With 3rd grade I focused on Documents and Presentations. First basic Document use like writing and formatting, then sharing, commenting, and collaborating. We then moved to Presentations. As 4th graders they will use Presentations in Science and with their classroom teacher (on class Chromebooks) so I wanted to give them a good baseline of how to create a Presentation.
We are now wrapping up the year and beginning to publish. And by publish I mean using the "Publish to the web" feature in Drive and posting it on the computer lab blog. And now this blog too. True digital publishing.
It's been a wild ride this year, getting over 400 students up and running on GAFE, as well as implementing over 100 Chromebooks in those grades. But it's been well worth it.
I will be updating this post as more student finish, but I am very proud of the work my 3rd graders have done so I felt compelled to show it off on this blog too...
This following was originally written as a showcase for student work, it originally appeared on the PS10Tech blog and will be continually updated as more and more students publish their Presentations...
3rd graders have been working on creating Google Presentations in Drive.
The theme, and title, is "What History Means to Me" which is essentially an extension of a previously written essay created as a Google Document.
The original Document was an introduction to using Google Drive; comparing and contrasting to Microsoft Word, and so forth. The actual writing was fairly self directed. I gave students a prompt: "to me history means..." and then it was up to them to define "history." For some students history is all about family. For others it is all about learning in school. History is the past, but the aspects of the past that stand out for each student vary child to child.
Once the essay was finished I introduced them to Presentations. We talked about slides as opposed to paragraphs, bullet points as opposed to sentences, the different style and voice used to convey the same content. They then began to turn their "History" documents into Presentations, able to edit, update, and alter in any way they saw fit.
The overall project is a few months in the making because we cover:
- creating slides
- adding titles
- adding bullets
- what defines a bullet
- short
- to the point
- detailed
- statement
- creating sub-bullets and why you might want one
- adding the actual bullet point graphics
- difference in punctuation of a bullet as opposed to a sentence
- bullets can be a list
- don't' necessarily need periods
- if you're asking a question you do need a question mark
- main bullets should start with capital letters
- sub-bullets can start with lowercase
- be consistent across slides with how you format your bullets
- editing and revising text
- just as you would in any writing assignment
- spelling matters
- making sure titles and bullets match up and make sense
- adding relevant pictures
- proper searching
- inserting
- re-sizing
- animating everything
- "automatically" vs "on click"
- re-ordering (tile before bullets)
- adding slide transitions
- experimenting with themes
- making sure the theme doesn't distract from slide content
- re-formatting slides to avoid themes overlapping text & pictures
- having a classmate watch it in "Present" mode and giving feedback
- presenting their Presentation to the whole class
It's a lot. But We try to make these presentations as refined and professional as possible.
Here are a few example of 3rd grade "What History Means to Me" Google Presentations...
Emmet
Mae
Cori
Sasha
Francesca
Nathaniel
Antonio
Lucas
Eamon
Joseph
Hannah
Maks
Freya
Luke
Jeremiah
Nathaniel
Sophia
Margot
Mariya
Clementine
Eleanor
William
more to come...
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