Your Name: Wendy
MS Office Application: Word
Level: All (Elementary, Middle, and High School)
Content Area: All
Type of Application: Teacher or Student
Time: Depends on the length of the document and/or the content desired
While putting together my unit plan, I decided that I wanted to create a tri-fold pamphlet for my students that would explain their unit project, what needed to be in that project, and the essential questions that would need to be answered by the end of the unit. I did not have Publisher on my computer but was delighted to discover that Word had the capabilities of creating such a document. Putting out a pamphlet is an engaging and entertaining way of peaking student curiosity while explaining what is to be expected. The biggest challenge I had was figuring out how to not only remove the photos and/or clip art that came with the template but how to get another photo or clip art picture onto the pamphlet. Taking out the unwanted picture was a cinch but added a new one was almost a lesson in futility.
Eventually, after much frustration and a few dirty words, I discovered that the photo or clip art had to actually be pasted within the text box and could not be moved to another location on the tri-fold document once it was set. Not exactly what I had in mind but hey, you do what you have to do. Here is my example:
Geometry Brochure.doc
I think using Publisher would be a much more expeditious process but it's nice to know that Word has something similar available!
Your Name: Wendy
MS Office Application: Word
Level: All (Elementary, Middle, and High School)
Content Area: All
Type of Application: Teacher or Student
Time: Depends on the length of the document
Utilizing track changes in Word is a handy tool because it allows you to not only edit a previously created document but also show how the new version differs from the original. Additionally, after making editing the document, one is able to merge the changes into the original document easily and efficiently.
Here is a document that a friend sent to me some time ago (when I had first embarked on my quest to become a teacher). The first document is the original, and the second document is the one with the Track Changes.
In Microsoft Word 2007, click on the Review tab, click on Track Changes, and edit your document (or someone else's). After reviewing the changes you have made, you may save the edited document under a separate document (like I did here) and/or merge the two renditions to only include changes made from the final markup.
Your Name: Lori
MS Office Application: Word
Level: All (Elementary, Middle, and High School)
Content Area: All
Type of Application: Teacher
Time: 5-10 Minutes
Summary:You can add directions or prompts to assignments using hidden text in Microsoft Office Word.
How to create hidden text in a worksheet:
Create assignment directions and prompts using hidden text in Microsoft Office Word. Here's how:
Create hidden text in a worksheet
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Draft your assignment using Word, noting areas where you could provide support in the form of directions or prompts for students.
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When your document is completed, highlight the directions or prompts that you want hidden.
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On the Format menu, select Font. In the Effects area of the dialogue box, select Hidden, and then click OK.
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The selected text will disappear from your document. It's still there, just hidden from view.
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To see hidden text, click the Show/Hide icon.
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Draft your assignment using Word, noting areas where you could provide support in the form of directions or prompts for students.
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When your document is completed, highlight the directions or prompts that you want hidden.
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On the Format menu, select Font. In the Effects area of the dialogue box, select Hidden, and then click OK.
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The selected text will disappear from your document. It's still there, just hidden from view.
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To see hidden text, click the Show/Hide icon.
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Your Name: Shelby
MS Office Application: Word
Level: All (Elementary, Middle, and High School)
Content Area: All
Type of Application: Teacher
Time: Half hour or so
Summary: Word documents with specific and enabled links to websites are called launch pages. These pages are wonderful to use when you want to pinpoint the sites you want your students to visit, rather than just simply have them search the entire web (which can be pretty scary!). I recently had my students create/design new theme parks, and I created a launch page of well-known amusement parks for them to visit in order to gain ideas. They enjoyed the activity, and they didn’t waste any time typing in the specific addresses. All you have to do to make a launch page is go to INSERT --- Add Hyperlink --- enter the correct web address --- Okay!
Your name: Susan Meece
MS Office Application: Word
Level: All
Content Area: Any
Type of application: teacher and student
Time: Varies
Summary: Clip art is a great way to add texture, creativity, and design to work projects. I recently had to design a prom nomination ballot, and by simply adding a small picture of a crown I had a much more professional looking sheet. I often include an appropriate clip art for students' rubrics and homework assignments. It is easy to do, make sure your arrow is where you want the picture, then simply go into "insert" and click on "picture." It will give you several options, but you want "clip art" and Word will automatically display a large toolbar on the side. You can search by topic and you can search within the clipart on the page and on the web. It may take some time to find the picture you want, but the entire process should take less than a few minutes.
Your Name: Jonathan P. Craun
MS Office Application: Word
Level: Primary, Elementary, Middle, High
Content Area: Any
Type of Application: Teacher or Student
Time: # minutes 2 - 15
Summary: This is a very useful feature where you can go beyond simply a copy and paste onto a document or into a table. This has a few benefits. I used it when creating brochures with my students where they are sharing both graphics and data in charts and in the raw. This is also something that can be easily edited and adjusted time and again. This is also an easy way to create a how-to guide on spreadsheets or four a larger a broader project. Simply go to the right of the Table button and click on the excel one. You can, like a table, select how many cells that you want or expand as needed once inserted. You have all the functions of excel. Try it, and I bet that it will not be the last time you do.
