Skill Builder

Saving Dynamic PDFs to a Mac/Apple computer

Single Button Mouse Click Method (right click)

• Place your cursor over the pdf link.
  
  
• Press and hold the Control button and click on the pdf link.
  
  
• (The control button is located on the bottom left row of your keyboard, between the FN and Option buttons.)
  
  
• Select 'Download Linked File As', or 'Download Linked File', or 'Save Link', or 'Save Target as'
  
  
• Save the PDF to your computer.

Enabling the Two-Finger Clicks or Trackpad Method

• WikiHow - Enabling Two-Finger Clicks or using the Trackpad

Searches

How to search on the Internet

• Google Safe Search
  
  
• EduPlace Using the Web
  
  
• How to Search for Internet Information
  
  
• How to Search with Quotations in Google
  
  
• Boolean searching
  
  
• Boolify site
  
  
• How to Search the Internet Effectively
  
  
• Basic search tips
  
  
• Yahoo Search Safety Guide
  
  
• Ask

Searches

How to decide if a website is reliable

• 2Learn.ca 'NetCheck Website Evaluation Tool for Grades 4-6 Students
  
  
• EduPlace Finding and Evaluating Websites


• CARS checklist


• USC: Evaluating Websites


• Lee College, Texas: How Can I Tell if a Website is Reliable?


• Website Evaluation Wizard


• Is it safe?

Searches

How to search the Internet for images

• 2Learn.ca Image Gallery


• YouTube: Simple Creative Commons image search


• Yahoo! Image Search Safety Guide


• Pics4Learning


• Free Digital Photos


• Phillip Martin Clip Art


• Discovery Education’s Clip Art Gallery


• Wikimedia Open Clipart


• Wikimedia Images


• The Daily Egg: 8 Places to find royalty free images


• Copyright Friendly


• Flickr Creative Commons


• Get Royalty Free Images with Flickr


• How to search Google for Royalty Free images


• How to Find Free Images for Your Website or Blog

Google Docs

How to use Google Docs

• YouTube: Google Docs in Plain English
  
  
• YouTube: Google Docs How to Tutorial 2012
  
  
• How to download a file from Google Drive to your computer
  
  
• How to insert pictures in Google Docs
  
  
• How to use a spreadsheet in Google Drive
  
  
• How to collaborate online
  
  
  • YouTube: Google Docs in the Classroom
    
    
  • About sharing in Google Docs
    
    
  • YouTube: Google Docs Sharing and Collaboration
    
    
• How to create a diagram in Google Docs
  
  
• Youtube: How to construct a Venn diagram in Google Docs
  
  
• How to use Google Slides
  
  
  • YouTube: How to use Google Slides
    
  • How to use Google Slides
    
    
  • Using Google Slides

Google Drawing

How to use Google Drawing

• Intro to Google Drawing YouTube video
  
  
• YouTube: How to use Google Drawing
  
  
• Google Docs: Create a Drawing
  
  
• How to use text in drawings
  
  
• Insert a drawing into another doc type

Online Tools

How to use PowerPoint

• K5 Computer Lab: Learn PowerPoint in One Minute
  
  
• Basic tasks in PowerPoint 2010
  
  
• PowerPoint in the Classroom
  
  
• YouTube: How to create a slide master
  
  
• YouTube: How to Use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
  
  
• YouTube: How to use PowerPoint 2010
  
  
• Tutorials for PowerPoint by topic

Online Tools

How to use Animoto

• YouTube: How to Use Animoto


• YouTube: How to Create an Animoto Video

Online Tools

How to use Windows Movie Maker

• Microsoft site: Movie Maker
  
  
• ReadWriteThink: Tips for Using Windows MovieMaker
  
  
• YouTube: Windows MovieMaker: tutorial for kids
  
  
• YouTube: How to Import PowerPoint Presentation to Windows Movie Maker

Online Tools

How to use Photo Story

• Microsoft site: Create your first photo story
  
  
  • Microsoft Download Centre Photo Story 3 for Windows
    
    
• K5 Computer Lab: One Minute PhotoStory Slideshow Tutorial
  
  
• YouTube: Photo Story 3 Tutorial
  
  
• Using Microsoft Photostory 3
  
  
• How to use Photostory 3
  
  
• Digital Storytelling: Photo Story 3 Tutorial
  
  
• SlideShare: How to Photo Story

Online Tools

How to use PhotoPeach

• YouTube: PhotoPeach1


• YouTube: PhotoPeach 2


• iMovie 08: PhotoStory for Mac

Online Tools

How to use VoiceThread

• SlideShare VoiceThread Instructions for Young Children


• What is a VoiceThread anyway?


