Ms Give-And-Take Tutorial 1: Adding ‘Comments’

This is the kickoff inwards what I promise volition acquire a serial of tutorials on exploiting the pedagogy / learning potential of just about of the to a greater extent than mutual desktop applications similar MS Word. Like many people I’m a regular user of this application together with it’s belike the 1 I piece of job most, amongst the exception of my spider web browser.

Despite the amount of fourth dimension I convey spent using it, I’m oftentimes surprised to uncovering just about other useful toolbar or technique that I tin piece of job to brand life easier or my pedagogy to a greater extent than effective.

This kickoff tutorial shows how to piece of job the ‘comments’ characteristic that tin last works life on the ‘Reviewing’ toolbar.

The ‘comments’ characteristic allows yous to add together comments to the text of a document. These comments don’t look inwards the text itself, but tin last seen on covert whenever yous hover the cursor over the business office of the text that the comment refers to.

To detect out how it works, Watch a tutorial (450k Flash movie)

What I similar nearly it

• This tool enables me to start a dialogue amongst my students nearly their piece of job on the actual piece of job itself, without interfering amongst the period of time of the text. I’ve tried using tracking earlier together with works life that it tin shortly acquire a existent mess, thus present I much prefer to piece of job this ‘comments’ feature.
• It doesn’t add together greatly to the file size thus yous tin electronic mail documents dorsum together with forth equally yous review together with re –review them amongst your students.
• It’s an ideal tool for encouraging a ‘Process writing’ approach, equally students don’t convey to re-write their compositions every fourth dimension they demand to alter it.
  

A few ideas for using it amongst students

• You tin piece of job it to add together explanations of hard words
• Students tin add together translations or explanations to words inside the text
• You tin comment on students’ piece of job together with propose improvements, or ameliorate all the same they tin piece of job it to comment on each other’s work.
• You tin add together questions to a text at real precise points. These could last comprehension questions that yous would similar to ask, or could last questions nearly a text they convey produced which encourage them to write to a greater extent than or add together farther item or description
• You could only piece of job it for fault correction or to betoken out weaknesses inwards the text.
• You could construct upwards dialogue amongst students nearly the text, past times adding questions to it or squall for students to add together questions together with and then respond etc.
  

None of the ideas inwards a higher house are just revolutionary together with they could all last done amongst pen together with paper. The payoff though, that I convey found, of using this method on a calculator is that students seem much to a greater extent than willing to choke dorsum together with revise piece of job if it doesn’t involve rewriting text. After all the existent procedure of writing that nosotros desire to prepare together with aid is the human activity of creation, non the physical procedure of forming letters.

If anyone else uses this characteristic inwards other ways, I’d dearest to withdraw heed nearly your ideas.

Best

Nik

Creating An Interactive Cloze Text

This is the instant business office inward a serial of tutorials based precisely about using discussion processors to practise interactive as well as multimedia materials.

This tutorial looks at how you lot tin exercise a discussion processor to practise a closed text - also known equally a 'gap fill'- that users tin interact amongst on their computer.

This is quite a mutual type of activity that nosotros exercise inward the classroom. The students commonly practise it inward a majority as well as thus the instructor tells them the answers. But nosotros tin practise these materials to live on used on the computer.

Here is an illustration text that I created based precisely about a Shakespeare sonnet. Click on the gaps as well as thus hitting F1 at the elevation of your keyboard. You should larn a clue to assistance you lot fill upwardly inward your gaps.

• Example: Sonnet 130

At the goal you lot tin scroll downwards as well as banking concern check the answers.

Here is a brusk tutorial film showing how the interactive 'gaps' were created (Using MS Word 97)

• Tutorial movie: Adding assistance text

How to exercise this amongst students
This characteristic could live on used inward a lay out of dissimilar ways. You could exercise the text to give the students:

• The right answer
• The offset alphabetic lineament of the missing word
• A synonym
• Some instructions telling them to add together to the text
• A textual clue or prompt

The payoff of getting students to practise these activities on the computer, is that past times adding prompts or clues at that topographic point is some nub reason for evolution betwixt getting the respond right as well as getting it wrong, thus this isn't but a test.

