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Teaching & Learning

Teaching & Learning

Language Arts with

Language Arts with

Technology:

Technology:

Building an eBook

Building an eBook

—A Whirlwind

—A Whirlwind

Workshop

Workshop

Experience

The Plan

The Plan

• Quick overview of some +/-’s of

technology

• Building a wordless ebook

• List of sample resources for

Language Arts teachers/students

• Feedback Form

Why Use Technology in

Why Use Technology in

Your Instruction?

Your Instruction?

• Engaging & Fun

• Current

• Develops Info Tech skills

• Establishing quality benchmarks for

publishing materials online

• Immerse students in editing for quality

• Unique activities/resources

• Networking with others

– Eg. WEIR

What Are Some

What Are Some

of the Challenges??

of the Challenges??

• Costs & Access

• Reliability

• Compatibility

• Digital Divide

• Software

• Pro-D

• Safety

– Student personal safety

• documents/information should not make student identifiable

– Link exposure

Why a Wordless Picture eBook (Powerpoint)

Potential Uses

• Create a printed book. – Students could:

• Develop an oral narration; share with others

• Work with on older student (mentor?) to narrate story to that older student scribes onto hardcopy

• Colour it.

– Could also be a project with a parent/guardian • Create an ebook in PPT.

– Students could:

• Develop a story & word process on the slides

– Might want to develop prewriting organizational materials

– Do rough draft on Word or other software

• Narrate orally via PPT’s Slide ShowRecord Voice Narration

– Slides appear--students read them & then advance the slides in their time by hitting Enter to advance. PPT saves the narration and the timing!

Extended Potential Uses for Ebook Activity

•

Create a family-based book.

–

Students could use resized images from family

photos

•

Photos could be digital or scanned in

•

Create an original illustrated book.

–

Students could create original images (or collaborate

with an “illustrator”)

•

Images could be hardcopy & scanned in

•

Images could be wholly digital—either drawn or

photos

Activity: Creating an eBook

1.

Selecting Theme, Brainstorm Images & Prep a

Storage Folder

•

Pick a theme or themes

–

_{Teacher may suggest or allow students to pick}

• Today’s theme: “Pirates”

•

Brainstorm what type of images would suite the

theme & possible plot lines

–

Make a list of 5-10 possible image types that

would support those plots

•

Teacher and/or students could do this

•

Already prepared for the purposes of the

workshop

Preparing for Image Storage

2) Prepare a place to store images

–

Use an intuitive name that suits the image or

project

–

For this workshop:

•

Go to your U drive (or other location on

personal computer) & create a folder called

“pirate_images”

•

Right-click in a blank area of the drive &

select New then Folder

•

Right-click on the New Folder and rename it

to “pirate_images”

Finding Images

3) Search for necessary images

(This has been done for you, but if you had to do it here are the steps)

– Determine a sufficient number of images (eg. 3,4,5)

– Teacher could prelocate images & provide links or students could find own

– Finding images (don’t do this; I have preset images for this activity)

• Go to Google

• Click on Images

• Click on Advanced Image Search at the right of the text bar

• Collect the URL (addresses) if providing links to others

– Note: Images are also available through PPT or Word clip-art—we’ll try that route after

Image Issues

•

Copyright issues

–

Find uncopyrighted images (old pictuers,

Creative Commons licensed images, etc.)

–

Request permission to use by contacting

image owner

•

_{If colour printing an issue:}

–

Colour images can be converted to grayscale

during printing.

–

Can stick to black & white or grayscale images

in Google (specify this in a Google Image

search under the Advanced options), but this

might limit your selections.

Working with Images

4) Working with prelocated images & provided links

–

Provide a process & instruction sheet or

electronic resource for students to visit the

necessary links

•

If you’re having students find their own

images (or with a mentor/adult), specify the

number of images you want.

Your Instructions for Locating

Images

– Download these 6 pictures from which to build a story— with a beginning, middle and end in mind. (You’ll be

renaming them with names that make sense for this project and their use.)

• Go to the image at http://

beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=

pyle_rollingondeck.jpg Right-click on the image.

Select “Save File As”. Change the name to “pirate” & save to your “pirate_images” file on the U drive (or other place on your computer you would like it)

• Go to the image at http://

beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=guinea.jpg & repeat as above to save as “map” to pirate_images on your U drive.

