8th+Grade

7th & 8th Grade
Mrs. Pagano's wiki

Mrs. Cashel's wiki

NEW LOGIN! Your username is your full name with capital letters and a space in between; your password is smmastudent

[|Typing Club]
 * 7th Grade keyboarding goal 35 WPM with 90% accuracy on test 423 or above.
 * 8th Grade keyboarding goal 40 WPM with 90% accuracy on test 423 or above.

= [|Hour of Code 2017-2018:] =

8th Grade code: YQTJPB

7th Grade code: PTGMZL

AV/VR >
 * [|CoSpaces EDU] - Class code: MLXZX (if joined already) or KVJGJ (if joined 3.1.18) or P232J (if joined 3.7.18)

[|Tinkercad]- Create 3D digital designs with online CAD

Use these credentials to log in if you want to save your work or create your own account:

// user name: //

// password: smmastudent1415 //

// This week's code: // =6PXBYSY3 (3.6.18)=

Save files as .stl to be printed at school!

[|Tinkercad - Lessons]

[|Tinkercad - Youtube introduction and brief tutorial]

[|Thingiverse]- get inspired!

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Safe Searching & Giving Credit by Citing Sources
[|Citation Machine] - Choose MLA to create citations for your reference page

[|EasyBib] - Choose MLA to create citations for your reference page

[|RefSeek] - eliminates the advertising and paid links found on Google, Ask, Yahoo and other commercial search engines; results are more of academic nature

[|Diffen] - Compare Anything

Graphic Design - [|Dr. Fucoloro Pinterest]

[|Vector Portrait tutorial]

[|Justin Timberlake Vector Portrait Tutorial using Google Drawing]

[|Piktochart]

=[|Hour of Code 2017-2018:]=

8th Grade code: YQTJPB

7th Grade code: PTGMZL

[|Moana]

[|Google CS First]

[|Make Music with Scratch]

[|Dance Moves - Python]


 * [|iMovie Trailer resources - downloadable storyboards] **


 * Makerspace: **


 * 3D Printing
 * [|Sphero: SPRK Education Program] - Learn to combine your coding skills with robotics using our Sphero!
 * [|Sphero and Tickle App Challenges] - videos
 * [|Ozobot] - [|Bit]
 * Ozobot - [|Evo]
 * Ozobot - [|Blockly] (coding)
 * [|Ozobot Challenges] - videos
 * [|Bloxels] - build your own video game
 * [|Bloxels] - videos
 * [|Makey Makey] - project ideas
 * [|littleBits] - project ideas
 * [|Circuits] using LED lights, copper tape, and button batteries
 * [|Simple Circuit Tutorial]
 * [|Makerspace Ideas]
 * [|Halloween Paper Circuits]
 * AV/VR
 * [|CoSpaces EDU]
 * [|HoloBuilder]

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Presentation Tools or Apps
Digital Storytelling and Digital Video Production Tips & Tools

[|Slide Carnival] - lots and lots of presentation templates

[|Haiku Deck] - 'makes telling your story simple, beautiful, and fun.'

[|ThingLink Education] - make your images interactive

[|GlogsterEDU] - Poster yourself. Create interactive posters by adding video, images, text, and audio http://edu.glogster.com/register?edu_type=student
 * Megan's Underground Railroad Glog

[|Prezi] - Create zooming presentations

[|Animoto]- create beautiful videos (free version gives 30 seconds of video)

[|PowToon] - create animated videos and presentations

[|Present.me] -

Photo editing and enhancement tools - lots of tools to help personalize or mashup your images

[|Unsplash] - lots of awesome, free high-resolution images

Blogging
[|What is a blog?] - introductory video

Check some blogs out to decide how you want your class blog to look: theme, widgets, pages, etc.

[|Check out Class Blogs!] - Nice list of blogs at all grade levels.

[|Kreb's Class Blogs] - Impressive example of a class sharing their learning.

[|Setting up a Class Blog] - Step by step (Edublogs)

[|Blogging Guidelines, expectations, commenting, and types of blogs] - check out the different types of blogs re subject area

[|Comments 4 Kids] - Guidelines for blogging

[|15 Free Safe AVATAR Creators] - Please share which one you like the best!

[|Androidify]- Create and name your very own Android avatar

Be Creative!
[|5 Card Flickr] - a storytelling experience using 5 randomly chosen images

[|Tinkercad]- Create 3D digital designs with online CAD

[|SketchNotes] - check out this awesome presentation showing how to create sketchnotes

[|Art Pad] - drawing and writing

[|Wallpaper] - Create cool desktop or cell phone wallpapers with calendars

[|Motivator] - create your own motivational posters

[|Photovisi] - easy photo collages

[|PicMonkey] - have lots of fun with this photo editing application (Chrome has a PicMonkey app available)

[|Fotor]- another nice photo editing application

[|PinWords] - instantly add text to your images

Lots of Image Editing Tools

[|Festisite: Text Layout] - Turn your text into an image

[|ReciteThis!] - Turn a Quote into a Masterpiece

[|Spell with Flickr] - different images for each letter

ABCya! Word Cloud  creator - create beautiful word clouds with this application

[|Image Chef] - create concrete poems using this app

[|Trading Card Creator]

Coding Resources