Mr. Eliot’s Blog

Welcome back everyone, Happy New Year!

I did some work on the lab over break, here are some highlights:

1. Office 2003 should work correctly now, it was reinstalled.
2. Clicking on .DOC, .PPT, and .XLS files should open them automatically
3. We now have ONE My Documents folder instead of two
4. Each user has their own My Documents, so you shouldn’t see other people’s work
5. The My Documents folder is also the Z: drive, this makes some programs work better
6. There are now links to the WebFTP, in case we need it

There are still a few things to fix , but things should work better.  Let me know if you have any problems.

Mr. Eliot

I will be at a district meeting all day on Tuesday, October 21st. Our guest teacher is scheduled to be Mr. Werts.  For each class, here’s what you will be doing:

Keyboarding:

• You will be completing your last TypingMaster lesson (Numeric Keypad #3). On Wednesday, we have our last TypingMaster test. We will have a catch-up day on Thursday to make sure everyone finishes their keyboarding work. Friday, we will close TypingMaster for good and start working with Microsoft Office.

Beginning Programming (Visual Basic):

• You will be working on Assignment 04. Assignment 04 is due at the beginning of the period on Thursday October 23rd. We will start Assignment 05 on Thursday.

Beginning Web Design:

• You will be continuing work on Part 02, SHAPES of the GIMP assignment. Log in to Edhsonline.org and read/print Assignment 04 if you do not know what to do. On Wednesday, October 22nd, we will start the next part of the GIMP assignment, as we learn how to colorize black and white photos!

Today (Thursday) I will be out writing an exciting 35 page report for the district. This is the Perkins Five Year Plan Report. I will be back tomorrow, Friday September 26th to answer any questions you might have. Have a great day and be kind to our guest the sub.

LESSON PLANS:

• Keyboarding: Complete lesson #12 and lesson #13 to finish the beginning lessons. Remember that lesson 13 is only 5 minutes long!
• Beginning Programming (Visual Basic): Continue on the triangle program. Remember to READ THE ASSIGNMENT, particularly the second page which has lots of hints. This assignment is due TUESDAY at the very beginning of the period.
• Beginning Web Page Design: Continue on Assignment 02, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Remember, it isn’t finished unless it is on the website! Friday, we will start talking about the next assignment, TABLES near the middle of the period.

Have a great day
Mr. Eliot

About a month into summer, and I’m having a great time.  I hope all of you students are enjoying your break.  Next up for me soon will be Hawaii

Mr. Eliot

I’m off today writing the Perkins Technology Application for the district.  This should be my last period off (except I will miss 3rd Period May 21st).  Here’s an outline of what you should be doing:

• KeyBoarding/Microsoft Office:  Start Excel, EX A-4 to Ex A-11.  If you need more time on your Newsletter, do that AFTER the new Excel work.
• AP Java:  Continue on with the Ant Lab.  The Gridworld Case Study booklets are behind the whiteboard in front of Gideon.  Ask the sub to get them please.
• Advanced Web:  Please finish up on the XML section.  The media player will work in BOTH BROWSERS as long as you have NO SPACES inside the attributes.  Take a look BELOW AT THE LAST BLOG POST and notice that there are no spaces after the ? inside the URLs.
• Web Design:  Please continue with Style Sheets and do the best you can.  Ask others near you to help.  I will be back to answer questions tomorrow.

Have a great day,
Mr. Eliot

On Wednesday, March 5th, I will be attending a teacher conference in Los Angeles. On that day, Mr. Pence will be your guest teacher. Mr. Pence taught Biology and Physiology here at El Dorado for many years. Here’s what each class should be doing while I’m gone:

• Keyboarding: Special Marks Lesson #2
• AP Java: Finish Mergesort and/or START Quicksort
• Adv. Web: Finish AS14, Hangman Game
• Web Design: Continue table / Animated GIF

I am home getting better (hopefully).  I hope you all have a great day.  I should be back on Thursday.

KEYBOARDING:  Today, you have two 10 minute typing tests.  Use the extra time to help get caught up, for those of you that are behind.  The NEW tests you should take are “The Tale Of Peter Rabbit” first and “Traffic lights have drivers playing the waiting game” second from the LA Times.

JAVA:  Continue with AS16.

ADV WEB:  Start your first MySQL assignment.  Remember that the assignment handout has some nice sample code that should help you modify your Guestbook assignment to MySQL.

WEB DESIGN:  Continue work on Assignment 02, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.  Focus on getting the question pages completed.  On Thursday,  we will work on the wrong answer page, etc.

Thanks everyone,
Mr. Eliot

Hello fine students,

I will see you again on Monday. Today, I am in Monterey at a Technology Conference. Mr Stoecklein (pronounced Stek-Line) will be our guest teacher for today.

• WEB DESIGN: Continue with your STYLE SHEETS assignment. This assignment will be due Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Don’t forget to upload all 5 pages to your website AND link them so I can grade them.
• AP JAVA: We will be finishing this assignment probably Monday or Tuesday next week. If you finish early, you may browse the internet from your assigned seat.
• ADV. WEB DESIGN: Everyone should still be working on the assignment. Nobody should be playing games online since I am not here to OK your assignment upload and check your CSS and XHTML validation.
• KEYBOARDING: In the book, please work on Ex C-2 to Ex C-7. After that, create and UPLOAD your .ZIP file for this week. Include everything we did this week INCLUDING TODAY’S WORK. When finished, browse online from your assigned seat.

Have a great weekend everyone. Web Design students, I hope to grade the GIMP assignment this weekend

On Friday, November 30th, I will be presenting at the “Digital Immigrants / Digital Natives” Technology Conference in Monterey, CA.  Former El Dorado Teacher Of The Year Mr. Stoecklein (pronounced stek-line) will be your teacher on that day.  Please welcome him as our guest

Sorry 3rd period students! I forgot to mention that I was going to be gone today to a meeting at the district office from 8am to 11am. We’ll do the new seating chart tomorrow.