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Hello today you're going to learn how to use visual markers to enhance student comprehension and remembering ideas using Microsoft Powerpoint
To get into PowerPoint you can either click on PowerPoint on your screen or if you don't have it
on the screen like me you go down to the start button on the bottom left hand corner
click on start, scroll up to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, click on it with your mouse and WALA! It appears!
I'm going to title this: Creating Visual Markers
and to do that I clicked inside of the section for the title and I just began typing. I am going to give it a subtitle that is education 631
And again today you will be creating visual markers to help students remember what their supposed to do when they're close reading a text
To create a new page, I will click new slide.
and I will title this one "Close Reading- First Reading"
again by clicking inside the box and then beginning to type
I will add some text to it. I have some pre-formatted text already from an old slide. I am going to click CTRL + V to put that, otherwise you could just type it in.
I am going to have them read and annotate the first three paragraphs of a very short reading. They will circle the unknown words,
underline confusing parts, and identify something you have question about,
marking it with a question mark, and write questions in the margin.
the paper this is familiar to the students yet I want to create for them a sense of
knowledge about exactly what I'm asking them to do and the order that I want them to do it. I want them first to read it and just circle the unknown words.
And so I will teach you right now how to create a visual marker. You'll go up to animations in the top row and you will click on it.
a you'll see a bunch of things that are blurred in gray because you're not allowed to put on animations unless you have something highlighted.
We're going to first highlight "underline confusing parts". I am going to show you how to have it
underlined that has the students if you click on the PowerPoint
So you will go down in the little animation screen, so we will keep going down until we find the word "underline"
There a lot of things that the animation slide can do. We wanted to specifically underline it so students can see you actually underlining something.
Once we found it we will click on it witha left click of our mouse and it does it for us.
It models it and shows it. You notice a number one appears here. That means on my screen
"Underline Confusing Parts" will come on first.
Now I am going to have you go ahead and see how you can circle the word Circle". So I am going to go back to the insert
screen. Up on the top you would click on insert and you will click on
shapes. Find the shape that looks like a circle and click on it.
You'll draw a circle over top of the word "circle".
You could make it go over the top of "Circle unknown words" if you would like to.
Now you see a blanked out circle that is definitely not what we want. We want to see the circle around the word circle.
So you will click insert and you will double click on the
icon that you just created. Go down and click "Shape Fill". Tell it "No Fill".
Then I can see the word circle through it. I will adjust how big the circle is so that you can actually read the whole word.
just a little tiny bit by clicking on the side circles.
Once I have done that, I will click on shape outline.
I want it to be black, no actually I would rather it be red so it shows up on the screen.
I am going to make it red by clicking on the shape outline and then picking the standard color of red.
Now that I have that, I am going to go back to animations. When I click animations, I can make it do a lot of different things and we can test drive it.
Make sure that the circle was clicked on and you can make it up here you can make it fade in, fly in,
float in
split
wipe
shape
wheel in. I think wheel in is exactly what we want for them to be able to see it. So now that we've clicked "Wheel in" there are some different effects that we can make happen to it.
So we can make it go one spoke, two spokes, three spokes
Four spokes, or eight spokes. We're going to stick with one although it does add some fun elements to it.
Now I realize when I am having them read this off of the screen, I actually have the animations in the wrong order because I have having them
Because I have a one under "underline" and a two under "circle"
So I can re-order the animation. So I am going to click on my number 2 and I am going to tell it to move it to the earlier.
now you can see the order here is one and then it would be on the click of your mouse on two and then the last thing we want them to do is identify
something that they have a question about and mark it with a question mark.
There a lot of different things that you could do for this one but for the sake of easiness as well as
skill and them remembering it, I want to make it bold face
so that they remember, "Oh yes, I absolutely must also make my paper have a question in the margin." So I am going to scroll down until I find something that
boldy flashes or reveals. So let's check out bold flash.
It doesn't do anything except too quick that will not help them remember it. Then I will try it again.
I would like them to remember this and, and bold reveal actually seems like something
more appropriate for it. So I am going to click that as number three.
Now you noticed on the side of your pane there is a one, a two. and a three
We're going to test this out by going into the actual powerpoint. Go down to the bottom and click on
the slide show. This is in this area over here. You will click on slide show.
To test it out, we will first click the mouse one time.
It says "Close Reading- 1st Reading" Read and annotate paragraphs 1-3. First you must circle the unknown words, second underline the confusing parts,
Third, I identify something you have question about and write in the margins.
I hope this has helped you to be able to be able to learn how to teach
by allowing them to have visual markers within a powerpoint.