TeAchnology Making Friends with your Computer

Do you ever feel like THIS when it comes to your computer?

Today’s Goals Creating Folders in Outlook Calendar Sharing in Outlook Creating a Powerpoint Lesson Presenting your Powerpoint Lesson Creating Newsletters in Publisher Additional Teacher Requests

Creating Folders in Outlook Click on Outlook icon Highlight an you have received Click on the ‘move’ icon Click new…. –Be sure you are working from the inbox—not another folder

Sharing Calendars in Outlook n Click on ‘Open a Shared Calender’ n Click on ‘Name’ n Type ‘K’ n Click on ‘Connie Kerr’ n This allows you to look at all meetings, progress monitoring and other testing schedules, the days I am not on campus, etc.

Creating a Powerpoint Lesson Click on the Powerpoint Icon Click on Format, then Slide Design Choose a Design on the right side of your screen Type your title on the first page Click Insert, then New Slide Begin typing your lesson information, clicking Insert, then New Slide when you are ready to switch to the next slide.

Now Let’s Have a Little Fun! Click Slide Show, then Slide Transition Choose a transition between slides or choose Random Transition (at bottom) Decide on the Speed of the transition, if you would like a Sound to accompany, when you want the transition to occur, etc. You may Apply this transition to All Slides or you may apply transitions to individual slides.

Now Let’s Have a Little Fun! Choose Format, then Slide Layout To the right you will see different types of slides. Choose a layout that includes a picture or graph. Type your caption, then click on the picture icon Choose a picture and click OK.

Now Let’s Have a Little Fun! How did she DO that? Click on Slide Show again, then Animation Schemes Now choose an animation scheme you like. You may Apply to All Slides or individual slides

Now Let Have a Little Fun! What about a video or sound? Sure! Click Insert, then Movies and Sounds For now, just choose a sound from the clip organizer, since you don’t have any videos to add You may choose for the sound to play automatically or when you click the mouse

Now Let’s Have Some Fun!

Now Let’s Have a Little Fun! You can also write on your slideshow with a marker or highlighter. Click on Slide Show, then View Show Choose a slide, then move your cursor to the bottom left-hand corner of the screen Click on the ‘ pen ’ Click and hold the mouse to write on the slide

OK. Enough Nonsense! Let’s Look at Publishing a Newsletter Click on the Publisher Icon Click on Publications for Print, then on Newsletters Choose a Newsletter Format you like It will be too small to increase the size at the top with the magnifying glass Click and type

Creating Newsletters You may change the color scheme, format, font, etc. to the left of the screen To change the picture, right click on the picture and choose Change Picture, then from Clip Art You may choose from the clip art on file on the computer, or you may click on the Clip Art on Office Online link

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Any Requests? If you have questions, and I know how to do what you’re asking, I’d certainly be willing to help.