Wednesday, January 18, 2012

30 Facts

1.PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package
2.PowerPoint involves creating presentations
3.title bar  display the name of the program you are currently using
4.Standard Toolbar contains icons for some of the most commonly used commands.
5.Placeholders contain formatting characteristics for items to be added which saves time in creatings your presentations
6. View buttons allow you to quickly switch between Powerpoint views.
7.Status bar displays information about the number of slides in the show
8.Slide sorter Pane displays thumbnail representations of each slide in a presentation
9.menu bar displays a list of menus that you use to give commands to powerpoint
10.formating toolbar contains buttons for the most commonly used commands
11.Slide pane displays the slide one at a time.
12.task pane lists commands that are revelant to whatever youre doing in powerpoint.
13.powerpoint displays a slide containing placeholder
14.there are many ways to do a powerpoint
15.Save your work as "presentations in your student folder
16.Start powerpoint and open the file you created in the last task
17click the new slide or placeholder
18.powerpoint will automatically choose the "bulleted list" slide
19.to change the slide layout, simply click on the desired placeholders
20.Choose the  the layout
21.notice that your slide pane changes appearance
22.set the  Font, Size and color.
23. refer to task if necessary
24.set a line style and/or fill of your choice.
25.your slide should aPPEAR similar to the following example
26.areas of technology
27.save from the file menu
28. this thing is about powerpoints
29.my name is errol simmons and i took these notes
30.adding graphics is easy


Friday, January 13, 2012

Essential Questions week 1

What's a blog?

a blog is a website where people can create and expressed there feelings. also send work to teachers.

Whats the difference between a new blog and a new post?

A new blog is a account on a way website that you use to make a new post

Describe and give examples of a hyperlink?

A hyperlink is a link that connects you to various websites,picture,and videos.
when i first used this blog in miss Nyugen class i thought what the heck is this. using a blog is really easy and it is a gateway to learn. I learned how to create one. the one im using now is where i do my classwork and turn in my work. all the kids like usiing the blogs because its efficient and easy. thats why ii say woork is easy because the more technology progress the more easier the work is.i also learn how to setup a hyperlink. a hyper link is a link that connects you to various websites, pictures, and ,videos. when i first did this blog i was lost. I didnt know what to do. it was my first blog . Since i was learning i started to know. it was like a routine. you just got to keep following. overall i like it and it was a good experience.
• 4 posts • 2 external Links

• 2 images • Background Design • 2 Comments

• Color Contrast—Font style/ Font Color

• Each post 10-15 sentences • Eastern Time Zone •Non-materials must deleted


Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The good and Bad designs for a blog

Over the past decade there have been good and bad blogs. From the people to the  design of there blogs. a good blog would have text that is big enough to read but not big were you it distracts the reader. links are coordinate with the page colors which is very important. if you want to be fancy you can have animatiopns turn off by themselves. You really dont want to have a dorky page because nobody want to read your blog. here are some bad design you dont want to use on your blog. you do not want to have small text. you do not want to have defualt blue links. that looks retarded. you do not want to have useless and meaningless graphics thats stupid what use shopuld have is halo graphics thats what everybody is doing theses days this is what i think are the goods and bads  desing of a blog.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Wind turbines

Last semester before we left from break we had our last project. That project was to make to make a wind turbine. first we had to  research windturbines and alternative energy. there was an article about how schools up north are using alot of money on heating. They were thinking about cutting field trips , school days and other stuff like that. So this is when the wind turbine comes in. A wind turbine uses wind energy  to make energy. when its turning it make a dc(direct current) and make Ac (alternative current)  which can powers a house. So in class we made paper replicas.  making them was very hard for me . after we made the we had tested them to see if we can power a light bulb.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

what i learned about blogging

i learned alot about blogging. blogging began in 1999 when technology started to boom. during that time blogging was for people who want to shar their ideas and their feelings. it was a way for peolple to be self confident and do it for a passion. engineers use blogs to. they can ask people for ideas on structure without getting them stolen. i would like to use blogger to share my ideas on engineering. These are some of the reasons i created this blog. I want to share the world my knowledge. Also recieve.