In this Quest you will create a new document and copy and paste in the content provided in Part One. Your challenge is to learn to use formatting features in your document.
Learning Objectives
understand how to use a word processing application [Empowered Learner]
know how to use advanced word processing features [Creative Communicator]
know how to share documents with others [Digital Citizen]
know how to collaborate with others [Global Collaborator]
Exploring some options for getting started with Part 1:
If you are in a classroom where your teacher can project the directions on the screen, then open your Google Drive and follow along.
If you are working independently, on your own device, arrange your desktop with two browser windows that you can see on your screen at the same time by making this one take up only 1/2 of the screen, and then open a new browser window and log it into your Google Drive and make it fill the other 1/2 of the screen.
If you are working independently you can open your Drive in a separate tab and move back and forth between this page and your drive.
If you work best with a handout or printed directions check with your teacher to see if a Print-out of this PDF version for Part 1 is available and open your Google Drive
As you watch the video we suggest pausing frequently to help you complete each step on your own document.
Format: Format is a menu used to change the way a document looks and is organized, such as the font, font style (title, header, normal), font size, characteristics (bold, italics, underline), bullets, and line spacing.
Insert: Insert is a menu used to access special features such as images, drawings, tables, charts, and page numbers.
Tools: Tools is a menu with additional features that can be helpful such as spelling and grammar check, dictionary, translate, voice typing, and Explore.
I Can Statements
use the spelling and grammar check features
format the title
change the size and typeface of the font, use bold, italics and underline
change the colors of the text and use highlights
use the alignment tools to center or right-align text
insert a header, footer, and page number
get a word count
translate the document into another language
use the Explore tool to see related information
use the Task list to check you have completed these
You have completed your document work and your teacher needs to see it and comment on it. Your teacher may also ask you to share it with some classmates so they can view it, comment on it, or work together. You will learn more when you set a goal to not only learn these skills, but to also practice them until you can do them from memory. Follow the steps below.
share my documents with others online
publish my documents for private or public viewing
add comments on documents shared with me
access shared documents and collaborate
set a goal to learn and practice these new skills
Viewer: A file-sharing permission you assign to a viewer with the link so they can only view the document, but cannot comment or edit
Commenter: A file-sharing permission you assign to a commenter with the link that can not only view the document but can also make add a comment to the document.
Editor: A file-sharing permission you assign to the editor with a link where they have full editing rights and can make changes to the file.
1. Set a personal learning goal for learning a new skill: it might be about sharing, commenting, collaborating on documents, adding hyperlinks.
2. Open your Robert Frost poem document created in Quest 1 and saved in your Google Drive.
3. To share your document with your teacher and give permission to comment on it, locate and click on the Share button near the top right of your document and type in their email address. A sharing window will appear. As Google continues to make changes, your directions may be a little different than these.
4. A "Share with people and groups" window appears, enter the email address your teacher provides or of another student if you are working on it together.
5. Permissions list: You can control what the person you are sharing with can have permission to do (this new option will appear with an arrow once you enter the email address).
6. Decision time what rights are you giving this person?:
Viewer (only someone with the link can only view it, but cannot comment or edit)
Commenter (can only view and comment on the document)
Editor (only use this if the other individual will be editing it with you)
. Share with people settings: More permissions can be set using the cog-wheel
If you gave editing rights, the person can change permissions and share it (uncheck this is recommended when sharing with others)
Viewers and commenter can see the option to download, print, and copy (Can be checked if you want to allow them these rights)
8. Notify people and the option to add a message. If you want people that you have shared it with to be notified (good idea) have the box checked, and add a brief description about the document you are sharing.
9. Select the Send box and an email notification will be sent to your teacher letting them know you have shared the document with them.
One of the tasks you will find useful for schoolwork is to be able to upload and download documents from the Internet. In this Quest you will download an external .doc document from the web on this page, upload it to your Google Drive and open it, copy the contents and add it to the poem document you created in Quest One. Once that is done you will see how to download the file as a .PDF document, and see how to print it directly from the Google Cloud (another name for Google's server). The other important part of File Management is to know some tips and tricks to organize your Google Drive folders.
Why on earth would you need to do this?
Here are two examples:
1. You are going to apply for a job after school, and they tell you to download the application from their web site, fill in your information, and then email it to them as a .PDF file.
2. You want to attend a special event (concert, camp, sports camp...). The form is posted online and you have to download it, fill it in, get your parent's permission, and submit it.
