for Thursday, June 12, 2013

Before you continue with this project, you need to do the following:

1.  Complete a blog entry or journal entry (in your Literacy folder or Journal) about your "Strengths and Struggles."
Thanks to Kenny, Ewan, and John for adding some details to the "Strengths and Struggles" for completing this.

To illustrate what to do, I am going to list my Strengths and Struggles as I begin to think about planning for the creation of my hero.

Strengths:
- ability to run at super speeds
- ability to gather people together for a common cause and purpose to work together
- fix and work with electricity 

Struggles:

- being overwhelmed by too much information
- leaving things to the last minute
- trying to do too much

2.  Once this is done --and it needs to be before school ends on Friday-- you may begin to develop your hero or continue to work on what you started from last week.  I suggest you use Google Chrome to access the link.  Here it is:
http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-2-5-character-portrait-creator/

3.  a) Once you play around and begin to develop your hero, you will need to save it.  When you click save, it will give you a long code and should look something like what you will see in this screenshot I took:

You will need to copy this code and save it to a Microsoft Word file and save it on your home drive.  Without saving this code, you will lose all of the work you do.

** Do not add any information to the sheet you paste the code on, but you may save the file name as something you will be familiar with:  Bishophero.doc

b) When you return to the project and want to load your file, you will have to open up the Word file, copy the code and paste it into the box on the screen and then press okay.  If you want to work on this at home, you will have to find a way to save the code on a USB key or email it to yourself.

Take your time with this project.  It is not meant to be rushed.  I will be back on Friday for you to ask me any more questions on the project.