Welcome to the resource is for inquiry based and project
based learning. Webinar. My name is Nina Grove
owner. I am the curriculum supervisor for Library Media.
Today's webinar will be delivered in three
parts and training with me Our
Lord's Boza Meyer, who is the instructional facilitator for
library media, and Janice Brim, our staff
developer for library media. We all work for the innovative
Learning Department. In today's video, we will
share sample assignments created in canvas using the
library Media Research resource is available in canvas and
destiny. We will begin on the clever
launchpad which you see here before we go to
canvass. However, I do want to point out that three of our library
resource is can now be accessed on the clever launchpad.
The gale resource does require and log in, which is
brow B r o w underscore L o g
log brow, underscore log, which we're hoping
to update soon. The first resource I want to
point out is destiny, which is right here in
destiny, which is our library manager. Students can search the
catalog for books available in their library collection.
They can also look in destiny
discover and choose access through
60 to look for e books and
audiobooks, which are available to our students.
Through our partnership with the Broward County Library,
you can refer to our video on
the online Resource is for the classroom for
more details on using destiny.
The next resource that is on our
clever launchpad
is Oh
yeah. Gayle is a
database of academic full text journals and e
books and finally is teaching books.
DOT net, which is a database of resource, is to support
novel study or curricular themed lessons. There
are book trailers, author videos and audio files
explaining their writing process and so much more, which we will
explore in a moment. Now let's first
proceed to campus. When you
access canvas, you land on the dashboard, where you will
see course cards off all of your recent
courses that you are a part of or that you have created.
On the left, you will see the global navigation navigation
bar showing the resource is button that expands a
panel to the right
clicking resource is, and now I have the panel that opens
up on this panel. You can
see that students and teachers can access their
online textbooks. We also have a course
in canvas called the Digital Resource. Is are easy as
123 where you can learn Maura about canvas or if
you have a question about something in canvas, there are guides,
canvas guides in this course that can assist you.
There are also re sources that are integrated within the
canvas platform that you can use with
your lessons. But we're gonna
focus our energies here at this link. So I'm going to click
Library Media Resource is.
And when I land on this page, library media
research resource is, I see there's a little paragraph that kind of
tells us a little bit about the resource is what I'm going to draw your
attention to this click here link, which takes us to
another campus course where you will find
videos on how to use each of the
resource is that we're featuring in our
webinar. Also below is a
video that shows you how to access. The database is just like
we access that library Media research resource is
page in canvas. This gives you the steps and how to do
that from campus and from
destiny. So this is a
flyer that you can share. It
tells you how to access canvas
Resource is through campus using the campus
access. It also shows you how to
access the resource is from destiny. So
we want you to share this out. You can just copy the u R
L and share it with your teachers. They can save it as a
favorite and always have access to this information. So I wanted to
share that with you going to go back into the
library. Media research resource is page
and just show you the lay of the land. What's here? So
first we have our fault. Let Destiny catalog link.
Remember, we just saw that on clever we do have
The online resource is for the classroom
video that you can watch to find out more about
destiny. Britannica Online is
our online encyclopedia. If you're at home,
you're going to use this link, and you're gonna have to
use the credentials, the log in credentials
here in order to gain access. So it's a four digit
school code which most students don't know their school code. So we put
the list here for them to access that
four digit school code or location number.
They also need to enter a password, so it's therefore
digit school code and the password, so they might want to jot that
down on a piece of paper until they When they get to this
site, they can go ahead and log right in.
If they're in school, they don't need to do any of that. They just clicked the school access
button and they will be entered into
Britannica. So Lord is is going to explain that
in a little bit later. Video
and Gail is also
a online database, and
as e books as well. Now it does require
a log in, even from the clever launchpad and that log in. It's pretty
easy to remember just brow underscore log.
And once they click the to the clever launchpad and click
Gail, that's what they will put in after they choose their school. They
choose a product. There's up to 18 products, depending on
your level, so you it would determine
if you were elementary, middle or high. The secondary
platforms have mawr. Resource is
serves. Discover is another online database,
and it, too, has a log in requirement. If you're in school. You
don't need it. You just click school access. But when you're at home,
it's BCPs pleasures. Four digit school code. And here's a
little example of what that looks like. BCS. And then your
code. 1234 And the password is
Brower. And again, your list of school colds are here
by scroll down. There's also a
resource called a PS physics,
and I can click this single link for either school or
home access, and it takes you to a page
of resource is regarding physics. And
they're different aspects of physics. For example, these air professional
journals, by the way, and you just
can pick the one that you want, like this one is on atomic
molecular and optical physics. So different
types of physics covered at each of these different links. So
if you have a student studying physics, that's where they could go to
access academic journals about physics.
Next is teaching books dot net. I'm gonna come back to that because I'm
actually gonna use that to show you how you could build a lesson
in canvas using teaching books dot net. So I'm gonna skip
that for now. We'll come right back to it. I just want to show you what else is
available on this page. So Sunsentinel
newspaper and again, you have school and home access.
No password required, but when you're at home, you wanna click
this link. This is great. A lot of people don't realize that there are
lesson plans and activities for students. If you needed a
current event or anything, anything about what's
going on in the news, students can go there to get that type of
information. Tumble books will cover a little
bit later, and there is a password
requirement for home access for tumble book BCS.
And the password is reads. Broward County
Library offers Resource is to our students
K 12 if they have a Broward
County library card or if they have
a digital direct card through the Broward County public
schools at the beginning of the school year, when students
are getting there student code of
conduct online forms completed by their parents, their
parents would need toe op them into the digital direct
program just a virtual card so that they would
have access to the K 12 online Resource is, and there are a
ton of great Resource is one of which, I want to point out, is
the homework help? And I'm just gonna take you there very
quickly just to show you when you get to the
page, there are, you know, you see the
encyclopedias, history and social studies.
Resource is the learning resource is is where I want to draw your
attention. Just because this Broward E tutor is
available to students from the hours of 2 to 11
p.m. And they can, students can receive
assistance on math, science, social studies and
English homework assignments. They're not helping them
do the assignment they are helping them with. Understand any issues that they
might run across with the homework assignment. And that is
great for households where parents work late and the students go
home to an empty home. Or if you have students who
are from other countries and their parents don't speak English and therefore can a
system with the homework. So I just want you to know that that's available. I think
it's Ah, Hidden Jim on the Broward County library site,
so don't forget about that. Also, we
have kids of character for the students and schools that
are using that
program. Kids of Character, New York Times
newspaper It is the daily newspaper, so it is up to date
in sync. Parents K 12. This is a resource to help
with preparing students academically. There's, Ah,
homework. Help Earth here as well. A lot of good
career in college readiness. Resource is, it does require a
password. Students user name is their
students i D. And the password is Broward.
Test review for a P is the Florida Virtual
School, and that is for those students who are taking
AP classes and they are
preparing for their AP exams. There's also
Lex. I'll level to assist you in knowing the Lex
l level of the different reading material that you're assigning to your students.
There's even a place where you can copy and paste text from
a document or text from a book so that you can
determine the reading level.
Dictionary dot com also offers a way
for students to, of course, determined the definition of a word, but
it's a great resource for them to build their vocabulary as well.
Online World Atlas offers maps and
information about other countries. Um, this will be a good
place to research different, uh, pandemics that have
occurred in the time before
2020 below that is
website for newspapers. This is actually newspapers from around the
world, so that might be useful for parents who are from other
countries. So that's something that you might want to share it a parent night.
The
next resource. I want to show you our
museum.
The next resource I want to show you is museums of the
world, which is the Google arts and
culture. And just to show you very quickly, it does
feature museum. Some have virtual
field trips. Some have audio files,
the artist paintings with
audio files of them explaining about their work. So it's
a wonderful, wonderful website. Of course, you want to
preview it before you share it with your students because, you know,
some artwork could be very revealing. Let's
say so. You want to make sure that you have
appropriately selected, uh, the
artwork, and the final resource we're
gonna look at is Internet Public Library, which also offers a
wealth of resource is for students, so be sure to check it
out as well.
Now we're going to go into teaching books dot net
just by clicking the link to the clever launchpad.
And then we look for teaching books on here,
which is there.
