May 9, 2008

Dear Carmody 7th and 8th Grade Dr. Data Parents and Students:

Here's the latest information about Dr. Data's classes.

1. Even though Dr. Data was sick and not in school today, grades are up-to-date. All assignments/tests in the student baskets have been graded and hopefully accurate. Check out Carmody's Parent-Portal at: https://campus.jeffco.k12.co.us/campus/portal/jeffco_IC.jsp
   
   
2. Mid-terms for the third grading period will be given out on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Please returned signed by Thursday for 100 points.
   
   
3. Fun assignments are scheduled for the rest of the semseter beginning on Monday, May 12, 2008
   
   
• 7th Grade class begin PowerPoint projects which are the best of the semester. For details, go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/powerpoint_syllabus.html
• 8th grade class have optional choices between six creative, graphical, daily options of projects. For details, go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Week16.html
  • Family History Research about ones own family (second most popular hobby in the world)
  • Newsletters and/or Web Pages with photo editing software that "rocks"
  • Computer Music
  • Painting and Drawing
  • Designing/Creating Computer Games
  • Individual Unit Final Projects
    
    
4. Upcoming 9th Annual Carmody Whiz Chips Computer Gaming Contest on May 19, 20 and 22, 2008.

   Carmody's 9th 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 19th, Tuesday, May 20th and Thursday, May 22nd 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.

• One copy of Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer at:  http://www.clickteam.com/eng/mmf2dev.php has a list price of $370.00
• One copy of Multimedia Fusion 2 at:  http://www.clickteam.com/eng/mmf2.php has a list price of $120.00
• One copy of Game Factory 2 at:  http://www.clickteam.com/eng/tgf2.php has a list price of $59.00
• One copy of the book Make Amazing Games in Minutes. at:  http://www.clickteam.com/book/ has a list price of $40.00
  
  
5. Upcoming final exams for both 7th and 8th grade classes. will be taken on Thurday, May 22, 2008. 7th graders will construct a third slide PowerPoint presentation and 8th grades will do a two-page web page on subjects to be designated at test time. Rubrics and practice time will be used on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 in preparation.

Hope this information is helpful as we head down the final three weeks of school with some exciting instructional units. With the best of the semester occuring right now!

Till next time,

Dr. Data