Day 15 - Productivity Tool 6

According to our schedule, you should have finished your nine objects, including brochure/newsletter, seating chart, calendar, grade sheet, attendance sheet, pictograph, hall pass/certificate, business card/students’ name tag, and worksheet. Today our two main goals are converting files to PDF format, and capturing screen shots of your completed objects.

Part I. Capture the screen shots
Showing images is a good way to decorate your web pages. It also provides your readers a big picture of what your web page is about. In your productivity tool, you need to include at least three screen shots of your objects. You can also include all of them to make your web page even easier to understand.

Part II. Convert your files to PDF format
We have used various programs to create nine objects for productivity tool project. Imaging that your reader will need to run their computers with different programs at the same time, how much time it will take them to finish viewing all your objects? Therefore, we want to provide them a more efficient way to see your works by converting all the files into PDF format.

Part III. Lesson plan with technology integration
In order to learn more about use of technology into classroom, we are going to explore how other teachers integrate technology into teaching. Now, we need to find three lesson plans where productivity tool is integrated and see how they assist their teaching.
1. Georgia Learning Connections
Select your grade level, select "technology integration" for the subject.Click the "Search QCC button". Then click the "Productivity" link
2. Microsoft Lesson Plans
Remember that lower grade levels may use tools like Graph Club(for spreadsheets/graphing) and KidPix (for multimedia presentations)instead of Excel and PowerPoint - but you can use these as examplesfor your reflection. Don't forget that all of this goes onto theProductivity Tool page with links to the objects you created.
3. iWork in the classroomThis website provides the lesson plan ideas for using keynote andpages in Macintosh computer.

Part IV. Writing reflection
If you have completed nine projects and found three lesson plans, you can go ahead to write your reflection for productivity tool in Google Page Creator. First of all, include links for the nine objects and give an explanation for each of the object. You need to talk about what you learned in the development of the artifact, and how it could be used in a classroom. Next, include at least three screen shots that you captured for your objects. Then, include three lesson plans that you found which use productivity tools in teaching, and explain in detail the types of activities students can do using productivity tools. Your discussion and specific descriptions should focus on activities at a LoTi level of 2 or higher.

For Wednesday’s Class:
You should complete nine objects, capture at least three screen shots of your artifacts, and convert files into PDF format. Again, the due day for productivity tool project will be on Friday at beginning of our class.