• Go to the image at http://

beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=galleon.jpg & repeat as above to save as “ship” to pirate_images on your U drive.

Locating Remaining Images

• Go to the image at http://

beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=spandutc.jpg & repeat as above to save as “battle” to pirate_images on your U drive.

• Go to the image at http://

beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=

pyle_meeting.jpg & repeat as above to save as “divvy_loot” to pirate_images on your U drive.

• Go to the image at http://

beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=bartdnr.jpg & repeat as above to save as “celebration” to

pirate_images on your U drive.

– The one thing missing is the treasure image. We’ll add that later, but assume that you’ll have one.

Organizing & Starting PPT Draft

• Determine a rough narrative flow for the images

– Teacher can provide or students can create

• For this activity:

– piratemap shipbattletreasuredivvy

lootcelebration

• Pick one type of project end product

– affects what you create now & steps you follow—you can build both types, but we don’t have time now)

– Select print book or eBook project

• Open a new PowerPoint document to create the wordless storybook as a new Blank document.

– Under “Content Layout,” select the blank option

– Into this file you will either insert or copy the images saved so far. (Instructions follow.)

PPT Drafting Story “Pages”:

Images

5) Creating “Page” with Image & Text

•

Find main PPT Menu

•

Select Insert



Picture



from file

•

Navigate to the pirate_images folder on the U

drive

•

Select “pirate” image

•

Resize the image so it fits about ½ of the slide

vertically.

–

Click on the image. (You should now see

little squares around the border.)

–

Click & drag one from the corner to make

the picture smaller.

–

Make it a reasonable size so text (and/or

more pictures) can be added to the page

•

Move & place the picture on the slide where

PPT Drafting Story “Pages”: Text

•

Create a text box next to it

–

Make sure the Drawing tool bar is active

first:

»

Go to View



Toolbars



make sure

Drawing is checked.

–

Select the square boxed icon with the

“A” in the upper left & a series of lines

–

Click on the “slide” or page with the

pirate image to make a text box.

“Pages” for Print vs. eBook

– For Printed Project: You will need to create some lines in this text box using the underscore key.

• Note: There is a QUICK way to create a print version with lines, but we need to build the skills if you’d like to create an eBook later (Instructions for this at the end of the activity.)

• Enter about as many lines as you want need.

• Space them for the scale of your students’ writing under FormatLine Spacing.

– For an eBook project, type in the text box “Add Words Here”

• Optional if time permits: you can set the text font, colour, size, etc.

– If not highlighted, click on the text box to select it.

– Go to the Format menu at the top and select “Text Box”. – Click on Colours & Lines and choose a line colour and

style. This will create a rectangle where text can be entered later.

More “Pages”

6) Create remaining “Pages”

•

_{Create a new slide: Insert}



New

Slide



select the blank Content Layout

again.

•

_Insert



Picture



from file



navigate to the

pirate_images folder on the U drive and

select “map”; resize & move; create text box;

create new slide

•

_Insert



Picture



from file



navigate to the

pirate_images folder on the U drive and

select “ship”; resize & move; create text box;

create new slide

•

_Insert



Picture



from file



navigate to the

pirate_images folder on the U drive and

select “battle”; resize & move; create text

Using PPT Clip Art

7) Adding the treasure/chest from PPT’s Clip Art

–

From the top menu in your PPT document select

Insert



Picture



Clip Art

•

(If the box appears with “Add Clips to

Organizer” click on “Later”)

–

In the search field enter “treasure” or “treasure

chest” and click on “Search”

–

Scroll through quickly & quickly pick an image in

the interests of time.

•

Later, if you want a wider selection, you can

click on “Clips Online” at the bottom of the

search panel and find more options—but leave

that for another day.

–

Click on the picture you want and select “Insert”.

–

Resize (you may want to enlarge this)

Create Remaining “Pages”

8) Create remaining new slides—using the blank

Content Layout.

–

Insert the remaining pictures in each new slide

•

Insert



Picture



from file



navigate to the

pirate_images folder on the U drive and

select “divvy_loot”; resize & move; create

text box; create new slide

•

Insert



Picture



from file



navigate to the

pirate_images folder on the U drive and

select “celebration”; resize & move; create

text box

Optional Title “Page”

9) Create a Title Slide

(Students working with printed copy could create their own title page manually)

• InsertNew Slide select the first choice in “Text

Layouts” at upper left that shows two grey bars

• For Printed Project:

– Create a line in the Title box using the underscore key.

