Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Dear Class:

We will start with new Week 12 Warmups. Please type freewrite. Please make sure you change the side margins to one inch and put a footer on the document.

We will continue with PowerPoint. We will finish today and I wish to have a couple of people present. You will all have to "evaluate" 10 classmates out of your class. The site for it is: PowerPoint Scoring Guide


Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, May 24, 2010

Dear Class:

We will be continuing with Week 11 Warmups. Please type "Somethings always wrong". Please make sure you change the side margins to one inch and put a footer on the document.

We will continue with PowerPoint. We will finish today and I wish to have a couple of people present. You will all have to "evaluate" 10 classmates out of your class. The site for it is: PowerPoint Scoring Guide


Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Dear Class:

We will be continuing with Week 11 Warmups. Please type what you would do for summer vacation. Please make sure you change the side margins to one inch and put a footer on the document.

We will continue with PowerPoint. You should have a good idea of which "project" you want to pursue and have done some research. I will go over the "embedding" of a video from YouTube with you.

I will also go over some suggestions to liven up your PowerPoint with you. We will have this Thursday (today) to finish it up.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Dear Class:

We will be starting Week 11 Warmups. Please continue with "A gift in disguise" in a new document. Please make sure you change the side margins to one inch and put a footer on the document.

We will continue with PowerPoint. You should have a good idea of which "project" you want to pursue and have done some research. I will go over the "embedding" of a video from YouTube with you.

I will also go over some suggestions to liven up your PowerPoint with you. We will have this Thursday to finish it up.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, May 14, 2010

Dear Class:

Double Assembly Day!

This is the last day of "Week 10". Please type "A Gift in Disquise" and "College is My Next Destination". Save and make sure the side margins are one inch and you have a footer! I will check the number of lines on your screen.

I want to see three timing tests from www.freetypinggame.net that I will put in for a grade. They will be three minute timings and you will "Print Screen" by using the F14 (function keys at the top) and then pasting them into a word document and cropping it. Remember, they will be the certificate 3 minute typing tests. You will be e-mailing them to me at the beginning of the class after I go over what I want from you.

We will be moving to PowerPoint today.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Dear Class:

Early Release!

This is the second day of "Week 10". Please type "A Gift in Disquise" and "College is My Next Destination". Save and make sure the side margins are one inch and you have a footer!

I want to see three timing tests from www.freetypinggame.net that I will put in for a grade. They will be three minute timings and you will "Print Screen" by using the F14 (function keys at the top) and then pasting them into a word document and cropping it. Remember, they will be the certificate 3 minute typing tests.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, May 10, 2010

Dear Class:

This is the first day of "Week 10". Please type "A Bad Day..." and "Most Valuable Player". Save and make sure the side margins are one inch and you have a footer!

We moved to "Reports" that will start on page 90 of the book and then I wanted you to select any three of the four reports in the packet and do them. We will be done with them the first part of class and then I want to see three timing tests from www.freetypinggame.net that I will put in for a grade. They will be three minute timings and you will "Print Screen" by using the F14 (function keys at the top) and then pasting them into a word document and cropping it. Remember, they will be the certificate 3 minute typing tests.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Dear Class:

This is the last day of "Week 9". Please type "A Bad Day..." and "Most Valuable Player". Save and make sure the side margins are one inch and you have a footer!

We moved to "Reports" that will start on page 90 of the book and then I want you to select any three of the four reports in the packet and do them.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Dear Class:

This is the second day of "Week 9". Please type "A Bad Day..." and "Most Valuable Player". Save and make sure the side margins are one inch and you have a footer!

We finished the Enumerations last period although I did not get all of them from you. ("paragraph enumerations" and the "hanging indented")that are on a handout. I will give you the first 15 minutes of the class, after the warmups to complete them

We move to "Reports" that will start on page 90 of the book.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, April 30, 2010

Dear Class:

Please start a new "Week 9". Please type "A Bad Day..." and "Most Valuable Player". Save and make sure the side margins are one inch and you have a footer!

We finished the "Business Letters" last class period on pages 111 (Neal Letter), 112 (Finzer letter), and 114 (Parker letter). These letters are the Software Connection, Pyramid Vinyl Siding, and Nature's Way, respectively.

