Digital sound 120- Students submitted their ad to the teacher yesterday. Teacher will return ads with some ideas to help improve the recordings. The students will begin recording today. Teacher will discuss with student voice and the purpose of the tone in order to enhance audio recordings. Recordings will be due on Monday. Law 120- Students are to finish up their fairy tale crimes. Today students should be able to connect their crimes with the criminal code and research to find similar crimes and their sentence. Please use Canadian cases. Case law- same crime, same time. Computer science 110- Students should try to get into visual basic- Unit 7. Students may have some trouble here as the software is a bit different as it is a modern version than what is discussed in the resource. Simple google search to answer any questions. I will start to list things I have notice, that are different... Caption changed to TEXT To get your grid, simply go to Tools... options... Form design... change to snap to grid... then reopen form. Plug in Randomize in your code to produce different numbers in Lucky seven designs.

Digital sound 120-  Students are working on their school commercial. Today students will begin to write their commercial. Make sure to include all the important information. The who, what, why, where, when and how. Answering these basic questions should give you all the needed information. You may want to consider sending off an email to teachers who are involved in planning the even to get your information. Remnember to continue to build your resource folder of royalty free effects and music. Teacher will look at your list today. Your commercial writing will be reviewed by the teacher tomorrow. If finished move to the next phase- inserting the sounds and effects. NOTE: the announcement list has your name attached to your project that you are working on. Content- (information presented) Effects used (Enhancing the message- choice of material) Balance of the recording (Balancing the mix between each sound) Quality of sound By the end of class today- students will create a folder and build a resource of royalty free sound effects, background effects and other audio sources to build their recording. Law120- A look at the Criminal code of Canada. Students will start their fairy tale crime project. Project are due in Monday 22nd, October 2012. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/ Computer science 120- Students should be at the end of Unit 6 this week. All students should have up to quiz 4 completed and at least 3 assignments passed in. 3_fairy_tale_crime1.doc

Digital sound 120- Students will submit and we will listen to their mashups. Students will then discuss what makes a good announcement. Whether it is commercial or Public service announcement the audio elements are very important. How long should it be? What are the important elements (Information)?  How can we use sound to make this interesting and memorable? Students will then have the task of building a radio announcement, to put on the school radio station or other public radio waves. The teacher will provide a list of events going on at the school. Students may work in pairs to produce their announcement. They will be graded on the following: Content- (information presented) Effects used (Enhancing the message- choice of material) Balance of the recording (Balancing the mix between each sound) Quality of sound Project will be due Tuesday 16th, October, 2012 Law120- Teacher will finish crime powerpoint and notes. Then lead a discussion of What they would like to know about the role of police and crime. Computer science 120- Students should catch-up this week.

Digital sound- Students will continue to work on their song mash-ups. Students will submit song Mash-ups on Wednesday 10th October, 2012. Students are reminded that all work must be submitted on that Date. Law 120 - Teacher will finish the notes on Criminal Law. Law students will have review for their Quiz #2 on the Charter of rights and Freedoms. Students are to take the period to work on the review. The review will account for some marks. The quiz will include multiple choice questions as well as long answer questions. Review is due on the day of the quiz, which is Wednesday 10th October 2012. Computer science 110- Students will try to complete Unit 5 by Friday Next week.

Period #2 DIGITAL SOUND 120- Choose a song. Use http://www.video2mp3.net/  to download your song.  Click on Clip > Split to split your track Use the Move/Copy Clip   tool to move the pieces of your song. Add a minimum of 5 effects to the files in your project. Or try to do a song mash-up Period #3-4-LAW 120- students will finish their study on the human rights act in Canada. Teacher discussed rights in the workplace. http://www.gnb.ca/hrc-cdp/18-e.asp http://www.gnb.ca/hrc-cdp/08-e.asp http://www.unac.org/rights/actguide/canada.html   Period #6- Unit 4- computer science completed by Friday.

 Period #2 DIGITAL SOUND 120- 5 minute mystery. Finish for Monday Period #3-4-LAW 120-  Case study- Ashley Smith Who was Ashley Smith? Why was she sentenced? Summarize her experience. How was her behavior in the detention facility? What are your thoughts on the "fifth estate's presentation?" What biases did this media presentation of the Ashley Smith case present? Some say that there were violations of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in this case, defend your thoughts. Period #6- Unit 4- computer science.   http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/out_of_control/ http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2009-2010/out_of_control/ 

Period #2- Look at the 5 minute mystery. Teacher will do a quick tutorial on audacity with students. Students should print out their 5 minute mystery and submit a working hardcopy with brainstorming ideas to teacher. You will choose one of the following or a reading of your choice and look for sound effects to enhance the "picture" of the text. The you will record the reading and sound effects to build a "picture" for the listener. When completed please title it as Assignment #4 with your name. Please bring headphones to class.  5_minute_mystery.doc  mvhs_-_my_pal_patsy_-_5_minute_mystery.pdf  jmh2_-_the_murder_of_mrs._brooks_-_5_min_mystery.pdf   5 minute mystery will be due on Friday 28th, 2012.   http://www.jamendo.com/en/   http://www.freesound.org/ Period #3-4 Law 120- Students will continue to work on their paper today for Law class. Remember to use the questions to shape your paper. Make sure that your research comes from a credible source. Use at least one source from Ebsco and one from Worldbookonline. If you need a username or password for these sites please ask Mr. Gopee. If you use wikipedia- make sure that you look up the sources to check its credibility. Remember any papers finished by Monday and Tuesay will be reviewed and edited for you. Due date Thursday 27th September, 2012.   Period #6- Computer science-Work away on your online assignments. Students should begin Unit 4 You will have an up to date mark by Friday.