Trading card project at Shadow Oaks

Trading card project @ Shadow Oaks

Week 1:
(Logging in to Network, Norway and Creating a folder)
Log in with Lunch number & password.
Go to My Computer – Norway – Graduation class folder – locate name/folder
(Was the first time for many to realize WHEN they would graduate from High School!)
Create folder for this year’s work (2008-2009)
Create a shortcut on the desktop of the computer they were working on. (This is their computer station for this project.)
Hint: Make seating charts for your classes!

Week 2:
(Saving a picture to their folder)
Log in with Lunch number & password.
Verify they have their shortcut to their Norway folder on their desktop of their computer.
Open Internet – #9 Encyclopedia Britannica
Search Britannica for Martin Luther King (spelling!)
Scroll down to MORE MULTIMEDIA
Find a picture they like click save (discuss ways to save a picture e [Toolbar on picture & right click )
In the SAVE PICTURE box, Name the picture appropriately.
Locate their Norway folder using their desktop shortcut, and Save picture.

Week 3:
(Working with multiple screens, copy & paste, undo)
Log in with Lunch number & password.
Verify they have their shortcut to their Norway folder on their desktop of their computer.
Open Microsoft Word, then minimize it.
Open Internet – #9 Encyclopedia Britannica (using an appropriate language edition)
Search Britannica for Martin Luther King (spelling!)
Copy name Martin Luther King in Britannica
Use the tab at the bottom of the page and Paste his name in MS Word.
(Show different ways to COPY & PASTE, as well as demonstrate UNDO)
Save the MS Word file
In the SAVE box locate their Norway folder using their desktop shortcut,
Verify that the name of the file is appropriate and Save


Week 4 & 5:
Use Encyclopedia Britannica for information to locate 3 facts about MLK.
Open their word document; type his birth & death years as the sub-heading, and type 3 -5 facts about him.
Type their name for the bottom of the card.

Week 6:
Open the trading card website @ http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php
Put it all together, save it.
Then, print it!