So here we are on teaching books dot net website
and this resource, as I said earlier, is a great
resource for novel study for
studying a particular theme in a curriculum
course. Eso it offers a lot of
support. Resource is, this is not the place
to find an actual book, but let's say your
students had a copy of a book at school
that they read, and you wanted to see how
much they remember. There are some research
resource is here that they could use and you could use
to provide lessons to your students. Now I will say that
there are some websites online where you might
find ah, copy of the books that you are wanting to teach
to your students in their entirety. You might find them as
an audio book or an e book, so that's something that you
could use. And during this time of the pan, temic
ous faras copyright because we fall under fair
use as educators, we wouldn't need to worry so
much about copyright infringement because we just don't
have access to the books that we would have normally used had we been in the
classroom. If you're putting this information
of a resource on canvas, you know, let's say an e
book or something like that that you got from another website. I would just
take it down after the pandemic is over and you're no
longer using that title just out of respect for the
owner of that work. Okay, so,
up at the top, you can search for a book by
title, by author or keyword. So I should say you're
searching for the book. Resource is okay, but you might want to put the title
of the book, the author or the key word. And then on the right,
there is a link to put in the I S P N number. If you
wanted to search that way. The I S P n number is that long string
of numbers that you find on the back of a book below the barcode
at the top, you can see that there is a link for translating
articles into different languages. There's
a link here to browse and a link for teachers to
get all of the instructional resource is at the
bottom. There is a link here to browse. The different resource
is it shows you that they have over
178,000. Resource is, and that number is
updated very frequently. I think when we started doing
this training a couple of weeks ago, it was as
low as I think 1 76. And it has just
risen over the last couple of weeks. So you're
always adding new content here. They have
compartmentalized links that would be more appropriate for your students
and the links that are more appropriate for educators and adults. So
that's nice that they've separated that help. So I'm going to start by
going to browse, just to show you that there are different
ways in which you can search
and you can search by the title of the book. As we
said before, these were all of the book covers and the authors that tells you how
many re sources are available for that book and how many
awards it has one okay, and these images
change every time you exit and come back in. There'll be new
tiles of book covers, and you can expand
by clicking here to see all of the books that they have featured on
their site. There's also the different authors and
illustrators, so if you go through here, you can
see their names, how many resource is and awards,
and you can click here to see all of the authors and illustrators
illustrators featured on this site.
Okay, and then in this area is where you will
find the journals, the act of the professional
journals that offer list book lists that you can
your students and you can click here to expand that list
and then below that, our books in a Siri's And so you can see the name
of some of the book Siri's that we've come to know and love.
Harry Potter is here is well, and then you can expand the list by
clicking here. Now let's go over to the
left. We've we've looked at the books, authors and illustrators list
Siri's awards and distinctions, but I'm going to click here
just so that you can see that you can also search by
grade, level by curricular area and
notices not just language Arts air reading a lot of different curricular
areas featured here. You can also search by
author I'm sorry. By genre,
you can search by cultural area
by publication date by the type
of resource. And also over here, the
different types of resource is including author interviews.
There are book trailers here. I mean, a lot of great
resource is that can help spark the interest of your students.
I want to point out this one at the bottom vocabulary list
by vocabulary dot com because vocabulary dot com is
integrated within this platform. So I'll show you what that looks like.
Special collections, diverse books, early literacy, summer
readings. I know that's a biggie Right now, teaching books
original, comprehensive and world language. Resource is you can
explore those from that. Listen, I just went to browse
and then collections to get to this page.
Okay, so I'm gonna type in the book that I'm using
to build my lesson example for you today
it's a book titled Wonder by R. J. Palacio. If
you haven't read it, it is a terrific book that
focuses on those s e l
characteristics that we so want to instill in our students. Jesse
L, as you know, is social emotional learning.
And this book teaches compassion and empathy and and
those characteristics and traits that we hope our students
will have embedded
instilled in them. And right here there's
a button where you can add this all of this
content to a reading list. Or you could just share the
page. I'm going to click the arrow,
and you can see that you have a link that you can copy to your
clipboard and other ways that you can save and
share this information. So I
have used that feature quite a lot in sharing with
teachers who, uh, contact me and say, You know, I'm working
on this book and I need Resource is and I could just send them the link and they are
just so happy to receive. The resource is available.
So here is wonder, by R. J. Palacio, and it shows that there are
40. Resource is associated with this book. The book has earned
six awards. I can view them there. It also shows the text
complexity of this title, and if I wanted to find books that are similar,
I can click here There's also an
author recording an audio excerpt, video
book, trailer, the name pronunciation, Which is kind of nice
because some of the authors names are quite difficult for our students to pronounce.
And then you can also look at the great level that this
book is supposed to
adapt to genre
realistic fiction. Cultural area. This one
says disability, because the main character does have a
disability and then you have a
list of other Resource is by category. So our original
resource is, and you could just expand to see the
resource is about the author. Resource is and you know, you
just click the links to get to the Resource is and
author interviews. See, she's done quite a
few interviews about this book and
book guides, activities and lessons. Okay,
so that's also featured here. Book
readings, book
trailers, vocabulary
list, which we're gonna look at it a little bit. Book and
adaptation websites, an awards and
distinctions so you can see that there are a lot of resource is
for this particular title. Okay, in this
section of our video, I'm back in
canvas on the dashboard and I
am selecting. Resource is for inquiry based
lessons, which is our course. I'm going to show you
ourself enroll code so that you can
access. All of the resource is that we have
provided for you in this course. So we have sample
lessons and video recordings in this course. And
here is the self enroll code that you can put up
here in the U R L window to access this
course and it'll ask you to join the course. Enroll in the course.
There's buttons on the blue buttons on the right side that you'll
see. So you're just going to
right down this u R L
https colon slash slash brower schools
dot in structure dot com slash enroll slash capital
w Capital C Capital. Our number seven capital
M Capital Watt That will get you access
to this course. Now I'm going to show
you a sample lesson using the Resource Wonder
from teaching books dot Net. So
here is the lesson. The lesson has a
title and I used the background color feature
in campus and I am
bedded an image of the cover of the
book cover. And then I have instructions for my students
in this unit. We will be reading the novel Wonder by R. J.
Palacio. The first step is to listen to the
audio recording below of the author, explaining how she came up with the ideas
for her book. So when I click the link that I provided for
my students, it takes me into teaching books dot net,
where my students can then listen to the audio recording,
and they can see a transcript of the recording
details. And it's going to highlight
along the way as she's reading. As she's speaking,
I think this is R. J. Palacio, the author of Wonder. I'm going to tell you
a little bit about how I came to write Wonder and then I'll read you a brief excerpt from the book.
Okay, so that's a nice feature. It's a great way
to get students interested in the book that is going to
be I taught, So I'm gonna click out and go
back to the assignment below. That is a
book trailer, so, and teaching books dot net. They provided a link to
the book trailer. It happened to be a YouTube video,
so I grab the embed code and I used the
features of the um, of
campus to embed the video into
my assignment. But I'm just gonna play a little bit of the
video so that you can
see and hear it.
E
no, I'm not an ordinary tenderly e
do ordinary things like ice cream all ride my bike.
E haven't Xbox. Stuff like that
makes me ordinary e and a few
ordinary inside. But I'm no ordinary kids don't make other
ordinary kids run away screaming in
playgrounds. Okay, I'm just
going to stop that. And
then in the next part of the assignment, students are going
to in 23 to 5 sentence paragraphs. Explain what the author
shared about how she came up with the idea for the book
and then submit the assignment in campus by clicking.
Submit assignment in the upper right hand corner of this page,
and then the next part is to
click on the link below to view Part
one vocabulary words on vocabulary dot com
going to click the link and
in the link it's going to take us to another link
to access vocabulary dot com. So it brings us here
first to authenticate student as a Broward County student and
then we click the link to get to vocabulary dot com
on the vocabulary dot com page. There
shows 30 words and part one, Part two and
Part three so that students can practice the vocabulary
even before they start reading the book, so that might help them with
comprehension. Okay, so I'm going back to
the assignment again. Now I
have a homework assignment, and students are to listen to Chapters one and two
of wonder by clicking the link below. So I happened to
find a site that offered
this the book Wonder, as an audio book
says. Then download the Power point slides at the link below and complete the
information requested on each side. Click the re submit
button in the upper right hand corner to submit the completed power
point. So here I have uploaded a power point.