– Type “By”; hit Enter and on the next line make a line for students to write their name by using the

underscore key again.

• For an eBook Project:

– In the first text box, type “Add Title Here”.

– In the second text box, type “By” then on another line “Your name Here”

• You can also add an area with class, date, etc. by adding text boxes as we did with the other “pages”. This will create a new slide with a Title textbox and an area to put your by-line (i.e. “by Sally Sun”)

Move “Title Page” to Front, Credits, End

Page

10) Moving Title Page to front of “book”

• Either in “Slides” tab if visible on the left or using ViewSlide Sorter; click on the Title Page slide and drag it to the head of the slide

Save eBook & Printing

•

Save this eBook to your U: drive

–

Call it “pirate_ebook”

•

Printing (we’re not doing this now…)

–

File



Print

–

When the dialogue window appears:

»

At bottom left under Print What, select

Slides

»

Set Color at either grayscale,

black/white, or whatever you want

»

Set Slides per Page: from 1-4

depending on how large you want the

images & text areas

Working with the eBook

•

_{Create the printed book & provide copies to}

students to complete as per your plan.

•

Share the electronic file with students to

complete the ebook in PPT.

•

_{Students could share their work in pairs,}

groups, classes, with the whole school, other

schools, etc. either in hardcopy or

electronically.

•

_{You could create a class anthology—maybe a}

yearly—and have it produced as a chapbook

via your school photocopier.

•

_{Publishing for public consumption—secure}

image permissions where necessary & add

any necessary captions/links below images

Want to Share Your Work?

•

If you would like to complete an

ebook (including text—and audio)

to share it with others in this

class, please email the PPT file to

me and I can create a gallery.

Your email should include:

–

Your course, section & instructor

–

_{My email: hengstlej@mala.bc.ca}

Useful Electronic Resources

This will be posted online next week…

BC Language Arts IRPs

From BC Min. of Education. Language Arts K-12 Integrated Resource Packages

BC Language Arts Prescribed Learning Outcomes

From BC Min. of Education Prescribed learning outcomes for

Language Arts K-12. Page organized by subject area. Scroll down the page for Language Arts.

BC Teachers of English/Language Arts

A provincial specialist association of the BCTF. Links to membership, resources, events and the listserve.

Language Arts Course Links

From Jean Tonski & Virginia MacCarthy, Malaspina

University-College. List of links to Faculty of Education Language Arts relevant sites. Organized by topics—e.g. general, listening & speaking,

Between the Lions

Companion site for the PBS series for 4-7 year olds. Series “gives young viewers a chance to have meaningful and manageable

reading experiences, by using key words in simple, decodable, connected text onscreen. The program also reinforces

high-frequency "sight" words to help children become more comfortable with reading”. Site includes games, video clips, mobile downloads (audio, video), games and an area for parents & teachers.

Scholastic Teacher Resources

From the publisher, Scholastic. Lesson plans, strategies, tools, printables, and promotions. Also a special “New Teacher” tab with support areas organized by grade levels. Another area offers

Scholastic Online Interactive Clifford

From Scholastic. Site focus on Clifford character books. Includes interactive storybooks, phonics activities, games, and stories for early readers. Check out “Make a Word” (audio) a game where

players drag and drop vowels into spaces between consonants to see if they make words. Also take a look at Sound Match

PIKA: The Canadian Children's Literature Database

From Libraries & Archives Canada. Database search tool for

Canadian children’s literature. Includes National Library of Canada's collection of 35 000 Canadian children's books, searchable by

subject headings and providing summaries. Canadian Poetry Archive

From Libraries & Archives Canada. Database of Canadian poetry. Searchable by poet, title, keywords & date. Primarily 19th to early 20th Century poems.

Canadian Poetry

From University of Toronto Library. Links to Canadian poets,

events, poetry sites, poetry courses, awards/competitions, presses, biographies and more.

Children's Literature Web Guide

From David Brown at the University of Calgary. Internet resources related to books for children & young adults. Lists of award winning books & best sellers, discussion boards, authors on the web,

teachers resources, parent resources and more. Children's Picture Book Database

From Miami University. Bibliography for designing literature-based thematic units for all disciplines, including health education.

