HERE'S THE RULE...use opposite hands to hit the shift key...never the same hand as you're keying in the letter with..stay on HOME KEYS

click the links below for help in using the new Windows operating system called Vista:

windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/help/3bdc40f0-f0d3-4568-9763-31beb2f515bd1033.mspx?wt_svl=20365a&mg_id=20365b

...PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME OR YOUR NEIGHBORS ANY QUESTIONS!


open a new word document (make sure you save your word document to your desktop as "read and listen")

NEXT...start the assignment below:

click on the download button below for instructions and choose "save" to your desktop....give it the name oct2007

NOW...go to your desktop and open that document called oct2007 you just saved...follow the instructions on it EXACTLY

MAKE SURE YOU'RE THROUGH WITH ALL BELOW
....make a folder on your desktop called natl geog.......

now click here:


nationalgeographic.com/

SAVE AT LEAST 10 PICTURES FROM THE LINK (you must only save pictures after you've double clicked on them and made them big)...
photoshop only likes .jpgs ...
it doesn't like .bmps or gifs

now you must open them in photoshop and work on them (I'll show you how)

you'll do the ENTIRE PAGE in order....no exceptions! thanks
Click below and check out each of the GREATEST PLACES...you must check out all of them:

www.greatestplaces.org/

Next, click here and check out the mirages

www.greatestplaces.org/mirage/top.html

CLICK HERE--you must send 3 postcards
www.greatestplaces.org/postcards/top.html

click below...
YOU must look at all the slide sheets and save any 20 pictures to the GREATEST PLACES folder you made on your desktop;

www.greatestplaces.org/medias/media_html/pictures.html

NOW CHECK THE table of contents
Try all the links and make sure you didn't miss anything:

www.greatestplaces.org/toc/top.html

check all the greatest places others have added:

www.greatestplaces.org/toc/top.html

check all the greatest places others have added:

Perry-Castañeda Library
At this comprehensive site, you will find many different types of maps along with links to related maps all over the Internet. Available sections include: country maps, city maps, detailed maps, thematic maps, historical maps, country and thematic maps on other web sites.

click below and save any 5 maps to your desktop in a folder you'll make called maps.




www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

click below for the ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html



WUNDERGROUND weather photos
1st make a folder on your desktop called WEATHER PHOTOS.

Now click on the link before and decide which 10 pictures you like the best. As you choose each picture, you must double click on it, then right click, save picture as.....to the folder you just made on your desktop.

www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewimages.html

fightmusic.com/index.html

photoswest.org/exhib/faves/faves.htm

Lisa found this so you can find what lives and grows in your region and it helps with the food chain or web also. It also tells what your animal is (whether a producer or consumer)




www.desertusa.com/mag05/feb/food.html



here's another good link Garrett found:

www.tpwd.state.tx.us/kids/about_texas/regions/


Here's a great food web link that Nick found:

when you get to Nick's link, you can choose what you need:

science-class.net/Ecology/Ecology.htm


Jim says this link is good:
www.science-class.net/Lessons/TX_food_webs.htm


Here's Adrian's good link:

www.allacrosstexas.com/panhandle.htm

Here's Pierce's Energy Pyramid:


biocab.org/Energy_Pyramid.html

www.dogbreedinfo.com/search.htm

make sure you NEVER choose "no preferences"..(except on the one about allergies and the one about shedding...if you need to pick no preferences on those two)...

If your dog total comes out to less than 50 dogs picked for you, then you can print to the library. If more, highlight the 1st 50 and choose "print selection" to the library.

NOW....hold down control, right click, and save the picture of your favorite dog from the list chosen for you...save to your desktop please. If you don't know how to pronounce your dog's breed, look it up on Wikipedia

Good Collie website:
www.akc.org/breeds/collie/photos.cfm
Here's another website about Collies
www.dogbreedinfo.com/collie.htm
Here's another link to an entire dog website:
www.dogbreedinfo.com/index.htm

Today all you have to do at the link below is to create a shortcut to the main page and then serveral links to pages you'll need to use later. For example...the chemistry link and the kids corner link to the food chain and herbavore, etc.