Students can click the link here to download the power point
onto their computer. And then
there's a box that looks like a little piece of
paper or a magnifying glass so that I can
preview and the student can preview the power point right
on the website. So this is just another way for students to respond to
questions, and it can click the link in the actual power
point and put their answers.
Okay, so this is the pdf of the power point. Whenever you put
in a link of a power point is gonna preview as a PdF
In order to type in it, the students have to click the link to download it to
their computer, type in the information and then
save it to their computer and then upload it into
campus. And that's a skill set that you would have to teach
your students. I have assigned 20
points to my assignment, and I'm saying that the
students will be submitting a text entry box or a
file upload. Hey, I can add
a rubric if I choose.
We're not gonna add a rubric at this time, but you can add a rubric
if you choose. And then down below, of course, is the sea for app where
you would see any accommodations that your students might have.
Okay, so that is our lesson. Using
wonder, I'm going to go back to the homepage just so that
you can see what it will look
like for on the student's side.
Okay, so Now I get this pink bar at the bottom of my screen,
showing that it is now in student view.
And I'm going to go back to my assignment
teaching books dot net. So here is the submit button
that a student would use to make to upload their assignment.
So the power point they're going to choose file upload, and they're going
to click here to determine on their computer where they have
their file. They're
going to choose text entry to do their two paragraphs that we
require for the assignment. And then when they're
finished, they're gonna click, submit assignment.
I'm gonna leave student view,
okay? And we're back to where we
were. All right, so that is the assignment.
Using the Resource Wonder from teaching books dot
net.
Good morning. My job is to show you today
how you can use the thirds database and the gale
databases within canvas for research and
project dates, learning with your students to
start off, I'm gonna go to canvass,
and I am gonna use the blue global
navigation to go to Resource is
and I will feel like library media. Resource is,
once that loads, I'm going to go down, and I'm gonna
select the serves proquest databases first
to start with. And my focus today is on
YouTube. Using the educator resource is my
logging is already safe, so it quickly allows me toe log in,
and I will just give a quick overview. The products. Um,
right here we have the great once or nine, um,
databases that are available here. We have the PROQUEST.
Databases, and below we have the certain knowledge
source databases that are used for the high school
students. Um, I'm going to click on the search for knowledge
database resource. And when
it comes up just to provide you with a quick
overview off the page, you have your home
tap button that allows you no matter where you are to return to home,
we have your leading issues which are listed here.
Please note. You can also find those same leading issues
underneath help to s elect or choose in the topic
to the right, we have the log in button
for Microsoft and Google. The Microsoft integration
is not yet available with Bryan County public schools.
You do also have the search search box
in the center and then over here. We also have
the educated resource is which is my area of
focus today. I would like to just give you a
quick overview off one of the
articles just so that you can
see what information is available for you. I'm
gonna use this virtual classroom since we're in virtual learning at this time.
And when it comes up, the leading issue is virtual classroom.
There is an overview with the contents. Critical
questions in timeline. It tells you what is covered in this
leading issue overview. Please know there's a full summary that
you can read by clicking the link to expand
and listen to the full summary. You can also use a text
to speech feature, which will allow it to start reading the contents
for you. So I'm gonna click that Virtual classrooms. Leading
issue contents viewpoints, Critical questions Timeline. Virtual learning is the
term used to describe online instruction. Using the Internet,
students notice it can read for students that way they have that
accommodation if they so needed. We also have
over here on the site some options that are available. You
concert safe to a cloud based folder such as Google
drive or one driving the integration is available. You
can cite the information and choose the
appropriate um, style format that you would like
to use. Copy paste it into your word document.
So your citation is done. You need to check for
updated changes in the citation, print the
document or email the document to yourself or
someone else Below that, we will see that
there is an essential question that is being asked our online
classes of beneficial space to face instruction in a
traditional classroom. Beneath the
essential question there are opposing viewpoints.
Viewpoint one says Online classes provide
students with a variety of experiences not found in a
traditional classroom and viewpoint. Choose online Learning
cannot replace the experience off real time instruction
in a traditional classroom. Each viewpoint
comes with articles that support that you
point. They also provide research
documents that can be used with the students of foster
critical thinking, and we'll take a look at this researchers guide in a
minute. They're critical questions that are
available here. What are the advantages off virtual
classroom or the disadvantage? And would you take it online course
Why or why not? And then over here we
have an editorial cartoon that we look at it a little bit more in a
second, and then we have the timeline
off the evolution of the topic. Over time,
I would like to go back and look at the
editorial cartoon. This one says
to the child, says the parents, You don't have to worry about my future anymore. I've
just downloaded the entire college
education. So here we have a political
cartoon and it can just be for laughs. Or you can
come up to the educator. Resource is click
on it, and from there you can use the resource is
provided toe help your students think more
deeply about the topic. So I'm gonna select the
pdf version off this curriculum
tool that is available for teachers to use with their students.
Remember, you can download this tool, put it into
canvas, use it with your students. It gives you the common
core standards that have been covered within this
lesson. And then the students have an opportunity
to learn about what our editorial cartoons, where they
published, Um, were they important and how to
find them and they're gonna look for those in the service issue
researchers now below the students have the
opportunity to participate in the learning experiences by
providing three samples of political editorial
cartoons that they have found
after they had, um, look through the editorial cartoons.
They could then start toe dive a little bit deeper,
um, into looking at the main idea, etcetera
off the editorial cartoon. So they start to
analyze. Look at the key details of Title the Cartoonist,
the publication or people the people or places. Pardon me,
depicted, um, in the central action or
event taking place. Then they begin to go even further to
unlock toe, analyze how the Texas, using the structure
by looking at the symbolism, are there
exaggerations, oversimplifications
on, go even further to look at analogies,
ironies, etcetera. They are going to keep going through
and looking at the audience. Central viewpoint, alternative
viewpoints and how effective was this cartoon at
conveying the point that the cartoonist intended,
once a student, have dive deeper into the article, They
also have the option to apply their knowledge by designing or
creating their own original editorial
cartoon that they can create music either an
online or digital format. They can draw by hand and
then digitize it and copy and paste it in here. But
they have that opportunity to now apply what they have
learned. And they can look here to select all the different
areas that they have addressed in their political,
their apartment, the editorial cartoon. So this is a great tool to
use with students. It takes it from just being a
simple cartoon for last. But now we're teaching them how toe
think critically about the information that they
are viewing. And it's an extremely useful to for students
that have in their hands
another tool that I'm gonna speak about and highlighted
the research guide. I'll download a word version of that,
and once it downloads, you can open it. All of these resources are
available. Both impede AEA and word
format. One of the reasons why I am using the
word format on this document is that it's
six pages and for teachers, especially if you're using this with middle
school, you may wanna chunk this and delete and pieces of
information. I might not give my middle schoolers all of
this at one time, but I might give them Page one on one
day and then page to one another. And with word, it makes
it easier for you to added to the document if that's
what you would like to do with it. So they start off here
by looking at the topic of interest to the
student. Then they start to look at. Are they writing to persuade
Informed towards speech or debate is important that they
identified the purpose for which they are going to be
creating this document as it will guide the flow of the
document they then look at. Who are the intended audience?
Um, is that they're pairs of community teachers,
others and doesn't have personal or geographic
appeal to the audience that they are
writing to. They continued by
developing. They're they're they're not
knowledge on the topic by looking at the terms
in the article and what terms needs to be
understood in order to interpret and understand the article better,
Um, what? Who is affected by the leading issue? Under the main
controversies surrounding the article, he
figures and organizations that surround the issue with
significant events have occurred related to
the issue. Then they go down to where they're now
selected, fax an opinion, which, especially in today's
very important, they start to look at writing an easy
statement. And then finally they work
on creating arguments to support their BC
statement. So they have the argument and the supporting evidence
and the type off evidence. So this
is a great tool for teachers the have to use with
students. And I would highly recommend that
you, um, download this item and use it with your
student. You are also able to look at the
organizing the organizer notes that are available.
