Intro Comp Tech

Master the increasing technological skills required at school and your future career. Dazzle teachers with assignments done using all the bells and whistles of your Google Drive apps, including: documents, presentations, forms, drawings, spreadsheets, blogs and sites. Troubleshoot the most common issues with hardware, peripherals and file management. Explore the top programming languages that can guarantee an exciting career in one of the largest job markets projected for the near future. Bring your art and ideas to life on the web with popular image and animation formats. Easily design and build your very own web or smartphone app! This course is designed for both the beginner and intermediate tech user.

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Day 1

Use Chrome

[CB] = Chrome Book friendly lesson

WEEK 1 QUESTIVUS!!!  [CB]

Questivus is a Questival-like activity with teams of 2-4 using Google Slides to post your QUESTIVUS 15 second videos  


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Week 2-3 Hack the Trail  [CB]



Ideas:
Route 66!
Heading for Pluto!
Road Trip!
Time Travels!

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WEEK 4 ESCAPE!   [CB]

Escape/Breakout games are hot right now, especially in education! 
Between Spokane and Coeurd' Alene there are at last count
6 Escape Room experiences.

To promote this engaging learning format I have developed a hack-able app and lesson template. It is my hope that you will create and share your own, design them for others, and enjoy the same excitement I have entertaining and enriching others.


Phase 1


Phase 2

FILE ONLY OR GOOGLE DOC ONLY = 60 MAX

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For the next 6 activities you'll be doing Google mini-projects based on their most popular apps

Week 5 GOOGLE SITE [CB]
DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

E-portfolios provide a rich resource for students,  faculty, and employers to learn about your interests and achievements.  It is the current and best way of showcasing who you are and who you are becoming.

Using Google Sites, create a 5+ page digital portfolio, PUBLISH and share the link via Schoology  

Tutorial

STUDENT EXAMPLE
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Week 6 GOOGLE DOC [CB]

Create a 3 page GOOGLE DOC that contains:

EXAMPLE

Super hero

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CAN YOU make this lesson
PURPOSEFUL, PERSONAL, and MEANINGFUL?

Week 7 GOOGLE SLIDES + QUIZ  [CB]

Create a GOOGLE SLIDES that teaches someone something, e.g. your hobby, seahorse facts,  go-cart fundamentals...  NO basic lessons like : How to make Cup-Noodles, a peanut butter sammy, your bed, facts about you...

NEXTcreate an 8 question auto-graded (points) QUIZ over your previous slides 

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Week 8 GOOGLE DRAWING  [CB]

Create 3 original trading/collectible/customizable style cards using Google Drawing in a style similar to Magic, Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh! ...   Examples (better than a rubric :)  ONE : TWO : THREE

Graphic GENERATOR if you don't draw

Thanks Leo Esler!

Google Drawing

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Week 9 GOOGLE SHEET  [CB]

Follow THIS VIDEO TUTORIAL  OR  THIS WEB TUTORIAL and then complete an ORIGINAL DOUBLE sheet that demonstrates FORMATTING & FORMULAS (SUM & PRODUCT).

Google Sheets

Quarter Ends

Week 10 BASICS  [CB]

If you want to pull up your scores later (same computer and same browser) click on the avatar in the upper corner and click EXPLORE LEARNINGS.

You may have to REFRESH

If you want to pull up your scores later (same computer and same browser) click on the avatar in the upper corner and click EXPLORE LEARNINGS.

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Week 11 Create 3 Animated Gifs using PISKELapp   [CB]

PiskelApp GIFS

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Week 12 Make a web app with FUSION! 

Using the famous "Five Nights at Freddy's" FUSION GAME ENGINE...


FREE ART, MUSIC, SOUND
OPENGAMEART, TWO, THR, FOU, FIV, SIX, SEV,
FREE simple SOUND EFFECTS
FREE MUSIC
BEST MUSIC BY FORMER STUDENTS!!!
MORE FREE MUSIC

FREE YT MUSIC 

FOR BONUS
EXPORT to folder then HOST (create account) on Netlify
PLAY ON YOUR OWN PED Browser to TEST!!!
To update Netlify files go to DEPLOY tab


Games made with FUSION
DOWNLOAD for HOME useTutorials by Almighty Zen TacoCrash Course by Jacobson

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Week 13 CYOA or  [CB]
Dichotomous Key

CREATE a Choose Your Own Adventure or Dichotomous Key (Insects, vertebrate, fish, fruit, etc.) using Inklewriter
EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE
Teacher example

SHARE

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WEEK 14 NETLOGO  [CB]

EXPLORE one of the following NetLOGO sims
Fire, HIV, Bidding Market, Wealth Distribution, Party, Rebellion, Virus
SUBMIT a Google Doc LINK with 2 critical AHA! Moment screenshots with ~200 words of your discovery description

BONUS (up to 100 points) : CODE YOUR OWN
DEMO the use of this to your other classes!

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WEEK 15 Machine Learning  [CB]

Take the Google Applied Digital Skills Introduction to Machine Learning course

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Week 16 PROGRAMMING  [CB]

Programming is the process of creating a set of instructions that tell a computer how to perform a task. Programming can be done using BLOCK CODE, JavaScript, Python, C, C++, C#, etc

Learn to code the EASY WAY using Microsoft's MAKECODE platform! Create a MICROSOFT account.

CHOOSE 1 of the following skill-maps. 

At the end of the path :

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WEEK 17 Wake up call...  [CB]

1 billion people worldwide live on less than one dollar a day and 85% of the world population lives on less than $30 per day.  See the actual people here. Play these 3 sims to get a small taste of how difficult it is to get out of this cycle and maybe how close people you may know might be slipping into it. 

SUBMIT a Google Doc LINK with your high score screenshot from each of the 3 sims

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EOCA