Many of them are important for what you'll be studying in your other classes.

Here's the main link to start with:

www.sheppardsoftware.com

YOU MUST LEARN TO SET UP TABS
www.homeandlearn.co.uk/MW/s2p4.html

AFTER YOU'VE SHOWN ME THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO SET UP TABS

SHOW ME THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO SET UP TABS...THAT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU'LL GET CREDIT

English assignment
this English assignment isn't due until
JANUARY 30TH....
You must save it to the place on the server I told you about. If you're ready for it to be printed, you must save it as:
DONE then your name
You'll do the brochure/or the book jacket in Microsoft Publisher.

If it asks you if you want to install say OK.

Let the wizard run if it tries.

You will choose PROGRAM IN MICROSOFT PUBLISHER
if you're doing a

8TH GRADERS

BOOK JACKET

You will need to put something on all 4 pages.

Front...title, author, and a picture that relates to the book.

Inside on one page put another picture which relates to the book.

Inside on the other page write a summary of the book.

On the back write a paragraph about the author.




7th graders...

here are her instructions for the brochure:

7th book report

Make a brochure with 3 folds (6 sections)
1st section put title and author.
2nd section needs a picture relating to the book.
3rd section needs to have a written summary of the book.
4. 4th section needs to have a paragraph about the characters.
5. 5th section needs to have a paragraph about the author.
6. 6th section needs to be a paragraph about whether you would recommend the book to a friend and why.


(IT WILL BE DONE IN MICROSOFT PUBLISHER)

CHOOSE BROCHURE FROM THE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

EVERYONE...

BOTH 7TH AND 8TH GRADERS

EVERYDAY
Please save your brochure or book jacket each day to
both your desktop and to a folder on the server in

EXTRA FOLDER

called
ENGLISH BOOK JACKET OR BROCHURE.

Make sure your name is with what you save.



You WILL NOT GO ANY FURTHER ON THIS PAGE UNTIL YOUR BOOK JACKET OR BROCHURE IS FINISHED.

dotphoto
You'll be trying out a new photo site today. It has the best tools for showing off photos. It lets you create elaborate online slide shows set to music.

www.dotphoto.com/

Google is a great search engine, but it's also more than that. Google has tons of hidden features, some of which are quite fun and most of which are extremely useful— if you know about them. How do you discover all these hidden features within the Google site? Read on to learn more.

Just click on the download button below and find out all the ways to use Google.


(it has 5 pages in all)

When you open it, you must then file, save as, to your desktop so you can use it for the next assignment

Now you'll open the document you saved to your desktop about Google.

You must now try each of the 12 things that Google does.

In a separate Word document, you must list the 12 things with a sentence about how you tried each one. Save that document to your desktop as
"I tried Google's hidden features"

Now go back up and do the WATERMARK assignment using the Word document you just finished here. ("I tried Google's hidden features")

ADD A WATERMARK

You'll be coming back to this assignment when you finish all the Google work below:

Here's how:

To do this assignment, use the document you'll be making below called "I tried Google's hidden features"

office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA010563291033.aspx?pid=CL100636481033


Put a picture of yourself behind each set of words.

...show me
Find and replace text or other items
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Use Microsoft Word to find and replace text, formatting, paragraph marks, page breaks (page break: The point at which one page ends and another begins. Microsoft Word inserts an "automatic" (or soft) page break for you, or you can force a page break at a specific location by inserting a "manual" (or hard) page break.), and other items. You can extend your search by using wildcards and codes.

Find text

You can quickly search for every occurrence of a specific word or phrase.

On the Edit menu, click Find.
In the Find what box, enter the text that you want to search for.
Select any other options that you want.
To select all instances of a specific word or phrase at once, select the Highlight all items found in check box, and then select which portion of the document you want to search in by clicking in the Highlight all items found in list.

Click Find Next or Find All.

