Wednesday, Dec 5- Animation Presentations and Internet Search Techniques

Bellringer: Turn to page 225 and
type "All the Chocolate you can eat" section
at the bottom of the page.
You also need a piece of paper and a pencil or pen.

If your name is on the board open up Alice
and open your animation project.
Click here to hear this message.

What are we learning?
1.5 Digital Lifestyles- Animation

5.2. Identify different career opportunities available for a person who is computer literate.

1.2 Internet and the Web (using search engines)

Guided Lesson:
We are watching student Alice projects today.

How much does an Animator make for a salary? http://woman.thenest.com/much-money-computer-animators-make-2876.html

If you would like more information about animation like "What does an animator do"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqvcNfG0Y1o

Internet search techniques 3min video http://www.gcflearnfree.org/internet101/5.2

There are different search engines for different types of searches. Google is not always the best search engine to use. Review different search engines http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/ (if time do printed search engine worksheet) Explain Torrent concept http://www.ehow.com/about_6572615_definition-torrent.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

Topic- Industry specific search engines Find a cheat for your favorite video game on http://www.google.com - (if you do not play video games pair with someone who does) How many results are there? (look in the upper left corner) Write down cheat: ________________________________________________________ Now find the same video game cheat on http://cheatsearch.org/ How many results are there? (look in the upper left corner) Write or type a 3 to 5 sentence paragraph about which search engine you liked best for looking up a game cheat and why you liked it. There is no wrong or right answer. I am looking for your reason "why" you like one site over another site. Topic- The changing popularity of search engines Look at the "job search" engine section at http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/ (if time do printed search engine worksheet) The sections are in alphabetical order, (look at date of comments 2010 ) There are different search engines for different types of searches. Google is not always the best search engine to use. Let's look at job search engines to see which are the most popular now in 2012? http://www.top10-world.org/2012/07/most-popular-top-10-job-search-engines.html Student assignment: Make a 2 column chart with a 2010 heading and a 2012 heading Copy and paste "job search" sites from the 2 orange links above. Highlight the job search sites that appear in BOTH columns For example: Monster appears at both web sites. Monster Truck Driver commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qEtQWoAqSM Write or type a three to five sentence paragraph about how do you think the large number of international job search engines will affect you trying to find a job? List at least one positive item and list at least one negative item.