3. Your drive space can easily become (or might already be) a cluttered space, and knowing how to use a few folder management tips can be fantastic.
Citation: Information that is needed to give credit to, or locate, work(s) published or created (a book, paper, article, web site, artwork, composition, music file) by others.
Download: When you want a copy (data) or file from another person, or a web page, you typically click on the file and request to download and save it to your own device. It is an act or instance of transferring something (such as data or files) from a usually large computer to the memory of another device.
.PDF file: PDF is short for "Portable Document Format" which is a file able to be opened by almost any computing device without having to purchase special software. A PDF file preserves the layout, formatting, fonts, and images of a document so that it looks the same on any computing device.
Upload: This is the action or process of transferring a file from your device to another computing device.
example: When a Google document you are working on is saved, it is stored (uploaded) to a Google Drive Computer Server and sometimes on your own computer (this the opposite of download). When you attach a file to an email or message you are sending to someone else, that is uploading it to the email server (or SMS) to send to them where they can download it to their own computing device.
upload and download files using my Google Drive
save a Google doc file as a PDF formatted file
understand the benefits of the PDF file format
manage the folders in my Drive space
In previous Quests you learned about Google Drive, how to use formatting tools in a document, how to share and collaborate and manage your files and folders.
In this Quest you will learn how to rename a document, insert a picture, add a citation, insert a horizontal line, and hyperlink to a separate report or document. You will also learn a bit more about copyright and computer ethics.
Citation: This is information needed to give credit to, or locate, work(s) published or created (a book, paper, article, web site, artwork, composition, music file) by others.
Hyperlink: A Hyperlink is an element in a digital document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document or website. It is typically activated by clicking on a highlighted or underlined word or image on the screen.
set a goal to learn and practice these new skills and reflect on what I learned
add graphics to my documents
add a hyperlink to my document
add a citation for the image source
You have learned a lot of formatting and tool features already.
In this Quest you will create a table and use it to identify the Rhyme Scheme of your Poem. Start by watching this video about Rhyme Schemes.
Columns: Columns run vertically (up and down) in a spreadsheet or table.
Row: Rows run horizontally (left to right) in a spreadsheet or table.
Cell: Each rectangular box in a spreadsheet and table is referred to as a cell. In a spreadsheet, each cell has a specific name identifying it's location by row number and column ID name.
End Rhyme: An end rhyme is when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
Internal Rhyme: An internal rhyme is a rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.
Near rhyme: A near rhyme in when the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly.
Rhyme Scheme: A rhyme scheme is the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
add tables to my documents
format a table
create a table to identify a rhyme scheme in a poem
You can play and pause this video demo, and/or use the steps below.
1. Open your poem document
2. Go to the bottom of your document and space down two more lines, and add a horizontal line (insert menu).
3. Copy and paste the Title of the Poem and select it and make it a Title Style.
4. Space down a line and Insert > Table > and make it 3 columns wide and as many rows as your poem has down.
5. Copy the first line of the poem into the first cell of the table, leaving the next two columns empty. Then continue to copy each line of the poem into the rows of the table below that.
6. Type the last word of each line into the second column for every line.
7. Now use the rhyming scheme information from the video to identify the scheme, starting with the letter A.
8. When you are finished, select the table (right-click, cmd-click, or shift-click) and select Table Properties. Remember you can undo any setting you apply and don't like.
Make the Table border a different color and wider (3 pts)
Change the Cell background color
Try changing the vertical alignment to see what that does
Try changing the Table Alignment
Try changing the Cell padding
In this Quest you will learn about some “SWEET” TOOLS to help you when doing different Quest activities. These tools will also help you be more productive in your daily schoolwork.
Text-to-speech (TTS): TTS is a type of assistive technology that reads digital text aloud. It's sometimes called “read aloud” technology. With a click of a button or the touch of a finger, TTS can take words on a computer or other digital device and convert them into audio.
Speech-to-text (STT): Speech-to-text is the process of converting speech input into digital text, based on speech recognition.
Translate: To translate something is when you turn text into your own language into another language or vice versa.
Online Dictionaries: Online dictionaries are dictionaries that are available on the Internet or World Wide Web and accessed through a Web browser using a computer or a mobile device, primarily by typing a query term into a search box on the site.
Use text-to-speech to read the text out loud in a Google document
Use my voice to dictate the text into a Google document
Use the features of Immersive Reader
Locate and use the online dictionary
Use built-in features to translate text to and from another language
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