Definition:
A small, portable flash memory card that plugs into a computer’s USB port and functions as a portable hard drive. USB flash drives are touted as being easy-to-use as they are small enough to be carried in a pocket and can plug into any computer with a USB drive. USB flash drives have less storage capacity than an external hard drive, but they are smaller and more durable because they do not contain any internal moving parts
good info on flash drive 4 GB

I had to do some research for a parent, so thought I'd share with all of you. Click below for a good price and top rated flash drive.


www.buy.com/prod/kingston-4gb-hi-speed-datatraveler-usb-flash-drive/q/loc/101/204740968.html?adid=17873&dcaid=17873#cRevSec

puzzle-maker.com/CW/

be sure and save it before you print it.....

YOU MUST MAKE THIS SHORTCUT NOW
If you haven't tried the puzzle-maker.com/CW site, please at least go to it and make a shortcut to it on your desktop. It's great. It prints the puzzle and the solution.

It works like those highlighting markers you use to emphasize text on a printed page. To use it, just click the Highlight button; it's probably next to the Underline button unless you've moved it. (Don't have one? Go to Tools, Customize and click the Toolbars tab, then click on Tools in the Categories box. The button looks like a highlighting marker with a small yellow square beneath it; just drag it up to your toolbar.)

Word's default highlight color is yellow. If you'd rather use some other color, click on the down arrow at the right side of the highlight button to expand your color list. You can choose no color (None), green, cyan, magenta, blue, red, or dark blue (keep scrolling down the menu to see all the colors).

puzzle-maker.com/

This link below will take you to 60's music and lots of things to learn about the "way it was".

(this is one time you need to click lots of the links on the left and right, trying lots of the years)

www.centex.net/~elliott/dancers.html

Now click the download button below to go back to the 60's

Patsy Cline sings while Alaska Railway scenes go by
Since her death at the age of 30 in a 1963 plane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, revered, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
1st link will give you a little input about who Patsy Cline was:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline

Here's the Alaska Railway Powerpoint with her music in the background--you can find it as follows:

Go to extra folder, click on Alaska Railway Routes.

duggmirror.com/pets_animals/Click_if_your_computer_screen_is_dirty/screenclean.swf

all 28 Terry Fator videos are here:

www.youtube.com/results?search=related&search_query=America%20got%20talent%20Terry%20Fator%20ventriloquist%20Dean%20Martin%20That%27s%20Amore%20Tony%20Bennett%20I%20Left%20My%20Heart%20in%20San%20Francisco%20SF&v=CuoR6OM6KxA

It's blocked here BUT:

you can go home and pull up my website to watch the amazing......Ventriloquist/Impersonator

When he was 10, he found a library book on ventriloquism and began learning how to throw his voice. He pursued a more conventional performing career in entertainment for 15 years, but in 2001 decided to follow his first ambition: mimicry and ventriloquism.

His career turned a corner in 2004, when his manager heard his Garth Brooks impression and asked if he could do the country star’s voice through his puppet. His big break was his “America’s Got Talent” win.

Terry Fator is perhaps the first entertainer to combine the art of ventriloquism with celebrity impressions. His puppets, including Cowboy Walter, Emma Taylor and Winston the Impersonating Turtle, effortlessly perform the singing styles of an eclectic group of stars including: Tony Bennett, Elvis, Maroon Five, Garth Brooks, Nat King and Natalie Cole, Roy Orbison, Marvin Gaye, Gnarls Barkley, James Blunt, Brooks & Dunn, members of The Rat Pack, Louis Armstrong and even Kermit The Frog.

This Dallas native, whose career has reached a whole new level since “America’s Got Talent” has been headlining at sold out shows nationwide. The Las Vegas Hilton recently signed him to a lucrative contract worth more than $1.5 million dollars for 15 performances in 2008, including New Year’s Eve 2007

Here's a sample research paper..notice it's double spaced.

owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Here's help with Works Cited:

www.chs.riverview.wednet.edu/LanguageArts/citing_sources_on_the_works_cite.htm

7th graders

In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for.

Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it.


www.google.com/help/features.html

A small video camera has been developed in Japan, which shoots at 2000 frames per second. It is a high-resolution, full color, video cam, which does not need a lot of light as most high speed cameras do. In the attached demo movie, a yellow balloon has been filled with water and is then pierced with a pin. Take a look and be amazed. The balloon disappears from around the water.

To see the camera in action, click on extra folder to watch the video called Balloon.