My State Tutorial

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My State TutorialNote: This tutorial requires that you have installed IntelliTalk 3. Authoring featuresnecessary to complete this tutorial are not available when using IntelliTalk 3 Player.Copyright 2003, IntelliTools, Inc.Copyright Notice© 2003, IntelliTools, Inc. All rights reserved. The distribution and sale of this software and manual are authorized forthe original purchaser only. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of federal copyright law. Images that appear inClassroom Suite may not be used in any commercial application without the prior consent of IntelliTools, Inc.Trademarks and AcknowledgmentsIntelliTools (and logo), IntelliKeys, IntelliMathics, IntelliPics, IntelliTalk (and logo), Overlay Maker (and logo),SwitchIt!, and ClickIt! are registered trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. All other IntelliTools product names and logosare trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. Other companies’ brand names, product names (including Windows, Macintosh,QuickTime, and Adobe Reader), and logos mentioned herein are registered trademarks, trademarks, or brandnames of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged.CreditsClassroom Suite was produced through the collaborative efforts of many staff members at IntelliTools, including(alphabetically): Kacey Arnold, Jeremy Bolan, Ann Brundige, Virginia Burt, Ben Cushman, Beth Davis, Erik Eisen,Suzanne Feit, Chris Finley, Linda Finley, Dale Goetsch, Michelle Graham, Sean Hamilton, Paula Irons, Bobbi Keene,Arjan ...

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• Publié par: Lalip
• Nombre de lectures: 14
• Langue: English

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My State Tutorial

Copyright 2003, IntelliTools, Inc.

Note

: This tutorial requires that you have installed

IntelliTalk 3. A

uthoring features

necessary to complete this tutorial are not available when using

IntelliTalk 3 Player

.

My State Tutorial

Copyright Notice

© 2003, IntelliTools, Inc. All rights reserved. The distribution and sale of this software and manual are authorized for

the original purchaser only. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of federal copyright law. Images that appear in

Classroom Suite may not be used in any commercial application without the prior consent of IntelliTools, Inc.

Trademarks and Acknowledgments

IntelliTools (and logo), IntelliKeys, IntelliMathics, IntelliPics, IntelliTalk (and logo), Overlay Maker (and logo),

SwitchIt!, and ClickIt! are registered trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. All other IntelliTools product names and logos

are trademarks of IntelliTools, Inc. Other companies’ brand names, product names (including Windows, Macintosh,

QuickTime, and Adobe Reader), and logos mentioned herein are registered trademarks, trademarks, or brand

names of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged.

Credits

Classroom Suite

was produced through the collaborative efforts of many staff members at IntelliTools, including

(alphabetically): Kacey Arnold, Jeremy Bolan, Ann Brundige, Virginia Burt, Ben Cushman, Beth Davis, Erik Eisen,

Suzanne Feit, Chris Finley, Linda Finley, Dale Goetsch, Michelle Graham, Sean Hamilton, Paula Irons, Bobbi Keene,

Arjan Khalsa, Patty Kilroy, Jez Lickter, Dave Magliocco, Kathie Maltby, Ed Murphy, Philip Nittenberg, Ann Olsen,

Meida Pang, Aakash Patel, Kathleen Post, Jennifer Ray, Lucinda Ray, Alan Rhody, David Robertshaw, Fred Ross-

Perry, Chris Santeramo, Scott Schafer, Lisa Sheean, Karen Sheehan, Michelle Shelfer, Caroline Van Howe, John Van

Straalen, Byron Wilkes, Mary Ann Zapalac.

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Instant-Activity Kits

Classroom Suite

includes 30 instant-activity kits. Each

kit includes an Activity ready for students to use, a

Template ready for teachers to create additional similar

activities quickly, and a PDF file of this tutorial.

My State

The My State instant-activity kit includes the My State

Vermont activity, the My State Template, and a PDF file

of this tutorial. You can find these components by

opening the Social Studies Templates folder and then

the My State folder in the New area of

Classroom Suite

.

The My State Template provides information and

assessment for primary grade social studies students

who are studying the fifty states of the United States.

Students can consult a state facts area to learn about a

state and use the provided word banks to answer

questions. The text is read aloud by the computer.

In this tutorial, you will start by exploring the My State

Vermont activity. Later in the tutorial, you will learn to

create customized social studies activities focused on

states, using the My State Template.

Universal Design

The activities you create using the My State Template

and

Classroom Suite

are designed for all students,

including those with physical or cognitive disabilities.

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Introduction

Create a Folder for Your New

Activities

When you use this template, you will be creating new

activities for your students to use. To organize these

activities, you will want to create your own folder in the

Activities area of

Classroom Suite.

1. At the Navigation Screen, click the Activities

button. Click the New Folder button on the right

side of the screen. A dialog box will ask you to

name the folder. Give it the name of one of your

classes (e.g., Mrs. Smith’s Class).

2. Open the My State Template (see page 3).

3. When you complete your work with the template

and click the Finish Activity button, the Save As

Activity dialog appears. Name your new activity,

select the folder in which you want to place your

work, and click OK. Your new activity will now be

available for you to assign to students.

This tutorial requires that you have installed

IntelliTalk 3

. Authoring features necessary to

complete this tutorial are not available when using the

IntelliTalk 3 Player

.

Note

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Part 1: Exploring the My State Vermont Activity

The My State Vermont activity is designed to be used

as part of a social studies unit focused on a state of the

United States, Vermont. Students review information

about Vermont and complete a quiz.

Opening My State Vermont

1. Sign in to

Classroom Suite

as a Teacher (see

Getting Started in the

Classroom Suite

binder). The

Navigation Screen displays.

2. Click the New button, if it is not already selected.

3. Open the Social Studies Templates folder.

4. Open the My State folder and choose My State

Vermont. The My State Vermont activity displays.

Exploring My State Vermont

1. Click the green Directions button to hear the direc-

tions for the activity.

2. Click the Read Sentence button to hear the first

question read aloud.

3. Click buttons in the toolbar at the right to place

answers in the appropriate answer fields.

4. Use the Check Work button if desired.

5. Click the yellow Research button, at the bottom

right of the page, to learn more about Vermont.

6. Click the Hide Research button to return to the

questions.

7. Close this activity without saving.

You can use the My State Vermont activity immediately

with students.

Hockey Quiz, in the Sports Mania Thematic

Unit, is a ready-to-use activity like My State

Vermont, using the theme of Sports.

In the next part of this tutorial, you will learn to use the

My State Template to create additional social studies

activities for your students.

Note

The My State Template enables you to provide

information and assessment for primary grade social

studies students who are studying the fifty states of the

United States. You can customize the state facts

research area with information for any state and

customize both the questions and answers about any

state. A set of pictures of each of the fifty states of the

United States is available in the Picture Library of

Classroom Suite

, so that you can easily use this

template for your own state.

Opening the My State Template

1. From the Navigation Screen, click the New button.

2. Open the Social Studies Templates folder.

3. Open the My State folder and choose the My State

Template. The My State Template displays.

4. See the instructions on page 1 of this tutorial to

learn how to create a special folder to store the new

activities you make with this and other templates in

Classroom Suite

.

5. From the File menu, select Save As Activity. Save

your activity with a unique name, such as

My State

Florida

. The activity will be saved into the

Activities folder.

Customizing Response Buttons

1. Authoring instructions appear on the screen. You

can see these instructions throughout the process

of creating your new activity. They will be removed

when you click Finish Activity.

2. This template provides a series of questions on the

page and a toolbar of blue response choices at the

right of the page. First you will customize the

response choices.

3. Hold down the Control key on the computer

keyboard and simultaneously click the Name of

River button (

[Ctrl+click]

). The Button Properties

dialog displays. Change the name in the Button

Name box to

Suwanee River

. Click OK.

4. Repeat step 3 for each other response button in

order, entering the following responses:

Tallahassee, Orlando, oranges, Sunshine

School, sunny, Florida

.

The next part of the tutorial will show you how to

customize the pictures on the response buttons.

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Adding Pictures to Buttons

Now you will modify the response buttons by adding

pictures. You will also learn a second way to open the

Button Properties dialog box for each button.

1. From the Edit menu, scroll down and select

Custom Toolbars and Buttons.

2. The Selected Toolbar and Selected Button dialog

boxes display.

3. Click the last response button on the right toolbar.

It now says Florida, but it has a picture of Vermont.

4. In the blue Selected Button dialog box, click the

Button Properties button. The Button Properties

dialog box displays.

5. Click the Picture tab.

6. Click the Insert Picture From Library button. The

Picture Library dialog box displays.

7. From the Category drop down list, scroll down to

the US States category.

8. Locate Florida in the listing of states. Select it and

click Insert.

9. A picture of the state of Florida is added to the

button.

10. Repeat steps 4–8 to replace the picture of Vermont

on the yellow Research button with a picture of the

state of Florida.

11. Select the Oranges button. Follow steps 4–8 to

locate (in the Food category of the Picture Library)

and insert a picture of an orange.

12. Use the process outlined in steps 4–8 to add

appropriate pictures to any of the other buttons.

13. Click the Done button at the top right to close the

Custom Toolbars and Buttons dialog box.

Next you will use your new response buttons to capture

the answers to the sentences on the page.

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Capturing Answers

1. Use the response buttons to place the correct

answers in each of the sentences on the page.

2. From the toolbar at the right of the page, click the

white Capture Answers button. This will capture

the correct answers you have entered.

3. Two dialog boxes will appear. Click OK and Yes.

This will specify the correct answers and then

remove the text from the answer fields.

4. To verify that your answers have been captured,

[Ctrl]+click

an answer field. When the Properties

of Answer Field dialog box displays, you will see

the answer you captured.

In the next section of the tutorial, you will provide

information about the state in the Research section of

the activity.

Editing Research Information

The Research portion of the My State Template

contains generic sentences for each category of state

information. You will edit each of the categories with

information specific to your state (in this case, Florida).

