Mr. Sorocco's Computer Education Page

20k223 Teacher Survey

2009-06-15T04:45:00.000-07:00

New York State Department of Education has selected our school to complete teacher web surveys. Each grade 8 teacher is the school should complete a survey.

20k223 Grade 8 Teacher Survey

If you have any questions, please email or see Mr. J. Sorocco

Grade 8 Survey

2009-06-12T05:17:00.000-07:00

Can you please take this survey. Read the questions carefully and take your time.

Grade 8 survey

Thank you

Mr. J. Sorocco

लेट'स क्रेअते

2009-05-05T06:08:00.000-07:00

Let's use paint and wordle.net to create a graphic for our opening page on wetpaint.

Launch paint

All Programs -> accessorites -> paint

Minimize the program for now.

Lauch www.wordle.net. Click create. Type your first name and some positive adjectives to describe yourself.

Now we are ready to use the print screen function.

ग्रेट वर्क

2009-04-29T16:56:00.001-07:00

Let's take a time out.

Go to this site:

Tetris Online

ग्रेट वो

2009-04-29T16:55:00.000-07:00

623 and 713 Assignment for April 29

2009-04-28T03:23:00.000-07:00

Good Morning,

I will be on jury duty today. If you have any questions, please email me at jsorocc@nycdoe.org.

Continue gathering digital pictures from Google Earth. Get pics which are representative of Brooklyn. Try to get a pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge, the old Williamsburgh Savings bank building (1 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, New York), parks, roads, buildings with fire escapes, and stores.

Create pages and import your pictures in your Wetpaint wiki. Use Brooklyn1, Brooklyn2 etc to name the pages.

Extra: Find the city or town where your parents may have come from and save some pics. Find a city in another country that interests you and find some pics for your webpaint wiki.

Mr. J. Sorocco

उनुसुअल Pictures

2009-04-06T05:32:00.000-07:00

Build a wooden bridge

Do you like cupcakes?

The World's Extremes

Class 611 April 2 assisgnment

2009-04-02T03:43:00.000-07:00

Class 611

Good Morning. Go to the NASA site http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html. Collect images of the nine planets. Save each image to a folder in my documents called NASA.

Launch Powerpoint and create a nice project entitled, "The Nine Planets of the Solar System".

I will be at a meeting. If you have questions email me at jsorocco@nycdoe.org. If you have extra class time, take a look at your how the market works account. howthemarketworks.com Take the time to sell or buy stocks.

Mr. Sorocco

Class 623 April 2 Assignment

2009-04-02T03:33:00.000-07:00

Class 623

Good Morning. Go to the NASA site http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html. Collect images of the nine planets. Save each image to a folder in my documents called NASA.

Log on to your Animoto.com account and create a slide show. Using the text icon in the menu entitle your project the "Planets of Our Solar System.

I will be at a meeting. If you have questions email me at jsorocco@nycdoe.org.

Turn down the speaker volume on your computer. Use appropriate music for your slideshow.

While your animoto slide show is saving to your site, take a look at your portfolio at howthemarketworks.com

Mr. Sorocco

2009-03-20T10:40:00.000-07:00

Let draw using Imagination.

Online collaboration

Let's Create a wetpage wiki

2009-03-16T17:59:00.000-07:00

Let's go to the wetpage site to sign-in and create a wiki. Use your first name followed by 223 as your username.

