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Support Writing to the
"T" - With Technology
2010 UP Ed Technology &Business Conference
http://teachers.mapsnet.org
2009 UPRA Conferences
http://teachers.mapsnet.org/TechClassesWorksh
ops/SupportWritingtotheTwithTechnology.aspx
Writing
Visually
Nancy Usitalo &
Rachel Adams
Young Authors
• Rachal Adams
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& Nancy Usitalo
Students type draft in Microsoft Word
Search and insert appropriate Clip Art
Save and Edit files – lots of editing
Teachers help edit & print to make
booklets
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Final works
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A celebration
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Many students continue to collaborate and create more
stories… 2 teams & illustration central
Research First
– Maria Flores
Internet & Organizer &
PowerPoint
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• Maria Flores & Cindy Flatt
Research Arctic animals
Students select animal & use web links prepared
ahead
Take notes on organizer that matches PowerPoint
format
Enter content into Power Point slides
Print slides to use for book
Later write a fiction story on their animal
Combine both products for Young Authors
Web sites:
Credits on the last slide – here are what we used
Switcheroo Zoo Switch the animals' heads, legs and tails to
make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo
ThinkQuest Animal Library Wild Habitat we have gathered
information and pictures of bears and felines, and more
Enchanted Learning Tundra Animal Library Tundra habitat
list of pictures and animal facts and region features
Enchanted Learning Antarctica Animal Library Antarctic
habitat list of pictures and animal facts and region features
WIKIpedia Encyclopedia - Wikipedia is a multilingual, Webbased, free-content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia's
articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with
additional information. View larger in
Windows Explorer Browser.
Organizer and Search
Organize search sites on a web
links page
Use organizer to research these
sites
Materials on web
Organizer and PowerPoint
Template in PowerPoint already
created
Students type slides using their
completed research organizer
Print a cover page for stories
Materials on web
Pictures from Web sites
Search Web – Wikipedia has good
photos and clean information pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - search “arctic seal”
Copy and paste Internet photo into
PowerPoint slide
Or use these instructions to Save
Internet picture
Pics & Copyright Citation
Wikimedia Commons
A freely licensed media file repository of
6,586,284 freely usable media files to
which anyone can contribute.
This sample description page shows all
the information on the media.
Short
Activities
- one lab session
Poetry
• Lake Superior Ornaments –
Template of Microsoft Word & still
pictures of Lake Superior inserted into
circle shapes
• Poetry & Drawn Art – Template of
Microsoft Word files prepared: lines
and space for picture drawing
Lake Superior Ornaments
1. Templates saved on desktop
2. Students open and type a prepared poem
3. Type in name and other info in box
4. Print
5. Students cut out poem in circle and name
box
6. Paste poem and name box to larger
construction paper circle
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Poetry & Drawn Art
1. Templates saved on desktop
2. Students open and type a prepared poem
OR can brainstorm sensory words in the
computer lab and type from the brainstorm
list
3. Type in name/date top of the template
4. Print
5. Draw the image of the poetry they created
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Other T-Tools
Online Web Tools
• Read , Write, Think
– interactive organizers online
• http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Student Interactives
Use the Search Bar
• Grade Level
• Classroom Resources
– Student
Interactives
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Professional Development
Resources
Learning Objective
Theme
50+ online Student
Interactives
-Work online & Print
Compare & Contrast Map
• Included:
• Overview
• Lesson Plans for
using this interactive
tool
• Related Interactives
• http://www.readwriteth
ink.org/classroomresources/studentinteractives/comparecontrast-30066.html
Persuasion Map
Included:
Overview
Lesson Plans for using
this interactive tool
Related Interactives
http://www.readwritethink.
org/classroomresources/studentinteractives/persuasion30034.html
Enter info in online prompts
Expand writing
Final work – print only
Grade Level Resources
Type in your Grade Level
Choose:
•Lesson Plane
•Student Interactives
•Professional Development
•http://www.readwritethink.org/
classroom-resources/grade/34/
Another online Web Tool
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-- tools,
tutorials, ideas
CoDogRoo
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways
• Login - create account for
MORE interactive
collaborative tools
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
Digital Storytelling
Resources online:
Jason Ohler
(on Presentation web
page)
http://www.jasonohler.
com/storytelling/index
.cfm
Writing Alive: Audio & Video
• Young Author Videos - Marsha
Page & NMU
• Reading group collaborative
story -Amanda Swanson
• Poetry Videos - Jodi Miller &
Ruth Murphy & Debbie Haughey
Video
Photo Story – Marsha Page’s class – free
download (Google: Microsoft Downloads)
Movie Maker – Jodi Miller & Amanda Swanson
- free on Windows computers
Images:
Import still digital student pictures
Import scanned student drawings
Import video clips – (Movie Maker)
Add Audio
PhotoStory
– record into program with an microphone
- music is included in the program or import
your own mp3 music file
Movie Maker
- you can also record into this program
- record on a digital voice recorder
- import wma or mp3 music file
Create videos
- Show on the computer or web
- Burn to CD
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