Link to Example: See graphic above
Your Name: Shelby
MS Office Application: WORD
Level: All (Elementary, Middle, and High School)
Content Area: All
Type of Application: Teachers
Time: A few minutes
Summary: I am not super familiar with using Publisher, so I have made all of my monthly newsletters using Word. I put the title in the header, and then break the remaining document into two columns. I write the important information/reminders for the month, including a calendar of events. Finally, I add clip art for visual flair. I had to do all of them my first year, but now I just have them saved on my server, and revise them each month for the current year. It works great!
Jonathan's Class 9 Entry
Your Name: Jonathan
Office Application: Word
Level: All
Content Area: All
Type of Application: ELL student
Time: seconds to set up minutes to read
Summary: Here is a great advanced function in Word for ELL students. In the Standard toolbar there is a read function. Many students who are low readers and ELL benefit from text that is read to them. I have a reading class with one of the 6th grade classes that comes to me. The students love it because it will read the given functional text to them. I have seen many low and struggling readers move from low 30's to 100 in their activity questions and I think that the read text is a big factor.
All you do is copy and paste and text into a blank word document and then hit read.
Wendy’s Class 6 Entry
Your Name: Wendy
Office Application: Word
Level: Primary, Elementary, Middle, High: Middle School
Content Area: 6th Grade Math
Type of Application: Teacher or Student
Either teacher or student may find this tool useful
Time: # minutes: Less than two minutes
Summary: I love to use the floating text box tool in Word. There are times when I want to add text in a non-standard area of a document so this tool affords me some freedom to place text under a photo or clip art, inside of a picture (like a comic-strip balloon caption), in a margin, or just about anywhere else I like!
Link to Example: 
Celebration.doc
Your Name: Susan Meece
MS Office Application: Word
Level: All
Content Area: All
Type of Application: Teacher
Time: varies
Summary:
I have found that most of the lectures I give need some scaffolding or graphic organizer. The table option in Word helps the teacher create quick and easy way to give students a guide to the lecture. Using the table option I can show key concepts and then leave some space for them to fill out key ideas. This gives them the opportunity to focus on key concepts instead of just copying notes word for word. This also helps me as a teacher to point out the essential questions I want them to answer. The table can be as complex or as simple as you want it to be. But I have noticed that it really helps the students be thoughtful about what they are learning.
Your Name: Lindsey Griggs
MS Office Application: Word
Level: Elementary
Content Area: Parent Communication
Type of Application: Teacher
Time: 5-10 minutes
Summary:
As a gifted ELL teacher, I have been using the translate advanced feature of Microsoft Office and have found the translate feature to be reliable and useful for helping me with parent letters, which I need in Spanish. If you go under tools and click on language and then click on translate you can translate any document you create. However, using this feature, I do recommend using simple English sentences that are clear and understandable, meaning no slang etc. If you need a whole document translated, you probably should get it done professionally or by a translator at you school cite whom you can trust.
Below is an example comment for reporting progress to parents. First in English, then in Spanish.
Jonathan's Class 5 Entry
Under the Insert menu in Microsoft Word is a diagram selection. I have found much to my disappointment, that this is only true for the PC version. Here you have a wizard open up where you can chose between six diagrams; organizational chart, cycle, radial, pyramid, Venn, and target. All of them have applications in the classroom and are great for showing the relationship among variables. The cool thing is that it is easy to edit and make changes on the move for say, showing a change in relationship. Like Inspiration this is a great on the fly tool that, in some ways, is easier than inspiration. Finally you can change between the six diagram types so may be you would start with radial and move to a Venn or a cycle chart.
Lindsey's Class 3 entry
As a gifted ELL teacher, I have been using the translate advanced feature of Microsoft Office and have found the translate feature pretty reliable and useful for helping me with a lot of my parent letters, which I need in Spanish. If you go under tools and click on language and then click on translate you can translate any document you create. However, using this feature, I do recommend using simple English sentences that are clear and understandable, meaning no slang etc..I have brought several documents that I had translated and simple statements to include on report cards to my school and had some of my colleagues look at them to see if they were translated appropriately. They only made minor changes....... Basically, I have found this feature to be quite useful, just be cautious and the more precise the better! If you are needing a whole document translated, you probably should get it done professionally or by a translator at you school cite whom you can trust.
Jonathan's Class 5 Entry
Under the Insert menu in Microsoft Word is a diagram selection. I have found much to my disappointment, that this is only true for the PC version. Here you have a wizard open up where you can chose between six diagrams; organizational chart, cycle, radial, pyramid, Venn, and target. All of them have applications in the classroom and are great for showing the relationship among variables. The cool thing is that it is easy to edit and make changes on the move for say, showing a change in relationship. Like Inspiration this is a great on the fly tool that, in some ways, is easier than inspiration. Finally you can change between the six diagram types so may be you would start with radial and move to a Venn or a cycle chart.
Jonathan's Class 3 entry
I'm not sure if I am doing this right given that I am the first to do this. My understanding is that we are to discuss advanced features in MS programs, and highlight one to teach to the class. I looked around for something useful to teachers and easy to use. Diagrams are what I will focus on. It is in several of the programs and it is easy to use. A teacher could create a diagram while teaching. There are several diagrams to choose from and one is a lot like Inspiration where you can make a web graphic organizer. This feature has many uses and could be implemented by everyone. I have a feeling that this useful feature is overlooked and once it is better known people will not be able to help but use it.
What Does a Teacher Make.doc
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