Rio Middle School Art Show Today!

This is some of the student work that will be displayed this evening at the Art Show!

Printing Day and Night

Finishing laptop case ID's, racing cars, and getting ready for the Rio Art Show keeps the RV Tech Lab printers busy after-hours!

SALT - Team Project Feedback Survey

Take the Survey

P4 Team Members only

What's Due For Trimester 2 Progress Report Grades?

Use this form to help you check the assignments that were given for this half of Trimester 2.  Please read the form completely.  You can re-edit the form once you have checked that all assignments are complete.

Link to Google Form - CS - T2 Mid-Trimester Checklist 2017
Period 4 - SALT assignment link

I'll Be Out Tomorrow

Hey All,

I'll be out today.  I'm meeting with CS Teacher from across the county to talk about Coding and what CS classes will be doing in HS.  I hope to come back with great info for you on Wednesday.

Mrs. Peraza will be your guest teacher.  I'm confident you will all treat her with the same respect you show me.  Thank you and I hope you all had a great MLK weekend. 

Just In Case You Want to Understand "I Have a Dream"

The plan for today is in your mail

Can You Make This? - Give it a Try, DIY!

Pathagora's 3-4-5
Check out the link for more info

Check Out These Prints!

Where Art and Mathematics Meet

Makerhome Blog - One Print everyday for 1 year

Makerbot Academy
Math Manipulative Challenge 

RC Club is Starting This Week!

Project ID Syllabus

Design Your Race Car! or Design a Piece of Art!

Let's get started designing a race car for our 2nd Annual 3D Road Rally.  The Rally will be held in early June.  Prizes & Trophies will be awarded to top 3 finishers in each category.

There are 2 categories:

#1 Race - Cars are built for speed!  Design, print, finish, and test your fastest design.

Max size - 30mm wide x 100mm long x 50 mm height max

Max weight - ?

#2 Show - Show cars are all about looks!  Show your most creative and innovative design.

Max size - 40 mm wide x 150 mm long x 60 mm height max

Max weight - n/a

All cars need to roll!

As always, you, look for ideas but you must create your own design and not remix someone else's design.

Log into tinkercad.com to start building. Get help in Tech Lab C205 at lunchtime, before or after school.

Volunteers will be needed to help build and modify race track, trophies, and displays.  Your help will be appreciated!

Designs are due on the last week of February.  All printed cars will be included in the Art show in January.

LET'S GET READY TO ROLL!

Video Help:

How to Build Rolling Wheels

Art Show Designs 

The 1st Rio Schools Art Show is rapidly approaching.  Creating art on a 3D printer is a new and powerful way to use this technology to express your inner Van Gogh!  

Requirements: 

• All creations must be your own design.  Research but do not remix someone else's design.
• Sizes can vary.  See me for anything larger than 200 mm x 200 mm x 200 mm.
• Piece can be functional like a designer picture frame, race car, phone stand, phone cover etc...
• Due by end of January

Check out this site for ideas.  There are many more on the web and in your head!  Have fun

Welcome Back Everyone!

Welcome back everyone!  Please check out Google's Year in Search 2017.  Can you name any of the most goggled events you saw?  After watching the video, go to the Padlet link below and completer the assignment.

Now go to this Padlet and post 2 pieces of information.

#1 My best memory of 2016

#2 My top goal for 2017

Audicity Beat

I created a beat using Audacity.  I used several instrument files downloaded from SampleSwap.org.  This images shows the mixing window with several of sounds I used to create my beat.  What you see are the sound waves the instrument makes.  There sounds I used and mixed are deep bass, tom, high top hat, and disco guitar.  Learning to cut, move and paste the file where it sounded good was a bit of a challenge.  But I got 2 seconds of a cool beat for me.  I plan on improving this beat with some more instruments.

Here is my beat.  It's called Big Bass Foot.  After clicking on it, you may have to download it or open it with you sound player like Music Player for Google

December Projects

Hi all, 

This project will take us through the week.  

1. Check out the projects you can choose from on the hyperdoc below.
2. Choose one project and fill out this form to let me know what you have chosen.
3. Final Project due Thursday.  Post your product on blog and write a brief reflection.  
4. 15 pts. for a complete or near complete project.  10 pts for posting and reflection.
5. Have fun.  You can work in pairs.  If you have an interesting project idea, see me, let's talk.
6. Friday - Class party - bring snacks to share 

Merry Christmas!