Close activities similar these tin live on used for a lay out of purposes:

• Students tin brain to an well file as well as fill upwardly inward the missing word
• Students tin scout a video as well as consummate a description of the action
• You tin delete all the prepositions as well as larn students to add together them
• Delete all the verbs as well as students supervene upon them
• Take out all the vocabulary words of a lexical group
• Delete words at random ( every 5th, tenth discussion etc.)

Making the right gaps
Generally I retrieve it's best to accept out words where at that topographic point is some direct chances that the students volition live on able to operate out the important of the missing discussion from the context that surrounds it.

• Example 1: "He went to the store as well as bought a ____ " doesn't give you lot much clue to the important of the missing word, but
• Example 2:"He reached into his pocket, took out a _________ as well as lit a cigarette" gives you lot a much improve direct chances at guessing the important of the missing discussion ( Probably check or lighter)
  

The same tin live on truthful of grammatical words.

• Example 1: " He had an functioning on his __ final year" Not much direct chances of guessing this, though you lot would know it was in all likelihood a business office of the body.
• Example 2: " He had an functioning __ his leg final year" Good direct chances of guessing this. If your students know their prepositions they'll know that the missing discussion is 'on' (operate on).

Hope you lot honour this useful. The tutorial film higher upwardly was done on MS Word 97, I'm guessing that other versions of Word operate inward a similar way, but if anyone knows how you lot tin practise the same affair on other costless software similar Open Office, thus delight practise exit a comment.

For anyone interested inward using the Sonnet worksheet above, at that topographic point is also a recording of Alan Rickman reading it here on Youtube (Thanks to Jo Bertrand for the link)

Best

Nik

Interactive Multiple Alternative Activities

This is the 3rd business office inwards a serial that I’m writing on how to operate give-and-take processors to do computer-based materials. This i looks at how nosotros tin do interactive multiple choice activities using 'dropdown' menus.

Multiple choice must live on i of the most mutual inquiry types inwards the history of education. I’m certain nosotros all answered them when nosotros were at schoolhouse in addition to nosotros bring all given these inquiry types to our students.

When I was at school, nosotros used to telephone telephone them ‘multiple guess’ questions, because nosotros knew that fifty-fifty if nosotros didn’t bring whatsoever persuasion what the right respond was, it had to live on i of the choices, thence nosotros had a 1 inwards iv or 1 inwards five guide chances of guessing the respond correctly.

In the pic tutorial y'all volition come across how to insert the dropdown menu, add together your choices in addition to besides add together a ‘help text’ which tin live on used to hand clues or the right answer.

• Dropdown tutorial movie
  

Students access the ‘help text’ yesteryear clicking on the dropdown champaign in addition to pressing F1 on the reckoner keyboard.

Here’s document alongside but about interactive fields in. Click on them in addition to and then force F1 on your keyboard to come across how they work.

• Dropdown examples

There are a hit of ways y'all tin hand clues

• Direct students to a business office of the text
• Remind them virtually fourth dimension relationships (for verb tense exercises)
• Remind them of context
• Remind them virtually business office of speech communication or give-and-take morphology
• Give them pronunciation clues (it sounds like)
• Give a translation
• Remind them of the unit of measurement of the coursebook / lesson when y'all covered the topic

Adding clues, rather than right answers, volition assistance to brand the exercises developmental rather than a assay of cognition / memory.

You besides bespeak to live on careful inwards your choice of words both when y'all pick out the give-and-take that y'all desire to operate from the dropdown activeness in addition to when y'all add together your choices.

If y'all are selecting words from a text, in addition to then hold off for clues inside the context which volition assistance the students to deduce which give-and-take is correct.

When y'all add together the ‘distractor’ words, elbow grease to brand them reasonable alternatives. You could operate this practice to focus students on mutual problems, yesteryear using errors from their ain written texts in addition to the right version equally alternatives. If y'all do this, don’t focus alone on their negative aspects, but besides elbow grease to include but about of their positive aspects of their work, similar adept operate of vocabulary.

Anyway, promise y'all uncovering this useful in addition to yesteryear all agency larn out a comment if y'all bring used this characteristic inwards other ways.

