Keyboarding

• Practice touch-typing with Mavis Beacon.
• Set challenges for yourself in accuracy.

Inkscape

• Use the rectangle tool and the line tool to create a castle.

Students will use the following template and the line tool to create a maze in Inkscape.

Last part of class students will have time to explore various programs on the computer:

• Tuxpaint
• Google Earth
• Google Sketchup
• Inkscape

Lesson

• Use the line tool to create enclosed shapes with x number of points.
• Use the “edit point” tool to manipulate existing points.

Activity

• Trace the Singapore Skyline using the line tool.
• Enclose the skyline fully, and fill it with a solid color.
• Add text.

Lesson

• Demonstrate how shapes can be combined to make fruit:
  • Banana, apple, pear
• Tech skills to practice
  • Draw, resize, color, delete a shape
  • Save the file to a network drive
• Creativity
  • Use your imagination by combining shapes in order to create new shapes

Before

After

Lesson – Jumping Fish Silhouette

• Use copy/paste to duplicate the fish
• Use the rotate function to pivot the fish
• Explore some of the other shape tools to:
  • Add a splash
  • Add a moon
  • Add some stars

Lesson

• Demonstrate rotate/stretch/perspective in MS Paint.
• Discuss usage of these functions.

Activity

• Name Shadow

• Demo slide transitions
• Demo running a slide show
• Student demos

• Dictated typing
• Use Microsoft Word
• Save files
• Free Draw