On 3/24/10, Joshua Cox wrote: > I am currently in school to become a high school computer > teacher at MCC and I was wondering what the best way to go > about teaching basic skills with MS Word, Excel, ect. > without having the lesson be too dry. I feel as though > most students are fimiliar with the basics of these > programs, although I would be required to teacher it for > those students who are not. And I was wondering if anyone > had any fun ideas for lesson plans.
Josh, The office suite can be a lot of fun to teach if you incorporate real life skills to it. To teach word and have them create signs to promote their own businesses using clip art.
For excel-Teach them how to calculate how much they would make from a summer job using a basic formula
For PowerPoint-Have them create a picture slideshow featuring something they enjoy using sound effects and transitions. I taught this as a summer school class and it turned out to be fun. Good Luck. -Rick
Would someone help me to import 4 pictures to a page? I know how to get the pictures and put them on a page, but they are all different sizes and lengths. Is there a way to line them up without cropping each one? Thanks in advance.
East End Long IslanderSome photo programs let you make a collage and you can move around your pix to fit or overlap as you want. I often insert pix into a word document, make 2 columns, turn the paper landscape or leave it portrait and widen the margins, depending upon what works ... or change the pix so they float and then I can resize and overlap as needed.
The 9th grade computer class I have is finishing up HTML and I'm trying to find something simple and interesting enough to keep their attention for 2 days before break. I've done wordle with them..any other ideas?
I'm a grad student in BCIT. I've been PC my entire career. I'm seeing some schools with MAC's. Is this due to better funding help from Apple? Shall I be prepared for a possible transition?
The GUI is not that different an...See MoreElementaries use lots of Macs, Middle and Secondary schools use both, Macs are better for general use, art, music and "film or TV production"... Mac's run Office, Star Office and Neo Office are Open Source apps that read/write Microsoft Suite formats.
Business and some libraries have PC machines.
The GUI is not that different and since you'll be in a work environment (not doing/worrying about your own tech support) don't be to concerned about which computer OS you "drive" at school.
Good Luck,
N.
On 4/15/10, Pc Ma student wrote: > I'm a grad student in BCIT. I've been PC my entire > career. I'm seeing some schools with MAC's. Is this due > to better funding help from Apple? Shall I be prepared for > a possible transition? > > Thanks
I would Google what you are looking for but be more specific. If you are looking for a word processing exercise then search for Word (Microsoft OR Processing) lesson plan. If you are looking for a spreadsheet lesson then Google (Excel OR spreadsheet) lesson plan. You may want to change lesson plan to activity or directions.
Microsoft has some lesson plans at their website.
On 4/28/10, Stephanie wrote: > Where can I find good lesson plans for my Computer > Applications class?
No tech ability required, no knowledge of editing software required
On 4/30/10, Not a computer teacher, just desperate. wrote: > We're doing a spring tea. One of the teachers gave me a cd > with her kids singing on it to use during an activity. There > are some distracting, loud sounds for about the first 40 > seconds.I have saved the song to my computer, would like to > edit it, and save it to another cd. My son had downloaded > some cutter-joiner software with the categories begin, end, > okay, split, join, stop but I don't know exactly what to do > with it (and he's away until June).Got any ideas? > Advance thank you, > Milijana