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PowerPoint
Create
a photo album with Microsoft PowerPoint version 2002
1. On the Insert menu,
point to Picture, and then click New Photo Album.
2. In the Photo Album dialog
box, you can choose to add pictures from your hard disk or a peripheral device,
such as a scanner or digital camera. To add a picture:
- Under Insert picture
from, click File/Disk.
- Locate the folder or disk that contains the picture
you want to add to your photo album, click the picture file, and then click Insert.
3. Repeat Step 2 for as many pictures as you want to add to your photo album.
Or to capture them all at once, hold down the CTRL key, click each picture file
you need, and then click Insert.
4. Next, specify the look of the album under
Album Layout.
5. Then click Create.
If you want to change or update your
photo album after you have created it, use the Format Photo Album dialog box from
the Format menu.
Free PowerPoint Resources: http://www.brainybetty.com/
Non-linear
presentation in Power Point
Basically you just hyperlink one slide to another
using a word or icon for the link. Then under Slide Show you highlight the linked
slides and hit Hide Slide so the slide does not show at the end.
Step by step...
Make up your slides.
Put an icon, arrow or whatever you want for the link.
Highlight it.
Choose hyperlink. "Little world on tool bar"
When
that sceen comes up, click on Bookmark.
This will show you all of the slides
and you can link it where ever you want it to go.
Also make sure you have
a back button to navigate back to the linear presentation.
A good example
for this use was a kind of jeopardy game. You would choose different categories,
with different amounts and you would go to thoese answers.
Then go to outline
view and highlight all of your linked slides by clicking Hide Slide.
To test
out your links, you need to be in View Slide Show.
Oral and Poster Presentation Guidelines: http://www.asmusa.org/mtgsrc/pdfs/slide.pdf
Pointing
in the Wrong Direction: http://www.districtadministration.com/page.cfm?id=621
PowerPoint is ruining classes by depriving students--and teachers--of creativity.
PowerPoint
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/default.asp
http://www.wcu.edu/ccenter_inf/CatOnline/MSPP/index.html
PowerPoint in the Classroom: http://www.actden.com/pp/
PowerPoint Is Not Evil: http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/notevil.htm
PowerPoint No, Cyberspace Yes: http://www.ntlf.com/html/sf/cyberspace.htm
PowerPoint Sites: http://www.wte.weber.k12.ut.us/powerpoint.htm
PowerPoint Viewer: office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx
You can download this view and see PowerPoint presentations if you don't have
PowerPoint
Setting Up Self-running PowerPoint 2002 Presentations: http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/ppconAboutSelfrunPresentations.aspx
Steps in designing a PowerPoint presentation for
a classroom: http://www.sba.muohio.edu/duricydd/interactiveppt/interactiveppt.html
Older
students could follow these steps as they create PowerPoint projects.
Ten Tips for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations: http://www.microsoft.com/office/using/column08.asp
To save PowerPoint presentations to VCR tapes, hook your computer up to a VCR. You may need a "scan converter" between your computer and the VCR. Hit the VCR's "record" button and move through the slide show. Everything you do will be recorded on tape.
In
the News
Award-Winning PBS Series "Wide Angle"
Free Education Package Of Season Two Programs
Thirteen/WNET New York will once
again offer a FREE Education Package of "Wide Angle". The new package,
for Season Two, and available in November 2004, will include five programs on
DVD and a 24-page Discussion Guide with insightful essays, discussions topics,
and suggested resources. The materials will be useful in international relations,
economics, political cience, and journalism, as well as other courses. The education
package for Season One recently won a Distinguished Achievement Award from the
Association of Educational Publishers.
Programs Included in the New Package:
EXCLUSIVE TO AL-JAZEERA goes behind the scenes of the broadcast headquarters
of the first Arabic all news network during its nonstop coverage of the recent
war in Iraq. It reveals the network's similarities to its Western media counterparts
- and the differences.
AIDS WARRIORS explores the role of the Angolan military,
the only functioning arm of the state, in its bold attempt to combat the AIDS
pandemic. The hallenges it faces offer an arresting portrait of a nation at a
crucial moment in history.
COCA AND THE CONGRESSMAN profiles Bolivian congressman
and "cocalero" leader Evo Morales and explores the growing political
power of Bolivia's indigenous people. The pitfalls of a drug-based economy - and
the difficulty of finding suitable replacement crops to support peasant families
- are all part of the story.
TIME FOR SCHOOL profiles children in Japan, Kenya,
Benin, Brazil, Romania, India, and Afghanistan who have managed to enroll in the
first year of primary school - in most cases despite great odds. It provides a
fascinating glimpse into the lives of children with very different personalities,
in diverse circumstances and countries, all taking a
hopeful first step into
an uncertain future.