They have this one for writing to inform. They are edits Hubble,
so you can type directly into the document that they
will put the viewpoints, one viewpoint to the reasoning and the
supporting evidence. The only thing I would recommend is that you have
students download the document, right? Use Adobe
Reader in order to write and saving it. If they do it
from the Web based version, they are gonna lose the information they have
entered. So this is a quick overview again,
off the servers Proquest educator
resource is remember, it's located at the top and
that the Microsoft integration is not yet available. However,
you can safety Google Drive if you wish. Once you
come to the educator resource is your free teas any of the
curriculum information or note organizer's that they
provide with the service issue researchers as well
as any other database or any other
resource that you're using for instruction in your
classroom. Put that service.
I'm gonna move on next to the O. Yeah,
I'm gonna move on next to the gale databases and
I'm gonna go back to the Claire reports of this time on Lee because we
recently had added that integration through clever
portal. So I'm going to click here on my
clever portal and it's gonna take me in and I'm gonna
select um, several lakes, my
old middle school to use with the stem. Oh,
with the gale databases, there are
24 elementary students, 15
which is shown here for the middle school. And there
are 18 3 additional Todd's for the high
school. Please know that there are e books that you can
use with the gale data basis. You can click
on them, you can open them, and every student sit in your
class could open on his or her individual computers as well,
the teachers, the laptop could be projected to the recordings through
the Promethean and you are teaching with us, and
students are annotating on this document
as you are working with them. Um,
I would let me go back for a second because this one is for the
elementary age. However, please know that you also have resources
for Second Larry level such as Riot, A
Business plan handbook. There multiple things,
Children with art to the Book of Arts. Please
look through these because just about every discipline And if you look at
the top, it gives you general categories that are
covered. But if you will look through those, you will see that you can
find things for every level. And you can also conduct a
search using the search box that is available at the
top. I am going to go back to the products page.
From there. I'm gonna select Gail in context middle
school and just
real quickly, we have our search box at the
top to the left that you can utilize
zooming in just for a bet on the right. We
have our Microsoft and Google classroom.
Um, integration. We are Microsoft district. The
integration is completing Gail. So I'm going to click signing
with Microsoft. It will use my
clever, um information to authenticates
me once it authenticates me. My name comes up
here at the top notice below that I can browse topic
browse, Titlist. I've created search hiss Look through
my search history finding to go back and refresh something that I did
earlier. I can get a link and I can also
highlight I take notes
down below. We have the topics of interest. They
generally have three that are highlighted. You can browse by
topic they have set selected categories But if you want to
see all the various topics you can select Browse all
six for 66 topics. Yeah,
While the service educator resource is at the top, the
gale is at the bottom, so just keep that in mind in two different
places. So if I wanted to look at the curriculum
standards for something I'll be teaching, I would
click, go to curriculum Standard. I have the option to
change from national to state standard. I can
select my state and then I can hit the drop down to
select Is that language arts, math, science, social studies
standards that I am looking for someone to click
on social studies where this particular lesson
and I'm going to click the expand button. So let's say I'm looking for
something with geography. I can click on it
and then I can find the appropriate length, and it
will lead me toe articles that are relevant to that topic.
I can then click the links that are provided here and it
will open those articles. And I can then look at the
articles and utilize them with my
students in class,
going back to my Gail and Context home
page. I'm going to scroll down. And on the other
side there are the educated resource is
that I think that would be really useful for use cheese with your
students. I'm gonna focus on the one and how to judge,
um information. Because as our students are conducted
research in this difficult age with so much
information around, I think that this is a great article that
you can share with students and they can utilize it in
learning how to judge information. So
as we look at the information here in general, the
students need to know are the resource is reliable? Does it contain fax for
opinion is a complete ondas it up to
date and the sources that they can to go to find these
information or within encyclopedias, books, magazines,
newspapers and sites on the in from the
Internet. Nine times out of 10. When we assign
students assign mental research, they go straight
to Google and they start to copy and paste information
from sides they find on Google.
Very rarely do they think about are the sights
reliable? Is it faxed? Your opinion is a complete
source. Is a person providing the information and expert
on the subject matter? Um, is it up to date?
And so, using the guidelines provided here,
students can learn about the different types of media that
they will be using thio access information
and to figure out if it's authentic, reliable
information the databases that the district
provides. They've all been researched. They're all authentically
are safe, um, sites that they are
students are able to explore when they go to Google. We never know what
they will go to once they click that link. These, we know will keep
them safe because of how they are put together for us,
and I would recommend the students use them using
them. We know they're vetted. We know there were reliable. We know they've been
authenticated so again they are reliable for students to
use. So as the students look through this, they will
learn that encyclopedia provides highlights on topics
but not enough details. So even if they use an encyclopedia, they may
need to dig a little bit more. Books in
general have plenty of facts and details. However. Sometimes
books may be out of date, or they may be missing some of the
information that they want to know more about. Um,
magazines are very detailed on dear,
generally up to date, Um, but they also need to judge the
purpose of the magazine article that they are using
because it could be biased one way or another,
Um, and they need to look in newspaper articles that
are very current, so currency will be always there with the newspaper articles.
However, they may just be highlights and not in
detail on the subject matter of content
and Web sites. They need to figure what is the purpose of that website
is it to inform? Is it for fun? Is it up to date?
So the students learn about the various resource
is using, um, this document
and after they have you shared this with them in canvas,
I could probably would re select create a research
module where I upload something like this into it, so that
whenever they need to do research, they always know where to find this
document, and they have a as a reference at all
time. And then the nice thing about it is they gave them
a worksheet, and after you
have worked with the students on using the tip
sheet, the students were then able to go in. And
let's focus, for example, on the World Wide Web. When they come
upon a website. These air questions they need to ask
themselves or to respond to so that they can figure out if this is
the website they should use was this website designed
thio, inform or entertain? What is the source of the
information? Is a source reliable? And is the website
updated regularly, so students can you can upload
this document into canvas. Onda students
are able to type. You can allow them to type directly onto it.
Um or, you know, could be something that if you're in the face to
face classroom session, you provide them Ah, sheet or have it
protected on the board and have them respond to these for
the different sources that they are finding to work
with. So that's a teacher resource is that are
available within, um, the gale databases.
So please know that you have access to those to use
with your students. So I am not gonna
go back to my canvas
dashboard, and I'm going to go into
our course length for the
library media. We sources for inquiry based
lessons and project based learning.
Within that, we have sample lessons
that we've shown how we've used the databases. So
here we have the lesson that incorporates both
Gail and serves. Um resource is to
create a discussion for students who are gonna be competing
in a debate there in a debate class. And this information
is something to help them prepare. So though, with the
topic they're working on, it's the ban or not banned
cellphones in schools. And so
the over I used a cartoon and
editorial cartoon from serves that I've
incorporated here. I don't have toe worry about
violating copyright because with the school board's contract,
I can use that information. I just need to
provide attribution at the bottom where possible and notice. I
did put it here so that if someone needed to go back to that
original Lincoln, see that it was here, and not taking somewhere
outside of context is there. So here's a teacher clicking
away, um, to the students Thio texting them. Isn't this
great? Text me your homework and here's the
students face while others opinion away. So the students have
the cartoon as a resource to start that
conversation, then the promises. Cell phones are a way of
life. We use them for everything. It seems, however, should cell
phones be permitted in schools, are there benefits or
drawbacks to consider review. The resource is the flow
as you prepare for your upcoming debate.
Then they're required to choose one of the following viewpoints and use
information from at least two sources to support their
position. So they have choice because they are looking at
several resources. But then they're gonna decide which resource
is they think would best support their argument. We're not limited
to them to want to say you have to use We're giving them choice.
Um, after they have responded to
the to the post, made their original post,
they must reply toe one other posts, and they
must use information from the resources in their response.
The reason why we asked them to use supporting information
is that we don't want it to get personal. Student aid
does not like student be so Students Ages says something
negative. That's a stupid response. Without any
support, they must provide support based
upon the articles that are provided or the
videos. And so it forces them to go back into the text,
read, listen and then counter
the other students, um, response with factual
evidence. So the viewpoints our cell phones can be
useful in school Cell phones have no place in school. If your articles that
support them and if they click the link, it takes them
out to some of the articles that are there.
