Create Your Own Computer Assignment

Greetings 8th Grade,
Today we are going to be using this new found technology to create your own computer assignment. It has to involve technoloy and it has to cause people to learn something new. This assignment should last at least one class period.

Create an Objective

Directions

and Find some way to be able to evaluate if the students learned what you wanted them to learn.

-Mr. G

8th Grade

What Kind of Computer should I Buy?

The most common question I get is what kind of computer should I buy? What most people don’t realize is that this is a very loaded question. There are so many variables that come into play. And your assignment is to become competent in answering this question with facts and information. It is an ever changing world, and I want you to become a person who will at least know where to go get the information to make logical and wise decisions in the computer world.

Your assigment is to create a Powerpoint presentation on how to decide on what kind of computer to buy. You will need to know what questions to ask to help the people get the computer they need and want. This is going to be a fairly indepth assignment, so it will take a lot of effort on your part. You might check the internet for Computer Buying guides there are even some videos on the subject. The objective will be for you to produce a simple yet detailed powerpoint on how to choose the right computer.

Some resources are:

http://www.viewz.com/shoppingguide/compbuy.shtml

http://www.css.msu.edu/PC-Guide/

https://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/demo/buyingguide/

http://www.laptopadvisor.com/

There are thousands out there. So please use many different resources to create your PowerPoint. Make sure you keep track of where you got your resources you will be adding a bibliograpy slide at the end of your presentation.

MR. G

Menu-Restaurant

Welcome To your 8Th Grade Blogspot for Our Computer Class. If you ever have any questions on what you missed in Computer class you should be able to always find it here. You should book mark this page.

For our First Blog project you will be creating your own restaurant.

Here is a list of things you will need for you, to complete your restaurant Menu.

1. Name
2. Hours of Operation
3. Location or Locations (Chain of Restaurants)

4. History (Established in 1808, by the Smith Family from Scotland...)
5. Slogan (Example: "Eat Fresh!, Subway")
6. Fake phone Number, fax, Website, and email.
(Phone: 503-555-1212
Fax: 503-555-1213
www.myrestaurant.com)

7. What Kind of Payment to you take? Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Checks, Cash, Paypal etc...?

8. Menu Sections: Only if they apply to your style of restaurant, Breakfast, Appetizers, Specials, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert, Beverages: No Alcoholic beverages, Beer, Wine, Margaritas, etc. (Non-alcoholic versions not allowed as well)

9. Menu Items: Name, description and cost,

10. Pictures of items if you wish. It will help improve your score.

When finished you will save to the public folder

P:\Junior High\Mr.G\7th-computer Class-07-08\Menu's

If you have any questions please don't forget to ask me.

-Mr. G

Newspaper Article 2nd Gen

Welcome back from Spring Break! We are going to be refining your skills in publications. We as a class decided on the requirements for this assignment.
They will be as follows.

1. Choose four categories / sections (Cover page, Living Section, Sports Section, Comics, Home and garden, etc)
2. Next Create as many articles as you need to make your newspaper interesting.
3. It can be fiction or fact, but if it is fiction it must be realistic and appropriate.
4. Please make it at least five pages in length, think about layout and design in all your articles. They should be easy to read and follow.
5. Each Newspaper must have at least three advertisements.
6. We will make this project due six class periods from today.

Brochure Time

Greetings Class,

Keep working on your Brochure. The Sub will have examples of it if you need a reminder. Thank you for staying on task.

Steps towards our Newspaper...

Today we are going to begin working with MS Publisher. This is the program we will be using to make our newspapers. For today we would like to create a restaurant and make a brochure for it. This tri-fold brochure could be a Brochure Menu combo. I want you to have fun with this project and at the same time try and use as many tools as you can with this incredible program called publisher. We even get to print them out on a brand new color printer. Please see me when you are completed with your project and allow me to approve it before you print.

Here are a few examples for you to use.

http://www.elance.com/p/design/brochure-design/samples/restaurant/index.html

http://www.business-edge.com/industries/restaurants.asp

http://www.health.state.ri.us/disease/tobacco/sfwpl/SFWPLrestaurant_brochure.pdf


Thanks,
Mr. G

Binary Code?

01000111 0 01101111 01101111 01100100 -

01101101 01101111 01110010 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 ,
(Good Morning)

What is Binary Code you ask? What are all these 0’s and 1’s? Well that is your first assignment. Well this is your first assignment. Please read the information on Wikipidia about Binary Code and then write a summary about it.


Wikipidia Binary Code


Read and Summarize and print the document and turn it in.

BinaryCode-yourname:


Once you are done learning about what Binary Code is, please write a complete Sentence in Binary code. Please use proper capitalization, but don’t worry about punctuation for now. After you create this sentence in Word and next time your class mates will be trying to decode what you are saying.


Please separate each word with a “-“ and separate each letter with two spaces.
Thank you.

Binary Code Reference

-Mr. G