Sunday, February 28, 2010

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

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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

Monday, February 22, 2010

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

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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

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

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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

Monday, February 1, 2010

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