There's also a video that I found
on YouTube that talked about two
schools, and they're very, very
viewpoints. One school allows students to use cell
phones as an integral part of their daily experience,
while the other school bands it and
as the start of the day, students have to put their cell
phones in a locker before proceeding throughout the day.
And it talks about the results off whether
students are successful in the different, um,
educational environments that these two groups of students
are currently, um, thriving in one way or the
other. So the students get toe have that audio visual
connection because sometimes having that real
life connection and seeing it at work in addition to reading the
materials will help them to figure out how to respond
or choose a side and how to respond to
the article. So this is what is here
for things particular discussion for
students and then below because this is what is a resource for
teacher is in a real classroom setting. I would not have put the
teacher resource pages, but just in case you forget
where I went to when I selected those educator
resource is, I've placed links here for you
so that you can always come back here, click the length and it will
take you to the Educator Resource pages so that's
what this is for. And I was, That's, um,
using both Acer's and the Gale Proquest.
Probably the serves proquest and the gale databases
with your students and integrating them into canvas.
Welcome to this Session of resource is for the
inquiry based lessons and project based
learning for the classroom. My name is Lourdes Bozo
Meyer, and I am with the innovative Learning Department and today I will be
showcasing Britannica, the online encyclopedia, and I
will be demonstrating how to incorporate it within a canvas
course. So the first thing I want to do is show you how to
access. The resource is in the blue Global navigation
bar in canvas. I'm going to click on the file folder.
Resource is, it opens up a new window. The fifth one
down is called Library Media. Resource is these re sources
are available to all teachers and students within
Broward County. When I scroll down, I see Britannica.
Here's my school access for home access. It requires a
user name and password and we have provided for
you the user name, which is your four digit school
code. And since most people do not know their four digit school code. We have
provided a list right here. We're going to click here. It'll
download when you open up the list. It will
show you the school name
and your four digit school code. And then, of
course, it has a password. Broward. Now, the first time you
click on home access, it may ask you to identify your
school I have previously logged in. So it
does recognize me. Notice that we have the different
levels elementary, middle and high school. And we
have launch packs, which we're going to review in just a moment.
Broward County Public Schools provides you free access to this
wonderful online database. However, I
do recommend that you sign in and create
your own free account. The reason
is because when you've created your own free account, you
can save things. You can create things. It
gives you a lot more functionality and more features of things that you can
dio. So I already have an account. I'm going to sign into my
Britannica, and when I do so, you'll
see that it does provide me a few other options up here. Now I have my
content and the lesson plan brows in my
content. If I click on it, it's going to show me
any things that I have favorited. I also can create new
resource packs. And if I have an, you'll notice that
all my favorites air here. If I have created any lesson
plans, they would be right there under my lesson plans.
I'm going to show you the lesson Plan brows so you
can filter however you'd
want. So I'm going to do third through fifth grade. Notice that in the
subjects it's not just the core subject areas. We also have
DSL, fine arts, world religion, sports and
special ed. I'm going to click on history,
and I'm going to refresh it. You'll notice that here we
have the date it was created. The assignment,
whatever the topic would be. Ah, little summary the
subjects, and this is good for quite a few different subjects. The
grade the duration to present this and then who the author
is. And many times there are educators like
yourself. Sometimes they are from Britannica,
and sometimes they have Britannica curriculum specialists that
have created plans for you. But again, this is another wonderful
resource. When I go back to Britannica and I want to
showcase first the launch pack. So I'm going to click up here
and the launch packs open up. We have two different types. We have
social studies or science again. I am logged in. So I
have more functionality right here in this purple box. It
allows me to, uh, do quick assigns create classes and,
um, other options. I have more functionality if I am signed
in when I'm looking for a launch pack again. I have
social studies and science. I can filter by grade, level
or by category. Here are my launch packs
and I'm going to scroll down to ancient Greece sports,
and you'll notice that this tells me the topic. All the resource is
within this topic and in this pack
and the grade level that it's appropriate for. So I'm going to click on this launch pack,
and when it opens up, it's going to give me some other features.
I can customize it. I can add activities I have here. The
curriculum standards I can market is a favorite
because I am logged in. I can assign it to a
class. I can send it by email or in
Microsoft teams. If I click on the logo for Microsoft teams, it
opens up a new window. I can share it to my channel. I can
create an assignment or I can copy this link to share in my canvas
course, which is what I did. Now, as
I scroll down, I will see articles within the launch pack. It's going to
give me a little summary notice that it has the different
levels, but Level two is a little bolder. That means this
article is written in a Level two, which is middle school, but they have it available for
elementary and high school. There's a website,
their images, their videos.
There is a learning resource, and I can download
this. I can open it up, preview
it. If this is something I want to use with my students, I can now
upload this resource into my canvas course.
There's also a pair deck activity, which is an interactive activity
which I will show you a little bit later on today. And
so the launch packs are a wonderful way to find. Resource is on
one topic, all bundled together. I'm going to
close out of this one and I'm going to go back into Britannica, and
now I'd like to go into the different grade levels and show you some of the features
in there. When I click on elementary school, it's
going to open up. All the formats for all of them
are very similar. They all have a scrolling screen, and we have all of
the categories. These categories are all the
same at all the grade levels. This one
here fundamentals is a wonderful resource for the little or for
struggling students. If you click on read
and you click on a book when you click, start people
and places in this book, you will.
And what I love is that it reads it one word at a time so that the
students can follow along. There are games they can play
and activities for. The story. In the back of the book,
Explore explores the bios of the world, and you'd simply click on the
bio over here. It will pinpoint where that bio is
throughout the world, and there's an introductory video for it.
Play. Allow students to play games in math or language
arts and create just allows an, um, creative
outlet for them to explore going back into my
elementary. And you can do this in all of them. You can just do a
broad search. I'm gonna look for Ruby Bridges,
and now it's gonna open up any information they have on Ruby Bridges. Notice
this is that this grade level? There's also a second level
to which is middle school. There's a video and image
related information. Here is my article. If I
click here, it will read it to me. Maybe Bridges was a child who played an
important part in the civil rights movement. You'll notice that civil
rights is, um ah, link so that if they want information on
what that is, they could click there. If they do not know a word,
any word, they double click on it. It opens up a dictionary, which
provides the pronunciation isn't the definition and also in
Spanish over on this side I can market is a
favorite. I can print it or email it. I can cite
the sources. I can increase or decrease the font.
I can translate this into over 70 different languages for our
students. That air, um, English language learners and again I
have the same Microsoft teams option here. A did you know and
a teacher resource going to click on Britannica
and go into middle school. You'll notice that the format is the
same. Here are the categories. There is a scrolling
screen. They have a Kenya. Guests compare. Countries,
explore biographies. These both have filters. There are
recommended US sources. Did you know at a glance,
new and revised articles and additional
recommendations, I'm going to click on Britannica and
go into high school and in the high school
level, the same categories. Here's a scrolling screen, the
same categories. Biographies has a new
additional filter flashbacks, new and
updated primary sources on this day in history
and news from The New York Times, along with additional
recommendations. So Britannic is a wonderful
resource. The great thing about all of these resource is that we
provide on THEA online databases, is that they are all
safe, safe, safe. So when you send your students how to do research,
you know that it's a safe place for them. They are reliable, they are
current, they are accurate and it's all been
carefully vetted and curated for our students. So these are
fabulous. Resource is, I do want to go back into our
class and just share with you quickly a sample lesson
that I created, um, using Britannica and the launch
packs. And so
here is a sample lesson using that very resource the launch pack.
I wrote the title. I centered it.
This is an image from the article that I had done
on the Holocaust and World War Two. I included a
video and I included it two different ways. Just so you could see the two
ways that you could do it. You could do it as a link which would open up on another
page. Or you could embed it right in here where it would
show it right within the video, which play
right within your canvas course, I included a
link to the launch pack. Remember when I opened the
teams that showed me that link and that's what I copied. I
gave them some unsigned mint that they had to choose to
articles in a video as a must do, and that they could
select anything else as a may do. And then I wanted them to write
the summary of the article in video and to give a
reflection. Now if you recall earlier, I had mentioned
a pair deck activity and a pair deck activity is an interactive
activity. I did convert it into a power point,
but you'll see that as you scroll down here
into the pair deck. It does provide some
information, and then it asks the students to write their response.
