Making Videos Using Pencil

Pencil is a wonderful free app that we used today to make a short animation of a basketball and a pile of ants!
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See You next Week!
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Mr. P

Online Competitions!

Shoneice had a spectacular time syncing mp3 music with her on-line competitions!
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Mr. P

Cleaning and Adapting

Today in Techclub we cleaned all of the unused/unneeded programs and files off of Quiana's Desktop.
And then we discussed the many ways to connect her laptop to a TV.
We decided that she'll need a VGA to RCA adapter for the video signal and an 1/8" to RCA stereo splitter for the audio portion.
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See you next week!
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Mr. P

Hard Drives, Poodles, and Disk Transfers

Today Shoniece came down to get some information about how to replace the CD drive and Power Supply in her computer at home.  We ended up taking apart one of the towers we have on-hand to see just exactly what she should do and look for.

Also, Quiana was inquiring about doing a Hard Disk transfer for her computer at home.

After all that discussion, we got to working on Quiana's Dog Breeds web site.  She fixed a few of the menu pages and added a bit more of colour to it all.

See you after the Thanksgiving Break!  -- Mr. P

Corgies and Poodles and Hounds -- Oh My!

Today, Quiana created an entire website with HTML tags, from scratch, that gives information about various breeds of dogs.  Her site has a Menu Page, and several individual pages for each breed.  She's changing the size, colour, and style of text as she goes!

Animation and Web Pages

Welcome back to the start of the new year here in the Aggie Tech Club!  Today we had our first meeting after a long time away from techie stuff!

Our new members seemed very interested in some new technologies including animation and web pages, so we had a brief overview of how to animate using the open source software called, "Pencil".  We made a ball bounce off of a tree.

We spent the majority of today's Tech Club in a demonstration of how we can create HTML documents and use them to help us present information.

The HTML tags that we talked about:

• i - italics
• b - bold
• u - underline
• img - image
• a - anchor
• center - center the text
• h1 through h5 - change the size of the text

And then we came up with a project idea:

Students will create a web page describing different dog breeds with pictures and information

I look forward to posting them!

See you next week!
Mr. P

Fixed one more Computer & Wrapped Up for the Year!!!

So today, we fixed the last computer of 2010-2011 school year, and decided that with Finals coming up, we should end The Aggie Tech Club for this school year.  Good Luck on Your Finals Kids!!!! We'll see you in 2011-2012!