reflecting on online safety

Please answer the questions by commenting on this post in the blog.

1. What is online safety to you?

2. Are there different perspectives or angles to online "safety"? If so, what are they?

3.  If you could give out only once piece of advice or 1 tip for online safety what would it be? Why do you think this is so important?

Online safety poster

Hi Everyone,

I would like you to start doing some research on internet safety.  Your task today is creating  poster/flyer that you could give to your friends and relatives that contains 6-10 tips for online safety for teens.

Online Safety Tips Flyer

Instructions:

Create a flyer that you could give to your friends or relatives that contains some tips for online safety for teens.

Be sure to include the website/websites resource you used.

Flyer must contain:

üWord Art or Text effects

ü3 fonts

ü4 pics

ü2 shapes

üBullets or numbered list

üA page border

Using styles and templates

Last week we discussed and looked at the differences between styles, themes and templates.  This week you are going to practice using styles and templates.

Styles

1.  Watch the video on styles

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/videos/video-reveal-the-power-of-styles-VA102755322.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA103528093

2.  Complete the tutorial on styles, found in your email.

USING TEMPLATES

CREATING YOUR OWN NEWSLETTER

1.   Before starting your newsletter watch this video on managing layers which will help you in the template.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-word-help/video-manage-layers-easily-VA103935555.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA103528093


2.  You are going to create a 2-page newsletter about yourself.  Directions are listed below to create a successful newsletter.

1.     Open Word.  Word Documents Gallery will appear and choose “Newsletters” under Publishing Layout View.

2.     Choose a layout or design you like. 

3.     When you open it up you may find that there are more than 2 pages in your newsletter.  That is ok.  You will learn how to remove the extra pages.

4.     To Remove pages from your newsletter complete the following :

a.     Click on the document pane map: it looks like the show or hide sidebar.
  

b.     The side panel will appear to the left of your document.  Click on the Layout tab. You will see on the ribbon the options for layout.  The first set is pages.  Here you will see an Add button and a remove button.  Before hitting the remove button make sure you have the correct page in your side bar selected that you would like to remove. 

5.     Please save your document as yourname_newsletter.

6.     The main title on your newsletter should be your name. 

7.     You may want to change the color scheme of your newsletter.  To achieve this make sure you are on your Home tab.  You will see at the end of the ribbon a themes button select one that you might like to use. 

8.     Fill in the text boxes with information about you and your friends.  What you like to do, what you did this summer, things you like (food, music, etc).  Remember to be school appropriate!

9.     Change the pictures on your newsletter.  One of them should be of just yourself.  You can take it using photobooth.  The other photos should be of the things you talk about in your newsletter. If you are taking pictures from the internet you must copy the URL of where you are taking it from so you may cite it properly on your page.
     
      Change the text in the text boxes to reflect things about you.

Word-Differences between Styles, Themes, Templates

 Differences between styles, themes and templates.

Important Notes:

1.  What are word styles? 
 An effective tool to apply or format styles to different sections of your text in your document.  By applying styles to your paper you can easily create a table of contents with a click of a button or 2. 


2.  What is a theme? 
A way to coordinate colors and fonts.  This can help give your document a designer-quality look. 

3.  What is a template? 
Files that help you design professional looking documents.  These files are completely formatted and all you have to do is personalize it with your information.

Your Task: 

Your next assignment will provide you with some guided practice using styles.
Please check your email for the styles tutorial and document to complete the tutorial.

Intro to Word

There are a lot of bells and whistles in Microsoft Word, but it all starts with the ribbon.
Today we are going to tackle a few of them.

1.  Please watch this 2 minute video for a great overview of the ribbon. Click on the link below to watch.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-word-help/video-up-to-speed-with-the-office-for-mac-ribbon-VA102748545.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA103528093

2.  Click the link questionnaire to check for understanding.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lUWR8KUooX2IpgM0NFbIklwXn6vMSWjMVMvYraZvtzw/viewform


3.  Go to your email and get the Basic Word Tutorial.