So what you would have the students do is they would
download the pair deck and they would download it simply by clicking
right here. And then once they've downloaded it,
they can enter their responses right within
here. They could click right here and start writing, and you'll notice that
it does give them other links to see other things
again. It's asking for their response
here. They're asking them to draw based on what it says
here, more resource is
down below. This one here is to draw their
drawing on the slide, drawing a line from the image to the right place where it
goes on the map. And then
here they are on the lines on the red
lines. They're going to take the labels and put them where they go
for the access powers and the Allies
and then down here, this is going to be a matching. They're going to draw lines,
um, to the sources into the with the middle here
and then at the very bottom. They do have an additional activity. And this
is just Thio. Tell us in one minutes, right, Their
response. So the pair deck activities are interactive, and
it's, ah, wonderful activity for your students to interact with the
content from this launch pack. And again, all of
these, um, answers can be found within the launch pack, which
is linked right here and at the
very bottom. And I only included this part here
for teachers. I would not normally include this for my
students, but you confined additional teacher lesson
plans by clicking right here. I also wanted to point
out that all these activities can be incorporated into
near pod, flip grid, wake lit and other student
platforms. So a lot of the activities that are up here, you
could put into a near pod or a flip grid.
So it's just a wonderful way to incorporate
what they're learning into. Ah, a different
platform. So this again is
the Britannica and it can be found from the
library. Media resource is right here. It is a
wonderful resource. It is a great place for your students
to get information again. That's safe, reliable,
accurate. I hope that you have enjoyed this
presentation. I hope you find it useful. And please know
that we are available to help you when you're incorporating any of
these within your lessons. Thanks for joining me. Stay safe and
have a great day.
Welcome. Thank you for joining me in this session. We
will be exploring tumble books. Library
tumble books are online animated picture books.
In order to access tumble books, we're going to go to our blue
global navigation toolbar in canvas. We're going to click on
Resource is And then when the new
window opens up, the fifth one down is library media.
Resource is we're going to click on that one,
and we're going to scroll down until we
see the tumble books. Here's the icon
school access and home access. Please
note there is a user name and a password.
When I click home access, I sign in
and slowly it will take me into
tumble books. So here we are. These are the
categories for Tumble Book. This is the elementary
level. I'm going to go over this. Set this site
with you before I do that. I do want to tell you that
currently, Tumble Books is offering free access to all of
their databases. All of their resource
is and in order to access those resource is
I will put the information for you to email them and let them
know which or all of the resource is that you want Thea. Other
resource is available are the teen book
cloud, which they will send you a user name and password for
And they have different genres, different categories,
wonderful books. They're also currently offering
tumble math. This is for
elementary school. They have the
categories counting addition, subtraction, Probability
division. Again there is a user name or past and
password, and they have books. Within
each book. There are activities
and they're fabulous math books. There's also
the audio online. So this is the
audio library audiobook cloud. Again, they
will provide you with a user name and a password.
They have different categories and genres along the top
and just click on the book of your selection, so these are
currently available until at least August
31st, and I will provide that information at
the end of the session so that you can email them and let them
know which, if all or which ones you are
interested in having access to. But
right now I'm going to go back into tumble books.
And this is, as I said, they are animated picture
books. They have different categories, which we will
go into in just a moment. They have a scrolling screen along the
top, which shows from these categories the Book of the
day for yesterday and for today
they have new books and then anything current. So
since Earth Day just passed, they have quick
reads novels, e books, read alongs,
graphic novels and at the very bottom
they have coming soon. Wonderful selection of books that are coming
soon going to go back up to the top,
and we're going to go into the first category, which are storybooks.
In story books. There are many different categories. This is a
tumble tune. If you see the musical notes, that means those air songs,
their award winners. Some of these are from
authors Robert Munch, Kate DiCamillo, John
Lithgow These books are being read by the authors.
I'm going to show you one of the stories
go into this one. When you click on the
story, it's going to give you the image of the cover. A little
summary over to the right. You'll see book
details. The author, illustrator, publisher, the word
count. The tumble time is how long it takes for them to read the
book, the reading level. And then if there
is accelerated reader info when you click here, it will give you
the quiz number and then all the other information,
including the points. I like to post the quiz number
for the students so that they can just put that in rather than having
to, um, spell it all out so that information
is available right down here on the left
side. We have play video, add to favorites or
playlist. There are quizzes. There's lesson plans, and there
is there are book report templates in here. So I'm going to click
on play the video so you can see
what it's like. Uh huh.
Uh huh. Okay. Way.
Yeah.
One day more went to her mother and said,
For my birthday, I want to
invite Grade one
grade to Grade
three, Grade four,
Grade five, Grade six
and kindergarden.
And the mother said, Are you crazy? That's too
many kids, so just so you could get a feel of what it
was like. I hope you notice that it highlighted the sentences as
it read it, which is a great tool for students as they're
learning how to read. They love that repetition.
The other category is read alongs, and these are chapter books
in the reader logs. They have early readers, chapter books, advanced readers
and classics. I'm going to click on one of the books to
show you some of the features within this one. Again, the book
details. The A R info would be here,
the little summary. And then over here we
could read online. You'll notice that it's different
on this one Here. It provides different options. At the bottom, you can
click on chapters, you can book market. You can
change the text options and colors, and you can take notes. Your
students can highlight and take notes. They can turn the pages
by clicking the greens. Uh, the green buttons
or if they want it to be read, they click the play button.
Ants don't catch flying saucers.
Chapter one. Dirk the.
Do you see your names? Asked Abby, pushing through the crowd of
kids. Are we on the same team? And
again, you'll notice that it highlighted the sentences as it read the
sentences to the students when I closed out of that one.
The next category are e books
and wonderful selections of e books in here.
If you click on the book, this is my favorite. You have the
same information like we had before
graphic novels. This is a new category, and students love the
graphic novels. So just be aware that these are available here.
The nonfiction books. They have wonderful categories
within the nonfiction books. Many times they
have a corresponding video, which I will show you in just a moment
but wonderful nonfiction books At the
elementary level videos are videos from National
Geographic. These videos are all less than
five minutes. We just click on one so you've got an
idea of what it's like and you could make it full
screen. Old baby elephants. You're such a hoot.
You're so darn rink land so darn cute.
So you've got an idea with e videos were like
language learning. These are books in
Spanish and in French. Please note that all of the
books that air in here also have a corresponding book in English.
So another great feature for those language learners
in the playlist. They offer different
types of playlists under 10 minutes,
so they have them by time by category.
Bilingual playlists again in Spanish and French
early readers English
nonfiction. When you click on the playlist, it will tell
you right below um, on the right here
how long that playlist is. So this one says, it's 29
minutes. If I click on this one,
it's going to show me all the different information. These are
various authors and various illustrators.
So because there are many different authors and illustrators, they do not have
the A R information specifically for those here.
This tells you all of the stories that are in this
playlist, and you can read them online to read. This playlist
is 29 minutes
and then puzzles and games, so the
puzzles and games are different. Games that have
corresponding stories. So all of these are
books that have games with them,
and we have some games in Spanish memory games and, um,
new games. They have sentenced games, crosswords, all different kinds of
activities. So Tumble books is a wonderful resource
to use with your students. There are so many different things
that they can do with the non fictions and the
videos and just reading, practicing their
reading book reports. And all of this
can be found again through the library. Media Resource is under
tumble books. If you are interested in
getting information about teen book cloud
tumble math or the
audiobook cloud, I will share that information
in just a moment. Um, I am going to go into
Teen Book Cloud just for a moment and share one of
the book so that you can see. Um, let's try this one.
And so it will give you a little bit of information about it. And
then here you could click on whichever title it was that you
wanted.
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not logged in. Let me log in.
There we go. So let's just click on
because of Winn Dixie notice again. It is the same
format. It will tell you the our info
the author publisher, the level
and you can read online. It has the same
setting with the same types of options right here.
