BASIC

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS, WORD TEMPLATE, NARRATED POWERPOINT

Name: Emily Pankey

Grade Level: 8
Content Area: ELA
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Google Slides
Standards Addressed: ELAGSE8W6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish
writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and
collaborate with others.

Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class: For this assignment, I am going to have students group
up to create and publish an online E-book of short narratives that will be compiled together to display the
class writings. The students will have a collection of many writing pieces that they have completed for the
semester and they will be able to choose a piece of their writing that will be published into the class booklet
that they can cherish in years to come and be able to have a tangible piece of their writing that will be
published. I will have the students publish their E-book on amazon for free and I will have it printed for
their parents to buy and see. I will group the students into teams that will either edit, organize, name, polish,
design the cover, or add photos to the E-book of writings so that everything is all formatted similarly to be
aesthetically pleasing and organized. Google slides is great for this project because everyone can go in and
edit their pieces and see others editing to collaborate a team effort and produce an E-book that they can be
proud of.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This project ranges all the way up to the 4th and 5th
levels of technology implementation within the classroom because the students will be collaborating with
their class as a community and applying learning to the real world because they can use the skills of this
project for further experiences.
Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: Every student will have
created a safe Google account through the school prior to this project. They will have many pieces of
writing that they can polish and choose from to include within the E-book and they will be invited to open
and edit the blank Google slides to add their writing piece and edit with their collaborative groups to
produce and publish the final E-book.
Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: I really feel that
students will enjoy this lesson because they will get to actually produce their own writing and help edit their
classmates work! It will show them how to use collaboration productivity software and produce their own
original work.