Media and Formats (CC.3)
3-5-2.CC.3. use a variety of media and formats to create and edit products (e.g., presentations, newsletters, brochures, web pages) to communicate information and ideas to various audiences.
Media can mean any kind of computer file. Some media use text for writing words and sentences. The most interesting media use sounds and pictures. The pictures can be still or moving. Sounds can be voices, nature, music or pretty much anything you can hear. When you combine more than one kind of media, it is called "multimedia".
Media can mean any kind of computer file. Some media use text for writing words and sentences. The most interesting media use sounds and pictures. The pictures can be still or moving. Sounds can be voices, nature, music or pretty much anything you can hear. When you combine more than one kind of media, it is called "multimedia".
I Can
I can use media to create a product.
I can create to communicate information about what I learn in technology.
I can show my ideas to other students, Mr. Thelen and my parents.
I can create to communicate information about what I learn in technology.
I can show my ideas to other students, Mr. Thelen and my parents.
Presentation Creations
Go!Animate is just one of the variety of media formats used to create and edit products to communicate information and ideas to various audiences.
Each grade level will share a login based on the computer number you were assigned. You will be sharing the login with 3 or 4 other students from Voyager, so, when you save your project(s), make sure you have your first and last name on it. The purpose of your animation is to communicate your ideas from what you learn. We will start with the topics of Computer History and Social Networking. Remember to do your B.E.S.T. Maybe you will be able to show your animation at one of the parent / teacher conferences. Have Fun!
Computer History
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Word Intro
Microsoft Word is often used to communicate information in a text format, using words and sentences. In the near future, some teachers will ask you to covert your handwritten work to a typed text format. Let's practice some of the tools that will help you do this.
Font Size
Change the font size to 14 and type the title of something you want to write about.
Enter, Tab and Shift
The enter key will drop your cursor down a line. Use the tab key to indent a new paragraph. Do not use the space bar to indent. Type 3 sentences in your paragraph. Use your shift key to capitalize when necessary. Remember to put a space AFTER the period, not before. The same is true for question marks (?), exclamation points (!), commas (,) and any other kind of puncuation mark. Next, start a second paragraph and type 3 or more sentences.
Save
Press the blue diskette in the upper left. Notice that before you save for the first time, the name at the top is Document1. After you press the save button in the lower right, the document name will change to whatever you have in the File name box.
Did you notice what was automatically placed in the File name box for you? What folder do you think your document will automatically be saved in? Click on this picture and check out the red boxes to see what all this save stuff is about!
All this happens the first time you save the document, because Word basically needs to know what you want to name the document and where you want to save it. Any time you press the blue diskette to save after the first time, no box will pop up; it was just save it to the same place with the same name you told it the first time!
Did you notice what was automatically placed in the File name box for you? What folder do you think your document will automatically be saved in? Click on this picture and check out the red boxes to see what all this save stuff is about!
All this happens the first time you save the document, because Word basically needs to know what you want to name the document and where you want to save it. Any time you press the blue diskette to save after the first time, no box will pop up; it was just save it to the same place with the same name you told it the first time!
Word 2
Word, left,right,center text; fonts (readable (ex avoid first writing prompt in B, unless you change to larger font, or font Bookshelf Symbol 7, avoid all cap fonts (ex avoid algerian font) default=Calibri;bold, underline, italics; size (default=11, 12 or 14 good for body, maybe even up to 16 or 18 for Title),color (does your teacher want only black? maybe only key words in color?); bulllets, numbering
Word 3
Word synonyms, thesaurus; spell check a word, spell check document; margins(page layout tab); help;
Word 4
Word help, borders lines(page layout, borders tab) and art(page layout, page border tab); print;
Word 5
students review by practicing from a list of what I taught over the last few weeks
Web Pages
Let's build our own web sites! Each computer has it's own login for a web site. You will be sharing your web site with students in other classes who sit at the same computer. Each of you will have your own web page on the web site that you share. Once you are logged in:
1. Click on the Pages tab and create your web page.
A. Your page name will begin with the year you will graduate from 5th grade plus . . .
B. Your first name and the first letter of your last name (do not use your full last name)
2. Put 4 columns on your page
3. Put 'Title Text' on the top of each column
4. Put a subject heading in each column: Math, Reading / Writing, Science, Social Studies
5. Highlight the heading, center each heading, bold, underline and change the color.
6. Choose one of the most popular design themes for your website.
1. Click on the Pages tab and create your web page.
A. Your page name will begin with the year you will graduate from 5th grade plus . . .
B. Your first name and the first letter of your last name (do not use your full last name)
2. Put 4 columns on your page
3. Put 'Title Text' on the top of each column
4. Put a subject heading in each column: Math, Reading / Writing, Science, Social Studies
5. Highlight the heading, center each heading, bold, underline and change the color.
6. Choose one of the most popular design themes for your website.
Website Search
Learn how to search for fun websites that match your column headings and create a link to that website!
This link to common sense media reviews for websites will get us started. The Common Sense Media website says these websites are appropriate for 10 year olds. Look for the green ones. This list is sorted by ratings from highest to lowest.
This link to common sense media reviews for websites will get us started. The Common Sense Media website says these websites are appropriate for 10 year olds. Look for the green ones. This list is sorted by ratings from highest to lowest.
Web Links
Put one on from common sense media, link, spend some time to publish, test link. Think this one through before teaching. Walk them thru Animal Jam first, but they will also want to browse the site a bit before they decide to make a link to it.
Newsletters in Word
Word, Columns, Help. Login as self; Open Word, change font size to 14; demo page layout, columns, more columns, set number of columns=2, check line between, expand spacing to 2 inches so students don't have to type as much to eventually overflow into the next column; Also set margins, custom margins, top & bottom= 3 inches; Use Storystarters (S drive as self) to write whatever comes to mind until it spills over into the next column; save as newsletter intro;
Excel Bar Graphs
D.RE.04.01 Construct tables and bar graphs from given data.
Excel Line Graphs
D.RE.05.02 Construct line graphs from tables of data; include axis labels and scale.
