November 2, 2009

 

Inspiration Review

Create an Inspiration Concept Map for an event coming up before Christmas. Suggestions: staff party, jobs to be completed before the 25th, gift list, Christmas concert tasks, grocery list for Christmas, calendar.....

Your Inspiration web should include a main concept,

4-5 ideas off the main concept,

extended ideas off of each of the 4-5 main ideas.

     Include some images that enhance the plan or organization,

     Add text to arrows leading to concepts and captions to pictures,

     Change shape and colour of boxes and images.

     Make a hyperlink to a website, document or another inspiration document

 

 

Webspiration

 

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Word 2007

 

 

Atomic Learning

 

          Office 2007 Resources

          How to Use Microsoft Office Word             

Advanced Word 2007

Excel 2007 Ribbon Layout

Microsoft Publisher 2007

PowerPoint Quick Reference

PowerPoint Ribbon

Tips and Tricks

 

Activities:

 

1) Tri-Fold Brochure using PowerPoint 2007

 

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/guide/index-eng.php

 

2) Comic Strip using PowerPoint 2007 (grouping shapes and text, printing multiple slides on one page)

 

Keyboard Shortcuts

 

3) I am the One Who using Word 2007

 

 

student example

 

Refer to Newsletter Templates found in Publisher 2007

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How to create a PDF document - Primo PDF

     Using Word, create a test document and turn it into a PDF

 

How to take a screenshot

     Take a screenshot, paste into Word, add a caption

 

Let's Make an Avatar

 

My Avatar Editor

 

Build Your Wild Self

 

I Declare September, Avatar Month

     add your avatars to Comic Strip

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Working with images

 

Irfanview

resizing images

cropping images

changing formats

 

Photo Story 3 - Making Show and Tell Fun Again! - Digital Storytelling

 

Using Copyright Friendly Images

Citation Machine

 

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Google Documents

Get a Google Account

You will now have a gmail account - I am shsdtechmentor@gmail.com

Add other administrative staff to your contact list

 

Create a Google Document

 

Create a Google Form

     complete my survey

     see the results

          Now you make one! Send the URL of your survey to all of use using your gmail account

 

Create an iGoogle page

     with widgets!

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Communicating Online

 

Skype - demonstration

 

Twitter - microblogging

 

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Final Thoughts

 

Tiny URL

 

Wordle - make a wordle, take a screenshot, insert it into your PowerPoint file.