Mr. G 

Tough Line of Code

This line of code made Moana's canoe zig zag past rocks.  It was difficult and took me more than 7 times to get it right.   Even after Romina kept trying to tell me the answer, I did not listen because I wanted to do it myself!  I ROCK!

Happy Anniversary Rio Vista!

I Coded Moana and Maui!

Watch out Kakamora Warriors, Mr. G is coding!

Happy TGIF!!!!

It's Friday!  Hope you all have a great weekend.  

Is it time to start thinking about preparing for the holiday?  If you want to make a gift for a loved one, don't forget that you can design and print that special item in Tinkercad!

Click on this link for 5 Tinkercad Ideas

More Ready

Tell your classmates to come and get them!

Signature Quotes that Move Us

Customized Signature in Email:
In this project, students customized their emails with a personal signature.  They included basic information and a quote that has meaning to them.  Some students even created their own quote.  What you see here is a collection of those quotes the students chose.  Each student customized their slide to represent the feeling the quote holds for them.  Enjoy!

Period 2



Period 5



Period 6

More ready

Come & pick up at lunch

Done - pick up on Monday!

Starting now in clear

This one is starting today

Prints for Monday

Next prints

Latest prints

End of Trimester 1 Class Survey

Please take this survey.  When finished,

  TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF THE COMPLETION SCREEN AND POST IT IN YOUR BLOG TO PROVE YOU HAVE FINISHED THE SURVEY
Title the Post "Survey Completed"

CS Classes - End of T1 Posting Guidelines

This is a Google Slideshow describing what tasks you need to finish this class.  It will also describe how to finish building your student blog portfolio.  The slides are set to change every minute and can be paused.  

Below this post is a sample post for Typing Agent.

Typing Agent Post (Sample Blog Post For All CS Classes)

Reflection: I used Typing Agent this year almost every day for 10 minutes each morning.  I learned how to touch type so I do not have to look at the keyboard while I am typing.  I did not like doing it but after a while, I got better at using the home row without looking.  My typing speed has gone from 12 wpm to 25 wpm and my accuracy was 75%.  Now my accuracy is 92%!  I know I can get faster so I will keep using this program until I can type fast without looking at the keyboard and have 98% accuracy.

These are all the lessons I completed this trimester.

These are the units I finished.  Look, I mastered O keys!

Here are my test scores and my awards.  25 wpm and 92% accuracy!

SD Box

This SD box was created to solve the problem of lost SD cards in the Tech Lab.  Students use SD cards to save and print their 3D projects.  Often, they are left all over the desk.  Know we all know where to put the SD card!

Great Pumpkin Patch

We went to the Limoneira Pumking Patch this weekend.  Was terrific.  Check it and if you go, do the Corn Maize!

Coding in Tynker

All classes have started learning the basics of code by using Tynker projects.  Lots of mixed reactions, happiness, anger, joy , frustration.  One thing for sure is they are being challenged!

P6 Tired but Ready

P5 Cant Wait to Get Learning

P 4 Ready to Go

CS T1 P2

3D Printing ay CSTA!

Computer Science Teachers Association

Prints done

Christina, Christian,Luis,Adam, Angel R.  Email me if you can come by to pick them up.

Last Day of 2015/2016

Message

I'm Out Today!

Hi folks,

I'm out of class today but I will be on campus.  

I wanted to thank all of you for helping make the first 3D Road Rally an amazing success!  Please read my refection below.

Today's Plan - 

As we wrap up the year, it can be exciting to review what we have done.  Take a moment to look back at your blog and remember what you have created.  You all did some wonderful projects this year.  We will close the year with a brief reflection or thoughts about your work.  The big question for me is, Have you learned anything interesting in this class?

To Do's:

1. 10 MINUTES OF KEYBOARDING - KEYBOARDING GAMES ARE OK!
2. Write up a reflection about your participation (or nonparticipation) in the Road Rally.  A brief summary explaining your part, whether you had a car or not, and your thoughts.\
3. Bring your blog up to date - All grades are 50% based on the work you reflected on in your blog.  30% on you completed projects and 20% on your participation in class. 
1. What should be on your blog
1. Weekly updates
2. Any updates on community projects
3. Reflections on Scratch game, 3D car print, Road Rally participation, 
4. Final Project - Work on your final project -  I have looked at several blogs and found no post stating what your final project will be.  Please update that by posting what you want to create and present.  Some More Ideas - 
1. Finish something you have not finished
2. remake a project you made earlier in the year 
3. make a gift - Father's Day is coming up!
4. One thing you should not be doing today - distracting others from working on their posts or projects.  This includes off task behavior, distracting conversations, cruising around the classroom.  YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO - I TRUST YOU TO DO IT!

