Current News Event

I look forward to reading your posts regarding the news story you watched last night. Knowing about and understanding the events that are happened within your community, city, state, country and global environment are important to your development as a successful individual.

Semester 2 MCAS Excel 2007 Game Plan

I enjoyed reading your ideas for the next 6 weeks. Since I reviewed your posting at school, I was not able to enter comments directly. Please make sure that if you have not published your post your do so before class.

MCAS Word 2007 Exam Review Final Task List

49. Scale image heights numerically

50. Identify different types of text boxes and insert them in the document

51. Delete breaks such as page breaks

52. Insert table of contents and update table of contents

53. Modify Autocorrect options for example ordinal numbers not formatted as superscript

54. Compare two documents and show changes

55. Protect the document including with and without passwords, and restrict access such as only allowing comments

56. Combine two documents into one new document

MCAS Word 2007 Exam Review

We will begin testing for the Word 2007 MCAS next week. With only 14 class periods until the end of the semester, we will need to be sure and stay on schedule. Each one of you will need to sign up for a testing time. You may only test during 2nd period with prior approval from your 2nd period teacher by email. Class periods will be extremely quiet as there is no talking allowed while other students are testing.

Today you will be allowed to work with each other and with any other resources however you are each required to complete the posting for today with the description of the following processes in Word 2007.

42. Insert special characters such as smiley faces without using the keyboard shortcuts

43. Adjust the height and width of an image to a specific size without using the resizing handles on the image

44. Recognize and apply styles to SmartArt graphics (familiarize your self with the different names of the styles)

45. Recognize and insert SmartArt graphics (familiarize your self with the different names of the SmartArt)

46. Vertically and horizontally flip images

47. Inspect the document

48. Remove personal information from document

11/10 & 11/11 Student Files, Instructions, Solution

Wow, the how to's are posted, thank you!

You and your partner started working on a student file with tasks 1-10 last week. You will be developing the same student file to allow tasks 11-25 to be completed on the same document. The completed document should included the following text in the name: Student File 11-25. In addition to the student file, you will also have Instructions 11-25 and Solutions 11-25. Remember to keep in mind that each task must be independent of the others, meaning that you can do one task without completing any of the other tasks. The process will more much quicker during the next two days than it did last week and your document will continue to develop.

Enjoy the challenge and get creative!

New Task Instructions

With your partners, describe how to complete your assigned tasks in a posting on your blogger website. The posting needs to concentrate on the general task and not the specific action. You should include proper terms and steps to complete the task in any general document. This posting is your and your classmates how to reference for the next tasks you will be working with in class over the next two days.

Plannning your day & the finished product

Those of you that planned for class yesterday seemed to use the time with your partners well with a couple of teams finishing up the project. Today is your final class day to complete the project in which you create the task to be completed in Word 2007 and provide the document file the will be used to complete the task. Please make sure that you create a copy of the file, work through your tasks, and correct any problems that may appear. You will be emailing three items today before the end of class 1. The 10 tasks or the assignment instructions 2. The file to complete the tasks or the student file 3. The completed file or the solution file.