Transcript From Shoebox to Computer - MERLOT International Conference

Troy State University
Troy, Alabama
Assistant Professors
37 combined years in public elementary school
Alabama Reading Initiative
Instructors of Graduate and Undergraduate:
Technology, Literacy, Natural Science, Mathematics, Social Science
Distance Learning Instructors:
Technology, Foundations of Education
This product is created for educational use only.
Students are first instructed to create the shoebox diorama.
Literacy Project From the Book
Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets
Social Science Project from the
Alabama Course of Study: U.S.
History/Presidents/Wars
Students were instructed to take their
shoebox diorama and create a similar
scenario using a word processing
program: MS Word. This is basic only
with no hyperlinks; use of pictures,
“clip art” and text only.
Online Tutorials for MS Word
Microsoft Word Tutorial for the Classroom
(http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_word.htm)
IT Tutorials for Microsoft Word
(http://www.itlearningmaterials.com/msword.htm)
Tutorial for Microsoft Word 2000 and XP
(http://www.dzfx.com/workshops/list/2/Microsoft_Word-Office-XP/)
Microsoft Word Basics
(http://www.baycongroup.com/wlesson0.htm)
Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks
(http://www.dctempjobs.com/msword.htm)
Microsoft Word Tutorial
(http://www.baycongroup.com/word.htm)
Students were instructed to take their MS Word
Diorama and create a Power Point Diorama using the
same schema. They were instructed to use the
hyperlink function to reinforce concepts within
content areas. After a lesson on copyright laws
pertaining to the use of online materials, the
students were to use photographs they found online
along with information they had gathered about the
topic.
Intel Copyright Presentation
Presentation created for the
Intel® Teach to the Future program
by Judi Edman Yost
Institute of Computer Technology
© 1999-2002 Intel. All rights reserved.
Rev. 10/3/01
Online Tutorials for PowerPoint
Learning Microsoft Power Point 2000
(http://www.lgta.org/ppt2000/ppt2000.contents.htm)
Learning Microsoft Power Point 97
(http://www.lgta.org/ppt97/)
Learning Microsoft Power Point 7.0
(http://www.lgta.org/ppt7/)
Learning Microsoft Power Point 4.0
(http://www.lgta.org/ppt4/)
Microsoft Power Point
(http://www.paducah.k12.ky.us/curriculum/online_tutorials.htm#
PowerPoint)
The students were instructed to
develop their diorama another level into the realm of the
world wide web. The students took their themes and
created a web page on our Prism server that contained
active links to online resources, activities, assessments,
content-based references, etc. Their web pages were
created using MS Front Page software. This was the birth
of the E-Diorama.
Online Tutorials for Front Page
Front Page in the Classroom
(http://www.actden.com/fp/)
Front Page Tutorial
(http://www.actden.com/fp2000/java/)
Microsoft Front Page Online Tutorial
(http://www.eastern.edu/helpdesk/fp-tut2.htm)
Creating Web Pages with MS Front Page
(http://www.learningspace.org/tech/FrontPage/)
Front Page 98
(http://www.rshweb.com/FPtips/fp98index.html)
Front Page Tutorial
(http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/website/index.html)
The E-Diorama can be used across the curriculum and created at a
variety of levels from Word Processing to Web Pages. The EDiorama is instructional in nature used as a tool to teach Course
of Study Objectives, Benchmarks, etc. It is an excellent method
that allows students to express creativity at many levels of
technological skill while showing mastery of a skill,
comprehension of text, etc.
http://prism.troyst.edu/~beejay/default.htm