Mr. Levine's ClassDigitools and Infotech1st Quarter 2005-2006
Old Assignments:
Monday, October 24: Microsoft Office Basics
Read pages 6-10 and identify key terms.
Today we start using the textbook Leaning Microsoft Office 2000. You should know these terms:
menu toolbar dialog box title bar minimize button maximize button restore button close button parts of a dialog box tabs list box drop-down list box check box option button text box spin box shortcut menu
We also start our first Journal writing.
I will stop by your computer and assess your knowledge of these terms
Tuesday, October 25: Memos, AutoCorrect and AutoText
Read Exercise 3, pages 39-41 and do the exercise on page 41. Don’t do the On Your Own portion.
I will stop by your computer and look at your results. You get 2 points for doing the exercise.
Wednesday, October 26: MicroType
Today is a short day. Finish up old assignments and work on MicroType.
Thursday, October 27: Block business letters
Read Exercise 4, pages 43-44 and do the exercise on page 45. Don’t do the On Your Own portion.
I will stop by your computer and look at your results. You get 3 points for doing the exercise.
Friday, October 28: Modified-block business letters and Tabs
Read Exercise 5, pages 47-50 and do the exercise on page 50. Don’t do the On Your Own portion.
I will stop by your computer and look at your results. You get 3 points for doing this exercise.
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Monday, October 31: Letter Offering a Job
Today you will compose your own letter using the modified block business letter format.
Using your imagination, you will write a letter from a fictitious company that offers someone a job for which they have applied.
Guidelines:
1) Make up the name of a company and decide what the company’s business is. 2) Make up the job that you’re offering. 3) Make up the name of the person getting the job. 4) Use the modified block business letter format on page 51. 5) The letter will have several paragraphs and fill up most of one page. 6) You will use good grammar and spelling. 7) The letter should look like it might come from a real company.
We will have a class discussion to decide some things that should go into every offer letter.
Copy the assignment into my outbox. This assignment is worth 5 points.
Thursday, November 3: Various Microsoft Word Features
We’re going to move quickly through the next several sections in the textbook. The exercises aren’t very interesting and don’t use the new features very effectively.
I’ll be demonstrating the following Microsoft Word features. Then I will ask you individually to demonstrate them to me.
Exercise 9 Overtype mode Open a document Recently saved document list Save a document Save a document under another name (Save As) Exercise 10 Document properties window Search on document properties Exercise 11 Delete key Home key End key Undo/Redo Exercise 12 Cut and paste Drag and Drop Move paragraph Exercise 13 Preview and print without opening a file Exercise 16 Save as a web page Web page preview
Friday, November 4: Editing practice
Exercise 17, page 99
This lesson pulls together some of the editing features we went over in the last lesson. If you have any questions about using these features (like Undo/Redo), find where they’re listed in the last lesson (Thursday, November 3) and read the exercise they’re found in (like Exercise 11 for Undo/Redo).
Exercise 17 uses the file 17THANKS. You can find it in my outbox in the “readable” folder.
I will stop by your computer and look at your results. You get 3 points for doing this exercise.
Monday, November 7: Text Alignment
Exercise 18, pages 101-103 Do the On Your Own on page 103 Do not do the exercise on page 102
Copy the assignment into my outbox. This assignment is worth 4 points.
Tuesday, November 8: Fonts
Today we’ll be doing two exercises: 19 and 20 They should go quickly – all you need to do is edit two documents.
Read Exercise 19, pages 104-106 and do the exercise on page 106. Pay close attention to the terms on page 104.
Read Exercise 20, pages 109-111. Do the exercise on page 111. Make sure to use the format painter to apply the second set of bold, blue, small caps double underline.
Exercise 19 uses the file 19POSTER. Exercise 20 uses the file 20GOALS. You can find them in my outbox in the “readable” folder. Make sure to save them in your “My Documents” folder, not in the “readable” folder.
I will stop by your computer and look at your results. You get 3 points for doing each exercise.
Wednesday, November 9: Lists
Today’s exercise is based on the On Your Own activity in Exercise 22 (page 119), there are important differences.
Follow the On Your Own steps 1-4, but make a numbered list of at least three goals. For each of the goals make a sub-list of at least two steps you can take to accomplish the goals.
Click here for more details and for an example.
Copy the assignment into my outbox. This assignment is worth 5 points.
Thursday, November 10: Catch up
This is the last day of the quarter. We started late with Microsoft Word, but I’ve been really impressed with your attitude and performance. You’ve been patient with my demands for getting the formatting just right and you’ve put a lot of imagination into your job offer letters and announcements. We’ve learned a lot in the past few weeks:
Computer terms The inside of a computer Keyboard shortcuts Business memo Auto-text Block business letter Modified block business letter Overtype mode Editing commands Clipboard commands Text alignment Fonts Lists
Spend today catching up on any missing assignments, and then work on MicroType. You will need to type at least 35 words per minute with high accuracy by the end of the next quarter.
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