iLearn: Using Microsoft Word to Organize Our Research Subject: Social Studies (E.4) Session 4 of 8

Focusing Questions How do I organize the information I gathered? How can I utilize Microsoft Word to organize the online resources and to begin putting my project together?

Instruction

Framing The Session “In our last session we “bookmarked” some websites using “Trackstar” that we found to be useful for our project. In this session we will take the information from our created tracks, copy/paste the most relevant information onto a Microsoft Word graphic organizer, paraphrase the text and finally add images that will best illustrate the paraphrased information. The images will help enhance our project and will better engage our audience during the presentation of our final PowerPoint project”

Teaching Step 1 – from the resource section of the participant’s agenda, download the Microsoft Word graphic organizer, save it and keep it open committee.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/PowerPoint+St oryboard.doc

Teaching Step 2 - go to

Teaching Step 3 – find your track by entering your track number, or author’s name. Use either one of these choices to find your tracks

Teaching Step 4 – click on one of the bookmarked websites hold down the left click and drag the mouse over one or two sentences that specifically address the aspect of culture you are responsible for researching, such as food, or transportation Sample View of Tracks

Teaching Step 5– on the standard menu toolbar, located at the top of your screen, select edit and click on copy

Teaching Step 6 – access the graphic organizer and on box #1 paste the copied information by selecting the edit menu toolbar and clicking on paste. Select paste from the edit menu Paste information inside box 1

Teaching Step 7 – go back to the website and place your cursor on the website’s address line, copy the address and paste it inside box #1 below the pasted text by using the same method described in steps 5 and 6. Copy the website address and paste it inside box 1 of graphic organizer

Teaching Step 8 – read the information inside box #1 and explain that stealing other people’s words is a punishable crime called plagiarism. Therefore, we will put into our words the information we found on the website or paraphrase it inside box #2.

Teaching Step 9 – access the track where pictures for your assigned cultural aspect have been saved. Try track: Step 10 – view the different pre- selected websites and choose an image that best illustrates your paraphrased information

Teaching Step 11 – right click on the image and select copy Step 12 - access the graphic organizer and paste the image on box #3. Be sure to save this document often!

Teaching Step 13 – open the PowerPoint(PPT) presentation downloaded in session 1 Step 14 – click on the hyperlink for your assigned aspect of culture (i.e. transportation, food) and toggle between the graphic organizer and the PPT to copy and paste the information from boxes #2 and #3. Repeat this process for the next three slides Link to transportation slides

Teaching Continuation- Step 14 – click on the hyperlink for your assigned aspect of culture (i.e. transportation, food) and toggle between the graphic organizer and the PPT to copy and paste the information from boxes #2 and #3. Repeat this process for the next three slides Copy the contents of box #2 and paste the information here Copy the image from box #3 and paste here

Guided Practice Now, let’s go to our participant’s agenda and begin to download the graphic organizer template under the Resources section of the agenda. You may also visit committee.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/PowerPoint+Stor yboard.doc to download the file. committee.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/PowerPoint+Stor yboard.doc

Work Time

Getting Started Now visit And find your previously created tracks by either using any of the searching options or by simply signing into your account Use any of these choices to find your previously created tracks

Work Time During your work time you will be working independently. Step 1: Read the information from your track and copy the main idea or the most relevant information for your topic and paste it onto Box #1 of the Microsoft Word graphic organizer. Step 2: Now copy the webpage’s address and paste it inside box #1 of the graphic organizer Step 3: Paraphrase the information you copied into Box #1 using Box #2. Step 4: Now go back to your created track and select an image that illustrates the text in box #2 and copy the image by right clicking on the image, then go to the graphic organizer and paste it inside box #3. Duplicate this graphic organizer three more times and repeat steps 1-4 Now copy the information from boxes #2 and #3 and paste it the appropriate cultural aspect of your assignment, until all four slides have been completed

Share

This is a follow up to what participants learned. In this area you will provide a short explanation of what participants learned and indicate that it is now time to share the work of participants who did the work explained in the teaching i.e. Today we learned how to…now we will look at how a few of you… Share

Now we are going to do the share out electronically. I noticed some really good work being done during our work time today. I would like to nominate one of your to share your work with the rest of the class. Is there anyone else who would like to share their work with the class? Share

How does this work address the questions that began the session? Answers

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