Day Three

So ... we are more than half-way through our week and there is still so much to do! 

 We started our 'hump day' learning how to create a poster in Publisher 2016. I had some experience with an old version of Publisher. Today Ms. Agnew taught us how to divide the space into columns to help create a visual balance. We got some tips for working with textboxes and visual elements in the Publisher program. I also understand that once a Publisher file is saved, you should resave it as a pdf before taking it to be printed. The pdf 'flattens' all the layers so nothing moves or changes, i.e. the final product will look exactly as you want it.

After lunch, Ms. DeeDee taught us about genealogy resources such as Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org.  We made free accounts for Ancestry.com and followed the steps to make a Family Tree.  Much more information is available with the paid version. On the other hand, FamilySearch.org is free. We searched databanks such as the U.S. Census.  I found my dad's parents (and my dad) in the 1930 Census of Hardy County, West Virginia.  Then, I found Randy's grandparents with their seventeen children, including his mom in the 1940 Census for Kansas. It would be quite interesting to spend time with this. We were encouraged to add videos of living family members so there will be records in the future.  I use family trees in my language classes when we learn family vocabulary.  I would have to play around with these resources a bit to see if the students copy and use the tree as part of their family project.

In art class, we dipped our tiles in glaze and started painting our backgrounds.  The tile-dipping took a long time. Fortunately, we still managed to get through the second part of Dr. Lee's Web Page design lesson.

Tomorrow - we must work on our projects!