Here are some tutorials for staff, students and parents. Click the links to watch the movies. There is audio with each tutorial.....

MS WORD 2007 / Fun With Fonts Part 1 - Changing Fonts & Font Sizes

MS WORD 2007 / Fun With Fonts Part 2 - Changing Color, Bold, Italics, Underline

MS WORD 2007 / Fun With Fonts Part 3 - Crazy Clipart

MS WORD 2007 / Fun With Fonts Part 4 - Wacky Wordart

MS POWERPOINT 2007 / Part 1 - Adding Slides, Text and Clipart

MS POWERPOINT 2007 / Part 2 - Adding Backgrounds and Transitions

MS POWERPOINT 2007 / Part 3 - Custom Animation and View Show

Award winning library of stock music from RoyaltyFreeMusic.com to use in student PowerPoints and Scratch Projects

MS EXCEL 2007 / Part 1 - Creating and Working with Data Sets

MS EXCEL 2007 / Part 2 - Making Graphs and Analyzing Data

MS EXCEL 2007 / Part 3 - Editing Graph Styles and Printing Graphs

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The following tutorials are an introduction to computer programming. The program used is called "SCRATCH", which was created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the M.I.T. Media Lab. The program is Freeware, and may be downloaded and installed at no cost on your home computer. Please refer to the first two documents on Programming and Learning with Scratch before watching the videos which follow.

PROGRAMMING WITH SCRATCH - An overview (in pdf format)

LEARNING WITH SCRATCH - Scratch and 21st Century Technology Skills (in pdf format)

SCRATCH Part 1 - Working with Sprites and Backgrounds

SCRATCH Part 2 - Editing Sprites

SCRATCH Part 3 - Creating New Sprites

SCRATCH Part 4 - Making Sprites Speak / "At The Mall"

SCRATCH Part 5 - Making Sprites Move Part #1 / "The Aquarium"

SCRATCH Part 6 - Making Sprites Move Part #2 / "Home Run Baseball"

SCRATCH Part 7 - Controlling Behaviors / "The Broadcast Tool"

SCRATCH Part 8- Changing Backgrounds / "Story Telling"

SCRATCH Part 9- Places Everyone / Making Sure Your Project Runs Smoothly

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The tutorials listed below are for our facial animation software entitled, "CRAZY TALK". This software enables students to animate any still photograph by editing the paramaters for the face, creating or embedding an audio file, and animating the face when finished.

CRAZY TALK SAMPLE - Photo courtesy of whitehouse.gov (This is a .wmv file)

CRAZY TALK Part 1- Importing pictures and editing the face

All Tutorials courtesy of Mr. Gary Adubato (Mr. "A")
Any Palm Beach County School District site has permission to link to this page.

 

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