In this session you will:
- learn a new technique for using WORD with your students
- continue to plan lessons for use in class
- get more lesson ideas from your colleagues in the course
Step 1: Each student writes a paragraph about the pictures above, who they are and what they have done recently. The document is saved in WORD and left on the screen for others to read.
Step 2: All students move one computer to their right.
Step 3: All students read the letter written by another student and write their comments as annotations.
Step 4: Highlight a part of the text that you want to comment on.
Step 5: Go to the Insert menu and click on Annotation:
A screen will appear at the bottom of the computer screen, write your comment in the space provided.
Step 6: Next click on Close and then save the document as usual.
Repeat Steps 2 to 6 for more annotations to each document.
Finally the students revise their own writing and send the corrected documents to the teacher by email.
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English Curriculum -
Domains and Benchmarks |
Technology | Task for teachers | Tasks for students |
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Access to Information - extract and integrate information from different sources for a specific purpose Presentation - react to the content of something read; express ideas and opinions |
Internet, Word and PowerPoint | Review of the different CALL lesson examples:
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Students participate in a CALL lesson designed by the teacher. |
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Access to Information - extract and integrate information from different sources for a specific purpose |
Hotmail | Further work with hotmail to teach writing by going
into hotmail, reading an assignment Gail sent. Then open an attachment and replying to all participants with a response. |
Students get assignment by hotmail. |
| Social Interaction - give and receive information
using accurate language and varied vocabulary
Presentation - react to the content of something read; express ideas and opinions in writing |
WORD - new feature: annotations | Mad Hatter's Tea Party | Work with Word to improve writing. |
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Last updated January 10, 2002