April 25, 2007

Dear Carmody Middle School Elective 7th Grade Parents and Students:

  1. Dr. Data will be having surgery on Friday, April 27th and will be unable to teach for about two weeks. He anticipates coming back to Carmody on Monday, May 14th if everything goes well. But in that interim, he will be processing grades into
    Carmody's Parent Portal on a daily basis. Mr. Richard Thompson will be delivering the grades to Dr. Data on a daily basis and Dr. Data will input the grades before dinner time every day. So parents can literally know the progress of their child on a daily basis even with Dr. Data's surgery. The only day that I may be late is this Friday, the day of my surgery! For those parents what to anticipate their child's progress reports right now, simply log in to the Carmody Parent Portal at: https://campus.jeffco.k12.co.us/campus/portal/jeffco_IC.jsp. You will find some students on still on "Spring Fever" and Carmody's parent Portal is a great remedy especially when you know that Dr. Data will be inputting grades on a daily basis by dinner time beginning on Monday, April 30th..

  2. Don't hesitate to have your child makeup missing assignments at home24/7 with the Internet. The curriculum assignments can be accessed, printed and done at home if you have access to a computer with the Internet by going to:

    Word processing:  http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/claris_syllabus.html during the fourth grading period.

    3. Database:  http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/database_syllabus.html#Management during fifth grading period.

    Spreadsheets: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/spreadsheet_syllabus.html#Required until May 2nd.

    Internet Search Engines: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/internet_syllabus.html#Assignments from May 3 to May 11th

    PowerPoint: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/powerpoint_syllabus.html#Assignments from May 14th

    Final Two weeks: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Final_Two_Weeks_Syllabus.html during the last two weeks of school.

  3. Carmody's 8th Annual Whiz Chips Computer Gamming Contest with over $600.00 in prizes. Go to http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/whiz_chips_intro.html for contest rules and prizes thus far donated. Contest will be a "live" gamming competition on Monday, May 18th, tuesday, May 19th and Thursday, May 21st in which all games have to be constructed from scratch. Encourage your child to participate as we will be using Klik & Play in which most of the students already know how to construct games. And best of all, there 's no entry fee. If your child would like a free copy Klik & Play, have the student give me a clean CD-R and I will burn them a legal copy in which they can even practice making games at home. Here are some of the prizes donated thus far.

  4. You Can Also Do On-Line Database Assignments for Home Use 24/7 Even If You Don't Have Clarisworks At Home!

    Namely, you don't need Clarisworks to do the database assignments over the Internet where ever you are over spring break. The link below is for the instant web publishing of Dr. Data's class databases at: http://www.adlineagency.com/kuzmich . Use the following account information and you have access to all of the database assignments that can be done at home. You do not have to have Clarisworks or Appleworks on your home computer in order to do the assignments on your home computer.

    Account Name: john (be sure to use lower case for "john") Password: "drdata" (be sure it is lower case)
    Go to layout to find specific database file to work on (Pres, bronco, inventor, etc.).. This on-line database works just like Clarisworks or Appleworks on our PC lab computers.

  5. 8th Graders: go to http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Lesson_Plans.html and all assignments can viewed, printed and done at home. Just go to weeks 6, 7, 8, 9 and now week 13 and you will have the entire 4th grading period's assignments available for your perusal. We are now learning HTML programming codes. Next week we construct web pages with Netscape and then with Microsoft Publisher before closing on how to make computer games.