In the past I had the students print their articles/stories and then I would edit with them using the paper copy. It was a struggle to get them to make the changes on the computer. I don't know why. Some would do it. Others would fix one thing and tell me they were done. We wasted a lot of paper, ink and time.
Finally decided to try the review section of word and add comments to the students' documents. The biggest problem was students deleting the comments. I'm looking for suggestions on how to stop them from doing that. Otherwise, I think this is the way to go from now one when editing the stories.
Showing posts with label editing stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label editing stories. Show all posts
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thesaurus and Writing and Nouns
The students typed a simple sentence into Word. For example:
The little boy cried.
They highlighted little and right clicked. Then they looked at synonyms and clicked on thesaurus. They had a good time looking for a new word to use for little. Then we did the same thing for cried. Nothing came up but the word cry. We talked about it being the base word of cry so told the computer to look up cry. Once again they enjoyed the choices of words. We talked about having to add ed to the word because the sentence was past tense. The new sentences were definitely more interesting that the original.
One day we highlighted, copied and pasted a passage into word. We also copied and pasted the address so anyone looking at our paper would know where the passage came from. Then we practiced bolding words by looking for nouns to bold. We also changed the color of the text a few times just to get them familiar with it.
The little boy cried.
They highlighted little and right clicked. Then they looked at synonyms and clicked on thesaurus. They had a good time looking for a new word to use for little. Then we did the same thing for cried. Nothing came up but the word cry. We talked about it being the base word of cry so told the computer to look up cry. Once again they enjoyed the choices of words. We talked about having to add ed to the word because the sentence was past tense. The new sentences were definitely more interesting that the original.
One day we highlighted, copied and pasted a passage into word. We also copied and pasted the address so anyone looking at our paper would know where the passage came from. Then we practiced bolding words by looking for nouns to bold. We also changed the color of the text a few times just to get them familiar with it.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Audacity/Update on Youtube/Google
Our account was "reinstated" allowing us to upload a few videos on making change. :)
Have you used Audacity? This is one of my favorite free programs. I look forward to continuing to explore the possibilities for this program. So far I have used it for fluency practice. Students record a passage or the week's story in the program. Then they listen to their recording while following along. Sometimes I time them to see how many words they can read in one minute. Last week after students wrote and edited a passage. They opened Audacity and recorded their writing. They stopped the recording and played it while following along with their writing. The purpose behind the activity was allow to students another chance to edit their writing.
Have you used Audacity? This is one of my favorite free programs. I look forward to continuing to explore the possibilities for this program. So far I have used it for fluency practice. Students record a passage or the week's story in the program. Then they listen to their recording while following along. Sometimes I time them to see how many words they can read in one minute. Last week after students wrote and edited a passage. They opened Audacity and recorded their writing. They stopped the recording and played it while following along with their writing. The purpose behind the activity was allow to students another chance to edit their writing.
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