• YouTube: Introduction to using VoiceThread


• How to Use Voice Thread

Online Tools

How to use Glogster

• YouTube: Introduction to Glogster


• YouTube: Create Your First Glog


• YouTube: Glogster EDU Tutorial – online learning tool


• YouTube: Glogster EDU Tutorial


• YouTube: How to create a multimedia poster in Glogster


• YouTube: Glogster in 90 Seconds


• YouTube: How to log in to your account (for the first time)


• SchoolTube: How to use Glogster EDU


• Technology4kids site: Glogster

Online Tools

How to use Wordle

• How to use Wordle


• YouTube: Wordle – part 1: the basics


• YouTube: Wordle tutorial


• YouTube: Wordle – part 2: Extending Wordle a Bit More


• YouTube: How to Make and Save a Wordle.net Word Cloud

Online Tools - Yenka

How to use Yenka Gears; Yenka Electricity, and Magnetism

• Go to: http://www.yenka.com/ and click Yenka Help-download Yenka
  
  
• Download to your computer
  
  
• Open Yenka and click Activate Yenka
  
  
• Type in the school activation key: 2204-8552-4399
  
  
• Ready to use.

Online Tools - LearnAlberta

How to use LearnAlberta

• Alberta Education LearnAlberta.ca


• Username: LA48


• Password: 1958


• YouTube: How to use LearnAlberta


• Alberta Education LearnAlberta.ca FAQs

Writing Skills

How to write a paragraph

• BBC Interactive Game Features of Paragraphs


• About.com How to Write a Paragraph


• YouTube: Teaching the Hamburger Paragraph


• YouTube: Building a Paragraph Hamburger Style


• YouTube: Paragraph Song and Lesson – intro to writing paragraphs


• Paragraphs


• How to Write a Paragraph


• Paragraph Punch


• YouTube: The Five Finger Paragraph: The Writing Police and the Case of the Bad Essays

Writing Skills

How to write a friendly letter

• YouTube: How to write a friendly letter


• BBC Interactive Game Formal and Informal Letters


• eHow video Write a Friendly Letter


• Walter L. Parsley Elementary School Writing a Friendly or Personal Letter


• Oswego City School District Elementary Test Prep Centre Steps to writing a Friendly Letter


• Friendly letter template

Writing Skills

How to write a blog entry

• BrainPop Blogs


• What is a wiki?
  

• Fair use, copyright and introduction to using images


• Blogging Lesson Plans

Writing Skills

How to write a journal entry

• wikiHow: Journaling for School
  
  
• Keeping a Field Journal

Writing Skills

How to write a news article

• YouTube: How to Write a News Story


• How to write a newspaper article
  
  
• Learning About Writing a News Report


• Time for Kids Homework Helper: News Story

Writing Skills

How to write a headline

• Five simple ideas for headline writing


• Scholastic News Writing: Headlines and Revisions


• Newspaper Game for Kids
  


• wikiHow: How to write effective headlines

Writing Skills

How to write a brochure

• K5 Computer Lab: A simple tri-fold brochure template for students


• eHow: How kids can create a brochure


• eHow: How to make a travel brochure for kids


• About.com Creating a powerful brochure


• About.com Accordian folds


• About.com Desktop Publishing: Brochure


• About.com Double gatefold

• Microsoft: Apply themes to Word 2007

• YouTube: Applying themes in Word 2010
  

Writing Skills

How to write a report

• Scholastic: Write a winning research report


• Mrs. Walker’s 4th Grade: Research Reports


• An Introduction to Research Writing for 4th Grade


• Teacher Vision: How to write a research paper

• Research Paper scaffolding

• YouTube: 6 Steps to a Research Paper (for elementary students)
  

Writing Skills

How to write a persuasive argument

• Persuasive Writing


• Time for Kids Homework Helper: Persuasive Essay


• ReadWriteThink Persuasion Map Planning Sheet


• Interactive tool


• Persuasive Strategy Definitions worksheet


• Writing to Persuade


• Persuasive Sentence Starters

Writing Skills

How to write an acrostic poem

• Bruce Lansky interesting examples


• Poetry 4 Kids How to write an acrostic


• ReadWriteThink What is an acrostic poem?


• Xtranormal video on YouTube: How to write an acrostic poem


• JogLab: What is an acrostic poem?


• JogLab: Acrostic Poetry word finder tool

Writing Skills

How to write a haiku

• How to write a ‘haiku’ poem


• Online game: Haiku Hero


• PBS Kids: Haiku Builder


• abcTeach: Haiku template


• Poetry4Kids: How to write a haiku


• YouTube: Writing Lessons: How to write a haiku


• Imagination Soup: Teach your child how to write a haiku

Research Skills

How to search for books in the library

• How to find books in the library
  
  
• Dewey Decimal Classification System list
  
  
• YouTube: Bob the Alien Discovers the Dewey Decimal System
  
  
• Alberta’s urban libraries
  
  
  • Airdrie Public Library (also part of the Marigold Library System)
    
