This week I will start teaching MS Word to my seniors Intermediate group. Any tips on how I can liven it up? It's such a dry software to show. Usually I am very creative and can think of fun things to do. I think my brain is tired.
If you click on the little envelope next to my name (J), you should be able to send me an email. I can email you back with the files/assignments I use.
On 4/21/11, Ann wrote: > Your ideas are REALLY good. I would be interested in hearing > more. > > Take care.
I too am running out of ideas on good "FUN" projects to use for my classes. I teach grades 6-12 and could really use some new ideas! If you could forward yours to me I would really appreciate it...
On 4/15/11, J wrote: > When I teach any of the MS Office products, we'll do a lesson > from the book to learn the skills but then I do something creative! > > For example: > Mail Merge lesson is followed by creating Mad Libs > Tabs lesson is followed by creating a themed menu (w/prices for > tabs practice) > Images/shapes lesson is followed by creating a comic strip > > I've spent a long time trying to come up with fun projects to > get away from the book and allow the students to be more > creative. There's more to Word than just formatting a paper! > > Send me a message if you want more. I can send you some of the > lessons I have. > > > > On 2/06/11, Ann wrote: >> This week I will start teaching MS Word to my seniors >> Intermediate group. Any tips on how I can liven it up? It's >> such a dry software to show. Usually I am very creative and >> can think of fun things to do. I think my brain is tired. >> >> All suggestions welcome! >> >> Thank you.
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I've been really trying to make my website as user friendly as possible, but I am finding it takes a lot of time to keep it updated. I am really big on making my systems/processes efficient, but I am struggling with my website:
havwestciv if you scroll down a few posts on my site you will see the following:
all class handouts are here ( a link to evernote files)
Questions of the Day and Homework are here (a google doc that keeps this info)
1. Syllabus 2. Success 3. Questions of the Day 4. Appt Clock 5. Why Study History 6. Parts of Text Scav Hunt 7. Map of Europe (link to practice map) 8. Renaissance and Reformation 9. Scientific Rev people 10. Timeline 11. 7 philosophers 12. 7 philosophers review
(also a table of contents that has links to individual pdfs of documents)
How can I make this more manageable? What do you do?
Yes firstly are all the rooms you are to use LAN wired? T...See MoreOn 2/20/11, computergirl wrote: > I was told just the other day that due to limited space, I > will have to teach computers from a cart. Meaning, I will > have to move the laptops from room to room to teach (next > year. Has anyone ever done this? Any tips?
Yes
Yes firstly are all the rooms you are to use LAN wired? They will need to be. And having more than one LAN port would be helpful based on how many are supposed to be on line at one time.
> My concern is that it is difficult to type in a website for > the 1/2 hour classes for the young kids (K and 1st grade > especially)
You create an HTML document with the link in it so they only have to click it. They can't type, not to any degree of certainty.
and have everyone has class for a half hour. > What about traveling time?
Obveously that has to be planned and scheduled. Is your building all on one floor? Will the proposed cart fit in the elevator?
Set up time with the router?
You set the router(s) on the cart and plug them into power and the LAN. They are in the room with you, but the more laptops on one router the slower they all load/run. You can use MAC addressing to direct the computers to specific routers to balance the load.
Good Luck,
N.
I am > having anxiety about this. Suggestions and thoughts would be > welcome. thanks Oh by the way I am used to teaching in a > computer lab at my other school. I am part time at this > school 2 days at week and 3 days my other school it would > just be this school) Thanks
TCI just found out I too will be teaching K-6 21 classes on a cart. Most classes will have 30 students. Little concerned about tech cart. Whole school is wireless but I have no idea the type of equipment I will have access to yet?? I too would appreciate some ideas?? Thanks
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I hope that the Democratic Legislators stay o...See MoreAs a REPUBLICAN ANALYST pointed out on this morning on CNN "If Scott Walker gives in he's finished" Isn't that a fine position for a politician to hold? 60-70% of the state and nation feel he's in the wrong but "They both got elected" and so feels they doesn't have to listen to their citizens.
I hope that the Democratic Legislators stay out until we can at least see Walkers budget. It should have been released days ago. . . What is hidden in there?
The protests so far has been peaceful - the police side with those they were sworn to "serve and protect" God bless 'em.
Will Walker call out the Army or the Nat'l Guard to move these people out of their building thus precipitating, while denying responsibility for, violence? What if the Army and Nat'l Guard side with the citizens like their Egyptian brothers?
...See MoreI'm not sure what to put in: a thin client setup or basic thick clients. I was thinking about running an NFS/SAMBA setup with a LAMP server for a basic Drupal based intra/internet dual role.
If anyone has gone FOSS, which distros/setup did you use? Did you set up a DMZ? What layers of authentication and/or security did you use?
Any ideas are welcome. I'm just looking for pointers to get started.
Another opti...See MoreStudents can download openoffice for free. It is the equivalent of the Microsoft Office Suite and students can save them as Word, PowerPoint files, etc. so that you can open the files using Word, etc.
You can set up an educational wikispace and students can upload the files to the wikispace. There are also other sites
Another option is to sign up for google docs. Students can work on any computer, create documents, presentations, spreadsheets and upload the files
On 3/12/11, Evan wrote: > Students can download openoffice for free. It is the > equivalent of the Microsoft Office Suite and students can save > them as Word, PowerPoint files, etc. so that you can open the > files using Word, etc. > > You can set up an educational wikispace and students can > upload the files to the wikispace. There are also other sites > > > Another option is to sign up for google docs. Students can > work on any computer, create documents, presentations, > spreadsheets and upload the files > > > >
I am trying to make a collection of on-line music and videos for a second grade unit on space travel. Is there a quick easy way to save these to my zip drive?
I am very low tech! Right now I am saving the url to a Word document on the zip drive. There's gotta be a better way! Thanks
CarlYou could make a simple web scraper program. If you are using Python, use urllib2 and BeautifulSoup to transverse your xml/html trees and "prettify" any markup that is not syntactically correct. I'm not sure what the Windows equivalent to cron is, if you need to periodically pull the urls from a central or distributed web serve
If you click on the little envelope next to my name (J), you should be able to send me an email. I can email you back with the files/assignments I use.
On 4/21/11, Ann wrote: > Your ideas are REALLY good. I would be interested in hearing > more. > > Take care.