Friday, February 8

TGIF everyone! I hope you have been really good this week.

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
1) WARM-UP: Learn2type->http://learn2type.com/TypingTest or Mavis Typing (timed tests) Post WPM to your wordplanner spreadsheet on the right side of spreadsheet

2) ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Take a screenshot of your wordplanner and place it in a new post. Title the post: WPM~GRAINS OF RICE Make sure that I can see all of your postings since November.
2. DDC Testing Center (take two tests; listed below)
3. Make sure you have all assignments completed and posted to your blog or placed in the electronic turn in folder (whichever was assigned)
4. No new PowerPoint assignments

DDC Tests you are to take today:
While you are taking the training exam, if you miss a question be sure to read the information that pops up in the blue box so you can start learning not just the correct answer but additional information about the topic that might be on the actual certification exam.

Test #1

• Click Training Exam
• Click Key Applications
• Click Computer Program Functions
• After you complete test, make sure open your DDC Testing
• Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you took and your test score.
  

Test #2

• Click Training Exam
• Click Living Online
• Click Electronic Mail
• After you complete test, make sure open your DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you took and your test score.
  

BONUS Test #3

• Click Testing Exam
• Click Key Applications
• Click Basic Test
• To receive your BONUS POINTS, After you complete test, make sure open your
  DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you
  took and your test score.

Once you have taken all of your exams and posted your score and test information in the spreadsheet, you must print out your spreadsheet and turn it in to your class period's turn in box. (Make srue your name is on the spreadshsheet at the top.) Just print the page that has the data on it and turn it in to the appropriate turn - in tray.

Have a great weekend.

4) No new PowerPoint assignments today.

pg 575 xxx-Override (slide 3 in Normal View)

This is what your slide 3 should look like, if you performed steps according to the book. Make sure I can see the entire slide.

pg 572 xxx-Secretaty Header-Footer (slide 3 in Notes Page view)

This is what your screenshot should look like when you post to your blog.

Thursday, February 7

REMINDERS:
* I must see times recorded on your wordplanner under WPM and Grains of Rice on Friday when you screenshot and post that document to your blog.
* There is to be NO INTERNET GAME PLAYING. YOU HAVE PLENTY OF WORK TO GET DONE, SO GET BUSY.
* NO ONE IS TO LEAVE THE ROOM DURING CLASS FOR ANY REASON. TO MANY PEOPLE IN THE HALLS.

* Tomorrow you will be printing your Wordplanner for a 2 test grades and your Spreadsheet showing your scores and Tests you took in DDC Testing Center.

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
1) WARM-UP: Learn2type->http://learn2type.com/TypingTest or Mavis Typing (timed tests) Post WPM to your wordplanner spreadsheet on the right side of spreadsheet(YOU WILL BE TAKING A SCREENSHOT OF YOUR WORDPLANNER ON FRIDAY, AND YOU BETTER HAVE ENTRIES MADE FOR EACH DAY THIS WEEK)

2) New PowerPoint Assignments: (these exercises are very quick and easy, just read the steps very carefully and do exactly what it says to do and you shouldn't have any problems; BUT YOU HAVE TO READ)

• 2/7, pg 571, Open Secretary, Save to your server as: xxx-Secretary Bullets (screenshot slides from Slide Sorter View; post to your blog)


• 2/7, pg 572 - Open xxx-Secretary Bullets from your Server (you created it on pg 571); Save as: xxx-Secretary Header-Footer (screenshots slide 3 only, but make sure you are in Notes Page View; Make sure I can see the header and the page number in the bottom right corner of page)
• 2/7, pg 573 - Open xxx-Secretary Header-Footer from your Server (you created it on pg 572); Save as: xxx-Secretary Object (screenshot slides from Slide Sorter View; post to your blog ~ example provided on my blog)
• 
  Picture file you will need for pg 573 exercise (you must right click and save this file to your Server-DO NOT click on link)
  
• 2/7, pg 574 - Open xxx-Secretary Object from your Server (you created it on pg 573); Save as: xxx-Secretary Text Box (screenshot slides from Slide Sorter View; post to your blog)



• 2/7, top of pg 575 - Open xxx-Secretary Text Box from your Server (you created it on pg 574); Save as: xxx-Override (screenshot slides from Slide Sorter View or Normal View of Slide 3 only; post to your blog ~ example provided on my blog)



• 2/7, bottom of pg 575 - Open xxx-Override from your Server (you created it on the top of pg 575) Save as: xxx-Secretary Title Master (screenshot slides from Slide Sorter View or Normal View of Slide 1 only; post to your blog ~ example provided on my blog)

3) No DDC Testing Center today. However, if you are having a hard time with the PowerPoint assignments then I expect for you to complete the following DDC Tests:

1. Click Training Exam
2. Click Key Applications
3. Click Spreadsheet Functions
4. After you complete test, make sure open your DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you took and your test score.

4) If there is still time in class, take another DDC Trainig Exam. or move on to complete the Closing in #5 below.
5) Freerice.com->http://www.freerice.com/index.php last 10 minutes (record number of grains donated in your wordplanner file)

Wednesday, February 6

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* You need to begin to check your blogs for comments each day. I may send you some messages regarding your work. Make sure you respond to me by commenting on my page and correcting anything that I tell you to correct about your work.
* I am not here the rest of the week. Be on your best behavior, if you want rewards on Monday/Tuesady.
* I must see times recorded on your wordplanner under WPM and Grains of Rice on Friday when you screenshot and post that document to your blog.
* There is to be NO INTERNET GAME PLAYING. YOU HAVE PLENTY OF WORK TO GET DONE, SO GET BUSY.
* NO ONE IS TO LEAVE THE ROOM DURING CLASS FOR ANY REASON. TO MANY PEOPLE IN THE HALLS.

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
Make sure you start with the warm-up today. That is always the first thing you do when you first come to class.

1) WARM-UP: Learn2type->http://learn2type.com/TypingTest or Mavis Typing (timed tests) Post WPM to your wordplanner spreadsheet on the right side of spreadsheet
(YOU WILL BE TAKING A SCREENSHOT OF YOUR WORDPLANNER ON FRIDAY, AND YOU BETTER HAVE ENTRIES MADE FOR EACH DAY THIS WEEK)
2) Double click on the DDC Training Center icon on your desktop. Log in using your name and your lunch code for your password, like we set up last week.
If you have not set up an account in DDC Training Center, find out what you need to do from a neighbor.

DDC Tests you are to take today:

While you are taking the training exam, if you miss a question be sure to read the information that pops up in the blue box so you can start learning not just the correct answer but additional information about the topic that might be on the actual certification exam.

Test #1

• Click Training Exam
• Click Computer Fundamentals
• Click Computer Software
• After you complete test, make sure open your DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you took and your test score.

Test #2

• Click Training Exam
• Click Key Applications
• Click Word Processing Functions
• After you complete test, make sure open your DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you took and your test score.

BONUS Test #3

• Click Testing Exam
• Click Computer Fundamentals
• Click Basic Test
• To receive your BONUS POINTS, After you complete test, make sure open your DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you took and your test score.

4) No new PowerPoint assignments today. Make sure you have all of the following assignments complete and posted to your blog by the end of the period today.

5) Freerice.com->http://www.freerice.com/index.php last 10 minutes (record number of grains donated in your wordplanner file)

Tuesday, February 5

STUDENT EXPECTATIONS FOR THE WEEK:

• insert and modify clip art
• insert a bit mapped image
• create and customize a table
• create a chart
• create office Art elements
• insert sound effects and movies
• manage slide masters
• animate your presentation
• mainulate specific training progrm (to help study for certification exam)

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
1) WARM-UP: Learn2type->http://learn2type.com/TypingTest or Mavis Typing (timed tests) Post WPM to your workplanner spreadsheet on the right side of spreadsheet

2) Make sure you have completed a new post titled PowerPoint Vocabulary #3 and typed the words listed below and their definition.

1. animated object
2. animated text
3. animation
4. bit-mapped image (bitmap)
5. embed
6. footer
7. header
8. link
9. slide master
10. title master
11. transition

3) Double click on the DDC Training Center icon on your desktop. Log in using your name and your lunch code for your password, like we set up last week.

• If you have not set up an account in DDC Training Center, come see me. If you have not already downloaded and saved to your server the DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form, please click on link below and save to your server. Save as: yourfirstname-DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form


• File needed for tracking your DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form

DDC Test you are to take today:

1. Training Exam
2. Computer Fundamentals
3. Computer Hardware

After you complete test, make sure open your DDC Testing Center Test Results Tracking Form in Excel and record the test you took and your test score.

4) New PowerPoint Assignments: (these are not links, read and open the files from your server)

• 2/5, pg 567 - Open xxx-Annual Awards Table Imported.ppt you created on pg 559, Save As: xxx-AnnualAwardsSound (No screenshots; you will drag this file to the electronic turn in folder in the Crownover's Class Data Files server)
• 2/5, pg 568 - Open xxx-ClubFinancesChart from your Server (created on pg 563) (No screenshots; you will drag this file to the electronic turn in folder in the Crownover's Class Data Files server)

5) Freerice.com->http://www.freerice.com/index.php last 10 minutes (record number of grains donated in your wordplanner file)

Remember I will not be here tomorrow. Please be on your best behavior. Be on time too.

Monday, February 4

Remember I am not here today. So be on your best behavior.

THERE SHOULD BE NO INTERNET GAMES BEING PLAYED TODAY DURING CLASS. YOU BETTER GET ALL YOUR WORK DONE. THERE SHOULD BE NO MUSIC BEING PLAYED UNLESS YOU ARE LISTENING TO IN IN HEADPHONES AND THEN IT MUST NOT BE REALY LOUD.

STUDENT EXPECTATIONS FOR THE WEEK:

• insert and modify clip art
• insert a bit mapped image
• create and customize a table
• create a chart
• create office Art elements
• insert sound effects and movies
• manage slide masters
• animate your presentation
• mainulate specific training progrm (to help study for certification exam

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:

1) WARM-UP: Learn2type->http://learn2type.com/TypingTest or Mavis Typing (timed tests) Post WPM to your workplanner spreadsheet on the right side of spreadsheet

2) New PowerPoint Assignments:

• 2/4, pg 561- 562, Open Club Merchandise and SAVE to your server as: xxx-ClubMerchandiseChart (screenshot slides from slide sorter view; post to your blog)
• 2/4, pg 563, Open Club Finances and SAVE to your server as: xxx-ClubFinancesChart (screenshot slides from slide sorter view; post to your blog)
• 2/4, File needed for pg563 Chart.xls (right click on the link, save to your server, then follow directions in the textbook)
• 2/4, pg 564- 566, Open Organization and SAVE to your server as: xxx-OrganizationChart (screenshot slides from slide sorter view; post to your blog)

Remember that each PowerPoint Presentation Post must be titled as follows: pg 561 xxx-ClubMerchandise Chart (page number and filename you save the file as)

3) Create a new post: title it PowerPoint Vocabulary #3
Type the following terms and their definition (look up the definitions in the textbook, use the glossary in the back of the book) The words are listed on page 548.

• animated object
• animated text
• animation
• bit-mapped image (bitmap)
• embed
• footer
• header
• link
• slide master
• title master
• transition

4) Freerice.com->http://www.freerice.com/index.php last 10 minutes