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January 24, 2008

Welcome to Classroom Tools & Tips, an EduHound newsletter! You'll find things you've enjoyed from EduHound Weekly -- plus exciting new offerings that provide valuable ed tech resources to incorporate into K-12 curriculum. Educational topics, preformatted templates, technology tutorials, and practical tips are featured. As always, I'm here to help, so please let me know what topics you'd like me to cover. -- judi

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Topic :: NEWS WRITING

By focusing on who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, students will learn to thoroughly analyze and create effective news pieces.

GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Use in Any Content Area
This lesson comprises a series of activities in which students are introduced to the GIST summarizing strategy. They read newspaper articles obtained from newspaper Web sites and identify the "5Ws and H" of journalism.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=290

Creating a Classroom Newspaper
This lesson provides students with the opportunity to write authentic newspaper stories.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=249

"5 W's + 1 H" Lesson
Students will approach a familiar story (Goldilocks and the Three Bears) from the perspective of a newspaper reporter and apply the 5 W's + 1 H to it.
http://www.kidzone.ws/plans/view.asp?i=60

What's in the News? Summarizing a Novel Using the 5 W's
Students will use important events from a novel to create a 2-page newspaper featuring news articles about each event.
http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/act/grade8/act8.asp?ID=1092

PBS: Newspaper Reporting and Writing
In this PBS lesson students author a newspaper about Hemingway's life, especially his interests and travels. Students identify the many characteristics of a newspaper and create a published document.
http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/class2.html

The Whole Story: Learning to Write Informative and Thorough News Articles
By focusing on who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, students learn to thoroughly analyze and report on important world events.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20030314friday.html

Tutorial :: TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS

Jefferson County Schools Technology Tutorials
This Tennessee district features and excellent collection of tutorials on topics such as: Classroom Newspapers, Curriculum Designer, Excel, Form Letters & Mail Merge, Internet Resources, PC Basics & Networking.PhotoShop,PowerPoint, Publisher, Web Design & FTP, Word & Works, and many more!
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/index.html

Template :: RUBRICS

Kathy Schrock's - Assessment Rubrics
You'll find a collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Tech Tip :: DELETING TEXT VERTICALLY

If you copy text from your email, paste into Word, and want to delete all the ">>>"

example:

>>> When someone forwards an e-mail to you
>>> the lines of text are often broken up by these arrows

Hold down the Alt key + use your mouse to drag down the page to select vertically.

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