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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Book Jacket and Word
Some 6th grade students used Word 2008 to create a book jacket for a novel that they read over the summer. Students took advantage of column breaks to organize their pictures and information so that everything would fit the format of a book jacket. The students learned how to set the wrapping to "over text" in order to keep the pictures from interfering with the layout. Once their project was finished, they dropped their document into a teacher's drop box so that the book jackets could be printed in color.
