Assignment #11 Being Charitable

This is a blog assignment.

Name your post "Being Charitable."

Here is the hypothetical situation.  Mark Cuban mega-rich business man and owner of the Dallas Mavericks shows up at Back Bay High School with two million dollars to spend.  He offers you a job.  The pay for this job is one million dollars. The job is to choose a charity that you care about.   Mr. Cuban wants to donate the other one million dollars to that one charity.

Let's be charitable.

Your job is to research different charities to find one that means something to you.  After you find the charity that you want to support, you will write a blog entry that 1) **briefly describes the charity in one paragraph (in your own words), 2) details (at least 2 paragraphs) why this charity is important to you (what about this charity is personally meaningful to you) 3) includes a link to the charity's website and 4) includes at least 2 pictures related to the charity.

There are a total of 3 paragraphs in this assignment.

**The link to the charity's website will include all the information about the charity.  This is why you will only briefly describe (a few sentences) the charity in your post.

Assignment #10- Bucket List Blog Post

A bucket list is a list of things that you want to do/accomplish before you die ("kick the bucket"). There is a 2007 movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman called "The Bucket List" about 2 terminally ill men attempting to complete all the items on their bucket lists.

For today's assignment, you are to come up with 5 things that you want to accomplish during your time here on earth.  Do not include things that you have already done.  Graduating college and having children are not on my bucket list, because I have already done those things.  List the things from 1-5 including at least 1 sentence describing why you want to do/accomplish each thing.

Minimum requirements

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numbered list of 5 things/goals/etc. that you haven't done yet.

at least 1 sentence describing why each thing was chosen
at least 1 picture to go with one of the things
at least 1 correctly done link related to one of the things

1.  Get a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu-  I have been training jiu jitsu for almost a year.  I love it.  It will take about 10 years of continuous training to earn a black belt.

2. Run a half marathon faster than 1 hour and 50 minutes-  I will never be an elite level distance runner, but I consider running 13.1 miles in less than 2 hours an accomplishment. My original goal was under 2 hours, but last year I ran a 1:57:29, so I changed the goal to 1:55. A few weeks ago I ran a 1:54:23 at the OC Half marathon, so I changed the goal again to 1:50.

3.  Run a marathon in under 4 hours-  I ran my first marathon in February.  At 19 miles my legs started cramping, so I had to begin walking to keep my legs from fully locking up.  Those slow last 7 miles added about 30 minutes to my overall time.  I finished at 4:25.

4.  Complete a triathlon-  I know I can swim, bike and run.  The question is "can I find enough time to properly train for a triathlon?".  Hopefully, one day I will.

5.  Travel to other countries-  I have only been to Mexico at this point in my life.  I would love to travel to and around Europe one day.

Assignment #9- Google #6 Resume

Today you are going to be creating a resume for yourself in Google Drive.

In order to complete this assignment you must have all of the following parts.

1)  Center your name, address and contact information (phone # and email address).

2)  Include each of the 5 headings (Objective, Education, Experience, Relevant Skills & Courses, and Interests)  If you have not taken any college or vocational courses name the fourth heading "Relevant Skills."

Objective                  To obtain a ...

Education                High School including full address

Experience               list of previous jobs along with dates (volunteer jobs count)

Relevant Skills         list of work skills that you possess.  If you have taken any college courses  
                                  they would go here as well.

Interests                   list of (school and work appropriate) interests 

3)  You don't need the horizontal lines to separate each category.

Each heading must be bold and start at the left margin. 

All of the information after each heading starts at the same tab unless it is a further indented bullet point.  

Correctly formatting a resume will make it look professional.  The last thing you want is your resume to stand out for being sloppy and/or unprofessional.

 Use the following picture as a guide.

Progress Report Grades

There is no new assignment for today.  Your current schoolloop grade is your progress report grade.  If you finish complete something, you need to tell me so I can regrade it.

Assignment #8- Google Drive #5 Flyer

This is the fifth Google Drive Assignment

Today you are doing a one-page flyer document created with Google.  The content of this flyer will be whatever you choose (lost dog, garage sale, baby shower, etc.).  Make sure that you size the pictures and the font so that your flyer fits on one page.

Minimum requirements

Flyer must be school appropriate.

Large centered title in the document 
  

(Lost Dog, Garage Sale, etc.)

at least 2 pictures (found in Google images)

at least 5 descriptive details about your topic.  (you can 

write in complete sentences or use bullet points)

full contact information including name, street address, 

city, state, zip code, phone number and email address

  (can be fake info)

Assignment #7- Google Drive #4 Weekly Schedule

This is a Google Drive Assignment
Today, you are going to create a spreadsheet in Google Drive.  This spreadsheet will be a weekly schedule for next week starting with this Sunday.

Across the top of your spreadsheet 
you will type the 7 days of the week starting with Sunday (skip the first cell-A1).
 
Down the first column (A) 
you will type every hour starting with 6:00 am through 2:00 am. (skip the first cell-A1).   
Select cells A2 through A23.  Click on the format button and choose time.  Now, you only have to type 6:00 and Drive will put the rest (AM or PM).  After 12:00, you need to type 13:00, 14:00, etc. up to 24:00.  After 24:00, you will type 1:00 and 2:00.

 
This schedule will have 147 cells to fill in.

You will color code the cells by changing the background color and the font color.

Type the first cell (for example- "sleep").  Then click on the background color and change it.  Then, click on the font color and change it.  Now, click on the cell and copy it (apple key/C).  Then click on or drag over all the other cells that will also be sleep and paste it (apple key/V).  Repeat this process for every repeating cell.  You will not retype and change the color for duplicate cells.  Do it once and then copy/paste.

You must have the following uniquely colored cells in your schedule in addition to whatever things you do during the week..
Sleep
Wake Up
Get Ready
Eat
School
Go to Sleep

To finish this assignment you must have a fully complete, color-coded, week-long schedule.

Assignment #6- Google Drive #3 Budget

This is a Google Drive assignment.
Today you are doing one of the required parts of the applied skills portion of this class.  You will be creating a budget spreadsheet using Google Drive.

You are going to create a monthly budget.

Starting with cell A1, then A2, then A3, etc. through A10, you will type in these 10 expenses:

Rent

Utilities

Cable

Cell Phone

Car Payment

Insurance

Gas

Food

Entertainment

Savings

In cell A11 you will type Total.

Next, you will select cells B1 through B10 and then click the dollar sign button. 

Then with the cells still selected click on the sum button found in the "Crazy E looking tool" at the end of the row of tools.

Now enter in dollar amounts in each of the cells.  The program will automatically add the dollar sign and total these dollar amounts.

Finally, select all of the cells (words and dollar amounts) except for the total cells at the bottom.

Then click on insert chart (There is a button for this or you can find it under the insert tab).

Select the pie chart, and choose one of the three different types of pie charts.

Position the chart so that it is not covering your values (to the right of the cells).