• Make yourself a name tag and place it on your desk.
• Class activity:  IT Line game
• While waiting to logon to a computer, see if you can solve some challenging puzzles: (In order to access the puzzles you will need to login to Science Moodle.  Your instructor will tell you how to do this.)
  
• Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
• Chicken maze
• Find the sad clown
• Pick up sticks puzzle
• Inventor paradox
• Do you have a smartphone, e.g. an Android phone or iPhone?  If you do, you can download an app that will let you access our class in Science Moodle. 
  
• Moodle app for Android - Mbot  (It's free!)
• Moodle app for iPhone - Moodle Touch
  
• Logon to a computer using your CAMS account (link to activate your CAMS account if you have not already done so)
• Submit your gmail address by clicking here.
  
• Launch a web browser, preferably Firefox or Google Chrome.  Go to our class website at http://tinyurl.com/qsi2011
• Open a new tab in your web browser by pressing Ctrl T and then login to our class in Science Moodle
• Read the goals of the course
  
• Discussion of rules and cybersafety
• Please read:  Teen Safety on the Info Highway
• Overview of program 
• WorldChanging Projects
• Read the Project Guide
• Project topics
• Project products
• Look at previous year's projects

• Explore worldchanging.org
• Form teams - post your team name and group member's names on the forum
• Brainstorm individually and with your group on possible topics for your worldchanging project.  Post 3 possible ideas for your project on the forum
• Go to docs.google.com and login
• Create a collection and call it yourname-portfolio-summer2011
• This is where you will keep all of the materials you create during this course.  
• Write your first program in Python
  

• Go to sumopaint.com
• Watch Sumopaint in Action first
• Use sumopaint to draw a quick sketch of a computer scientist.  Save the file as your-name-cs.gif and then post your image by attaching it to a message on the forum in Science Moodle.  Also save your image in your portfolio folder on docs.google.com or on flikr.com
• The best way to get media such as images and graphics for your project, is to create your own.  However, there are some places where free images, clip art, sound effects and music are available for educational purposes.  Here are some useful links:
• • OpenClipArt Library
    
  • Sign up for a Flickr account 
    
  • Read the following articles:  
  • Where All the Purty Pictures Come From: Flickr + Creative Commons
  • Using Creative Commons Licensed Material in Your Classroom
  • How to find free, online content that you’re allowed to re-use
    
  • Search for some science images for your web site using the Creative Commons 
  • http://search.creativecommons.org/
  • http://discovered.creativecommons.org/
  • Royalty free music - http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
  • More free music - http://www.danosongs.com/

Tuesday's Super Fantastic Computer joke!

Why was the computer so angry?  Click here for the answer.

• Login to our class in Science Moodle
• Answer the pre-course survey

• login to your Queens Inquiry gmail email account.  You should find an invitation to join our wikispace.  Follow the instructions in the email to join.
  
• login using your wikspaces account
  
• Go through the Wikispace Help and Tour
• Plan what you want on your wikispace.  Each person on the team should make at least one wikispace page.  These individual pages should all  be linked to the team homepage. 
  
• Set up wikispace for projects

• Go through the Wikispace Help and Tour
  
• Set up wikispace for projects
• Teams work on projects - post progress reports on forum
• More Python
  

• Computer Hardware
  
• How PC's work
  
• How PC's really work
  
• Software
• How stuff works - Software

• Sign up for a free account with http://quizlet.com.
• Read "How do I get started?"  and watch a demo video
• Make a least 10 flash cards.  Each flash card should have the name of a computer part on one side with an explanation of its function and how it works on the other. Share your set of flash cards by posting a link to your flash cards on the forum in Science Moodle.
• Here are some cards I created related to how the Internet works.  I created a group called qsisummer2011 where we can share our cards.  I will send you invitations to this group during class, remind me if you don't get an invitation.

Wednesday's Super Fantastic Computer joke!

• Parts of a computer game
  
• Discussion of computer software and hardware
• Computer Hardware
  
• How PC's work
  
• Software
• How stuff works - Software
• http://webopedia.com is a great resource to find the definitions of computer terms
• Login to our class in Science Moodle
• What is Web 2.0?
• Go to Wordle and select, copy and paste the text from the article at the following url into wordle.  Save the resulting image in your digital portfolio.  Try using some of the other url's from our computer class in wordle. 
  

• Browse examples of Web 2.0 tools

• login using your edu.glogster account
  
• Go through the glogster tutorials
• http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/Glogster
• Creating and presenting glogs tutorial
  
• Plan what you want to put on your glog
  
• Make a title and a link to your wikispaces page.  Post the link to your wikispace and glog on the forum in Moodle. 
  

• Work on team projects
• Start your wikispaces.com site
• Post a progress report on the forum in ScienceMoodle

• http://educate.intel.com/en/TheJourneyInside/ExploreTheCurriculum/EC_DigitalInformation/

Thursday's Super Fantastic Computer joke!

• Login to our class in Science Moodle
• Pop!
  
• POP Quiz!

• During this course, we will be learning about computer hardware and software.  In this short activity, you are going to write a computer program using a very useful language called Python. 
  
• Go to codepad, select Python, and Private, Run code, type in the following lines and click the "submit" button:

• What did you see on the screen? 
  
• Change the message "Hello World" in the program to something else and submit and run the code again.
• Do a Google search for python and find out more about Python.  Post what you find on the forum in Moodle.
  
• Why is it called Python?
• Who invented the language?
• How is it different from other languages?
• What is Python used for?

• Using the Flip Mino video camera, each team should make a very short video introducing the topic of your Worldchanging project.  
• Take a sheet of paper and draw a vertical line.  On the left side, write down what you will do during the video.  On the right side, write down what you will say.  Rehearse before you record your video. 
  

• View the Windows Movie Maker Tutorials.
• Add a title and transitions to your video along with credits at the end.
• Once you are finished, your video will be uploaded to teachertube.com by the instructor. 
  

• Teams work on projects - post progress reports
• More Python
  

• Go through Lesson 1, "Step-by-Step Tutorial on Prezi Basics" to learn how to use Prezi.
  
• Make a presentation for your project using Prezi. Post the link to your team's Prezi presentation on the forum in Moodle.