Let's download some free sounds for our wetpage at Soungle.com

Stocks to Invest in for a Cleaner World

2009-03-03T18:20:00.000-08:00

Company Stock Symbol

ABB LTD ABB
AMERICAN STANDARD
Suntech Power STP
Plug Power PLUG
Composite Technologies CPTC
Zoltek ZOLT
Starbucks SBUX
Honda HMC
Tesco TESU
Alcan ALE
S.C. Johnson
Applied Materials AMAT
Johnson Controls Inc JCI
Excelon EXC
ABB LTD. ABB
AMERICAN INT'L GROUP, Inc. AIG
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. HMC
Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT
BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA BNI
COVANTA HOLDING CORPORATION CVA
EXELON CORPORATION EXC
FPL GROUP, Inc. FPL
General Electric GE
INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER IRF
Itron, Inc. ITRI
JOHNSON CONTROLS, Inc. JCI
SunPower Corporation Class A SPWR
SUNTECH POWER HOLDINGS CO., LTD. STP
TENNECO, Inc. TEN
TRINITY INDUSTRIES, Inc. TRN
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION UTX
MCDERMOTT INTERNATIONAL MDR

Adult English Learning Activities

2009-03-03T18:10:00.000-08:00

Read and listen to a story about a Central America Festival for Families

Learn and listen to everyday words

Let's create an individual stock portfolio

2009-03-01T17:58:00.000-08:00

Begin at howthemarketworks.com You will have $10,000 of play money in which to invest in this stock market game. We are only going to invest in companies that contribute in some way to improving the environment.

क्विक Start

2009-02-25T11:45:00.000-08:00

Numbers quiz and more

दोवंलोअदिंग Images

2009-02-25T10:50:00.000-08:00

MTA Trip Planner

2009-02-24T17:37:00.000-08:00

MTA Transit Trip Planner

Use Hop Stop to get transit directions

Picture Quiz learning numbers

2009-02-10T16:28:00.000-08:00

Click Pictures to Hear Pronunciation

Listening Test

Match between Picture and Writing

Adult Education

2009-02-04T06:29:00.000-08:00

Picture Questions

Let's create a Wikispace together

2009-02-03T06:02:00.000-08:00

A wikispace is our place on the Internet where we can express ourselves and store some of our work.

Click here to get started.

Hello. My name is first name only. I live in New York City, where I attend a middle school. Currently, my tech class is participating in the SMG2000 online stock game. We are only investing in companies that are committed to making this a cleaner planet.

Somw things that we can do to make this a cleaner planet are:

2009-01-28T07:20:00.000-08:00

Let's continue review English words.

Choose the correct spelling

Word Pictures

What is the name of the animal?

January 27

2009-01-27T03:41:00.000-08:00

I will be at a meeting today. Please take a look at this assignment. If you have a question email me at jsorocc@nycdoe.org

Let's look at the templates provided in the program Inspiration. Go to

all programs

Inspiration 8

When the program opens on your computer, choose Templates. Open a category - language arts, science, social studies, or planning. Click you choose to open. If you don't like the way it looks, go to templates and pick another one. Take your time; look for the template that interests you.

When you pick a template that you like start typing your answers to favorite questions into boxes.

Favorite Animal
Favorite Comic Book Hero
Favorite Song
Favorite Color
Favorite Pair of Sneakers
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Cold Cereal
Favorite Television Show
Favorite Fruit
Favorite Video Game
Favorite Book
Favorite Web Site
Favorite Search Engine (This is used when browsing for information on the web)
Favorite Place:

"Green Companies"

2009-01-16T05:07:00.000-08:00

25 STOCKS TO INVEST IN A CLEANER WORLD

HOW ABOUT THESE COMPANIES?

Zoltek (ZOLT) a manufacturer of carbon fiber. Currently used in the blades of super large wind turbines. Soon to be used in cars to make them stronger, lighter and more fuel efficient. With dozens of other energy saving uses in the future.

Composite Technologies (CPTC) a manufacturer of the largest wind turbines (the D8.2) and of very high efficient electric transmission cable to save energy.

Plug Power (PLUG) a manufacturer of fuel cells which in the near future will be used to power cars with hydrogen and will only emit water vapor. They also will will be producing natural gas home energy units which will heat homes and produce hydrogen used to fuel your fuel cell car.

Zoltek is profitable, the other two are not. All three have potential for explosive growth. Good luck!

