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Fayette County’s Literary Book Club has a new look and three new styles!
Elementary, middle and high school versions of the Literary Book Club are now
featured as a part of the new content “umbrellas” within The Point, Fayette County’s
blogspace. The Literary Book Club provides a safe and motivating environment for
students to publish reviews of literature as well as read and comment on reviews
written by peers. The content “umbrella” provides step by step assistance, examples
and templates for struggling writers. Once logged in, teachers can use the Quick
Assignment feature in The Point to quickly disperse a Literary Book Club task to their
students. Teachers have full control over which student writing pieces can be
included in the Literary Book Club. New features include the ability to embed
multimedia, documents, images and links within a review as well as total teacher
control over security issues such as visibility of the student work and who can
comment.
To access the Literary Book Clubs:
Go to: https://edtech.fcps.net/blog/
Find the menu located on the right of the screen and click the word “umbrellas”
The Literary Book Clubs are listed along with other “content umbrellas”
Using LBC
In order to use the Literary Book Club, there are some preliminary steps you need to
take.
1. Make sure the students who are going to participate have their Active
Directory accounts turned on. Your school’s STC will be able to do this.
2. You will need to log in and create a class in The Point.
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3. Your students will need to log into The Point.
4. You will need to log back in to The Point and add students to your class.
Creating a class in The Point
1. Log into The Point : https://edtech.fcps.net/blog/ using your Fayette County
username and password (the same for logging into a machine or accessing
webmail).
2. If this is the first time you have logged into The Point, you will be asked some
questions. If you get stuck, you can click on the button: located on
the top right hand side of the screen.
Security Settings: The security setting you choose here will become your
default security settings. However, you can change the settings for any
assignment or any blog you manage when or after you created it, so
settings here are simply a convenience
Visibility: Who is allowed to see the blog
Entries: Who is allowed to make writing entries on a blog
Comments: Who is allowed to leave comments on blog entries
3. You will need to click on “manage classes” located in the menu on the
right part of the screen.
4. In the box for class name, delete the “suggested name format” and
give your class a name (Mrs. Prater’s 4th grade at Happy Elementary),
type in the grade level and click “Add New”
Type your class name
here. Type your grade
level(s) here.
Example: K-1, 6-8
5. The class will appear in the list below along with some option buttons.
Edit: Use to edit the name of the class, the grade or to lock the class from
participating in assignments
Delete: Use to delete the class
Membership: Use to add students, remove students, add moderators and delete
moderators.
Assignments: Use to view assignments given to the class
The class is now created, but is empty. You will now need to add students.
Adding students to the class
Students can be added in three ways.
First way- If students have never logged into The Point before
1. Your students need to log into The Point: https://edtech.fcps.net/blog/
2. Your students will need to answer some questions, one of which is selecting a
teacher at their school. Have the students select you. Students will also need
to select a display name. Review internet safety guidelines with students for
creating these display names.
Teachers
associated with
their school will
appear in a drop
down list.
3. You will need to log back into The Point.
4. On “My Home”, under the section “New Students”, you will see a list of
students who selected you. Next, assign these students to the appropriate
class.
Use the drop
down arrow to
select the
class, then
click “click to
assign” to add
student.
Second way- If students have logged into The Point
1. Have your students log into The Point: https://edtech.fcps.net/blog/
2. Students need to click on “My Profile”
3. Students need to select your name and click “click to notify the teacher”.
4. You will need to log back into The Point.
5. On “My Home”, under the section “New Students”, you will see a list of
students who selected you. Next, assign these students to the appropriate
class.
Third Way- If students have logged into The Point
Once a students has logged in, you can add students to any of your
classes through “Manage Classes”
1. You will need to log into The Point: https://edtech.fcps.net/blog/
2. Click on “Manage Classes”
3. Find the class that you want to add students to and click “membership”
4. Select your school using the drop down menu.
5. Select the students using the drop down menu and click their name to add.
The name will appear at the bottom.
6. You may also select a teacher monitor
7. To delete a student, click the “delete” button. This will just delete the student
from this class.
Assigning Literary Book Club
Once you have created a class and students have been added, you are ready to give
the students an assignment.
To assign Literary Book Club:
1. You need to log into The Point: https://edtech.fcps.net/blog/
2. Click on “quick assignment” from the menu on the left
3. Click on “Instant Content Umbrella”
4. Use the drop down arrow for “instant assignment” to select the appropriate LBC
5. Use the drop down arrow to select class.
5. Click "Personal" if you want each student to work separately on this
assignment on his/her own blog page. Click "Group" if you want all students
receiving this assignment to go to the same blog page (it will be your blog).
Click “Create Assignment”
Security Settings:
These settings are automatically brought forward from the default settings you set
when you first registered, or updated through "My Profile." The format is
"V)isibility/E)ntries/C)omments," with a sign representing approval posting. For
brief review of these settings, see the bottom of this page. For a full description of
the meaning of these settings, see the "Get help..." page for any blog, or from
"Manage Assignments." You can change these settings at any time through
"Manage Assignments."
Students accessing and completing assignment
1. When the students log into the point, they will see the assignment that you
have given them. The student will need to click on the link.
Literary Book Club
Assignments will
appear here. To
access assignment,
have student click
on the link.
2. The student will be looking at a blank blog entry page. Students can receive a
“step by step” scaffold for creating their LBC book review. This process was
used in the old LBC. To access “step by step help” the student needs to click
on the icon located on the left hand side of the screen.
Click “Step by Step
Help” to access the
writing scaffold.
3. Student will need to click on “Start Step by Step Help”
4. Students answer each step by typing in the box. When they are finished with
that step, click “save down”. They can go back and edit a part by clicking the
“edit” button.
5. The last step will be for the students to give their review a title. Then click “I’m
Done!”
Give the review
a title and then
click
“I’m Done!”
6. A message will appear regarding step by step help. Click “OK”.
7. The student will see the scaffold entries appear together in one blog. The
student can still edit the blog by clicking on the “edit” link at the bottom.
Approving the student entry for LBC
The final step is approving the student’s book review for posting in the Literary
Book Club.
1. You will need to log into The Point: https://edtech.fcps.net/blog/
2. Any new activity will appear on the teacher’s My Home screen. Under “Recent
Activity”. Student work can also be accessed by clicking on “Manage
Assignments”, finding the LBC assignment and clicking on “blogs” button.
3. Click on the link to access the student’s blog.
4. After reading the student blog entry, click “Click to feature in”
Once clicked, you have the option of removing the entry.
The blog is now featured in the Literary Book Club.
Note about security….again….
Please pay close attention to how you have securities set for your assignments.
Based on how you have the security set, the general public can view and post
comments to your blogs, including LBC. You can check the security settings for
any assignment by clicking on “manage assignments”, locating the assignment
you want to check and then click the “edit” button. If you need help with security
settings, you can click the “Get Help for This Page” button at the top.
