Using Microsoft Office to Create Student Products In IPGs

Student products: What do they need to be?  Students are asked to show a skill or knowledge set that has been covered in the classroom. A good student product will a mixture between an appropriate vehicle (poster vs diorama vs song vs essay, etc) and a sufficient level of learned materials applied to that vehicle. As teachers, we often select the vehicle because our experience has shown us that some products are better for showing some learned materials than others.  Sometimes, however, giving students the freedom of vehicle choice can help students use their personal academic or creative strengths to show effective and authentic learning.

This workshop is meant to enrich the teacher’s garage of product vehicles by providing some possibly new ideas as well as new tools for old ideas that students can use to show their best level of understanding of learned material.

There are some differences between versions of Office for PC as well as platform differences between Office for Mac and PC. But generally, all versions will create pretty much the same student products. Most .ppt and .doc files can also be opened by open source software programs and Google docs.

Student products

Dinah Zike foldables:

http://www.dinah.com/conceptmapelem.php

Foldable Examples:

http://www.scsk12.org/SCS/curriculum_guides/6-12_Math_Webpage/ms pages/foldableexamples.htm

Microsoft Office Tools Practice

• insert clip art

• insert picture from file (free photo sharing page)

• dragging/editing picture

• draw tool bar- shapes, fill colors, lines

• single, double, triple clicking

• edit- undo!

Creating Student Products

(Participants in this workshop received a copy of "Print Cut Fold- Creative Technology Projects For Science" by Jim Holland and Gaby Krumm. Participants will practice creating and learning to create their own student project examples. References will be made to the examples and directions in the book since participants are using this site as an agenda.)

Using the IPGs for your curriculum/grade level, create a student example product that could be used for an IPG or lesson you will cover this year.

Flap books: Printing to pages that will be glued together. Flaps are cut partially across the page to allow the flap to be opened, revealing information on the inside.

Pyramids: A square is divided into four triangles. Three triangles have information on them. When printed, on line beside the blank triangle will be cut, allowing that blank side to be glued underneath the triangle beside it. This fold makes a pyramid.

Dioramas: A one-page, six-sided outline that has two large text/picture areas. A small cut is made on each side so that after folding the sides together, a 4 pane partial box is made.

Clue Squares: A one-page square that unfolds 4 clues to reveal 1 answer on the inside.

Folding Venn Diagrams: A one-page template with three information rectangles. When closed, you see the differences. When opened, you see the similarities.

MiniBook: The page is divided into eight rectangles. After being printed, one cut and some folding and the page is folded into an 8 page minibook with no glue or staples.

Tabbed Book: A 4 or 5 page book that guides the student in cutting out a tab for the edge of each page.

Tower: A standing tower that have feet which support it and display information.

 MiniBookExample-2003.ppt   MiniBookTemplate-2003.ppt  PyramidTemplate-2003.ppt

Rosters:

July 30 - Fulmore Middle School

Leslie Birch, Lane Brown, B Cruz, Victor Loya, Terron McDonald, Marty McDougal, Morris McMahon, Jenni Miars, Paul Schuler