Includes abstracts of 5000+ picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Searchable by topics, concepts, and skills.

Citation Style Guides

From Karla Tonella, University of Iowa. Compilation of links to various citation styles.

CyberGuides

From San Diego County of Education, Calif. A K-12 collection of teacher guides & student activities on “core works of literature”

(according to the Calif. Language Arts curriculum) organized by age groups. The “Activity Bank” link from main page provides graphic organizers, journaling and rubrics for teachers and students. Note due to cutbacks there is a notice re. possibilities of broken links— you can email them to remove it.

Educational Resources in English/Language Arts (from CLN )

From the Community Learning Network (CLN; OpenSchool BC). Curricular, instructional and thematic resources. In “Teaching Technology” section, the Learning Lab seems to be inactive, but the “Resource Scrapbook” looks promising. Publication of “Network Nuggets” has been suspended.

Clearinghouse on English, Reading and Communication

From the Indiana University School of Education. Links to lesson plans and other sites with lesson plans, literacy resources & research, online phonic course from Dr. Carl B. Smith, ERIC digest & bibliography searches for research, & more…

The Literacy Web

From the University of Connecticut. Includes websites, webquests, lesson plans, technology integration, ProD, literacy standards, literature & online applications. Check this site map for quick access to resources by age groups. Includes resources for K-12, special needs, ESL, & Adult Ed.

WIER Writers in Electronic Residence

From the Canadian Education Association, University of Toronto, etc.

Online program connecting Canadian students with writers, teachers and each other for an electronic writers’ workshop experience. All authors are published Canadian authors. They read and consider the students' works, offer insights and ideas, and guide discussions between the students. Grade levels are 1-6, 6-9, and 9+. You must apply to participate in the program.

ACE Writing

From Michelle Bergey. Resource site for ways to improve writing skills. Includes links to word games & lesson plans. Check

Professor Pen’s Resources for Young Writers. Neighbourhood Heroes project

From non-profit org. started by former Toronto broadcaster, Bill

Robinson. Stories about people making a positive impact on others’ lives. Includes area for special stories on students. Includes link to webquest for students to identify their own neighbourhood hero.

StoneSoup Magazine

Children’s writing magazine published in California. Website for magazine composed entirely of student work ages 8-13. Links to young authors reading their own works, works of young authors, children’s art, as well as selected links.

Story Arts Online

From author Heather Forest, New York. Site dedicated to

storytelling. Links to lesson plans, student activities, articles, teacher sharing area, newletter and more.

The Writing Den

From Act360 Media, company from Richmond, BC, Canada. Site geared to grades 6-12. Focus on improving reading, comprehension, and writing skills. 3 difficulty levels: Words (vocabulary/prononuciation), Sentences (comprehension/listening) & Paragraphs (writing skills). Audio clips for Words and Sentences. Provides Teacher Guide for using site. Sign-up for

Word of the Day

The Young Writers Club

From non-profit organization founded by David Davenport. Provides writing activities, a place for young writers share their work,

book/film reviews, research projects, word of the week

subscriptions. Check out the Storybooks where young writers

collaboratively build a story. Beware, however, as there have been some parental complaints re. offensive content in member stories.

Biography Maker

From Jamie Mackenzie, Bellingham Public Schools. Website to help

students elicit biographical information and write interesting biographies.

For Creating Activity Sheets, Worksheets, etc.

Discovery School Puzzle Maker

Discovery School Worksheet Generator E.L. Easton English Exercises

Links to variety of activities for English. Personal Educational Press

Free worksheet generator CueCard

Free & great application to build electronic flash cards with text, images &/or sound.

Adventure Maker

Download the free version that allows you to create interactive adventures —this includes stories or activities.

Some Planning Links

Curriki

Non-profit organization providing an Open Source

Curriculum (OSC) repository. Content includes lesson plans, assessments & activities. Materials contributed from teachers around the world. Check out the

Language Arts search

The Educator's Reference Desk

From the Information Institute of Syracuse, NY. Website

with resource Discovery Education Lesson Plan Library

Crayola Lesson Plans (requires registering) Collaborative Lesson Plan Archive

TeacherVision: Lesson Planning Center

HotChalk’s Lesson Plans Page: Language Arts Lesson Plan Search: Reading Lessons

Lesson Plan Search: Writing

Feedback Form

Please take the time to complete my workshop feedback form. I take all your comments under advisement to improve each workshop

that I deliver for Education classes.

