portfolio home page will link to are:

1. current resume (you must create one of these; find resume formats on the net)
   
2. magnet projects

To design your home page, you can start in fireworks. You can also refer to the mini-lesson we did last week on pop-up menus.

Resources:

• Look at some other student portfolios here.
• Fireworks refresher: Go to Atomic Learning (username: ecis05; pwd: atomic)
• go to FireworksMX 2004 section
• View Section A-Basic Tools and Techniques
• View Section E - layers and Masking!
  
• practice Fireworks as you watch