Publishing Ideas for the Classroom

Presented by:

Jill Esquivel

Purpose

• To provide different ideas for publishing many of the activities found in the comprehensive curriculum

• To show different ways to use PowerPoint other than just for presentations – it’s all in the printer settings

• To show “cool” things you can do with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

Accordion Books

• Students research a topic and prepare a report or write a story.

• They create a PowerPoint presentation then print the slides and create the book.

Directions

Animated 3-D Text• Use available online resources to enhance

presentations and web sites.

• 3D TextMaker http://www.3dtextmaker.com

• Cool Texthttp://cooltext.com

PowerPoint Animated Border

• Add something special to PowerPoint opening slide

• Can be time consuming

• Require entire presentation be completed before adding special effects

Directions

Animated Graphics

• Add excitement to presentations

• Require entire presentation be completed before adding special effects

Directions

Bookmarks• Research a topic

– Famous people– Book Reports– Autobiography

• Show students how to use bookmark template

• Print 4 bookmarks

• Great for student exchanges, parent night

Sample

Candy Bar Templates

• Publish poetry

• Recognize special efforts

• Say “thank you”

• Parent gifts – Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparents’ Day

Templates

For Additional Templates• http://www.jersgirl.com

• Do an Internet search for free templates

Filling Word Art or Auto Shapes with Graphics

• Can be done in any Word or PowerPoint document

• Different way to illustrate various concepts:– Weather terms– Landforms– State names– Famous places– Famous People

Filling Word Art with Graphics

Flip-Ups/Flippers

• Good for displaying– Figures of speech– Riddles– Math activities– Various research topics– Writing activities

Hats Off to…

• Create a pyramid report on a paper hat about:– Scientists– Explorers– Mathematicians– Americans– Elements

Template

Mini Books

• Explain and give examples – Equivalent ractions– Geometric shapes– Elements– Various cycles– State facts

Paper Chain of Events

• Use for events that follow a sequence– Body systems (cardiovacular, digestive, etc.)– Systems of the earth (water cycle, how a seed

becomes a plant, etc.)– Government systems (how a bill becomes a

law, how the president is elected)– Story, book, or movie plot– How-to steps– Math concepts

Shape Poems

• Short poems

• Word associations

Sample

Digital Storytelling

• Use PhotoStory to create digital stories.– Use digital images, clip art, scanned images,

etc. as illustrations• Can zoom in and out on portions of pictures• Can pan a picture

– Put words into a PowerPoint document• Save as a jpeg (each slide is saved as separate

picture)• Insert into PhotoStory

Sample

Turn Off Word Task Pane

• Select Tools Options

• Click the View tab

• Remove the check from the Startup Task Pane option

• Click OK

Disable the Drawing Canvas

• Select Tools Options

• Click the General tab• Remove the check

from the Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes

• Click OK

Change How Clip Art/Pictures Come In

• Select Tools Options

• Click on the Edit tab

• In the Insert/paste pictures as section, select any option other than In line with text

• Click OK

Change Spelling/Grammar Check Settings

• Select Tools Options

• Click on the Spelling & Grammar tab

• Remove the check in the Check spelling as you type and Check Grammar as you type boxes

• Click OK

Setting the Default Font

• Select Format Font

• Select the Font, Font Style, Size, Font Color, etc.

• Click the Default button in the lower-left corner

• Click OK

Changing Margins & Page Orientation

• Select File Page Setup

• Set desired margins

• Select Portrait or Landscape

• Click OK

Adding Words to the Dictionary

• Right click on the word with the red wavy line beneth it

• Select Add to Dictionary

Alphabetizing Lists

• Type the list

• Select the list (highlight it)

• Select Table Sort

• Select Ascending or Descending order

• Click OK

Items can alse be sorted in a table.

Box in Text

• Highlight the text

• Select Format Borders and Shading

• Select the Setting, Style, Color and Width of the border

• Make sure Text is selected in the Apply to: section

• Click OK

Boxing in a Paragraph

• Highlight the paragraph

• Select Format Borders and Shading

• Select the Setting, Style, Color and Width of the border

• Make sure Paragraph is selected in the Apply to: section

• Click OK

Creating Drop Caps

• Highlight the first letter of a paragraph

• Select Format Drop Cap

• In the Position section, select Dropped or In margin

• Set the number of Lines to drop

• Set the Distance from text

• Click OK

Example

Adding a Page Border

• Select Format Borders and Shading

• Click the Page Border tab

• Select a Setting, Color, Style and Width

• Click OK

Adding Border Art Around a Page• Select Format

Borders and Shading• Click the Page Border

tab• In the Art section, click

the down-pointing arrow• Select the desired border• Set the width• Click the Options button• Click the down arrow

under Measure from and select Text

• Click OK• Click OK