Office Products: Creative Educational Uses Use of technology can: • Motivate • Activate • Keep attention • Alternative to text-based presentation • Share information locally and globally • Create interactive presentations/lessons
Microsoft Word • Outline feature to organize/sequence list – afterwards you can have word number your list • •
Outline for brainstorming Outline for study skills - collapse and expand as needed
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Outline to create content for PowerPoint presentation – focus on content and not formatting the slide
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Outline to create a Question/Answer PowerPoint presentation
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Hidden test - create assignment directions and prompts using hidden text in Word
Microsoft PowerPoint • Instructional presentations • Vocabulary review • Spelling • Digital Storytelling • Tutorials/Reviews • Visual poetry • Flash Cards • Quizzes • Electronic books
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Project-based learning with multimedia Assist learners with a variety of learning styles Assists in incorporating Universal Design for Learning
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Autosummary – obtain a preview of what they will be reading
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Insert Sound Forms Toolbar – create cloze comprehension passages
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Expanded Replace – Format text, alphabetize words, color code key words
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Use Microsoft Reader to read eBooks and create them in Word.
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Electronic Portfolio
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Alternative to written reports Online Presentations Mock up Dynamic Display Educational Games (Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, $100,000 Pyramid)
PowerPoint Viewer 2007 allows you to view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
Scott
Marfilius
2009
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www.scottmarfilius.com
Resources – Applications (PC Only) Microsoft Reader – www.microsoft.com/reader Easy Navigation Search for text Create large-print eBooks Add Bookmarks Add notes
Create free-form drawings Stores annotations in one location Highlight words or passages Dictionary
Read in Microsoft Reader - www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/ PowerPoint Viewer - www.microsoft.com PowerTalk - http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk WordTalk – www.wordtalk.co.uk Open Office - www.openoffice.org
Resources – Websites Bedford County Dept. of Ed. – Grade level powerpoint files to download www.bedfordk12tn.com/pptpres.html Brainy Betty – Download backgrounds and links to other sites www.brainybetty.com Dr. Alice Christie’s – Using PowerPoint in the Classroom www.west.asu.edu/achristie/powerpoint Educating Using PowerPoint – Academic presentations available www.educationusingpowerpoint.org.uk Interactive Stories – Directions on how to create them www.microsoft.com/education/story.mspx Jeopardy Templates www.techteachers.com/jeopardytemplates.htm PowerPoint in the Classroom www.actden.com/pp/ PowerPoint Games http://itech1.coe.uga.edu/wwild/pptgames/templates.html Templates for Teachers www.techteachers.com/templates.htm Tutorials for Word and PowerPoint http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials.php Who Wants to Be A Millionaire http://ttc.coe.uga.edu/link-high.html Word MVP www.word.mvps.org/
Scott
Marfilius
2009
[email protected]
www.scottmarfilius.com