For your trailer to be complete and turned in, you must have the following items in the Book Trailer folder inside of 2012>Book Trailers>YourName-BookTitle.

• Your storyboard file
• A bibliography file with all of your image and audio credits it should be called Name-BookTrailerDocumentation (ex: Susie-BookTrailerDocumentation)
• Your final video. It should be exported as a medium m4v file and called Name-Title (ex: Billy-HarryPotter.m4v).
  • Your final video MUST have closing credits which lists all of your image and audio credits, in order of appearance.
  • Make sure you create your project as Wide Screen

For your summer reading book project, you will add a summary of a book you read this summer to the SMCDS Book Review web site. After you have added your book summary to the site, you will add a brief review of your book as a comment on your summary and then review another book on the site. In your comment, you should include a quote from a credible book review site, a link to the actual review site, and an image of the book cover.

Remember the SMCDS Book Review Site is a public web site available to anyone who knows the URL. You have a real audience.

The SMCDS Book Review web site requires you to use HTML tags to “markup” the comment text for display on the Internet. Today we will learn some basic HTML tags for that purpose. To practice using HTML tags we will use this site.

For your comments, you will need to be able to do the following:

• Put book titles in italics
• Block quote a credible review
• Link to the credible review on its original web site
• Add an image of the book

You will use some of the following tags to “markup” your comments.

<p>paragraph</p>
<i>italics</i>
<b>bold</b>
<blockquote>blockquote</blockquote>
<a href=”web URL”>a web site</a>
<img src=”image URL”>
<br>line break (line breaks do not need a closing tag)

If you’re interested, a good web site to learn more about HTML is w3schools HTML tutorial.

This week we will work on the following lessons. It’s a good idea to repeat lessons at home to help build muscle memory and increase your speed and accuracy. Go to the SMCDS Technology Page for a link to Typing Master.

Remember to work your fingers from the home row and keep your eyes up on the screen. It’s better to pause and think about which finger to use on a key than to look down and reach for it.

Grade 6 – Junior Typing Course: Lesson 1

Grades 7 and 8 – Speed Building Course: Lesson 2

Your posters are due the first class during the week of September 26th.

Your Posters should include the following:

1. Imagery – feature an image that is representative of the book (character or setting). The image will include a very small caption to give credit to the sources. The image is not the book cover. Images must have Creative Commons licensing and be large enough to stretch across the poster without becoming “blocky,” larger than 640 x 480.
2. Title and Author
3. Hook – a headline to “hook” a future reader and get them to look at the rest of the poster. The hook could be a statement or a question.
4. Call to Action – a single line to encourage others to read the book – where to find it.
5. Reviews – a quote from a credible online source plus a quote of your own.
6. Extra – include awards, additional books written by the author, or other information that might interest a reader.

Do you know how to find all of the keys on a keyboard? Let’s give it a shot. See if you can put this keyboard back together again. Click here to get started.

Ok, now that you know the basics, think you can do some typing? We are going to begin with level 1 and do some Dance Mat Typing! Click here to get started.

Thanks everyone for such a warm welcome to St Michael’s Country Day School. It’s been an exciting two weeks meeting so many new students and learning about your school. In the weeks to come we’ll get into a new  rhythm working on your technology knowledge, skills, and classroom projects.