We will be doing the Enumerations today ("paragraph enumerations" and the "hanging indented")that are on a handout.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open up "Week 8". Please type "These Grades are for You" and "I Lost a Fast Twenty Bucks". This is the last day of week 8 so we will print them.

We finished the "Business Letters" last class period on pages 111 (Neal Letter), 112 (Finzer letter), and 114 (Parker letter). These letters are the Software Connection, Pyramid Vinyl Siding, and Nature's Way, respectively.

We will be doing the Enumerations today ("paragraph enumerations" and the "hanging indented")that are on a handout.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, April 26, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open up "Week 8". Please type what your favorite movies are and why.


We finished the "Business Letters" today: on pages 111 (Neal Letter), 112 (Finzer letter), and 114 (Parker letter). These letters are the Software Connection, Pyramid Vinyl Siding, and Nature's Way, respectively.

We will be doing the Enumerations today ("paragraph enumerations" and the "hanging indented")that are on a handout.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Dear Class:

We were done with Week 7 warmups last time. Please open up a new Warmup and save it as "Week 8". Please type what your favorite movies are and why.


We finished the Personal Business Letters last time and handed them in. We will continue and hopefully finish the "Business Letters" today. on pages 111 (Neal Letter), 112 (Finzer letter), and 114 (Parker letter). These letters are the Software Connection, Pyramid Vinyl Siding, and Nature's Way, respectively.

We will not get to the Enumerations today ("paragraph enumerations" and the "hanging indented").

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Dear Class:

We were done with Week 7 warmups last time. Please open up a new Warmup and save it as "Week 8". Please type what your favorite movies are and why.


We finished the Personal Business Letters last time and handed them in. We will continue and hopefully finish the "Business Letters" today. Those are the 11

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, April 16, 2010

Dear Class:

Continuing with Week 7 warmups, please type "The Gravediggers..." that are up front.

We will continue and conclude the Personal Business Letters we started last time. These are from the handouts up front. We may go on into "Business Letters".

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, April 12, 2010

Dear Class:

This is the second day of Warmup entitled "Week 6". Remember, it will have a footer and one inch side margins. You will continue to type the handout at the front of the class which is entitled "Cinco de Mayo". If that sheet is unavailable, please "freewrite" about where your ultimate vacation would be and what you would do when you get there.

We will be starting Personal Business Letters. The first one is in the book next to the computer on page 100 that will be known as the "Smiddy" letter. The instructions on how to type it is located on page 99. Please read those instructions. It will be a personal business letter. This means that at the bottom of the letter you will put your name and address instead of the one in the book. Do not forget to format it with a 1 inch side margin and include our usual footer.

I will have a handout for the other letters.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Dear Class:

This is the second day of Warmup entitled "Week 6". Remember, it will have a footer and one inch side margins. You will continue to type the handout at the front of the class which is entitled "Cinco de Mayo".

We will be starting Letters. The first one is in the book on page 100 that will be known as the "Smiddy" letter. It will be a personal business letter. The other letters will be from a handout I will provide.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Dear Class:

Please start a new Warmup entitled "Week 6". Remember, it will have a footer and one inch side margins. You will type the handout at the front of the class.

The majority of you handed in the Excel Assignment. I will hand it out to you today. I will have an Excel "Test" for you in which you will put in data, total up the wages, graph the names and corresponding amounts, and tell me who to fire based on the data.

I am hoping to then move on to letters.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, April 2, 2010

Dear Class:

We will be typing the last day of Week 5 Warmups for the first 10 minutes of class. Please type the handout in the front of the class which is entitled "Know Your Gadget Before You Use it--Etiquettely!". We will be printing these today.

We had just finished the Excel toolbar assignment we worked on last time.

I do have an excel handout that we will start towards the beginning of the class. I will go over the formulas that are included in the handout (there is a link to the handout above).

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Dear Class:

We will be typing the second day of Week 5 Warmups for the first 10 minutes of class. Please type the handout in the front of the class which is entitled "Know Your Gadget Before You Use it--Etiquettely!".

We had just finished the Excel toolbar assignment we worked on last time.

I do have an excel handout that we will start towards the beginning of the class. I will go over the formulas that are included in the handout (there is a link to the handout above).

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, March 29, 2010

Dear Class:

Welcome back from Spring Break. Isn't it great to be back?!? We will be typing Week 5 Warmups for the first 10 minutes of class. Please type the handout in the front of the class.

