BCIS State Project Part 1-- My State: ((Illinois))

1. Year of statehood (12/3/1818)
2. Populations (12,419,293)
3. Capital (springfield)
4. Motto (state sovereignty, national union)
5. Bird (cardinal)
6. Flower (purple violet)
7. Tree (white oak)
8. Song Title ("Illinois" by C.H. Chamberlin)

9. Pictures:







10. Attractions:

World's biggest man
Alton, Illinois
Exhibits and statue at the birthplace of the World's Tallest Man, Robert Wadlow.



Superman Museum
Metropolis, Illinois
The Super Museum, life's work of Jim Hambrick, is stuffed with over 20,000 items relating to the Superman saga, from first appearance in comic books.


11. 4 Fast Facts:
*Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald's.
*The ice cream "sundae" was named in Evanston. The piety of the town resented the dissipating influences of the soda fountain on Sunday and the good town fathers, yielding to this churchly influence, passed an ordinance prohibiting the retailing of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Ingenious confectioners and drug store operators obeying the law, served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda. Objections then was made to christening a dish after the Sabbath. So the spelling of "sunday" was changed. It became an established dish and an established word and finally the "sundae".
*The Chicago River is dyed green on Saint Patrick's Day.
*The worst prison camp during the Civil War in terms of percentages of death was at Rock Island.

12. Sources
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/il.html
http://www.50states.com/

Wed. Jan. 16, 2008

Wed. Jan. 9, 2007

Today in powerpoint i learned how to save a file. I also learned how to save it in RTF form. I transferred the powerpoint into a word document. I did this by saving it was a word document first, then i transferred it to a word document by clicking "send to" on the fie menu. It was very easy. That is six sentences :).

Tue, Jan. 8

I learned that powepoint is very useful when you have to mke presenttaions. Doing this activity showed me how to look throught the slides in defferent ways and how to zoom in on them. I learned that instead of clicking on each slide, you can just use the scrol bar and go through them quickly. You can change the sidebar to view the slides as thumbnails or as the text. Powerpoint is very colorful and can be entertaining.