Google Slides / Edgar Allan Poe

Creating a document on Google Slides

Google slides is a service similar to powerpoint. Your next project will be a product similar to a powerpoint slide show. Become acquainted with Google slides by opening it and learning how it works.

Using Google slides create a presentation about Edgar Allan Poe.

Include information and images in your Google slides presentation.

1. Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
2. Where was Edgar Allan Poe born?
3. When and where did he died?
4. What is Edgar Allan Poe best known for?
5. What was Edgar Allan Poe's writing style?
6. What kind of poetry did Edgar Allan Poe write?
7. Why is Edgar Allan Poe famous?

PISKEL

Go to:

1. http://www.piskelapp.com/

2. Create an account using you google account.

3. After that you will be able to save your creations in your personal online gallery.

4. Begin creating an object or character using Piskel. 

5. Try the different tools and see what they do.

How to Use the Free Program Piskel to Make Pixel Art and Animation: Basic Tutorial by PXLFLX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlpCU871Xyg

How Pixel Art is changing in modern games! - Discover Indie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBHpWQRBZhU

Vocabulary:

Piskel: free online sprite editor. A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs. Free and open-source.

Sprite:

A computer graphic that may be moved on-screen and otherwise manipulated as a single entity. Every image is a Sprite.

Examples:

Mr. Morales' Piskel creations:

http://www.piskelapp.com/user/5926256860200960

Langston Hughes

On your Google Docs account:

1. Who was Langston Hughes?
2. Find biographical information about this author.
3. Important events in his life.
4. Famous works.
5. Find information about Langston Hughes short story "Thank you ma'am"
6. what is the story about?
7. Illustrate your answers with images.
8. Include a list of links to the websites where you found the information.

Vocabulary:

Poet

Social Activist

Novelist

Playwright

Columnist

Links to the English and Spanish versions of the story:

Click Here to read "Thank you Ma'am" by Langston Hughes.

Click aqui para leer "Gracias, señora" de Langston Hughes.

Harriet Tubman
Link to pdf file: Click Here!
http://www.swl.k12.oh.us/Downloads/tubman.pdf

Step 2:
Create a table with two cells. One contains an image. The other contains your information:

Tags:
<hr>  = Creates a line across the webpage.
<img src= "name of image. extension"> = Inserts an image on your webpage.
<font size="2" color="black" face="verdana"> = Used to change font type on your webpage. It closes with the </font > tag.

English and Spanish computer keyboards

1.- On your google docs account create  document with the following topic:

2.- Objective: research the differences between computer keyboards for English language and Spanish language.

3.- How are they different?

4.- How are they similar?

5.- What is the Dvorak Keyboard?

Include: 

• Images
• link to videos
• Link to internet resources.

HTML webpage with menu

1. Write this code.
2. Create a folder titled "my webpage2"
3. Save your file as "index.html" on your newly created folder.
4. Remember to backup your work on goggle drive.

Your webpage will look like this.