We will be finishing the Excel toolbar assignment we started last time.

I do have an excel handout that we will start towards the end of the class.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Dear Class:

Nothing new today; Open up Week 4 warmups and type up "The Greatest Generation of Networkers" for the warmup.

We will finish off your Excel chart of your expenses and then I will have you replicate the Microsoft Excel that I will hand out.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Dear Class:

Open up Week 4 warmups and type up "The Greatest Generation of Networkers" for the warmup.

We will finish off your Excel chart of your expenses and then I will have you replicate the Microsoft Excel that I will hand out.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open up a new document. This will be saved as "Week 4" warmups. Go ahead and finish off the document entitled "Tigress" that should be by your computers. At the end of the 10 minutes, we will make sure the side margins are at 1" and that you have a footer with your name, the period number, and the document name which is "Week 4".

I want the Centering Assignments completed today! I will be doing some picture manipulation today during class while those that need to finish finish.

We are going to start Excel today. That will encompass a spreadsheet that will track costs and expenses.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open up "Week 3" warmups and type "Tigress" which will either be by your computers or up front. We will be printing Week 3 WU today so you will make sure it has a footer with your name, period, and "Week 3" on it. Please change the color to a blue or red so we save ink. Check the number of lines and type how many at the bottom of the page. If the document is longer than two pages, please change the size font after you check the line count so it fits on one page.

We will finish off the centering assignment today and may start Excel.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, March 5, 2010

Dear Class:

I am unable to be at school today. You have a substitute.

Please open up Warmup 3 and, from where you left off physically on the screen, please compose an answer to this question: "What would you do with a billion dollars?".

After you type for 10 minutes, please save week 3 and close it. Please open up a new document. I believe we may not have started a table entitled "Personal Acronyms". If we have, please finish it now. If not, then first, I want you to center the title and type in "Personal Acronyms" (all caps), return three times, and then I want you to go up to the menu, click "tables" and then go to "insert". You will create a table that has 2 columns and 15 rows. Please put the acronym in the left column and the actual meaning in the right column. For a sample of acronyms, you can go to the acronym sheet link.

Please center and put in a footer that has your name, the period, and the name of the document.

The substitute will be handing out a Centering Assignment that he will explain to you. It will have a title page and a table of contents and three documents.

Good luck!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Dear Class:

It is a half day! We will do a warmup. It is a new week warmup so start with "composing" about what you plan on doing for Spring Break.

The rest of the class please finish the menu.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, March 1, 2010

Dear Class:

Today is assembly schedule. We will be announcing the Rose Festival Princess during a late assembly.

Please open up Week 2 warmups and continue from where you left off with "Unconditional Mom". Today is the last day of "Week 2 Warmups" so you will be printing them.

Last class we printed the "Classes/Schedule" centering. I will have you create a "menu" on your own. In other words, you will create a restaurant menu using the centering techniques we used before. You will need to have at least three different enhancements, will have to have a page border, insert a picture which you will "lighten up" and it will have to employ "leaders" between columns.

For the final centering task, you will be doing a Centering Assignment and then we will be finished with centerings and moving to Tables.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open up your "week 2" warmup and type the handout provided with the title "Unconditional Mom" the will be either in the front or by your desks. You will type it out for 10 minutes when I call time.

We will be finishing "My Schedule" today. We will be adding a picture and adding a line using different tools. We will also look at picture manipulations.

I will be giving you a "centering" packet to do on your own. Good luck!

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open "Week 2" Warmup. Add to that week by typing the handout by the desks.

We will be continuing with centerings that we had started with "Months of the Year".
From there, we will move into columns by doing a "schedule".

The schedule will cover tab setting, leaders, inserting pictures and other associated actions.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, February 19, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open up your Week 1 warmup and type the handout by your computer. You will type the Week 1 warmup for 10 minutes. At the end of the ten minutes, I will ask you to verify that you have a 1 inch top margin and a footer. You will go to "tools", "word count", and check the number of lines you have. You will go into the document and type the number of lines you have at the bottom. Please print out and hand into the top tray that is on my desk.

We will do the quiz next. I will give you a couple of minutes to review and look at what I had posted previously. I will be "blanking" out your screens while you do the test. It consists of 26 questions. Fill out the answers and put your name at the top. When you are done, please hand it in on the top tray (on top of your warmups).

