Badin Room 234 is the companion site for Mr. Gretz's classes at Stephen T. Badin High School.

Efficient use of technology is an essential competency for the 21st-century citizen. In order to survive in today's competitive conditions, the Networked Student must master a varied array of tools and processes.

That's where tech classes come in. My goal is to help you expand your IT tool set, in an energetic and collaborative learning environment. We integrate the skills developed in the IT lab to magnify and enhance the content areas of every other class.

This is the gateway site used for all of my classes, therefor students and parents should bookmark or save this site for regular reference.

Mr. Dave Gretz
Questions or concerns? Contact - dgretz@badinhs.org or voicemail 513·876·5282

Sunday, February 5, 2012

IT1 - For Week of February 6

Monday - Quiz 1. Remainder of week:
  • Keyboard review
  • Page formats:
    • Orientation
    • Margins
    • Page color
    • Paper size
  • Indents
  • Tabs
You should have received Assignment 5 as an e-mail--Due Thursday, 6 pm.

Check out this app - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/not-the-hole-story/id431455265 How many can you answer without the clues?

PAT - For Week of February 6

PAT1 - More with Loops - Nested and Stepping.

PAT2 - This week in programming:
  • Finish up initial write-up.
  • Run first subject tests. 
  • Evaluation and change code as required - per special instructions.
  • Final testing.
  • Individual project write-ups, as a web page, will be due from each of you on 2/14.
Twitter for both groups.

MMS - For Week of February 6

Must Do
  • Teacher/Staff - Interview questions filmed
  • Narrator recorded.
  • Contact all teachers for classroom filming scheduling
Everyone has a role this week!

POB/IT2 - For Week of February 6

Test Monday.

We'll then pick up where we left off with the NOW() function, followed by:
  • Single and multilevel sorting
  • Filtering
  • Percents!
You will receive a percents spreadsheet to set up in class for your next assignment.

Twitter

Sunday, January 29, 2012

IT1 - For Week of January 30

Back to the topic of Google Mail with:
  • Filters
  • Signatures
  • Groups
  • Attachments
In Docs, we'll look at superscript and subscript; and Lists. Context-sensitive menus and the System tray, too.

Quiz Friday.

Assignment 3 - "Who Am I?" due Tuesday, 6 pm
Assignment 4 - "Storykit" book - due Friday, 6 pm. Minimum 6 pages; at least 1 photo, recording, drawn item, plus text.

PAT - For Week of January 30

PAT1 - We get more loopy this week than normal with a series of exercises exploring "looping". Afterwards, a break from ASP as we take a sneak peek at the world of programming "apps".

PAT2 - "Special project" for you early in the week. Get it done with a minimum of complaining and I'll let you take another stab at Light Bot. Badin work, as usual.

POB/IT3 - For Week of January 30

This week in spreadsheets:
  • Date math
  • Basic Date functions
  • Date formats
  • Sorting
  • Column widths/row heights
  • Freezing columns/rows
Test Friday.

MMS - For Week of January 30

Lots of filming this week. Some will take place during class. Be prepared to be "extras" if necessary!

A big thanks to all of you who organized and/or played in the tournament on Friday!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

IT1 - For Week of January 23

Here's what's up for this week:
  • Why Information Technology?
  • Some advice...
  • Creating documents
  • Templates files
  • Selection and movement methods
  • Everything you've always wanted to know about fonts, and more.
  • Character formats
  • Paragraph formats - alignment, line spacing, spacing before/after
  • Document formats - margins and orientation
Assignment 3 will be sent to your Badin e-mail account on Wednesday. 

By Thursday - download the StoryKit app to your iPod Touches; bring them to class on Friday!

PAT - For Week of January 23

PAT1 - This week, we'll interject inequalities and complexity into our work with constructs as you encounter Exercises 4, 5, and 6 - ASP Index page

PAT2 - Badin site. Back to Javascript forms. Plus, iteration and recursion via Light Bot.