1. Developed by Bob Schneider 5 th Grade Teacher Harmon Elementary Lakeview Public Schools www.rbschneider.net Submitting Your Action Research Tutorial

2. Tutorial Objectives: 3 Steps Developed by Bob Schneider 2 Saving your document to the proper format Digitally submit your Action Research paper: Due Date 05.07.10 Respond to 3 assigned projects as a reviewer: Due Date 05.18.10

3. Save as a.DOC NOT.DOCX Developed by Bob Schneider 3 If you are using a version of Microsoft Word before 2007, then you are all set! If you are using Microsoft Word 2007, be sure to save it as a Word 1997-2003 document.

4. Summary of Document Submission Developed by Bob Schneider 4 Basically, you are logging into Blackboard and creating a discussion board thread with an attachment. You have been given a username and password. Your username is gal.last name followed by your first name. The password is simply…password. All letters are in lowercase and without spaces. Example…Mine would be: Username: gal.schneiderbob Password: password

5. Submitting Your Project – 1 of 5 Developed by Bob Schneider 5 Go to http://galileo.resa.net. Do not enter www.http://galileo.resa.net Click on the login button at the top of the window. Enter your username and password. Then click the login button. Within the navigation bar to the left, click on the button that says discussion board.

6. Submitting Your Project – 2 of 5 Developed by Bob Schneider 6 On your screen, you will see names of school districts. If you dont see yours, you will need to click the arrow to navigate to page 2. Click on the name of your district.

7. Submitting Your Project – 3 of 5 Developed by Bob Schneider 7 Click on the button that says create thread. In the subject box, enter your name, followed by the name of your action research project.

8. Submitting Your Project – 4 of 5 Developed by Bob Schneider 8 In the message box enter, Please download my action research document, and then Reply to this message with your input. Click on the attach file link.

9. Submitting Your Project – 5 of 5 Developed by Bob Schneider 9 Locate your action research document on your computer, select it, and click on the Open button. Click on Submit. Click on Submit again. Click on Submit one more time. You should now see your document thread listed within the forum for your district.

10. Responding to Colleagues – 1 of 2 Developed by Bob Schneider 10 Be sure to login first. Click on the district name. Click on the name of the person you are going to view. Locate the link to the action research document (near the bottom of the page) and click to download.

11. Responding to Colleagues – 2 of 2 Developed by Bob Schneider 11 After reading the document, click on the Reply button at the top of the page Enter your comments in the message box When you are finished, click on Submit Repeat this process for the other action research reports you are to review.