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| Painting with Light |
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"Painting with Light" is a fun technique that can give you great results. It is called Painting with light becuse that is exactly what you do. |
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Arts, Media, Entertainment |
| Panollage of Cultural, Natural, Historical place in San Diego |
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Panollage Collage of Natural, Cultural, Hisorical place in San Diego |
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Arts, Media, Entertainment |
| Photo scramble |
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This project is a great assignment for the advanced and the beginning. Using PS3 in this creative way is exactly what the student are able to grasp. In turn, the tools and functions of PS3 are learned by all students.
This assignment has a repetiti... |
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Arts, Media, Entertainment |
| Photoshop for Photographers—Controlling the Viewer's Experience |
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To teach students how to control the viewer's experience when looking at photographs. Students use their knowledge of principles and elements of art along with the learned use of Photoshop tools, to create photographs with impact. |
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Arts, Media, Entertainment |
| Creating Vector Frames in PSD |
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Learn to combine Vector swirls into Photoshop files to create a modern version of Art Nouveau. |
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Arts, Media, Entertainment |
| Convert PDF files to Word Files |
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Neat little webpage to convert simple PDF documents to editable Word documents. Works well for basic little edits, though none of these utilities are perfect. |
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| Hound of the Baskervilles: Simulation Based on the Game Mafia |
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This is a fantasically engaging simulation I came up with based on the card game "Mafia." The students get very into it and it's loads of educationally-based fun! |
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English |
| Canterbury Tales/Class Pilgrimage |
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Use this as an activity with The Canterbury Tales to simulate the process of telling a story while walking to a destination. Once the students have picked a tale, and spent about 2-4 days learning it, embark upon a classroom "pilgrimage" to the foot... |
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English |
| Using the Illustrator Tool |
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This lesson plan, videos, and assessment rubric are for the lessons on learning how to use the Pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.
All files, and video demos are in the Additional Resources, when you select the Artifact title- NOT just the download but... |
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Arts, Media, Entertainment |
| FITT Orientation Practice Files |
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FITT Orientation practice files. |
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| Google Wave |
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Google Wave is going to be an integral online collaboration tool. Look for the public release soon. |
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| Senior Exhibition Portfolio Check |
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Checklist to hold students accountable to the requirements for their Senior Exhibition Portfolio. |
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| Job Application |
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Sample Job Application--a requirement for "Future Planning" section of portfolio, and also can be used for life management training |
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| Sample SCHS Senior Exhibition |
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Video sample of a '09 SCHS senior presenting her Senior Exhibition. This speech passes with mostly 5's on the rubric. |
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| Light Lab |
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Students use a solar cell and volt meter to determine the how the angle to the sun changes the voltage produced by the solar cell |
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Science |
| Card Board Chair Design |
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As a trail in design and building my students built cardboard chairs. |
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Science |
| Forces Quiz |
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This is a quiz that I have used in my AP Physics class |
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Science |
| Teaching resources |
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This website has valuable information for teaching literacy skills. |
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English |
| Lesson plans across the curriculum |
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This is an excellent site to find new teaching ideas for all content areas. |
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| Literacy across content areas |
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This website has been upgraded to include vocabulary, math, grammar, chemistry, foreign language and art. |
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| Science Teacher Resources |
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Good website for general science, biology, and chemistry classroom resources. Resources include worksheets, labs, and links to helpful websites. The site has more than you need, but it is well organizes so you don't waste time searching |
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Science |
| Awesome Science Resources |
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This website has resources for general science, biology, and chemistry. Resources include worksheets, demons, labs, and links to useful websites. Not all resources are useful, but the site is organized well so you don't waste a lot of time filterin... |
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Science |
| Polarity and bonding |
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This is a comic strip explaining the principle of polarity and chemical bonding. My students really enjoyed it. A couple of months after reading the comic strip, I was surprised when my students referenced the comic strip when we were were discussi... |
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Science |
| File conversion |
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This website will allow a user to convert any file type into a different file type. Like a .docx to a .doc, or a .wps to a .doc. You can also put in a url, and download the file to your computer (like youtube videos). Very useful! |
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| SlideShare.com |
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This website allows teachers (or anyone) to upload a presentation and make it available online for others to see. You can also embed it into your website. This makes PowerPoint presentations available to those who do not have the application. |
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| Goal Setting Worksheet |
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This worksheet was used in Freshman Advisory to get our freshmen to set immediate and long term goals. This can be used in any class. |
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| Success Habits Scramble |
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This can be used in AVID, a study skills course, Freshman Advisory, etc. It is a scramble of the "Success Habits" from the book "Student Success Secrets" by Eric Jensen. |
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| Algebra 1 Cumulative Review |
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This is a 16 question PowerPoint for reviewing for the cumulative Algebra 1 district Final. |
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Mathematics |
| Federal Government Expenditure |
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Brief description of government spending and how a budget is passed. |
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Social Science |
| California Council on Economic Education |
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Great website for economic teachers. It includes power point slides, workshop information, as well as a guide to the standards. |
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Social Science |
