The video we are going to watch today will help you to understand a little more about an amazing piece of software called Photoshop. This is used in many different graphic design careers, and it is easily the most dynamic image editing software on the market.
After watching the video you will be working on completing the Funspots formatting activity in Excel. You will have the entire hour to work - this will be due tomorrow.
Lastly, for those of you with vocab definitions to enter on the Wiki spaces page, that has to be done by tonight.
We will begin today with learning the Q (L4) and the comma (R2).
Once we complete learning these two new keys we will begin the process of learning about the first formatting activity and the formatting toolbar in Word. Because we will be working on a Formatting Activity tomorrow in class (after the vocab quiz) you will want to bring your flash drive so that you can save your work to it.
We also will spend a little bit of time today talking about how to upload a file to your Google Drive, because this will also be a procedure you will be employing frequently throughout the semester (as we work on the formatting activities).
Lastly, dont forget that tomorrow you have a vocab quiz over the week 2 vocab words (Hardware #2).
We have vocab quiz #7 that we will be taking after using the first few minutes of class to review.
Once you are done with the quiz you need to start working on Formatting Activity #5. This actually comes in the form of a handout - it will not be embedded on the blog. FA5 will be due by the end of the hour on Monday, so you will have time today and Monday to work on this assignment.
Youll be given a few minutes at the beginning of class to review for the quiz - youll want to go to your Wikispaces page to do that. Do NOT go to Classmarker until asked to do so. As a reminder, make sure to submit your quiz answers - failure to do so will mean that you will have to come back and retake the quiz.
When you are done you will need to complete Formatting Activity 1, which is embedded below. The instructions are given here - follow the instructions in order. However, instead of completing steps 7 and 8 what you need to do is save your file to a flash drive. We will cover how to complete step 8 on Monday. IF YOU DO NOT SAVE YOUR DOCUMENT TO YOUR FLASH DRIVE IT WILL BE ERASED AND YOU WILL HAVE TO START OVER NEXT WEEK!!!
FA1.pdf
If you get done you are welcome to go to the website resources page on the blog, go to the practice websites and play typing games.
Today we are going to learn how to set tabs in Word. After explaining the process for setting tabs you will be working on the formatting activity, which is embedded below.
Today we are going to complete our first formatting activity. This should be an easy way for everyone to help their grade - this formatting activity (or FA as I like to abbreviate them) will ask you to do some simple formatting in Microsoft Word, such as change your font, font size, and highlighting text. Unfortunately, I cant be here today so I am going to leave you with the following video that should help guide you with what you need to accomplish.
In addition to completing the formatting activity you will need to attach the file you create (the assignment) to an email. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ATTACH A GOOGLE DOC FILE TO YOUR EMAIL AND SEND IT TO ME!!! If you go to the How To page on the blog there is a video labeled "Attach a File to Gmail" that you need to watch to learn how to attach your desktop file to your email so you can send it to me. Your complete attention will be directed at the video while it is playing - anyone caught working on the assignment before the video is completed will lose 10% of the value of the assignment (or in this case 1.5 pts since the assignment will be worth 14 pts).
In addition to watching the video, remember that there is a vocab quiz tomorrow - please prepare accordingly. The video is embedded next; below the video are the instructions to FA1. IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL OF THE FORMATTING ACTIVITIES IN ORDER, AND COMPLETELY READ EACH INSTRUCTION BEFORE WORKING TO COMPLETE THE INSTRUCTION!! If, and when, you get done with FA1 and you have sent me the email with your attached document you will need to go to the practice websites on the blog. You may practice using any of the lessons or games, but the speed skin must stay on your keyboard.
After watching the video you will have the rest of the hour to work on completing the Funspots formatting activity in Excel. Once you complete the activity look to see if you have any missing assignments, and if you do get those completed and handed in.
If you have everything done you can either go to the practice websites, work on homework from another class, or read.
After watching the video we will begin working on our last formatting activity. I will spend some time today explaining the formatting activity - I actually have one part that I need to show you how to do. Once I get done going through the activity you will be able to begin. This will be due next week.
