[MUSIC PLAYING] Communication is the heart
of human interaction. Currently, because of the
advancement of technology, modern communication is not
limited to simply the written word. Instead, it is multimodal,
spoken, written, visual, in print, or digital forms. In addition to needing
to read and understand the information
they are exposed to, they are also expected to
be able to clearly convey their thoughts and
analysis to others. Because of the proliferation
of digital and print, the need for effective
communication is no longer confined to
the humanities classes. Instead, to be college
and career ready it is important for students to
be able to communicate clearly, and persuasively, with a variety
of audiences and subjects. Sometimes their presentations
are in person, at other times, students must be able to
create a professional looking product that can be published
in a blog or magazine. Word Online can help students
create professional documents ready for publishing, no
matter what the content area. Really? How so? Can you show me a lesson
where your students have used Word Online to
create a professional document? Absolutely. My students just
finished an art project, in which I asked them to
create a piece of artwork that captured their happiest moment. Once they had created
the piece of art, I asked the students
to describe, one, their personal
narrative about that moment, two, how they created
their piece of art, and three, how the art brought
their happiest moment to life. They then turned their
responses into blog posts. The end products are
shaping up nicely, everyone is finishing
their post this week. Wow, this one was beautiful. What features in
Word Online helped them create, and publish
a blog that looks like a professional did it? Let me have one of my
students walk us through it. When I logged into Office
365, I created a Word document by clicking on the word tile. There are templates to
choose from where I can start from the blank document. Because I knew I
was creating a blog, I scrolled down to the
bottom of the templates, and clicked on see
more templates, which took me to a new page where I
typed blog in the search box. I found a template
for a personal journal that I felt would be a good
fit for the assignment. I clicked on it
in browser and got started while the
templates offered me a few headings for the post,
I needed to add another one. Just like that, Word
online let me type a heading for this section. Once I finished writing
my post, Word Online has a digital writing assistant,
called editor, that helped me. One of my weaknesses
the spelling, and I love that editor pointed
out my misspelled words. But what I love even
more, is that it helped me with words that sound the same. The editor is smart
and read my sentence, and pointed out when I was
possibly using the wrong word. For example, here I
have the word pair, but it's used incorrectly. It should be spelled P-A-I-R,
and the editor showed me that. This is very...
