{"id":1983,"date":"2014-02-27T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:59:35","slug":"4th-grade-revising-with-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"4th Grade Revising with Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-9.42.52-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-9.42.52-AM-238x300.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-03-31 at 9.42.52 AM\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-9.42.52-AM-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-shot-2014-03-31-at-9.42.52-AM.png 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Today I showed the fourth grade students in Ms. Cousins&#8217; class at Davis Elementary how to log into their new Google accounts.  They are preparing for the writing SOL test so I wanted to show them how to use Google Docs to help with editing and revising their writing.   We created a new document and gave it a creative title.  I told them to write a plain boring sentence, like &#8220;I have a cat.&#8221;  Then I showed them how to use the Research Tools to find a picture to represent their sentence. When we dragged it over into our document, I pointed out that Google automatically generates a citation for the photo. Next we discussed the need for revising our writing.  Using my example, we can&#8217;t picture this cat in our minds.  We don&#8217;t know what it looks like or any details about it.  So sometimes it helps to get someone else&#8217;s input. I showed them how to share their documents with a neighbor by entering their neighbor&#8217;s email address and then how to find those shared documents in their document list. Each student picked a new color and typed suggestions to their neighbor for writing a better sentence. Then the original author selected a different color and, incorporating their peer editor&#8217;s suggestions, rewrote the sentence.  That&#8217;s all we had time for today, but now they are equipped to use Google Docs to help with the revision process.  If you&#8217;d like to look at some student examples, I listed the links <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1XyvSGoSO2OJML6xOO3dPiti74pZAJCIy84UBrj6rOI4\/pub\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I showed the fourth grade students in Ms. Cousins&#8217; class at Davis Elementary how to log into their new Google accounts. They are preparing for the writing SOL test so I wanted to show them how to use Google Docs to help with editing and revising their writing. We created a new document and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=1983\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4th","category-languagearts","tag-googledocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}