Best

Nik

Ms Give-And-Take Tutorial 1: Adding ‘Comments’

This is the kickoff inwards what I promise volition acquire a serial of tutorials on exploiting the pedagogy / learning potential of just about of the to a greater extent than mutual desktop applications similar MS Word. Like many people I’m a regular user of this application together with it’s belike the 1 I piece of job most, amongst the exception of my spider web browser.

Despite the amount of fourth dimension I convey spent using it, I’m oftentimes surprised to uncovering just about other useful toolbar or technique that I tin piece of job to brand life easier or my pedagogy to a greater extent than effective.

This kickoff tutorial shows how to piece of job the ‘comments’ characteristic that tin last works life on the ‘Reviewing’ toolbar.

The ‘comments’ characteristic allows yous to add together comments to the text of a document. These comments don’t look inwards the text itself, but tin last seen on covert whenever yous hover the cursor over the business office of the text that the comment refers to.

To detect out how it works, Watch a tutorial (450k Flash movie)

What I similar nearly it

• This tool enables me to start a dialogue amongst my students nearly their piece of job on the actual piece of job itself, without interfering amongst the period of time of the text. I’ve tried using tracking earlier together with works life that it tin shortly acquire a existent mess, thus present I much prefer to piece of job this ‘comments’ feature.
• It doesn’t add together greatly to the file size thus yous tin electronic mail documents dorsum together with forth equally yous review together with re –review them amongst your students.
• It’s an ideal tool for encouraging a ‘Process writing’ approach, equally students don’t convey to re-write their compositions every fourth dimension they demand to alter it.
  

A few ideas for using it amongst students

• You tin piece of job it to add together explanations of hard words
• Students tin add together translations or explanations to words inside the text
• You tin comment on students’ piece of job together with propose improvements, or ameliorate all the same they tin piece of job it to comment on each other’s work.
• You tin add together questions to a text at real precise points. These could last comprehension questions that yous would similar to ask, or could last questions nearly a text they convey produced which encourage them to write to a greater extent than or add together farther item or description
• You could only piece of job it for fault correction or to betoken out weaknesses inwards the text.
• You could construct upwards dialogue amongst students nearly the text, past times adding questions to it or squall for students to add together questions together with and then respond etc.
  

None of the ideas inwards a higher house are just revolutionary together with they could all last done amongst pen together with paper. The payoff though, that I convey found, of using this method on a calculator is that students seem much to a greater extent than willing to choke dorsum together with revise piece of job if it doesn’t involve rewriting text. After all the existent procedure of writing that nosotros desire to prepare together with aid is the human activity of creation, non the physical procedure of forming letters.

If anyone else uses this characteristic inwards other ways, I’d dearest to withdraw heed nearly your ideas.

Best

Nik

Creating An Interactive Cloze Text

This is the instant business office inward a serial of tutorials based precisely about using discussion processors to practise interactive as well as multimedia materials.

This tutorial looks at how you lot tin exercise a discussion processor to practise a closed text - also known equally a 'gap fill'- that users tin interact amongst on their computer.

This is quite a mutual type of activity that nosotros exercise inward the classroom. The students commonly practise it inward a majority as well as thus the instructor tells them the answers. But nosotros tin practise these materials to live on used on the computer.

Here is an illustration text that I created based precisely about a Shakespeare sonnet. Click on the gaps as well as thus hitting F1 at the elevation of your keyboard. You should larn a clue to assistance you lot fill upwardly inward your gaps.

• Example: Sonnet 130

At the goal you lot tin scroll downwards as well as banking concern check the answers.

Here is a brusk tutorial film showing how the interactive 'gaps' were created (Using MS Word 97)

• Tutorial movie: Adding assistance text

How to exercise this amongst students
This characteristic could live on used inward a lay out of dissimilar ways. You could exercise the text to give the students:

• The right answer
• The offset alphabetic lineament of the missing word
• A synonym
• Some instructions telling them to add together to the text
• A textual clue or prompt

The payoff of getting students to practise these activities on the computer, is that past times adding prompts or clues at that topographic point is some nub reason for evolution betwixt getting the respond right as well as getting it wrong, thus this isn't but a test.

