8th+Grade

= = Current Project : =
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Daydream to Music:Turning Music into a story

Click **__HERE__** for complete instructions

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 * 1) Listen to the music
 * 2) Write the story that is evoked by the music
 * 3) Create a character to read the story at Voki.com
 * 4) Use Jing to change the voki into a video.
 * 5) Use a file convert to change the .swi file that Jing created into an .avi file format that Movie Maker will accept.
 * 6) Use Movie Maker to create a Movie.
 * 7) ====Pull in your .avi file and the music file====
 * 8) ====Edit these clips if needed.====
 * 9) ====The music should fade in and also fade out.====
 * 1) Title
 * 2) A paragraph that describes the process we took to come up with the story. So that people seeing the move know how the story and the music are connected.
 * 3) Credits-which should include:
 * 4) Who wrote the music.
 * 5) Voki.com- as the creator of your character
 * 6) Please do not put your name in the credits because we are going to post these to the web

Email me the URL of the 8th grade projects page to Mrs. Bammer for grading


Learning to Code:

Let us begin to investigate what it takes to learn to tell a computer what to do! There are many jobs that use this skill. Jobs whose salaries range form $60,000 - $120,000 per year. There are so many jobs that American companies have to go overseas to find people who know these skills. If you acquire these skills you would be qualified to earn these good salaries.

to begin to learn computer coding.
 * Click on this logo and it will take you
 * 1) Please sign up, using your school email and password.
 * 2) Then go to your password document and
 * 3) write in the info for this website
 * 4) Click on the HTML Class.
 * 5) Begin by following the directions on your screen. || [[image:bks926/codecademy.png link="http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercise/0"]] ||

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 * 1) Posting Google docs in Weebly
 * 2) Click HERE for directions.
 * 3) Click HERE for the Youtube video that I learned this trick from. :)

Deep Sea Creatures
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Time lapse Earth from day to night. ||
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Fast Food Excel Project:
Click Fast Food to go to an explanation of this project

Churches video:
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 * Gather 5 photos form 5 different churches of the world. __**save**__ the pictures in your folder.( total of 25 pictures)
 * Using the digital camera, take 5 pictures of Immaculate Conception. Download the picture off the camera and **__save__** them in you folder.
 * Take a video of you reading at least 4 verses of a psalm. I will download from camera. Copy the file from 8th/aaapictures/Church project Psalm Video to your folder, where the rest of the pictures are.
 * Go to Animoto.com
 * Upload the 25 pictures
 * Upload the 5 pictures of IC.
 * Upload the psalm video.
 * Add a title
 * Add subtitles for each church and IC and the psalm video
 * Add a song. Change the rate of song to fit your pictures. Pick music from Animoto. or use these CC sites
 * When you have it the way you wish it to look...."Produce Video"
 * Get the embed code(share). Put finished video into your Webpage(student project page)
 * Get the URL (on Animoto site ) Specifically for your video and put the URL in the following form. This is how I will look at and grade your video.

Black History month

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Careers: This test is designed to give you some idea of the type of jobs you could strive for, based on the things you like to be involved with. The test suggest jobs based on the way you answer the questions. So please be honest in your answers. Your answers and the job recommendations are not to be shared with the class. Click here and take this test.

Some of you were asking about Natalie Sultze's blog. Click here


 * Psalm 66 video . This is 8th grades first experience with editing video ||  ||
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 * == Learning to make Computer Code == ||  ||
 * ===Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code.===

It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
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Use this to generate your bibliography
[|http://www.easybib.com]

**Introduction** It's vacation time! You will be choosing a vacation spot somewhere in the world. No Package vacations please. You have one week or so and $10,000 to spend. Use your research skills on the Internet to thoroughly research your vacation. This project should be done to the best of your ability and be of high quality.

Click here to go to the assignment tracker spreadsheet
Read this document to see some questions that will help you focus in on on persuading people to go to your country. ||
 * [[file:Virtual Vacation Project Overview.doc]] || Once you pick the country you wish to visit then we will begin to find out information about that country the list of websites on "Virtual Vacation Project Overview" is a good place to start. ||
 * [[file:ESSAY description.doc]] || Persuasive Essay- " Persuasive writing focuses on one topic that can be viewed in different or opposing ways. The writer of a good persuasive essay takes a position on a topic and states it. a persuasive essay should convince the reader to share the writer's viewpoint" (Brookes 198)
 * [[file:8th-Vacation-Esay.doc]] || Use this document to see how I would like the page formatted. ||

. || Go to weebly.com to make your own webpage. ||
 * [[image:bks926/weebly.png width="303" height="53" link="@http://www.weebly.com/"]]
 * [[image:bks926/voki.png width="209" height="137" align="left" link="@http://www.voki.com/"]] || .Go to voki.com to make your cyberself. ||