So that is tumble Books Library.
If you are interested in getting some of the information,
this is where you could contact tumble books. You would send them an
email at info at tumble books dot com.
And you could just tell them I'm interested in getting
tumble. Math team book Cloud Audiobook Cloud,
Bibliotheca Tumble, which is in Spanish, bbo and funds, which is
in French. Tell them which ones you want and they will send
you a user name and password. And right now
you have access to all of these until August
31st. But the
regular tumble book is available always through
our library media resource page
right through here and
going back here. This is the class, the
canvas course, and you can find these video recordings
here and some sample lessons right in
here. I hope you find this information
useful. Thank you for joining me. Be
safe. Have a great day.
Welcome back to our Webinar in this webinar
portion. we're going to show you how you
can utilize the Britannica
school. Resource is in a canvas
assignment. So I'm on a
launch packed Britannica launch pack a science launch
pack, and this one is searching
for alligators. So that's our theme for this
particular, uh, launch pack. I put the
u R l here, so you can copy that down so that you
will have access to this particular launch pack. I do
want to caution you that this the launch packs will not
be available after this school year. The current school year that we're
in. However, all of the resource is that
air in this launch pack are available on
Britannica school, so you will be able to access. The same
resource is I'm using the launch pack in particular because
they do have it packaged so nicely. Everything is in one
place, and it really is suitable for this particular training.
So hopefully you have copied the launch pack
U R l for alligators. I'm going to
scroll down so that you can see that we have an
article video image.
There's other videos and images and articles in this
launch pack. So I'm going to choose an
article.
And because I want you to
see that in an article, there are actually two
ways that you can save the article. So
first you can copy the link at the top of your
browser. You are L window, okay.
And you can also click the print icon
to the right of the article, and that will allow
you to see and view your print
dialog box. And instead of saving as a PdF,
it it's probably going to show your printer name and then you
will choose Save S P. D. F. And then you're going
to click save at the bottom of the print dialog
box, and then you choose where on your computer you're going to save
it and a little tip. I always type in the name of
the article just to make it easier for me to find,
because the default name is just print dot pdf,
which you know that you could have a million of those if you're using botanical
botanical on a regular basis. So now I can just
go ahead and click on Save, Click
Desktop and then save, and that way my document
will show up there I'm not going to save it, however, because I
haven't copied already, and I'm going to go back
to our alligator launch pack so
that we can see how to get some of our other
resource is. So now we're going to click on a video
in the video. There's a download button on the
right and I just clicked, download
and at the bottom of my screen
is the video. It's
downloading right now. I also downloaded it a little bit earlier,
so I'm gonna go ahead and let's view that one, since it's already finished
and I'm gonna click show in folder because
I want to see where it landed. So right here I can see
it. It landed on this PC, but I want this
to be on my desktop, and so I have to
drag the video to my
desktop, and then it will show up there. But I'm not going to do
that now because I already have it safe to my
desktop. Okay, so that is how you would
save a video to add into your campus
course. And
next is an image.
So I click the image I right click over the
image save the image as
again, I get this title that is very complicated.
So I could just save it as l a Gator alligators
head and I
can again drag it to or select
desktop and then save Okay,
desktop and then save again. I'm not going to
save mine because I already have it. So that's three different
resource is that we have saved for our
canvas course. So I'm going to go
over here too. Clever. I'm going to
click on canvas,
and that will take me to my dashboard in
canvas. Now, you
can either use a canvas course that you
currently have, or you can use a
sandbox course that you have currently, or
you can start a new sandbox course, which is what I'm going to
do here. So I'm going to click. I'm going to click
start a new course. I'm gonna name this
course Venus Sandbox.
Mhm. Number 13.
Lucky 13. I don't have to do anything else here.
I'm just gonna create course,
and then it brings me to my course and they're here on the left of the
top. It says, Nina, sandbox 13. It takes me to
my modules page where I could begin building modules
and I have the modules button at the top. Over here is
well, my course is not published yet because I just created it. I
don't want it to publish just yet, but I'm going to click here to
begin a new module. Now, I have
some choices I could name my module. Whatever I
choose, quizzes, assignments, quizzes, discussion, you know,
whatever you would like. You know, you might want to say week one
assignments or maybe you want to use
this as a unit of study and then week
one so you can decide that for yourself up for today's
purposes. I'm just gonna name this module
assignments and I'm gonna add
that module. I can tell that I've
added a module because I have a different color
here. It looks a little grayish in color compared to the white
background. So I know that that's my module. Now I
have some options over here on the right. The circle with the line is where I
would go when I'm ready to publish my module.
This plus sign is where I can add content to my
module and the three dots over here is where I can
edit my module if I want to rename it something else. If I
wanna move the contents of the module, if I wanna
move the module itself and position it a little
differently, I can delete the module. I can
duplicate the module. And this might be important if you are. Yeah.
Wanting to have the same information for students that might need special
accommodations. That's something that you could do to
duplicate the the module and maybe have that modules
specifically for those students where your assignments are
modified for them. You can also share the module
to comments. And if you have some Commons
favorites saved, you could bring those in from here is
well, so I'm going to click the
plus sign, and we're gonna add a
new assignment. Let me just show you here. If
I bring down this carrot, I can
choose to bring in a quiz. Ah,
file page discussion, a
text header, external u R l or an
external tools. So you have some choices, but for our purpose. Today
we're going to bring in an assignment, So I'm going to click new assignment,
and now I have to give the assignment a name. So
I'm gonna name this assignment Gator Land,
and I'm gonna click Add item over here on the
right. Now, before I do that, I just realized where it says
indentation. I do like to invent my
assignments by two levels just to bring it
in so it's not aligned right underneath assignments. I could tell that this
is an assignment not only by the icon. Hear what looks
like a piece of paper with a pen, our pencil,
but it's It's indented a little bit to the
right. I can also see that I have some
dots here on the left and that I can grab with
my cross hair to move it anywhere in my module. If
I want to reposition that assignment on the right, I
can see that the assignment is not published, not ready to
publish it yet, and then I have three dots here.
This is also where you can increase or decrease the
indentation. You can edit your assignment
here. You can duplicate the assignment. You can move it,
reposition it, you can remove it, or you can share
it to common. So don't forget about this ellipsis on the right
because that's where you can make some other changes. So I'm
going to click Gator Land
and you can see right now it's just a blank page. I don't have anything
here. I could add a rubric to this assignment when
I'm ready. I'm not gonna do that for this particular demonstration.
We do have another course that you can learn more about building a
rubric. But I just want to point out that that's where you would see that
link. So again you can see that my assignment is not
published yet. I'm going to click added to get started
building my assignment
so you can see that we land on the rich content editor.
This looks very similar to Microsoft Word.
You have your bold, your Tallis metallics,
your underlying your text color. We do not
have a font change, but a font
color change. And we have a
background color that we can add to our font
and text clear
formatting. Maybe you're bringing in some content from another site and
you want to clear the formatting. You have your alignment tools.
Here you're decrease that increase for
the indentation, your sub scripts your
bullets and your numbers. The
second row starts with a table, and then you have your
insert media tab. And just so you
know, if you click tab and let's say you wanted to add a YouTube
video when you go to YouTube and you click the
share option, you have also the option
for getting the embed code. And that's what you can
paste here so that students would then go to YouTube.
But they would see the embedded video right within the campus
assignment and not run the risk of something inappropriate they
might see on the YouTube site. So I'm just gonna click
canceled. For now, there is a link
to add a u R l remember we did save our
article u R L So we could enter that here and then
click insert link. I'm going to do that in a moment.
Here is where you can remove a link. Maybe you added a link but realized
it is the wrong link. You could just break the link and then add it again.
I'm going to skip the in bed image, um, icon,
because that's more advanced features. We have the
insert math equation That's for
people who are, you know, not wanting to look all over for their mass symbols. That
could go right there again. If you
have Commons favorites saved, you could go here to
bring those into your lesson. If you like, we're going to
skip this in bed. Image tool. That's another advanced
feature. MAWR External Tools is where you confined
digital tools integrated within the canvas platform.
