Word+Processing+for+Primary+Grades

=Word Processing for Primary Students: Agenda=

9:00
 * Set-up, welcome, introductions
 * Greetings from Jim
 * Overview and background to the workshop

**Introductory activity** (reading, viewing, talking)


 * The Power of Word Processing for the Student Writer**
 * [[file:Word Processing Workshop.pptx]]
 * Questions & Discussion

Brainstorm what can my students do now –what could my students do?
 * Word Demonstration**
 * Focus on the ribbons
 * Demonstrate preferences (Spell check and Grammar settings)
 * Individually
 * Table or grade-like groupings


 * Break**

Compare it to the list of skills that you generated earlier
 * Review the //Word Processing Skill Set//**
 * What ‘pre-skills’ do your students need to know to prepare them for their grade level skill set? Table and whole group discussion.
 * iPad schools/classrooms – what changes need to be made on the skill set to reflect iPad use?(vocabulary e.g. ribbon would be??, saving skill set, etc)


 * Editing and Revising Tools**
 * Think-aloud Model
 * Skills
 * Add text - set parameters - font, size, colour, alignment)
 * Change text: (bold, underline, align, font, colour)
 * Select text: cut, copy, paste
 * Use undo and redo
 * Change line spacing

[|Spell-check: What a Tool!]
 * Review activity


 * Lunch**


 * Keyboarding Skills**
 * Review Games
 * Create a list of appropriate games for your students (web page or word document – how to create a hyperlink in a .docx)
 * Discussion: what strategies and procedures need to be in place in your school/classroom to ensure students gain fluid ** keyboarding ** familiarity and speed? [Hint: access to technology & daily activities]


 * Keyboarding Activities **
 * A list from [|Good Spirit School Division]
 * [|Keyboarding Sites for Kids]
 * [|Improving Typing Skills on the iPad]
 * [|ABCYA Keyboarding Games for Kids]
 * [|Arcademic] (select typing games from the menu)

//Individual Games//
 * Use your own text for a [|lesson]
 * [|Caillou's Magic Keyboard]
 * [|Cup Stacking]
 * [|Lightening Typing Game] (older kids)
 * [|War of the Words]
 * [|Super Hyper Spider Typer]
 * [|Keyboard Climber]
 * [|Keybr.com] (touch typing game)
 * [|Type Racer]
 * [|Dance Mat Typing]


 * Grade 4 Skills**
 * Using the Insert Ribbon
 * Images
 * WrapText
 * SMARTArt
 * Create a diagram of the important events in your life
 * Discussion: How could your students use SmartArt?

E-mail Donna some strategies, techniques or ideas that you will use to help your students use word processing to be effective writers.
 * Debrief, Questions, Comments**

My friends (Transcription) Wowwy wow wow do I have a lot of friends1 Let me tell you about them. I have 12 friends and 2 BFFSS They like to take pictuers,watch movies and play games. If I told you their names I would fill the whole page beuase altogether I have 14 friends even my teacher is my friend.
 * Editing and Revising Practice**

My friends feel like family in a way.