Slides used for TCEA presentation at White Oak on June 12th

1. White Oak Intermediate School
Pam Cranford
www.tinyurl.com/pcranford
cranfordp@woisd.net

2. Creating Monthly PDF
Assignments

3. From our Class Website, each month students
select, download, and print pdf assignments.
www.tinyurl.com/pcranford

4. Step One:
Choose an appropriate database.
Facts4me
Kids Yahoo
Surf Net Kids
Cybersleuth Kids
KidsClick
Kid Space

5. Step Two:
Choose a topic for research. Allow me
September - Varied to share just
a few of my
mistakes!
October - Bats
November - Trees
December - Kitchen
January - Penguins
February - Presidents
March - Clouds
April - Birds
May - Insects

6. Mistakes are the portals of discovery ~James Joyce
Levels of difficulty -
Changed to -
Multiple topics - confusing and time
consuming
Changed to single topic - completion of task &
allowed time for students to explore within
the database

7. Login to the database.
http://www.facts4me.com/login.php

8. Scroll down the topics list or
enter a topic in the search bar.

9. Once a main topic is selected,
a number of subtopics pop up.

10. Using the subtopics as your source,
formulate your questions according to the levels.

11. Step Three:
Type the questions for each level
and save as a pdf.
Google Docs
YouTube Google Docs
Open Office
Cute PDF

12. Remember:
Each level increases in
difficulty.
type the questions you wrote from your own
database research.

13. Download and save your document as a pdf.

14. Find the folder and open it.

15. Our district’s server hosts our media files.
Below are some open source websites.
Hot Potatoes
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.htm
Nine Hub
http://ninehub.com/

16. Ask if your school has a hosting site. If not,
go to a free, open-source and use one of
those.
http://vr.woisd.net/users/cranfordp/

17. From our school server, we go to
USERS.

18. Find your Username.
If you are not listed, contact your technology
department and ask for one.

19. From my user site, I click on the + sign to add a new
entry and upload my pdf assignments,

20. After logging in, you’ll get a pop-up box asking
for a title for your new entry.

21. Delete the placeholder and enter your own text
introducing the Monthly PDF Assignment.
Images can also be added to this entry.

22. When you have finished with your entry, choose the icon
that indicates “attach a file”. A pop-up window will allow
you to browse your files for your pdf.

23. Find the folder and open it.

24. Select the pdf and choose “open”.

25. The file location appears in the File box.
Choose Attach.

26. Repeat this process until all three documents
are attached. Then click Save.

27. To link to your
website, put your
cursor on top of
each document
and right click.
Choose “Copy
Link Location”.
This will be the
hyperlink that you
attach at your
website.
So let’s go to the
website.

28. Once you select the target of the link and
the icon to attach the url . . .

29. ...you will get a pop-up box. Paste the url
address. I like to open my pdf in a new
window. Update/insert.

30. Once everything is saved, we just need
Children!

31. Students will go to the website...
www.tinyurl.com/pcranford

32. ...click on A, B, or C.
A pop-up box will
appear asking if they
would like to Open with
Preview.
Choose OK.

33. When the file opens, students go to file and
from the drop down, choose print.

34. Students retrieve the printed document and follow the
links to the database website. Login and begin to fulfill
Technology Application requirements.
Technology Rubric - 3, 2, 1, 0

35. My Technology Application Rubric
Rating 3 - 90-100 Completed Independently
Rating 2 - 80-89 Cueing Provided by the Teacher
Rating 1 - 70-79 Prompting or Direct Help Provided by the Teacher
Rating 0 - 60-69 Student was Dependent on Teacher
Can you rate these students?

36. Ok, I’m home now,
so what can I do?
www.tinyurl.com/pcranford
Roughneck Moodle Lessons - Transferring 150+ lessons so
please login with username woteacher and password
woteacher and look around.
Holiday Hey Day PDF - These are changed MONTHLY with
new calendars and activities.
Student Websites - Math, Language Arts, Weather
Watch(pdf), Facts4Me
http://tinyurl.com/pcranford-spiders
East Texas Woods and Water Foundation - Spectacular
Spiders Roughneck Research Lesson Plans

37. Let there be Questions.