Chapter 4 Technology Integration Workshop

Chapter four is an overview of  the "basic three" software programs. These three programs are word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software. Most students are familiar with the Microsoft office suite and use it regularly to type a paper or make a power point presentation. Beyond the basics, these software programs can be very interactive and provide many opportunities for customization.

Part 1- Evaluating and creating lesson plans

Word processing lesson plan- How to change font, style,effect, formatting,adding bold and italics.

Spreadsheet software lesson- How to change cell format, fill, merge cells, and create formulas among many other skills in real life situations.

Presentation software lesson - How to add slides, change format, add graphics, add audio among other skills.

 For a lesson, students could have researched a topic based on a study unit in the classroom. The students would then have to create a news article that pretends to break exciting news in a newspaper article. The students would be required to have different fonts, colors, a title, pictures, and other eye catching elements in the article to gain a readers attention. The lesson would begin with a tutorial of how to change these elements on Microsoft word and the assessment would be to actually create the product. This lesson would span over a few days to ensure the students understand how to manipulate all of the elements of a word document.

Part 2- Implementing the TIP model.

For this lesson, the technology is at the center. the students could use paper, pencil and crayons to create a news article, but they are learning valuable tools in a word document that they will be using for years to come. These skills can not be understated for learners today. To carry out the lesson, most schools have access to a computer lab that has a word processing software pre-downloaded to use. If not, there are online based word processing programs to use in the lesson.

The objectives of the lessons would be for the students to accurate manipulate color, font size, style and the layout of a text. These objectives will be assessed through the completion of the news article created by the students, The skills of typing and using a word processing document will be assessed. The environment will be a computer lab setting that gives the students space to work independently.

Bases on the results of the assessment, the teacher will know what skills may need to be retaught to the students. If the assessment seems too simple, there could be more elements added into the assessment such as text boxes, bulleting, and formatting of the page.

Grade level: 3-7
Content area: Social studies/ Science/ ELA/ Math. Topic to be chosen by the teacher
Technology used: Word processing
ISTE Standard: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.