Mr. Boulanger Teaches Computers

Website tree

Mr. Boulanger — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:52:17 +0000

These fabulous trees representing the structure of the US Library of Congress website have been drawn with Paint (would you believe it?) by Rachel, Yasmine, Bernice, and Kevin. Great workfrom these four 8th graders.

[Project length = 2 periods]

Halloween posters

Mr. Boulanger — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:18:06 +0000

These frightening Halloween posters were created by my diligent ghouls from 6th grade.

[Project length= 1 class period]

Play Chromon

Mr. Boulanger — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:16:25 +0000

As the Regatta break is inching its way towards you, keep your musical and visual brain sharp by playing Chromon. Made by Roman Cortes, this game combines the 1980 gameplay of Simon with the logo of Google’s new browser Chrome. Good luck!

During the break send me screenshots of
your best scores (20 and over) for extra credit!

Name tags

Mr. Boulanger — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:21:13 +0000

Today you can admire the artistic works of Soraya, Morgan, and Camille from grade 7 and Annick, Claire, and Isabel from Grade 8. This name tag assignment completed using PowerPoint 2007 also includes psychological results from the Big 5 personality test.

Syllabus in images

Mr. Boulanger — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:43:42 +0000

In this assignment, 8th graders had to translate one point of the syllabus into a one-slide image based explanation. The creativity of Namrata and Chiara both landed them on this online portfolio.

BMW Logo

Mr. Boulanger — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:47:44 +0000

A car won’t make you cooler, but being able to design a logo in Photoshop is a great skill to have. 8th graders test their mouse pad with this logo reproduced with multiple layers and layer styles. Sandhya and Stephanie’s work are showcased here:

[Project length = 2 class periods]

Extra credit

Mr. Boulanger — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:42:09 +0000

More extra credit work by Dimitry in Photoshop

Desktop tower defense strategy

Mr. Boulanger — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:59:46 +0000

In this assignment, students exploit their addiction to the game Desktop Tower Defense v1.5 and create a strategy to get high scores. This is achieved in Microsoft Excel and demonstrates the capabilities of the students to use the program to create maps and grids with keys. Our top strategists are Katinka and Michelle:

[Project length = 2 class periods]

Statistics of a plastic bag

Mr. Boulanger — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:37:33 +0000

In this introductory assignment to Microsoft Excel, students learn the formatting fundamentals of cells while exploring the frightening statistics of our plastic generation. The best works come from Igal and Elsa:

[Project length = 2 class periods]

Monstruous collage

Mr. Boulanger — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:20:28 +0000

Word is not at all friendly with images, so there is only one way to surmount obstacles: tackle them and practice until it is effortlessly done. Today the 6th graders created collage from multiple pictures which they cropped, resized, rotated and assembled in Word.

The best works come from Debbie & Gaurav:

[Project length = 2 periods]