    
  • Calgary Public Library
    
    
  • Edmonton Public Library
    
    
  • Fort McMurray Public Library
    
    
  • Grande Prairie Public Library (also part of the Peace Library System)
    
    
  • Lethbridge Public Library (also part of the Chinook Arch Regional Library System)
    
    
  • Medicine Hat Public Library (also part of the Shortgrass Library System)
    
    
  • Red Deer Public Library
    
    
  • St Albert Public Library
    
    
  • Strathcona County Library
    
    
• Alberta Regional Library Regions map
  
  
  • Chinook Arch Regional Library System
    
    
  • Marigold Library System
    
    
  • Northern Lights Library System
    
    
  • Parkland Regional Library
    
    
  • Peace Library System
    
    
  • Shortgrass Library System
    
    
  • Yellowhead Regional Library
    
    
• TAL Online (The Alberta Library)

Research Skills

How to complete a KWHL chart

• KWL Charts
  

• Upgrade KWL to the 21st Century
• The Notebooking Fairy: KWL Chart
• Enchanted Learning: KWHL Chart
  

Research Skills

How to prepare for and conduct an interview

• ReadWriteThink How to Interview a Relative


• Scholastic How to conduct an interview


• The Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide


• About.com Homework/Study Tips: How to Interview


• Tips for interviewing


• Thirty tips on how to interview like a journalist

Research Skills

Access Alberta Newspaper sites

• Alberta Sweetgrass: Alberta's Aboriginal News Publication
  
  
• Calgary Herald Online
  
  
• The Calgary Sun Online
  
  
• The Cold Lake Sun
  
  
• The Edmonton Sun Online
  
  
• Fort McMurray Today Online
  
  
• The Globe and Mail Web Centre
  
  
• Lethbridge Herald
  
  
• Medicine Hat News
  
  
• National Post Online
  
  
• Red Deer Advocate

Research Skills

How to complete a Venn diagram

• How to make a Venn diagram in Microsoft Word


• eHow: How to use a Venn diagram


• ReadWriteThink Venn Diagram Interactive


• YouTube: How to create a Venn Diagram in Word and PowerPoint


• YouTube: Venn Diagrams

Research Skills

How to use a P-M-I chart

• Plus, Minus, Interesting
  

Research Skills

How to write point form notes

• YouTube: Trash and Treasure Words


• YouTube: Taking Notes, 4th Grade Social Studies


• YouTube: Taking Notes, 5th Grade Social Studies


• Note taking with BrainPop

Research Skills

How to write a bulleted list

• How to create a bulleted or numbered list in Word
  
  
• How to create a picture bulleted list in Word

Research Skills

How to complete a mind map

• YouTube: How to make a mindmap


• YouTube: How to create a mind map

Research Skills

How to cite sources and avoid plagiarism

• Avoid plagiarism


• BrainPop: Citing Sources


• Bibliography Help


• Library of Congress Copyright Exposed


• Copyright Kids


• Son of Citation Machine


• EasyBib


• Citation Maker


• Pathfinder: Creating a Bibliography


• RWT Citation Checklist


• Citation Checker

Research Skills

How to generate a timeline

• Timeline tool on ReadWriteThink


• Timeline Maker on SoftSchools.com


• Time Glider

Research Skills

Other Resources

• ThinkTank: Narrow Your Topic


• BrainPop: Prewriting: Choosing a Topic


• BrainPop: Prewriting: Organizing Your Thoughts


• BrainPop: Paraphrasing


• Graphic Organizer Maker

Assessment Skills

How to provide and use feedback

• Study Guides and Strategies: Using Feedback
  
  
• 9 Guidelines for Giving and Receiving Feedback
  
  
• Giving and Receiving Feedback: A Guide to the use of Peers in Self Assessment
  
  
• ReadWriteThink Peer Editing Tutorial

Assessment Skills

How to select an answer for multiple choice questions

• Answering Multiple Choice Questions
  
  
• Multiple choice tests tips
  
  
• How to answer multiple choice questions
  
  

Math- Bar Graph

How to construct a bar graph

• KidZone Create a Graph
• YouTube: How to create a bar graph in Google Docs
• YouTube: Making a column graph using Excel 2010
• Think Science: How to make a bar graph
  
• Math is Fun: Make a bar graph

Science

How to write a hypothesis

• Science Buddies:
  
  
• Key Info for writing hypotheses


• A Strong Hypothesis


• Science Kids at Home: What is a Hypothesis?


• YouTube: How to write a good hypothesis

Science

How to design an experiment

• Science Kids at Home: Experiment Design


• Crystal Clear Science Fair Projects: Designing Science Experiments

Social Studies

How to use a legend

• Geography for Kids: The Key to Understanding Maps


• eHow: How to read the legend and symbols on a map


• Map legend symbols

Social Studies

How to use map skills

• Tune in to Learning: Mapping the Road


• StudyZone: Interpreting Maps


• National Geographic Xpeditions: Guide to Mapmaking