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Hanya recommends using ** Office Word Readability statistics ** – below, so that you can ** reduce the amount of text ** for an ESL/literacy needs student. ** Autosummarize **, a Word 2003-2007 feature, is also given below by Lynda. ** Office Word 2010 Readability statistics: ** []  When Microsoft Office Word finishes checking the spelling and grammar, you can choose to display information about the reading level of the document, including readability scores according to the following tests:  · Flesch Reading Ease  · This test rates text on a 100-point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. For most standard files, you want the score to be between 60 and 70.   · Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level  · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This test rates text on a U.S. school grade level. For example, a score of 8.0 means that an eighth grader can understand the document. For most documents, aim for a score of approximately 7.0 to 8.0. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to enable: <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1. Drop down the ** File menu to Options > Proofing **. Make sure **Check grammar with spelling** is selected. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 1.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. Under **When correcting grammar in Word**, select the **Show readability statistics** check box. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">// <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Before conducting readability statistics on a text, you might wish to reduce the size of the text by using Autosummarize. // <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Autosummarize ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You have to add it onto the Quick Access Toolbar.

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button image or File tabe, and then click Word Options. (OR You can right click on any of the tabs and select Customize Quick Access Toolbar. This skips you to step 3.) 2. Click Customize. 3. In the list under Choose commands from, click All Commands. 4. Scroll through the list of commands until you see AutoSummary Tools. 5. Click AutoSummary Tools, and then click Add. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">= = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> = = ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010 and related products  ** = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-and-related-products-HA101794130.aspx <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Anti-plagiarism ideas ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As well as many of the sites below strengthening students’ referencing and anti-plagiarism skills, some tips from CLANS members were: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">‘What if someone took the content from your Facebook page and put it on their own site as is? How would you feel? Upset? Why, your content is publicly viewable. Oh, you’d like that person to acknowledge that you created it all first and they got it from your site…..” (Robyn, St Aloysius) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If you wrote your own book, what would be your title? Author? Where published? When? Etc. Then work back from that to create a bibliographic record <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bibliography ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Jim Sheridan recommends ** Word 2010 > Reference. **Instructions - <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> == <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Angus Pearson recommends <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">SLASA Harvard Online Referencing Generator <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  == <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lynda: There is also a Bibliography site at // ergo – //which is highly utilized according toState Library Victoria statistics <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Book Trailers ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lynda: Samples and how-to’s on // insideadog // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;">** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Directly Send Word 2010 Document To PowerPoint 2010 ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lynda has found this handy on the old Word 2003, but hasn’t tried 2010 yet: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">NB in the Word document, set up the main headings and other content with proper indentation, as shown on the // addictivetips // website. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Glogster **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">– interactive poster-making - <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sharon Hayes is using glogster (professional version, $99 p.a., makes monitoring a whole class-usage so much easier) for Year 7 literature/book experiences. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> See Glenda Morris’ (OLMC) fabulous blog post on // glogster // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Neil’s Toolbox **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> was recommended for its variety of useful links <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

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** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Wallwisher - **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> an online noticeboard maker <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Robyn Knowles (St Aloysius) uses Wallwisher with Yr 7s to make a brief note on what’s really good about a book they’ve read – why someone else should read it - and put one image or link into their online post-it note. They don’t use their proper names as it’s public access – they use nickname.