Starbucks SBUX
Whole Foods WFM
Suntech Power STP
Pacific Ethanol

10 Green Giants

Voki Lesson

2009-01-13T06:21:00.001-08:00

Copy and paste this into Word and make changes.

My name is ________________. I attend an intermediate school in Brooklyn, New York. At our school every student in the school has their own computer to use throughout the school day.

My favorite school subject is ________________. My favorite color is ___________, and my favorite day of the week is _____________________. I speak Engish and ______________. When I growup I would like to become a __________________.

January 12

2009-01-11T19:09:00.000-08:00

Winter Quiz

Cross Word Puzzles

2009-01-07T18:33:00.000-08:00

Animals Foods and Drink

January 7, 2009

2009-01-06T16:06:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year

Audi Concentration Game. (Family Members)

Audio Concentration Month of the Year

Do you know your colors in English

2008-12-21T18:45:00.000-08:00

Let's read about Penguins

December 18 Assignment

2008-12-18T03:45:00.000-08:00

I am at a meeting today. Please complete this assignment. If have already completed the assignment, please add clip art, and add another page listing your good friends.

Extra - Go to Google Language Tools to get a translation in another language for the slide that you created.

Class 613 and 611

Please begin this assignment.

Each slide should include a different favorite. Here is a list of the favorites to include. List one favorite to each slide.

Favorite Animal
Favorite Comic Book Hero
Favorite Song
Favorite Color
Favorite Pair of Sneakers
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Cold Cereal
Favorite Television Show
Favorite Fruit
Favorite Video Game
Favorite Book
Favorite Web Site
Favorite Search Engine (This is used when browsing for information on the web)
Favorite Place:

What are opposites?

2008-12-17T04:20:00.000-08:00

ما نقيضان؟

？什麼是對立的

¿Cuáles son los opuestos

Які протилежності?

Click these links:

Activity one

Activity two

Activity three

Activity four

Activity five

Microsoft Templates

2008-12-16T08:46:00.000-08:00

Pick a Microsoft Holiday Template.

Once you choose the template try saving it to your documents.

Farm Animal Story

2008-12-15T04:30:00.000-08:00

Read and Listen to this farm animal story.

2008-12-11T18:43:00.000-08:00

Test this
http://www.esl-lab.com/elem/elemrd1.htm#top

Take this short quiz on opposites.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/ck/m-nouns.html

Listen and Answer http://www.manythings.org/fq/1/6999.html

The Internet Picture Dictionary http://www.pdictionary.com/

http://iteslj.org/v/ei/

http://iteslj.org/v/ei/nouns2.html

http://iteslj.org/v/ei/nouns3.html

http://iteslj.org/v/ei/nouns4.html

http://iteslj.org/v/ei/nouns5.html

http://iteslj.org/v/ei/nouns6.html

http://iteslj.org/v/ei/nouns7.html

Tuesday December 9 Assignment

2008-12-09T04:32:00.000-08:00

Hope you are having a nice day. I will be at a meeting. If you have any questions about this assignment, you can email me at our echalk site. Create a PowerPoint document with 15 slides. The first slide is your introduction. Include your name and the title of the project, "My Favorites."

Each slide should include a different favorite. Here is a list of the favorites to include. List one favorite to each slide.

Favorite Animal
Favorite Comic Book Hero
Favorite Song
Favorite Color
Favorite Pair of Sneakers
Favorite Board Game
Favorite Cold Cereal
Favorite Television Show
Favorite Fruit
Favorite Video Game
Favorite Book
Favorite Web Site
Favorite Search Engine (This is used when browsing for information on the web)
Favorite Place:

Let's Practice Making Simple Engish Words

2008-12-07T16:52:00.000-08:00

Click the Link
Practice creating words

Click the link below to practice creating works using:

an
en
ig
ot
ug
e
sd
bk
ns
cb
bt
cd
hn
i
y as long E and more vowels