21Things4Students Thing 4

QUEST 1

KEY VOCABULARY:

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.

KEY CONCEPT: (Notes)

If you spelled a word incorrectly or had bad grammar you can tapped on it and hit right click and tap the first thing that tells the correct grammar or correct word. To copy and paste, you overline the link at the top if you are copying that certain thing OR you overline the words you want to copy and hit "Ctrl C" and to paste it you hit "Ctrl V".

QUEST 2

KEY VOCABULARY

• 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.

KEY CONCEPT: (Notes)

Open your Robert Frost poem document created in Quest 1 and saved in your Google Drive.

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.

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.

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).

QUEST 3

KEY VOCABULARY

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

KEY CONCEPT: (Notes)

To copy a file you click on the file and request to download and save it to your own device. PDF or "Portable Document Format" is a file able to be opened by almost any computing device without having to purchase special software.

QUEST 4

KEY VOCABULARY

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.

KEY CONCEPT: (Notes)

Return to the browser tab or window showing the picture of leaves on Pics4Learning website. To Copy the Citation: Copy the information provided in the table below the picture titled Citation, and paste it below the picture in your poem document. The images on the pics4learning website are free to use for educational purposes; however, you should always give credit to the photographer. You may need to space down a few times after the picture.

QUEST 5

KEY VOCABULARY

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.

KEY CONCEPT: (Notes)

Open your poem document. Go to the bottom of your document and space down two more lines, and add a horizontal line (insert menu). Copy and paste the Title of the Poem and select it and make it a Title Style. Space down a line and Insert > Table > and make it 3 columns wide and as many rows as your poem has down. 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. Type the last word of each line into the second column for every line. Now use the rhyming scheme information from the video to identify the scheme, starting with the letter A. 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.

QUEST 6

KEY VOCABULARY

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.

KEY CONCEPT: (Notes)

To have a bot read over your assay or paragraph you must go to the chrome store and install the read and write thing. Go to your intensions and click read and write for it to read your words. The speech to text feature is really helpful because you won't need to write all the words. And how to use that feature is too click tools, hit the click to speech and then it will show a box that has the microphone and you hit that and start saying what you want on the document. Also be sure to click allow when you tap on the microphone so you can use it. The dictionary is in tools and it will show you what the word means when you highlight that certain word. But the better way to find the word definition in the dictionary is too just type it in. And to translate your words is too hit the tools then click on "translate document". (It translate the whole document) When you tap the translate document in tools you have to choose the language you are translating it too.