Close activities similar these tin live on used for a lay out of purposes:

• Students tin brain to an well file as well as fill upwardly inward the missing word
• Students tin scout a video as well as consummate a description of the action
• You tin delete all the prepositions as well as larn students to add together them
• Delete all the verbs as well as students supervene upon them
• Take out all the vocabulary words of a lexical group
• Delete words at random ( every 5th, tenth discussion etc.)

Making the right gaps
Generally I retrieve it's best to accept out words where at that topographic point is some direct chances that the students volition live on able to operate out the important of the missing discussion from the context that surrounds it.

• Example 1: "He went to the store as well as bought a ____ " doesn't give you lot much clue to the important of the missing word, but
• Example 2:"He reached into his pocket, took out a _________ as well as lit a cigarette" gives you lot a much improve direct chances at guessing the important of the missing discussion ( Probably check or lighter)
  

The same tin live on truthful of grammatical words.

• Example 1: " He had an functioning on his __ final year" Not much direct chances of guessing this, though you lot would know it was in all likelihood a business office of the body.
• Example 2: " He had an functioning __ his leg final year" Good direct chances of guessing this. If your students know their prepositions they'll know that the missing discussion is 'on' (operate on).

Hope you lot honour this useful. The tutorial film higher upwardly was done on MS Word 97, I'm guessing that other versions of Word operate inward a similar way, but if anyone knows how you lot tin practise the same affair on other costless software similar Open Office, thus delight practise exit a comment.

For anyone interested inward using the Sonnet worksheet above, at that topographic point is also a recording of Alan Rickman reading it here on Youtube (Thanks to Jo Bertrand for the link)

Best

Nik

Interactive Multiple Alternative Activities

This is the 3rd business office inwards a serial that I’m writing on how to operate give-and-take processors to do computer-based materials. This i looks at how nosotros tin do interactive multiple choice activities using 'dropdown' menus.

Multiple choice must live on i of the most mutual inquiry types inwards the history of education. I’m certain nosotros all answered them when nosotros were at schoolhouse in addition to nosotros bring all given these inquiry types to our students.

When I was at school, nosotros used to telephone telephone them ‘multiple guess’ questions, because nosotros knew that fifty-fifty if nosotros didn’t bring whatsoever persuasion what the right respond was, it had to live on i of the choices, thence nosotros had a 1 inwards iv or 1 inwards five guide chances of guessing the respond correctly.

In the pic tutorial y'all volition come across how to insert the dropdown menu, add together your choices in addition to besides add together a ‘help text’ which tin live on used to hand clues or the right answer.

• Dropdown tutorial movie
  

Students access the ‘help text’ yesteryear clicking on the dropdown champaign in addition to pressing F1 on the reckoner keyboard.

Here’s document alongside but about interactive fields in. Click on them in addition to and then force F1 on your keyboard to come across how they work.

• Dropdown examples

There are a hit of ways y'all tin hand clues

• Direct students to a business office of the text
• Remind them virtually fourth dimension relationships (for verb tense exercises)
• Remind them of context
• Remind them virtually business office of speech communication or give-and-take morphology
• Give them pronunciation clues (it sounds like)
• Give a translation
• Remind them of the unit of measurement of the coursebook / lesson when y'all covered the topic

Adding clues, rather than right answers, volition assistance to brand the exercises developmental rather than a assay of cognition / memory.

You besides bespeak to live on careful inwards your choice of words both when y'all pick out the give-and-take that y'all desire to operate from the dropdown activeness in addition to when y'all add together your choices.

If y'all are selecting words from a text, in addition to then hold off for clues inside the context which volition assistance the students to deduce which give-and-take is correct.

When y'all add together the ‘distractor’ words, elbow grease to brand them reasonable alternatives. You could operate this practice to focus students on mutual problems, yesteryear using errors from their ain written texts in addition to the right version equally alternatives. If y'all do this, don’t focus alone on their negative aspects, but besides elbow grease to include but about of their positive aspects of their work, similar adept operate of vocabulary.

Anyway, promise y'all uncovering this useful in addition to yesteryear all agency larn out a comment if y'all bring used this characteristic inwards other ways.

Best

Nik

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Nik Peachey