PAAVTC, A/V 1 and 2, Graphic Design 1 and 2 – Good News!!! You will start your elective classes next week, Monday, April 30th!!!

This is oging to be an ongoing project throughout the remainder of our “distance learning.” This project is going to be YOU journaling about your time coping with “social distraction” during the CoronaVirus Pandemic.

I created my journal which I named “Quarantine Time.” You can come up with something clever. Originally I thought we’d make a new page in our ePortfolio where we could upload our files. But I think an Adobe Spark webpage is actually going to be a better place for it.

Watch here for a refresher on how to create an Adobe Spark Page AND submit it as an assignment in Canvas.

This Spark webpage/journal is going to be where you can record things you’re doing, your thoughts, what’s going on in the world. Really whatever you want.

REQUIREMENTS

• Clever title for your journal
• I would like to see an average of 3 posts per week.
• An assortment of digital artifacts – You can write, upload videos, photos, drawings, you name it. If you take videos with your phone, be sure to turn your phone horizontally.
• Publish & Share each Friday, copying the published link and pasting it into the Canvas assignment.

If we get back to class, or you have access to a computer with a video editing program, then you can put it all together in one video for the end of the year.

Here’s my Quarantine Time Journal

Mobile Adobe Apps you may find useful

March 25 thru April 1

You are completing ALL PARTS of the Create PT Performance Task this week.

Please watch through these 2 videos
Part 1
Part 2

Here’s the Presentation I went over in the video.
Code.org
Canvas
Classlink – get to Canvas or MS Office from here. The link is at the top of the LCISD homepage

Students, please have your parents fill out the following survey to help the school assist you with your technology needs in our Distance Learning:

English: https://bit.ly/LCHSParentsEng

Spanish: https://bit.ly/LCHSParentsEsp

Your emails are coming soon!!! Please make sure you check back here, your school email, and the Twitter accounts of @LamarCISD, @kaye1332 (principal), @LCHSMustangs, @kasam10s (mine).

You’ll get more information on how your teachers will deliver your courses online for the unforeseen future.

Miss you all and hope you are doing well!

Hello AP Computer Science Principles Students and Parents

I hope this email finds all of you well. Parents, I’m including you because your student isn’t always good about checking their school email. Please tell them to look for this please.

I’m assuming that the majority of you have seen updates that LCISD will begin online learning starting very soon. Make sure you are checking your email and the Twitter accounts of @LamarCISD, @kaye1332 (principal), @LCHSMustangs, and @kasam10s (mine) for updates.

I’ve set up a Discord Server where you & I can ask and answer questions with/of the class. You can use your school or personal email to join – it’s up to you. Please join when you get this email and respond to the General thread with your First name & Last initial and let me know how you’re doing. This way I know you got my email and know where to go to ask questions and participate in discussions.
Join here: https://discord.gg/89dUyc9. Please note that this is an extension of the classroom and the language and conversation should reflect that.  

Before we start worrying about specific assignments I wanted to give you an update regarding the changes to the CSP AP exam.  Originally, the exam was weighted as:

• Create Performance Task – 20%
• Explore Performance Task – 20%
• Sit down MC exam – 60%

The AP College Board has decided that they will still award AP credit for the class based on what you should be able to complete with all of the time that we have had off due to the coronavirus. Therefore, they are omitting the sit down MC exam altogether for CSP. The exam will now be weighted:

• Create Performance Task – 50%
• Explore Performance Task – 50%

The good news about that is that most of you have successfully completed the Create Performance Task already and still have time to make modifications to it if needed. Those that were having trouble with it, you should be working on yours right now.

If you’ve completed it and don’t think you have any modifications to make, then you should work on the video that shows how it works and the written response. You can review all of the necessary information by going to the Create – AP Performance Task Prep Unit. It’s after Unit 5. If you can’t find what you need, you should use Discord to ask questions. Email me your written response when you’ve completed it. You should also upload the written response and video to your Digital Portfolio but DON’T SUBMIT IT YET.

We were almost finished with Unit 2 Digital Information before we left for Spring Break. In order to be fully ready for the Explore Performance Task, we also need to complete Unit 4 Big Data & Privacy (10 lessons).

For the Explore Task you will be asked to complete a written response and a digital artifact about a technological innovation. It needs to be current enough that a minimum of 2 of your 3 resources is from June 2019 or newer. Check out the guidelines and start thinking about what you could do. If you want input on your idea – email it to me instead of using Discord. Your idea might inspire others to do the same topic and we want to avoid that on this particular topic.

Your new deadline to upload your two Tasks will be May 26^th.

Here’s a link to the updated information on all AP exams: https://apcentral-preview.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/coronavirus-update?fbclid=IwAR0Ai8oiN1OYxiluKZqBIsk1zeSE7xpFAgZ3W6dOFoKvLXooQacBgGqjsTw

If you will have trouble accessing an internet enabled computer, please let me know ASAP. I’ll see what we can do.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions you have. I’ll be sending updates with actual assignments to students soon.

I miss seeing all of you and hope you’re doing well. Wishing you all the best!

Your entry/entries into the LCISD Digital Media Festival are due today before you leave class.

Entry forms are on the front table. The entry form has the naming guidelines on their as well.

Your correctly named files should be turned in to the Campus Share Drive > HS_Lamar > Student > Samuelson_Drop > 2020_LCISD_Digital_Media_Festival_Entries

Have a wonderful and safe spring break – you deserve it!!!

Comp Sci

Remember to put your phone in the bucket on your way to your seat.

Every Day!!!

Juniors – you should be SAT Testing
Freshmen et al – you should be taking the Biology Benchmark

Everyone else – Log in and get started. There is testing right next door, so you need to keep your voices down. No filming outside of the room today due to testing.

Cell Phones – due to misuse across the entire school, the principal has requested that we make sure you are not on them during class. So you need to put your cell phones in the bucket next to my desk until class is over. If you don’t and your cell phone is out, then your consequences are more severe.

ALL Juniors will have SAT Testing on Wednesday.
Freshmen will have the Biology Benchmark as well.
Make sure that you check the posters in the rotunda to find out where you should meet.

Sophomores and Seniors – my class runs on a regular bell schedule tomorrow. There could be testing in this hallway, so be sure to be quiet while walking through the hall.

Seniors ONLY: You need to vote for your Senior Trip.

You have 5 days of work before you must submit your LCISD Digital Media Festival Entry AND before you get a nice long Spring Break.

Make sure you are focused and make the most of your time in class. Progress Report grades will be due shortly after we get back.

“Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word” – Author John Steinbeck. God Bless Texas! Happy Texas Independence Day! 184 years and still the best!