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Google Docs Tutorial. Activity 1: Sharing and Collaborating on a Document 1. Click on All Items in your left navigation menu to show all the items that you have in your Google Docs account. Select which one you would like to share with another person by clicking the checkbox in front of the document. Then click on the More Actions button on the Menu bar and select Share. 2. Please note: If you'd like to allow Collaborators to add and delete other collaborators and/or viewers, select the checkbox next to Collaborators may invite others under Advanced permissions. 3. 4. WSFCS / Glogster. Using Voicethread for Writing Ideas and for Peer Marking | edte. In the past week or so our literacy work has focused on a short sequence from the comic Spiderman #1.

Our Superheroes topic is going well and in this post I explain how we have used Voicethread as a creation tool, a writing scaffold and as a way to do peer marking. We began with the sequence in the comic where Peter is attending a science fair at a local school and is bitten by spider that has been zapped by one of the radiation machines on show. I wanted the short 5 panel sequence to be the focus of an extended narrative. I liked the tight focus on a few moments and the action and comic imagery would really help us to write some interesting narrative.

To begin with we made some notes about the short sequence as a whole class, mainly key words, things that just jumped out from the images and from the facial expressions of Peter. The next step was to import the five panels from the comic you can see in the above image into Voicethread. In short the sequence looked like this: