Friday, January 22, 2010

Current News Event Take 2

Over the weekend, take a few minutes to watch or read the news! You will be posting a summary and statement of importance on your blog before class on Monday. The following items are required.
1. Type of media (newspaper, internet, television) - Tell me from where or which media you chose to get your information.
2. Name of source (El Paso Times, KVIA, CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal) - Which newspaper, what website, which station?
3. When - What day and time did you watch or read the news story?
4. Subject or Title - The title of the news article or news program. Stories should be related to Business, Economy, Politics, Education, Technology
5. Summary - Summarize the details in complete sentences.
6. Importance - How is the story important to you?

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Excel Intro 2 Tasks 11-20

Enter Number
Exit Excel
Fill Series - Drag and Drop
Font Size
Fonts
Function - Autosum
Go To
Help - Display Help Contents
Help - Search
Modify Formula

Excel Intro 1 Tasks 1-10

1-10
Apply Style
AutoCorrect
Bold Cell Contents
Cell Formatting - Remove
Center Across Cells
Chart - Create
Clear Cells
Color Text
Copy Cells
Create New Workbook Blank

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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