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Mary O’Neill Major Project Prospectus DL503 Royal Roads UniversityMary O’Neill Major Project Prospectus DL503 Royal Roads UniversityJulia Hengstler Faculty of Education Malaspina University-College

Teaching & Learning Teaching & Learning Language Arts with Language Arts with

Technology:Technology:

Building an eBookBuilding an eBook—A Whirlwind —A Whirlwind

Workshop Workshop ExperienceExperience

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The PlanThe Plan

• Quick overview of some +/-’s of technology

• Building a wordless ebook• List of sample resources for

Language Arts teachers/students• Feedback Form

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


Why Use Technology inWhy Use Technology inYour 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 SomeWhat Are Someof 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

• Others?


Why a Wordless Picture eBook (Powerpoint)

Julia Hengstler Faculty of Education Malaspina University-College

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 ShowRecord 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!

– Save this for the Web and you can share these audio books


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 locating/storing online images


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 are on the next 2 slides:


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.


http://beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=pyle_rollingondeck.jpg




http://beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=guinea.jpg




http://beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=galleon.jpg




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.


http://beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=spandutc.jpg




http://beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=pyle_meeting.jpg




http://beej.us/pirates/pirate_view.php?file=bartdnr.jpg




Organizing & Starting PPT Draft• Determine a rough narrative flow for the images

– Teacher can provide or students can create• For this activity:

– piratemap shipbattletreasuredivvy lootcelebration

• 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 InsertPicturefrom 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

you would like it, leaving room for text


PPT Drafting Story “Pages”: Text

• Create a text box next to it– Make sure the Drawing tool bar is active

first: » Go to ViewToolbarsmake 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 FormatLine 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: InsertNew

Slideselect the blank Content Layout again.

• InsertPicturefrom filenavigate to the pirate_images folder on the U drive and select “map”; resize & move; create text box; create new slide

• InsertPicturefrom filenavigate to the pirate_images folder on the U drive and select “ship”; resize & move; create text box; create new slide

• InsertPicturefrom filenavigate to the pirate_images folder on the U drive and select “battle”; resize & move; create text box; create new slide


Using PPT Clip Art7) Adding the treasure/chest from PPT’s Clip Art

– From the top menu in your PPT document select InsertPictureClip 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• InsertPicturefrom filenavigate to the

pirate_images folder on the U drive and select “divvy_loot”; resize & move; create text box; create new slide

• InsertPicturefrom filenavigate 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)

• InsertNew 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 ViewSlide Sorter;

click on the Title Page slide and drag it to the head of the slide11) You can add a “credits” or references pages, as well as a “The End” page.


Save eBook & Printing

• Save this eBook to your U: drive– Call it “pirate_ebook”

• Printing (we’re not doing this now…)– FilePrint– 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

» Scaled to Fit Paper» Select Unframed (or framed) Slides


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: [email protected]


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Useful Electronic ResourcesThis 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 ArtsA 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, reading, lesson plans, and more.


http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/irp_ela.htm

http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/irp_ela.htm


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 “Student Activities”. Here’s the link to the Language Arts section.


http://pbskids.org/lions/

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/languagearts.jsp


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.


http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/index.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/vowels/index.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/phonics/index.htm


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.


http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/index.html


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.


http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

http://www.cln.org/subjects/english.html


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 WebFrom 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.


http://reading.indiana.edu/

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/

http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/sitemap.htm

http://www.wier.ca/wierintro


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 projectFrom 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.


http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/

http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/resources.html

http://www.neighbourhoodheroes.org/webquest/Intro.html


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 DenFrom 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.


http://www.storyarts.org/

http://www2.actden.com/Writ_Den/index.htm

http://www2.actden.com/Writ_Den/t-guide.htm

http://www2.actden.com/Writ_Den/word.htm

http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/storybks.htm


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.


http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm


Some Planning LinksCurrikiNon-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 searchThe Educator's Reference DeskFrom the Information Institute of Syracuse, NY. Website with resource Discovery Education Lesson Plan LibraryCrayola Lesson Plans (requires registering)Collaborative Lesson Plan ArchiveTeacherVision: Lesson Planning CenterHotChalk’s Lesson Plans Page: Language ArtsLesson Plan Search: Reading LessonsLesson Plan Search: WritingLesson Plans and Teaching Strategies


http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/GWTSearch#XWiki.AssetClass.fw_items=FW_masterFramework.LanguageArts&__advShow=1&__go=1

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/


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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 HengstlerEducation Technology Technician

Email: [email protected]: Bldg 356-223

Hours: Mon. 9:30-1:30Wed/Thurs. 9:30-4:00

Phone: 753-3245 x 2630


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