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- Understanding and using fonts
- In Writing for the Web, page 7
- Serifs, sans serifs, and when to use them.
- By David Walbert.
- Faces tell feelings - Part 5 - Typefaces
- Students will study various typefaces in terms of their line quality and shape. Then they will use various editing functions in a word processor to create a text document whose typefaces "show" a particular emotion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education)
- Writing for the Web
- How teachers can more effectively communicate information and ideas via the World Wide Web, to students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the world.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Teaching "style"
- This exercise works best as a review at the mid-point or end of a literature course. Paired students describe the style of ten authors ranging from "ornate" to "plain," and then compare the authors' styles through a designated series of metaphors.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Charlotte Osterman.
- Keep it short (but not too short)
- In Writing for the Web, page 4
- Shorter paragraphs and pages will help make your writing easier to read on the web, but you don't have to sacrifice important content.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Evaluating multimedia presentations
- A PowerPoint presentation is just another form of communication, and the same rules apply to multimedia that apply to writing or verbal communication. This article offers guidelines for using and assigning multimedia presentations in the classroom and includes a rubric based on the Five Features of Effective Writing.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- A brochure of safety tips
- The students summarize information they have read and learned in school to create a brochure of important safety tips. They work in teams, each on a specific area of safety, to create a multimedia presentation on the computer using HyperStudio for text, graphics, and sound or other publishing or presentation software.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Healthful Living)
- By Shanti Kudva.
- Painting the alphabet
- After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jackie White, Kathy Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.
- Integrating computer use into a Trainable Mentally Disabled Level IV curriculum.
- Students involved in the Trainable Mentally Disabled program will use computers to supplement reading and personal information skills being taught as part of the implementation of student's Individual Education Plan. This activity will also allow students to reinforce fine-motor, visual-motor and behavioral skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Suzanne Morris.
- The five themes of me
- Students will demonstrate their understanding of the five themes of geography through literature-based integrated activities to spotlight how they are represented in each. They will also work on language/writing skills and computer competencies while enjoying a little art along the way!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Catherine Hazelton.
- Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents
- Kathleen Eveleigh keeps her parents involved in her first-grade classroom by integrating a classroom webpage with her daily instruction.
- Format: article
- By Sydney Brown.
- Writing workshops with Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Word's reviewing functions enhance communication as students revise drafts of their writing projects.
- By David Ansbacher.
- Best practices in school library website design
- You're a librarian, not a web designer, but you can have a school library website that meets the needs of students and teachers if you keep it simple, don't take on more than you can manage, and focus on what you know.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
Resources on the web
- Using science texts to teach the organizational features of nonfiction
- In this lesson, students explore the organizational features of nonfiction texts. In the introductory activity, students work in small groups to quickly gather information about a scientific topic related to teacher-prepared paragraph. Then, students compare... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
