Week 9 October 24th & 26th
Using Special Features of MS Word to Enliven Your Instruction

To do this week

We are going to create three products using MS Word: wordart acrostic, educationl handouts with border, shading or fill effect, and trading cards. Publish the products to your eportfolio website. And HAVE FUN!  

1. Product #1 Word Acrostic

On the first week of school, WordArt Acrostics can be a great exercise. It will give everyone a chance to talk about themselves in a vocab-building and creative way! You can turn this into a community-building project by asking students to interview each other and then come up with words that describe their partner. Print these out on a color printer and create an exciting class bulletin board...

Adjectives

Having trouble thinking of good, creative adjectives? Check out this list of great character trait adjectives from a lesson about Character Traits at READ·WRITE·THINK?

Sample Character Traits

Can't seem to find just the right word for your letter? Try using Merriam-Webster's online thesaurus!? You might even have more fun with Visual Thesaurus!

Remember that you don't have to stop with students' names. You can ask students to create WordArt Acrostics for their favorite characters in books and to explain why they chose that set of traits for that character.

Online: Another way to interest students in Acrostics is READ·WRITE·THINK's online acrostic tool and lesson plans:

• (K-2) Acrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
• (3-5) Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry

Examples:

Wordart acrostic by Catherine J. Ray

Wordart acrostic planing sheet 1

Wordart acrostic planing sheet 2

Flash movie tutorial for how to create WordArt Acrostic (Created by Michael)

2. Product #2 Creating educationl handouts with border, shading or fill effect

Adding a border, shading, or fill effect: MS Word Tutorial

Example 1: Mrs Hall's Field Trip Journal

Example 2: State Capitals of US

Flash movie for making page border, waterwark, and fill effect. (Created by Michael)

3. Product #3 Create trading cards

Trading Cards Examples

About Michigan (For 4th Grade)

Picture Learning (For Kindergarteners)

Resources:

Animals: Animal Diversity Web

Presidents: The presidents of the United States

A flash movie tutorial for how to do trading cards (Created by Michael) (It may give a message, just click yes to play it)

4. Resources: go as far as you can!!!

1. Take an E-TRIP to discover new frontiers for using technology in the classroom. E-TRIP is the ticket to ideas and resources that can be used throughout the year.

2. Have fun exploring Teacher resources by Georgian Court University. You can find rich ideas for your classroom teaching using MS Word, PowerPoint, WebQuest , Internet Sites for New Teachers, and much more!

5. Q & A

Homework DUE today

Reading Assignment No.2. Read the ISTE NETS Standards for teachers and Standards for students. Prepare the writing of the reflections.

For Thursday this week:

Wrap up Project #5 and publish it; Trouble-shoot your whole website and spice it up.

For Next Week:

Preview Week 10, MS Publisher

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Acknowledgements: Dr. Hee-Young Kim and her Huston University teaching team were the original designers of the MS Word activities. Thanks also go to Instructional Resources Team from Georgian Court University and other groups and individuals on the internet. Thanks go to Michael for his inspiration and contribution