2009 TATN PPT Presentation

White Oak Intermediate Sch ool Pam Cranford www.tinyurl.com/pcranford [email_address]

Creating Monthly PDF Assignments

www.tinyurl.com/pcranford From our Class Website, each month students select, download, and print pdf assignments.

Step One: Choose an appropriate database. Choose an appropriate database.

Facts4me

Kids Yahoo

Surf Net Kids

Cybersleuth Kids

KidsClick

Kid Space

Step Two: Choose a topic for research. Choose a topic for research.

September - Varied

October - Bats

November - Trees

December - Kitchen

January - Penguins

February - Presidents

March - Clouds

Allow me to share just a few of my mistakes!

Levels of difficulty -

Changed to -

Multiple topics - confusing and time consuming

Changed to single topic - completion of task & allowed time for students to explore within the database

Mistakes are the portals of discovery ~James Joyce

Login to the database. http://www.facts4me.com/login.php

Scroll down the topics list or enter a topic in the search bar.

Once a main topic is selected, a number of subtopics pop up.

Using the subtopics as your source, formulate your questions according to the levels.

Step Three: Type the questions for each level and save as a pdf. Type the questions for each level and save as a pdf.

Google Docs

YouTube Google Docs

Open Office

Cute PDF

Remember: Each level increases in difficulty. Each level increases in difficulty. type the questions you wrote from your own database research.

Download and save your document as a pdf.

Find the folder and open it.

Hot Potatoes

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.htm

Nine Hub

http://ninehub.com/

Our district’s server hosts our media files. Below are some open source websites.

Ask if your school has a hosting site. If not, go to a free, open-source and use one of those. http://vr.woisd.net/users/cranfordp/

From our school server, we go to USERS.

Find your Username. If you are not listed, contact your technology department and ask for one.

From my user site, I click on the + sign to add a new entry and upload my pdf assignments,

After logging in, you’ll get a pop-up box asking for a title for your new entry.

Delete the placeholder and enter your own text introducing the Monthly PDF Assignment. Images can also be added to this entry.

When you have finished with your entry, choose the icon that indicates “attach a file”. A pop-up window will allow you to browse your files for your pdf.

Find the folder and open it.

Select the pdf and choose “open”.

The file location appears in the File box. Choose Attach.

Repeat this process until all three documents are attached. Then click Save.

To link to your website, put your cursor on top of each document and right click. Choose “Copy Link Location”. This will be the hyperlink that you attach at your website. So let’s go to the website.

Once you select the target of the link and the icon to attach the url . . .

...you will get a pop-up box. Paste the url address. I like to open my pdf in a new window. Update/insert.

Once everything is saved, we just need Children!

Students will go to the website... www.tinyurl.com/pcranford

...click on A, B, or C. A pop-up box will appear asking if they would like to Open with Preview. Choose OK.

When the file opens, students go to file and from the drop down, choose print.

Students retrieve the printed document and follow the links to the database website. Login and begin to fulfill Technology Application requirements. Technology Rubric - 3, 2, 1, 0