And then here is the record or upload media button.
So it's gonna load, and it's gonna prompt
my camera to come on. And I have
choices. I can just create an
audio file or using the Web cam that you
see now. We can start recording just by clicking this button. And this
might be very useful for students that might need special
accommodations for students who are not reading yet
and just want to hear their teacher give the
instructions. That way. There's another tab here, the
top entitled Upload Media
so I can upload an audio file that I may have saved on my computer,
or I can select the video file. We're going to use that in a
little bit with our alligator and here you see
the paragraph left to right and right to left.
The fought size can
be changed. And as I said earlier, the font cannot be
changed. Campus has said it to meet the
requirements for a D A compliance. So we cannot change the
thoughts, the font. But we can change the font size.
Here we have the paragraph, which is our headers, that we can
change the size and
then the a d A check
accessibility tab, which is great because I let you know
if you're Page is in alignment with ada
compliance. This is where you would set
your points for your assignment. I'm
gonna put 10 points for mine. I can choose
the assignment group right now. It defaults to
assignments, but I can change it if I use categories in my
class, such as homework or class work. I
can do that here by changing it to the new group
name, but I'm gonna leave mine at the default assignments.
I can change my display grade from
points to percentage, complete and complete letter
grade. G p. A scale or not graded. But I use
point, so I'm going to leave it at points. I can choose
to not count this assignment towards the final grade.
If you decide that maybe this is just a
practice assignment to see where the students are in their
understanding. So that's an option for you.
Then you have submission type, and you saw that in my
assignment that I created for the
Wonder book. I used
online submission type. So let's look at that. So we have
no submission online on paper. External tool.
I'm gonna click online, which gives me some other options.
And if you recall in that earlier assignment, I had selected
text entry, and I also selected file
uploads because they were going to students were going to
create a power point and upload their power
point. It does have the option to restrict
upload file types Onley because some of our students are
using their personal computer and they may have a
program on there that we cannot access on our computer.
So you want to make sure the file types are ones that you can
access. So, for example, for power point dot p p
t or p d f dot pdf
files or dot D o X
files that we can open on our computer, we can restrict them
to, but that's up to you. You'll decide that as you learn what your
students are using to submit assignments to you. I'm
going to skip group assignment and peer reviews. You do wanna
click this sink to the student information system or
s I s, which is Pinnacle. If you do use Pinnacle
with your students and then here you're choosing who to
assign the assignment to everyone. Or maybe
you just have specific students that you want the assignment to go to.
And you can also add here where if you
click, add, it'll say everyone else,
and then you can put the other students names
here, Um, just to make sure that you're differentiating
for those students that need the accommodations and
here you have the calendar due date,
and below that, this is where you can provide a
window for which your students can
submit their assignments to you. And this locks it. So you
wanna be careful here because And I wouldn't recommend using this for
elementary, but maybe more for secondary. So you have
a due date that locks after a certain
date. Just remember, if you lock it
and students are absent and need to go in and do that assignment. You would
have to come back and unlock it, which could also have the potential for
other students to kind of sneak in and do that assignment after the due date.
So just think of think that through a bit. Here
is our super app area, where you would see any accommodations that your
students should be receiving in your class.
Now, at the bottom is where you're going to save it as a
draft. When you're ready to publish it, you're going to
click here, save and publish. If you don't click to publish it,
then the students are not going to see the assignment. Okay, so just remember that
so you can save it here. But I'm not ready to save just yet. We
haven't added anything to our assignment. I'm going to
re type the Haidl Gator
land. That's what I want to name my assignment.
I want the text to be I'll leave
it as black. But I do want a background color. So
I'm gonna highlight my word. My title. I'm gonna
choose Green. Maybe I will
change my text color to yellow just so it pops a bit
and I'm gonna change my font size to 24. I'm
gonna use my alignment tool to put my title in the center. So
there I have Gatorland alligator green with my
yellow text. You know, you can play around with that and
decide how you want to. Um, put your
colors for your thoughts. Front colors. I'm going to change this back to
black. On the right.
We have two tabs. This is where we can
add images and files. I'm going to
click images because I would like a picture on
my right below my title. You make sure you put
your cursor where you want your image to be uploaded to. Now,
you do have a choice here to upload videos from flicker.
But just remember, if you're uploading videos from flicker and
Flickers website goes down, then your pictures are not going to
show. So I like to add images from my
computer. So I'm going to click, upload an image choose
file, and I have a little folder that I
created already with all my, uh,
content from Britannica. So there's my alligator head.
It is going to click open. You do have to add an
alternative text. And this is for students that might need that
accommodation. They can hover over the picture to to find out what it
iss. So now I'm adding my
alligator head image that I got from Botanica. It comes
in rather huge. I'm just clicking on it so that I get
this blue color and I'm grabbing the little
boxes at the far right. Or you could do the far
left as well. I'm going to go from the right and just resize that
image because I don't want it to be that big. Okay?
Making it a little smaller. All right,
so now I have my alligator head. I'm going to click
my alignment tools so my cursor is over on the left.
Here's where I can put my instructions.
Um, sign it
instruction. Now, I don't want
that green background here, so I'm gonna go back to
remove that, and I'm going to say,
read the article
below and watch the video.
Then when
you
you are
going to write
two paragraphs
explaining
what you
learn Alligators.
Okay. So just you know, whatever instructions you would want to give. I'm gonna
bold that a little bit, and then your students can
follow those instructions. Now, remember, we had two ways that we
could add. Our alligator
article. Okay, we could grab the link
if we click on alligator
from Britannica, remember, we could add the u R l
just gonna grab that here. I'll be it.
And now I'm going to write
alligator article.
I'm gonna highlight alligator article, and I'm going to go here
to put my link in, and I'm gonna
paste it, insert my link,
okay? And then I'm gonna put my little cursor
right in the middle there, and I'm gonna click control,
okay? And I'm going to say that I wanna open
this in a new window. Yeah, I'm gonna click.
OK, Okay. So when they click it, it's hyper length
is gonna open in a new window. And the other way that we
had decided we could upload our article
is to save it as a pdf and and as a
pdf, we can click over here where it says
files, and I can upload a new file
choose file. I know that I have the article
saved on my computer so I'm just going to click there to open it,
and then I'm gonna upload it now.
You probably wouldn't use both of these methods and one assignment, but I
just wanted to show you that you could do it either way.
Okay, so now when I click to
save my draft, I'm doing this just because
I want you to see that when you save a pdf, you get that
little box with a magnifying glass. That is
your preview so students can click there to open
up the document. Okay,
that's a different document. But just so you can see that you can upload the
document and kids can preview the document right
within that canvas page. Okay, So I'm going to
edit because we are
now going to add our
video. Remember, we saved our and
downloaded our video. And so now I can click right
here to the right of that blue chevron, and I
can click, upload media and select media
file. Yeah, I'm going to go back to my
folder and there's my video
saved on my computer. I have to give it a moment to
render. You can see the blue line going
across the screen, and it's going to
populate in my assignment with a little message.
It's a little box that says this link will be replaced with a
preview icon for the embedded media, which is gonna
look a lot better than this. What you see here. So if I go down,
you click Save. You can see
that what I have is a little preview
window of my video, and when I play it,
it could be played in full. Alligators are among the
largest living reptiles. They're related to
crocodiles. Both have thick skin made of
scales and plates. They each have a long
body and four short legs. All right, so there's my video.
I can play it full screen. My students can play it full screen,
and now my assignment is finished.
Now you can put some more finishing touches on it. Jazz it up a bit if you
like, put some or instructions on here. But this is just a
sample toe. Let you see how you can utilize the
resource is from Britannica or any of the
online resource is that we've been sharing with you in our
video to use in your canvas
assignment. Okay, so we added a title. We added an
image. We added an article, two different methods of adding an
article, and we also added our
video. Okay, so that's our
assignment. So I hope that this has been helpful for you
to see how you can build an assignment.
Using the resource is that we shared with you from
Botanica. You could also use resource is from
Gail or serves teaching books dot net. Any of the
resource is that we shared. And that way you will be
ready to build a wonderful lesson for your students.
So that concludes building an assignment using the
online resource is and we hope that