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5th Grade Teacher

Harmon Elementary

Lakeview Public Schools

www.rbschneider.net

Submitting Your Action Research Tutorial

Tutorial Objectives: 3 Steps

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Saving your document to the proper formatDigitally submit your Action Research

paper: Due Date 05.07.10Respond to 3 assigned projects as a

reviewer: Due Date 05.18.10

Save as a .DOC NOT .DOCX

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If you are using a version of Microsoft Word before 2007, then you are all set!

If you are using Microsoft Word 2007, be sure to save it as a Word 1997-2003 document.

Summary of Document Submission

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Basically, you are logging into Blackboard and creating a discussion board thread with an attachment.

You have been given a username and password. Your username is gal.last name followed by your first name. The password is simply…password. All letters are in lowercase and without spaces.

Example…Mine would be:Username: gal.schneiderbobPassword: password

Submitting Your Project – 1 of 5

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Go to http://galileo.resa.net. Do not enter www.

Click on the login button at the top of the window.

Enter your username and password. Then click the login button.

Within the navigation bar to the left, click on the button that says discussion board.

Submitting Your Project – 2 of 5

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On your screen, you will see names of school districts. If you don’t see yours, you will need to click the arrow to navigate to page 2.

Click on the name of your district.

Submitting Your Project – 3 of 5

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Click on the button that says create thread.

In the subject box, enter your name, followed by the name of your action research project.

Submitting Your Project – 4 of 5

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In the message box enter, “Please download my action research document, and then Reply to this message with your input.”

Click on the attach file link.

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Locate your action research document on your computer, select it, and click on the Open button.

Click on Submit.Click on Submit again.Click on Submit one more time.You should now see your document

thread listed within the forum for your district.

Responding to Colleagues – 1 of 2

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Be sure to login first.Click on the district name.Click on the name of the person you are

going to view.Locate the link to the action research

document (near the bottom of the page) and click to download.

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After reading the document, click on the Reply button at the top of the page

Enter your comments in the message boxWhen you are finished, click on SubmitRepeat this process for the other action

research reports you are to review.