DYING TO LEAVE examines the current worldwide boom in
illicit migration. Focusing on the stories of five people whose journeys traverse
16 different countries, this documentary explores what drove these migrants from
their homes, describes their epic journeys and reveals the global economic trends
that propel this human traffic.
Educators who have previously responded to
this offer have been added to our distribution list for the Season Two Package
and will receive the materials when they are available in November. Please note
that it is not necessary to send a second request. We are now extending the offer
to others interested in receiving the Wide Angle Season Two Education Package.
A limited number of FREE Wide Angle Season Two Education Packages are available,
to be shipped in November 2004.
Please email your request to: guiderequest@thirteen.org,
or write to:
Wide Angle, P.O. Box 245, Little Falls, NJ 07424-0245.
Please
include your name, institution, course(s) the materials will be used in, mailing
address, and e-mail address. Thank you for bringing Wide Angle into your classroom.
Season Three of Wide Angle premiered on July 1st with a lineup of 13 programs.
By exploring stories and events in Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Colombia,
among others, Wide Angle again reveals that the world has never been closer.
Make
reading the top priority: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/9050016.htm?template=contentModules
/printstory.jsp&1c
Minnesota's
governor faces the appointment of a new commissioner of education, the most important
appointment he will make. The top priority of the new commissioner should be ensuring
that all children in Minnesota learn to read. Nearly one-quarter of Minnesota
third-graders, or about 14,000 children, read so poorly they are not on track
to pass the state's graduation standards. Contrary to public opinion, reading
problems are not just confined to central cities.
New
report cites failures of federal education policy: http://www.cato.org/new/07-04/07-07-04r.html
In
a study released July 7, 2004, "A Lesson in Waste: Where Does All the Federal
Education Money Go?" Neal McCluskey, a Cato education policy analyst, argues
that giving the federal government control over education dollars has produced
no discernable academic gains. Providing a detailed analysis of the explosive
growth of federal education intervention, McCluskey makes the case that education
policy should be returned to the states.
Paige
calls education gap a new civil rights issue:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-ed/2004/jul/01/517109257.html
Paige
visited Edwards because of the school's success with the Voyager reading program,
system that targets remedial students and students for whom English is a second
language.
Raising literacy attainments
of all pupils in a mainstream primary setting with particular reference to boys’
writing – a six-year longitudinal study: http://www.rrf.org.uk/52%20Grant.htm
Six
years ago, the author and the Special Educational Needs (SEN) co-ordinator at
a mainstream primary school started to collaborate on developing a system of teaching
which aimed to improve literacy standards for all pupils. A synthetic phonics
programme was developed (Sound Discovery®) which differed in its phonic progression
from that in the National Literacy Strategy (Department for Education and Employment,
1998) but instead was based on the nature of the orthography of written English.
A special teaching method was also devised (Snappy Lesson®) which was underpinned
by principles of learning theory.
School
Architecture Gives the Game Away: http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white56.html
"It’s not an original idea of mine that many new government schools
look oddly like prisons, except for the absence of razor wire (that may be coming
soon). My point about contemporary school architecture has not only been made
by others; I submit it’s really self-evident."
The
Digital Divide
Digital Divide: http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/
"Computers
are increasingly conditioning the kind of country we live in. DIGITAL DIVIDE shines
a light on the role computers play in widening social gaps throughout our society,
particularly among young people. By providing equitable and meaningful access
to technology we can ensure that all children step into the 21st Century together."
If
the World Were a Village of 100 People
If we could reduce
the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing
human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
The
village would have 61 Asians, 13 Africans, 13 people from the Western Hemisphere
(North & South America), 12 Europeans, and 1 from the South Pacific
51
would be male, 49 would be female
70 would be non-white;
30 white
67 would be non-Christian; 33 would be Christian
As
to their ages:
30 would be 0-14 years old
63
would be 15-64 years old
7 would be 65 years old and
older
20 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
18
would be without access to a safe water supply
39 would
lack access to improved sanitation
80 would live in substandard
housing
70 would be unable to read
7
people would have access to the Internet
1 would have
a college education
1 would have HIV
2
would be near birth; 1 near death
6 would control 59%
of the entire world’s wealth; all 6 would be US citizens
Sources:
The Global Citizen, May 31, 1990, Donella H. Meadows (unless otherwise noted below),
The CIA World Factbook 2001 (age, birth, death, internet), 2001 World Development
Indicators, World Bank (HIV), Adherents 2001 (religion) Bread for the World (malnourishment),
United Nations Population Fund (food security) The Global Supply and Sanitation
Assessment 2000 Report (improved water, improved sanitation)
Banned
and Controversial Books
ALA-The 100 Most Frequently
Challenged Books of 1990-2000: http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intell
ectual_Freedom3/Banned_Books_Week/Related_Links7/100_Most_Freq
uently_Challenged_Books_of_1990-2000.htm
Banned Books Online: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
Banned
Books Quest: http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq52/banned.htm
This
is a webquest for high school students concerning banned books.
Captain Underpants series: http://www.pilkey.com/index.php
The Censorship Pages: http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/index.htm
The
Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/most-banned.html
Read-Alouds
BookIt
Family Read Aloud: http://www.bookitfamilies.com/what.html
Carol
Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site: http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
Reading
With Your Children at Home: http://www.carolhurst.com/profsubjects/reading/parentreading.html
Favorite Read-Alouds: http://www.ksd.org/eastgate/Schoolsite/Kaufman/page4.htm
Jim
Trelease Home Page: http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/
This
site contains excerpts from Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook.
The Importance of Reading Aloud: http://teachers.net/gazette/AUG02/frase.html
In "More Books Kids Will Sit Still For",
Judy Freeman lists fifty standards and selection criteria for recognizing a good
read-aloud book along with why she rejects certain books. She also lists her favorite
books, most of which I have read and enjoyed. She has a graded list of memorable
authors of read-aloud books and includes both fiction and non-fiction books. A
chapter of the book discusses the importance of the school library and librarian.
Among other things a school librarian chooses which books to buy, helps children
learn to find books they want to read, teaches library skills, helps children
learn how to take care of books, and reads to children.
Ms Freeman gives ideas
for reading aloud with expression and ideas for literature-based teaching, including
performing reader’s theater and creative drama. She talks about the Fist
Test that tells if the book is the correct reading level for a child. For the
Fist Test a child holds their fist up and turns to the first full page of text
in the book. Every time the child comes to a word they do not know they put up
one finger. If all five fingers are up by the end of the page the book is too
difficult for the child to read at this time.
Most of the book consists of
annotated read-aloud lists of books by grade level and the type of book for students
from pre-school to grade six.
My Word's Worth: http://www.qconline.com/myword/aloud.html
Read Alouds: http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/readalouds/
Sharron
L. McElmeel, in her book "The Latest and Greatest Read-Alouds", gives
a list of more than 150 read-aloud books for ages 5-11that have been published
since 1988. Since her book was published in 1994, the book is not really up-to-date
now but it does include a good description of books published in that time frame.
One of the reasons I choose to read this book was because of these descriptions.
For each picture book listed Ms McElmeel briefly describes
the content and the illustrations. For the novels suggested she provides enough
information to help a teacher or parent decide if the book will fit into the educational
goals of the class or if a particular young person would enjoy the book. After
each novel there are suggested books of the same type, with descriptions, for
further reading.
Overall, Ms McElmeel says the best
way to choose a book to share with young children is to select a book that interests
you. She likes to read aloud a book that evokes an emotional response. Her list
of books is designed to help an adult who is just beginning to read to children.
Ms McElmeel lists the read-aloud level at one level
higher than the level at which a child can read independently. She feels a child
does not need to know every word in the book read to him/her since one of he purposes
of reading aloud is to stretch a child's vocabulary.
In
her book, Ms McElmeel listed "Twenty-one Steps to Building A Family/Classroom
of Readers." For each step she gives examples that can be used at home and
at school. Some of her ideas include reading aloud to each other, talking about
books you have read, keeping books and magazines around the home and classroom,
and encouraging children to get a library card.
Ms McElmeel
also lists the books by suggested listening level categories. These categories
include: early primary, primary, primary accelerated, early intermediate, intermediate,
and intermediate accelerated.
The War Prayer by Mark
Twain: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/warprayer.html
Lesson
for The War Prayer: http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/lptools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp=&LPID=30807
Storytelling
Circle of Stories: http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/
Printable
Felt Board Story: http://www.preschoolprintables.com/felt/oldlady/feltoldlady.shtml
Young students love "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"... Find
instructions here on how to use these printable story pages to set up a felt board
story in your classroom. Available in both color and black and white.
Spirit of Trees: http://www.spiritoftrees.org/
Story Arts: http://www.storyarts.org/
Class Plays
Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Page: http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/
Learn all about Reader's Theater in this guide to scripting, staging, and
performing. Find scripts for young readers and practice sheets for team scripting.
Movement Journey: http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/drama3.html
Dramatic play through story interpretation should increase
student awareness of character, plot, and mood. Preschool students will imitate
movements or facial gestures of how they think a character in one of their storybooks
would feel or act.
The Play's
the Thing: http://www.legendsandlore.com/puppetscript.html
Learn how to use the four Ws: who, what, where, and wrong, to create a puppet
play. Use one of the five scripts or have students write their own.
Reader's
Theater Scripts and Plays for the Classroom: http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm
Check
out this collection of reader's theater scripts, some of which have been written
by and for students.
Zoom Playhouse: http://pbskids.org/zoom/playhouse/
Read student-written scripts for plays performed on PBS' Zoom. Students can
act out these scripts or enter their own scripts that may be acted out on TV!
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