I want you to go to www.freetypinggame.net and take two five minute tests. At that time, I will be grading on technigue, which includes posture, fingering, hands, delete key use, slouching, feet, and looking at your hands.

Finally, we will finish the centering entitled "Months of the Year" and then move on to a centering which has two columns, a title, and subtitle. This will be "My Schedule".

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Dear Class:

Please open up your "week 1" warmups that are found on your server account in your warmup folder. Please type, for ten minutes, the rest of the handout that is by the computers. I will tell you when to stop.

We will finish the review of all the letter in the Lesson Review on the Lesson Tab in www.freetypinggame.net. That will include Lesson 13 to 17 (more of the alphabet keys).

We will then proceed to keys and icons you will need to know for a test. The test will be on Friday, February 19th, 2010.

We will be looking at centering documents for the rest of the class and how to center both vertically and horizontally.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Friday, February 12, 2010

Dear Class:

The first 10 minutes of class will consist of students opening up a blank word document and typing a handout that I will provide. You will type margin to margin and will let it "wrap around" without hitting the return key.

I will have you put in a footer with your name, the period, and the document title of "week one".

The rest of the period we will be opening up microsoft Publisher and creating a valentines card. At the end of the period, I will be grading the work on screen. That means that I wish you to put the Valantine's card in "print preview" mode. You can print the card only if you are going to be handing it to someone. I only have a black and white printer. You will save the card in "publisher" folder you should have created on your account.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Dear Class:

Today, we will do more of the review of the letters in the Lesson Review on the Lesson Tab in www.freetypinggame.net. That will include Lesson 5 to 10 (more of the alphabet keys). We will then proceed to keys and icons you will need to know for a test.

We will be working with Word today. That will encompass the use of various above icons and keys. Furthermore, we will also be doing a 10 minute "warmup" that you will, from hereon in be doing the first ten minutes of class. Today is a Pride day so the time for the classes will be shorted just a hair.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Dear Class:

Today we will be doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that. We will start by logging into your server account. The "link" is on the blog just prior to this one. We will do this as a class. We have already done some document management through file folders.

I will then discuss what I will be grading on for the first part of the semester which refers to posture, keystrokes, and technique.

We will then go to www.freetypinggame.net and you will do the first four keys which are from the "home row". When they are done with each individual ones, you will complete the "certificate" 2 minute test for the #1 homerow keys, you will do a print screen of each and paste into a word document which you will name "namereview" that will also have your footer.

Finally, we will look at word itself.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Logging onto your server account

Log on instructions link

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Dear Class:

We will start with with two lessons from www.freetypinggame.net which will include the f and g keys. After we do that, we will open up word and look at some of the menus and toolbars.

We will then set up our files and folders by opening up the file server.

Sincerely,
Mr. Green-Hite

Thur

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Basic Computer Literacy

Today we will be looking at what we will be doing in Basic Computer Literacy.

Today we will be talking about what is required in the class and what I expect from you. The general rules are: No gum, no food, no hats and no drink. This policy is strictly enforced! A warning will be given in the first instance. After that, I will make a notation in the grade book of non-participation and deduct points. Cell phones will be confiscated and turned over to the office after the second violation. No music or ear phones unless we are working on PowerPoint.

When you come into class, please turn on the computers. To find out what we are covering during any given class day, I should have it posted on the blog.

Assignments Due: If you are absent, please look at the day in which you were absent to see what you missed. You have the number of days you were absent to make up missed work unless you get special permission to do otherwise.

How to access today’s assignment: Go to “http://ddhsappliedcomp.blogspot.com”.

Printers: Be familiar where your computer prints to. Do not print more than once! Any printing other than for school or this class will cost 25 cents per page.

Where to save your documents: Your documents will be saved on the fileserver for this school. That fileserver can be logged on by going to “Start”, right click on “My Computer” and click on “Map Network Drive”. You will enter in “Z:” (unless you are an upperclassman and use the “H:” drive instead). For your address, it will be \\10.52.254.110\ and then the last two number of the year you will graduate and then your last name first, first name last (I would suggest right clicking after selecting your year and name and “copy” it. When you enter this address, it will then prompt you for your id and password. Paste in the above and then enter your student number for the password. We will be doing this a little later this week.

I wish to go over what programs are on the computer and to familiarize you with same.

Basic Computer Literacy Syllabus

BCL link