2/13/07 - reflection

Reflections regarding class: 2/13/07
We spent much of the evening reviewing procedures for PowerPoint. We watched several examples of presentations and critiqued them. I took what I learned to my classroom. PowerPoint has great interest for my students. I went home and reflected on my present reading class and decided that PowerPoint would be the perfect format for writing and illustrating poems. I first showed my students a demonstration of a PowerPoint presentation that I had made on a poem. Students seemed to look forward to the next day's challenge of making their own presentation. Instructions were simple and to the point. Each student completed their own presentation filled with illustrations. The computer lab was often pretty silent with working computers until a student had a question. I felt this was an excellent way for students to read poems and conceive their personal interpretations - about the poem and about themselves. The students were very excited and all students were successful. This is a general education reading class with full inclusion of Special day students, resource students, and general education students. Students are reading from 1.8 GE to 3.2GE - they are in either 7th or 8th grades.
On the following day, the students wrote their own poems "I am." They worked with a partner and seemed to enjoy writing it. There was a great deal of laughter. We followed this with going to the computer lab and making a new PowerPoint presentation. Success. Students actually got to participate in the lesson not only by writing but also by illustrating and walking away with a professional project. Poetry walked into their minds.
Next, time to add the music.
I posted the Blog too soon. Barbara Noonan

Screen opened to microsoft word. Production class for Word, PowerPoint, Excel. Mac there are certain programs that can be sent to -
dependent files such as music, video in powerpoint. sent as a movie.
Watermark in word. check reading scale. this is any image that is used by students to visually recognize your mark - visual cueing.
Create documents that students can use. such as create tests that they can fill in.
Use print layout. 1st put pic in always a visual cue for students.
1. view header and footer
2. insert a visual that all students recognize
3. format picture "format" picture auto - turn to grayscale layout behind text
4. picture change to brightness and contrast. play on - print
5. as long as you put it in the header - will be on every page.
6. put it outside header or footer it will only show up on the 1st page.
7. Visual cueing - for kids who can not remember.
8. center, bold, point size. paragraph symbol have it turned on and shows hidden signs like paragraph symbols.
9. set titles off use box ___________

view form
scan in form
put checkbox over form

after drop down\form go to properties and add answer then lock
text form field. Unlimited in properties so that they can type answer
capabilities to use for tests.

Highlighting text for students that have a hard time reading.

When you lock - you can mark check box or multiple choices.

Summarize feature in OS10
tools - summarize
Highlight text at 25%, 50 % even in a new document.

shows word count/ can be summarized and put into a new document.

Tools: speech
must have a microphone - what is highlighted is spoken. MACS
pc: thinks that you are going to talk to it.
PC - Read naturally for www.pc-wested/org.tdl - this is incorrect but can be used to look up on google.

control panel: speech microsoft trainer.
Different default voice. - change speed.

accessibility options
Use Sticky Keys - stop kkkkkkkk
sound sentry.
deplays - use high contrast
width of mouse -
kid can't type but can use a mouse who could not type - on screen keyboard and child can learn to type.

http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm

http://www.naturalreaders.com/ free download means any text that is put in can listen to it.

Powerpoint:
cardinal rules:
never more than 20 words per page
never more than 3 types of transitions.
Pictures must be modified for type to be read.

creating power point learning presentations

Why is it important for our kids to know technology.
Our students need as much help as possible to know and understand technology. As 80% of sp. needs kids stay at home after graduation.

Students can be taught how to learn.....
there are many software programs with similar knowledge.
The struggles that we have - over 25 years old
30 sec sound bite kids - neuro research - 25 and under their neuro brains are different than ours.
they are learning differently than us.
difference digital alien and a digital cluers-----------------
technology gives them a foot up -

students should show what they can do and not what they cannot do.
making a book with paintings - writing story. Donnie



put in music from a cd

mouse and face - can you catch me?
kiosk mood - rehersal timings...... goes around.
slides can be moved around.
sound modify transition

power point jeapordy games
hidden slides

hyper link
sild2 - goes to slide 3
slide show - hide slide = 3 is hidden
insert hyper link (inside this document.
Geez hyper link goes to end

http://homepage.mac.com/selites/public.jmovies/
go to files
go to powerpoint
jeapordy clear = powepoinjeopardy.zip

multi-touch interaction experiments
2006 jefferson y. han

export as a quick time
pod cast can be used for a student to see over and over
video tape lesson and put on cd