1. Click the yellow Research button at the bottom of

the toolbar at the right of the page. A new toolbar

of state information buttons displays at the left.

You have learned two ways to edit each button.

Choose either step 2 or step 3 below. Then

continue with step 4.

2. a.

From the Edit menu, scroll down and

select Custom Toolbars and Buttons.

b.

Click the first button (Capital).

c.

In the blue Selected Button dialog box, click

the Button Properties button.

d.

Then follow steps 4–7 below.

OR

3. a.

[Ctrl]+click

the first button (Capital).

b.

The Button Properties dialog box displays.

c.

Follow steps 4–7 below.

4. In the Button Properties dialog box, click the

Actions tab.

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5. In the Button Actions list box at the bottom of the

dialog box, select the Type Text action. Then click

the Edit button.

6. The Type Text dialog box displays. Replace (state

name) with the word

Florida

and (city name) with

the word

Tallahassee

. Be sure to remove the

parentheses as well. Click OK twice.

7. Follow steps 2–6 for each of the yellow buttons,

using the following state information.

Population: 16,396,515

State Bird: mockingbird

State Flower: orange blossom

State nickname: Sunshine State

Size: 67,750 square miles

Agriculture: citrus

Industry: tourism (change to “Florida is a

leader in the tourism industry.”

8. Follow the steps on page 4 to change the picture

associated with the Agriculture button to an

orange.

9. From the Edit menu, choose Select All. Click the

Delete key on your keyboard to clear the screen of

any text you may have entered.

Once you have edited all the Research buttons, you are

ready to finish the activity.

Finishing the Activity

1. Click the blue Hide Research button at the bottom

left of the page to return to the fill-in-the-blank

portion of the activity.

2. Select the purple Finish Activity button at the top of

the right toolbar.

3. When prompted, replace the previous version of

your activity by clicking the Replace button.

4. Your My State Florida activity is automatically

saved into the Activities folder, ready to be

assigned to students. The toolbar at the top now

has only those buttons that students need to use.

Congratulations! You have created a new My State

activity for your students. You can use the same

techniques to create a similar activity for any state.

In the next section of the tutorial, you will learn

how to customize the content of the questions

on the page.

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Part 2: Using the My State Template

Note

Modifying Assessment Questions

You can create different assessment questions for the

My State activity you have created. Just make sure

that the response buttons you provide coordinate your

customized questions. You will learn how to work with

locked text. You will also learn how to insert

Answer Fields.

Unlocking and Locking Text

First you will unlock the text, so that you can modify

or change the sentences. Then you will relock it, to

protect it against changes and to ensure that student

responses are placed in the answer fields.

1. From the Navigation Screen, click the Activities

button. Open the My State Florida activity you

just created.

2. To see that the text on the page is locked, from

the IntelliTalk menu, select Highlight Locked

text. Blue underlines display under all the

sentences. You will need to unlock the text in

order to customize it.

3. From the Edit menu, choose Select All.

4. From the Text menu, deselect Lock Selected

Text. Notice that blue underlines disappear. This

verifies for you that the text has been unlocked.

5. Edit any question that you choose. For example,

in sentence 7, change the word “made” to

“grown” so that the sentence reads:

One food

grown in my state is

. Change sentence 3 to read

Disneyworld is located in

.

Note that these modified questions should

retain the same answer fields and answers.

6. From the Edit menu, choose Select All.

7. From the Text menu, select Lock Selected Text.

Notice that blue underlines appear. This verifies

for you that the text has been locked.

8. From the IntelliTalk menu, deselect Highlight

Locked text. The blue underlines will disappear,

but the text remains locked.

In the next section of the tutorial, you will learn to

replace questions with completely different questions.

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Replacing Questions and Inserting Answer

Fields

1. Make sure your My State Florida activity is

displayed. If not, open it from the Activities folder.

2. From the Edit menu, choose Select All.

3. From the Text menu, deselect Lock Selected

Text. All text on the page will now be unlocked.

4. Delete the text on the page and type different

sentences, such as:

1. I live near the town of Tampa.

2. Florida became a state in 1845.

5. Select (highlight) the word Tampa.

6. From the Text menu, select Insert Answer Field.

The text will disappear and an answer field will

appear and be ready for a fill in the blank, with the

correct answer already specified.

7. To verify that the correct answer has been

captured,

[Ctrl]+click

the center of the empty

answer field. The Properties of Answer Field

dialog box will display, showing the correct

answer is Tampa.

8. Repeat steps 4–6 above, making an answer field

for 1845.

9. Using this process, add more questions and

answers about the state.

10. From the Edit menu, choose Select All. From the

Text menu, select Lock Selected Text. All text on

the page will now be locked again. Student

answers will only go in the answer fields.

11. Use the steps on pages 3–4 of this tutorial to

modify the response buttons so that they match

the new answers you have created.

Saving the New Activity

1. From the File menu, select Save As Activity.

Rename this activity

Florida Quiz

.

2. It will be saved into the Activities folder, ready for

student use.

Congratulations! You have customized the My State

Template to modify existing questions and to include

new questions and answers.

Part 3: Customizing the My State Template

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