Make it a great day folks and thanks for making this class a place of creativity and compassion.

Mr. G

3D Road Rally Reflection

What a great day!  I have to admit that I have been stressing out about this event mostly because I did not know how it would turn out.  It turned out great.  So this project has been in the works for a couple of years.  Last year I could not get it going.  With the help of many students, we put it on this year.  The Road Rally was meant to be culmination of creative ideas, thoughtful and critical design, 3D printing, and modifying a design to make it better.  Most students went through this process and came out with an amazing product that they displayed in the road rally by racing or displaying.

Unfortunately, there were some problems.  The biggest problem for me was not being able to print everyone's car.  I felt that I did not start the project early enough and combined with losing a week due to testing, several students didn't get the attention needed to finish or print their car.  I also feel that more printers in the class would help this problem especially if students knew how to work the printing process.  Finishing the cars by painting them would have also been fun.  Organization at the rally did go quite as well either.  Many students stepped up and helped a great deal by setting up the track, organizing the event, and having fun by participating.  Improvements in planning will be important for next year's race.  Better communication to include 6th graders will also be a priority next year.

Anthony and Jordan did a great job in setting up the event.  The track design, starting gate, finishing gate, advertisement, and announcements helped the event happen and were also improved through the collaboration of many.  So many people cared and lent their time and knowledge to make it even better including Marissa, Owen, Yajaira, Jadon, Alyssa, Caleb, Elijah, Anatheresa,  Sergio, Marcos, Tristen,  Diah, Edgar, and Mr. Mike Vollmert to name only a few!  

Overall, we found one car to be the fastest, Mr. Brady's awesomly chisel car.  2nd and 3rd are still a little unclear.  In the Show class, votes are still being tabulated but will be released on Wed.  The event had many highlights especially: Mr. Klinefelter stating "these are amazing designs!" as he looked at the show cars, Campus Supervisor Elias getting in there and racing Brady's car, Mr. Vollmert enjoying testing each show car and evaluating each design, and finally, seeing the smiles of students as they passed by, excited to see these student designed cars racing down the track! 

Problem solving?

Fan to cool and light to heat, go figure!

Road Rally Trophies

Its not always easy or fun

First Week of June!

Starting to Wrap it all Up!

There are many things happening these next 3 weeks so try to keep up with your work in class.  Presentations will take time away from class during the last two weeks.   We also have some guests visiting on Wednesday as other events that may pull some of you out of class.  

Wed.

• 9:45 - 5th Grader Visit
• 3D Car designs due
• EOY Project Idea Post due - What is your last project going to be?

Monday, June 6 - 3D Road Rally!  - P4 will volunteer to set up.  Need to finish and print cars and trophies!

Tuesday, June 14 - Last day to turn in work/update blogs for grades. 

What should be in your blog:

• weekly post on what you have done that week

• • Scratch Game and Survey
  • Look at post from 4/7 for syllabus.  Rating of games and posting/reflection in blog by Friday, May 6 
  • 3D Road Rally Race Car 
  • Design your race car for either of two categories
  • Race Car Class
  • Style Car Class
  • Due June 1
  • Either/or Video Project
  • You will be creating, editing and publishing a short video and uploading it to your own YouTube video channel
  •  Or Passion Project
  • What do you want to learn about?  That's what this project will be about.  Go in-depth on a topic of your choice.  Teacher conference is required to set up your project.  You will need to sign up for a presentation date.  Presentations will vary so make sure you leave yourself and me time to plan & set up your idea.  Presentations must be scheduled by June 3
• Tech Team/Mouse Squad
• Community Projects - Group projects are on-going.  To complete the project, you will need to keep your journal of the project and present to the class.  You should include the following:
• original idea
• how it evolved and became what it is now
• how it affected the community
• your reflection
• Lot's of pics, video, or something to illustrate what you did
• Presentation times need to be set and include examples of how you helped our community.