Hello, All!
The first week of class went smoothly, at least from my perspective. Students were informed of numerous sites we will use for learning, including Pathbrite, which is a wonderful site to be able to see your assignments and to upload your work.
Typing.com as a keyboard learning tool was used, and will be used throughout our school year. It is a wonderful tool to use and understand the correct way to position your hands, and the easiest way to learn keyboarding techniques.
Our Blog and our Facebook page will be handy tools as well. We can keep in touch this way, so feel free to comment here or on our other pages. If you have a question, it is probably better to email it to me directly, and now you have Gmail accounts, we can all use that method to communicate.
Speaking of Google, now that you have a Google account, there is so much more to use in the realm of the Google world. Blogger is where our class blog is of course, but there is also G+, Google Drive, Google Maps, Youtube, finance, news, and more...
This year, we will delve into all of these, including creating a Blogger account of your own, a G+ account of your own, and using the maps, news, finance and Youtube as well.
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This second week of class is to get more used to using Word 2016.
Tuesday--- Today will be Typing.com to warm up your fingers, some of you will be in late because of the Social Studies introduction, but that is OK! Come on in and get started.
Next will be opening Word 2016, creating a new blank document. Then copy from the overhead, two paragraphs on the subject of "Me", then follow along to use Tabs at the top of the page, such as Layout, Insert, and Home. We will change the font color, the size and type of font, the orientation of the page, and insert online photos, changing the size and position of the photo.
Wednesday ---We have Vocabulary words posted on PathBrite. It is listed as Vocabulary Words Weeks 1&2 ---Group A.
To complete this assignment, you will need to bring up Word 2016, create new blank document, use the Restore Down button and size the window to where it is half the size of your monitor. Then Open Chrome, go to Pathbrite, log in to your account, go to Group A, scroll to the correct assignment, use the Restore Down button and size the window to half the size of your monitor. Position both windows where you can see them both.
Key in the vocabulary words and definitions on your Word document. This is tedious, but it is a great way to memorize the terms. When you have completed, save to your Flash Drive. Name the file: Your Initials Vocabulary Weeks1-2 (ie. MCVocabularyWeeks1-2 ).
Now you are ready to upload to your Pathbrite class. Go to Home page of Pathbrite, go to "Guided", use dropdown menu to choose Courses, it will take you to your Class, which is Intro to Computers. Click on this picture, it will take you to the Page to see where your assignment is due. Click on the assignment.
Now you are able to see the description of what to do with the assignment. There is a whole list of what you need to do, check it out, make sure you didn't miss a step in your assignment. When you are sure you are ready to complete, then click the upload button. This brings up a dialogue box, choose where your document is...
If you have saved correctly, the document will be on your flash drive, listed as: YourInitialsVocabularyWeeks1-2. Click on this, then click on "Open" at bottom right of the dialogue box.
While you are waiting for this to upload completely, you can fill in the boxes. First is the submission title... this week it will remain as it is in the box... Submission #1. Underneath this box is a description box. In this you will put your first initial and your last name.
When the file has uploaded and you can see the preview of it, check to make sure it is correct. It is hard to see, but just the overall look of the document. When you are satisfied that it is the correct document, then click on "Submit Now" button.
****Advanced Class-- Continue with your Timeline, complete the Timeline ONline, when you are finished, you will upload to PathBrite! Remember to add your initials or first initial and last name to the descriptions.
Thursday --- Begin the day with Typing.com, remember to log in to your account. We will work for 20 minutes on this. Resume where you left off.
Open Pathbrite, log in to your account, go to your courses. Go to your assignments. In the center of your page, there is an icon next to your teachers name. Click on this icon and it should take you directly to my portfolio, choose Group A, and scroll down to see what is next. This week, it is a link to another page. This is the Quizlet site. The Title of the quizlet is Computer Literacy. Click on this, then click when it asks to view site.
Now you will be in Quizlet. Choose the "Flash Cards". To view, simply click on the card, to go to the next card, click the arrow under the card.
The next assignment for the day is to click on the "Learn" button on Quizlet. This we will do as a class. Terms you need to know, terms that are simple but take a while to learn.
If we have time today, we will go to the next lesson on Quizlet. This is the 'Writing' portion. It is not as scary as you think. We will do them together.
****Advanced Class----- Today, if you have completed all your assignments ( Assignment 1: Scavenger Hunt; Assignment 2: Timeline Word document; Assignment 2.5: Timeline ONline) and you have uploaded these to Pathbrite, you will continue on with Assignment 3. Make sure to complete and upload to Pathbrite!