Please do not put your name on the form—unless you would like me to follow-up with you regarding any questions you might have

Great Work!

Congratulations: You have downloaded images from the Internet, used PPT’s clip-art, created a wordless ebook, & received some electronic

resources for other Language Arts technology integration skills! Give yourself a pat on the back!

Well done…

Further questions? See me: Julia Hengstler

Education Technology Technician Email: hengstlej@mala.bc.ca

Office: Bldg 356-223 Hours: Mon. 9:30-1:30

Wed/Thurs. 9:30-4:00 Phone: 753-3245 x 2630

ACE Writing

From Michelle Bergey. Resource site for ways to improve writing skills. Includes links to word games & lesson plans. Check

Professor Pen’s Resources for Young Writers.

Neighbourhood Heroes project

From non-profit org. started by former Toronto broadcaster, Bill

Robinson. Stories about people making a positive impact on others’ lives. Includes area for special stories on students. Includes link to webquest for students to identify their own neighbourhood hero.

StoneSoup Magazine

Children’s writing magazine published in California. Website for magazine composed entirely of student work ages 8-13. Links to young authors reading their own works, works of young authors, children’s art, as well as selected links.

Mary O’Neill Major Project Prospectus DL503 Royal Roads University

Story Arts Online

From author Heather Forest, New York. Site dedicated to

storytelling. Links to lesson plans, student activities, articles, teacher sharing area, newletter and more.

The Writing Den

From Act360 Media, company from Richmond, BC, Canada. Site geared to grades 6-12. Focus on improving reading, comprehension, and writing skills. 3 difficulty levels: Words (vocabulary/prononuciation), Sentences (comprehension/listening) & Paragraphs (writing skills). Audio clips for Words and Sentences. Provides Teacher Guide for using site. Sign-up for

Word of the Day

The Young Writers Club

From non-profit organization founded by David Davenport. Provides writing activities, a place for young writers share their work,

book/film reviews, research projects, word of the week

subscriptions. Check out the Storybooks where young writers

collaboratively build a story. Beware, however, as there have been some parental complaints re. offensive content in member stories. Julia Hengstler (with Mary O’Neill) Faculty of Education Malaspina

Biography Maker

From Jamie Mackenzie, Bellingham Public Schools. Website to help

students elicit biographical information and write interesting biographies.

For Creating Activity Sheets, Worksheets, etc.

Discovery School Puzzle Maker

Discovery School Worksheet Generator E.L. Easton English Exercises

Links to variety of activities for English. Personal Educational Press

Free worksheet generator CueCard

Free & great application to build electronic flash cards with text, images &/or sound.

Adventure Maker

Download the free version that allows you to create interactive adventures —this includes stories or activities.

Mary O’Neill Major Project Prospectus DL503 Royal Roads University

Some Planning Links

Curriki

Non-profit organization providing an Open Source

Curriculum (OSC) repository. Content includes lesson plans, assessments & activities. Materials contributed from teachers around the world. Check out the

Language Arts search

The Educator's Reference Desk

From the Information Institute of Syracuse, NY. Website

with resource Discovery Education Lesson Plan Library

Crayola Lesson Plans (requires registering) Collaborative Lesson Plan Archive

TeacherVision: Lesson Planning Center

HotChalk’s Lesson Plans Page: Language Arts Lesson Plan Search: Reading Lessons

Lesson Plan Search: Writing

Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies 

Julia Hengstler (with Mary O’Neill) Faculty of Education Malaspina University-College

Feedback Form

Please take the time to complete my workshop feedback form. I take all your comments under advisement to improve each workshop

that I deliver for Education classes.

Please do not put your name on the form—unless you would like me to follow-up with you regarding any questions you might have

Mary O’Neill Major Project Prospectus DL503 Royal Roads University

Great Work!

Congratulations: You have downloaded images from the Internet, used PPT’s clip-art, created a wordless ebook, & received some electronic

resources for other Language Arts technology integration skills! Give yourself a pat on the back!

Well done…

Further questions? See me: Julia Hengstler

Education Technology Technician Email: hengstlej@mala.bc.ca

Office: Bldg 356-223 Hours: Mon. 9:30-1:30

Wed/Thurs. 9:30-4:00 Phone: 753-3245 x 2630