Sun Valley Technology News
January 2014
This Month's "Favorite Website"
Cool Things Happening in the Valley
Student-Made Othello Websites
SmartBoard Games = Student Engagement
WeVideo Products
Content Area Focus - SCIENCE
Have students choose a topic or page of information to use in their RAFT project.
Create individual cards ahead of time that include different examples of each of these components.
R = Role (Scientific Expert, celebrity, book character, Children's book author)
A = Audience (2nd grader, parents, a company involved in your topic, the government)
F = Format (digital poster, letter, advertisement, diary entry, interview)
T = Topic
Have students draw from the stack to determine what role they will play, who their audience will be, and what format they will choose to share their information (their topic was already chosen).
This activity requires students to apply knowledge of their content to a different perspective. Just one way to embed High Order Thinking Skills in your everyday lessons.
How to.... Make Columns in a Google Document
Can't get your images to line up with text? Want your text to look more like a newspaper? Then you will want to add columns to your Google Doc!
1. Open a Document and Insert a Table
2. You can now type into the cells of the table and even add images.
3. Highlight the cells (by clicking and dragging)
4. Right click and choose TABLE PROPERTIES
5. Change the Table Border color to white (or the color of your page).
6. Voila! You now have columns on your page.
HINTS - if you want space in between your rows or columns, right click in the cell and add another row or column. Hit Enter to make the cells larger.
Did you know......?
- ...You can now add multiple documents in ONE Google Classroom Assignment?
- ...Google Documents has an Easy Bib Add-On? Make sure your students know about this easy tool! Now students can search for their source WHILE they're typing their paper and add the citation immediately.