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1 Meta-Knowledge Computer-age study skill or What kids need to know to be effective students Graham Seibert Copyright 2006

2 Form of Presentation Follow-along –Printouts cannot track the animation in the slides –Audience encouraged to follow along on computers Provided by presenter, or Pre-loaded via memory stick or CD-ROM –Audience works through examples in real time Use the hard copy version and a voice recorder to note suggestions –Corrections –Adaptations for a specific audience

3 Organization This presentation is an outline of the series, with links to each topic Each talk consists of material at three levels –Facts and capabilities of which a teachers and students should be aware –Explanations of techniques that students and teachers should know –Links to examples in Word, Excel, etc. And now the outline….

4 Outline of outlines in this presentation Meta-Knowledge: knowing about how to learn Paragraph and Page Formatting in Word assignments Homework Document Management Word Features that everybody needs in writing papers Tables and Tabs to display figures and ideas in Word Using text boxes, graphics and tables in your assignments Drawing and Bitmap Image Management Use of scanners and digital cameras for schoolwork Desktop Computer facilities for foreign language study School presentations in PowerPoint Internet resources and suggestions to organize materials for a paper Word and Excel features useful for preparing demonstrations and homework The role of programming in today's schools Helping students budget, decide on features, and buy cheaply

5 Meta-knowledge consists of the things you need to know to Locate information Acquire information Store information Generate information Format information Communicate information

6 Word Paragraph and Page Formatting Provide some insight into the elements of a Word document –Body text –Headings and Footers –Inclusions Describe the sources of defaults and their rough hierarchy –Styles –Normal Style –Templates Overview of bullets and numbering Provide a few practical examples Go There

7 Word Document Management Use of Word Outliner Use of spelling and grammar features Navigating through a word document Change management Word help, and ideas on how to become more familiar with Word Go There

8 Word Features: things everybody uses but few master Choosing and using fonts, introduced by overviews of –How a computer stores characters –How it recognizes what you type –How it handles fonts Find and Replace Copy, Cut and Paste Go There

9 Tabs and Tables in Word Numerical data Outline formatted material Question and answer format, such as homework Flash card substitutes Go There

10 Formatting Word Insertions Types of Insertions –Text Boxes –Graphics –Tables Manipulating insertions –Changes to image format –Sizing –Wrapping –Positioning Go There

11 Image Management and Drawing Packages Describe how computers manage graphic data Demonstrate Word’s graphics management facilities Introduce software packages that handle –Vector Graphics and –Bitmaps Describe considerations in moving images among software packages Go There

12 Scanners, Digital Cameras and Optical Character Recognition Managing Pictures Capturing paper documents Making images of printed material –Editable –Searchable Go There

13 Foreign Language Overview of how computers handle characters from different languages Doing language homework on a computer Quick-and-easy flash cards Collecting and grading homework Machine translation Performance grading: Oral Proficiency Interviews and the like Speech recognition Go There

14 Preparing PowerPoint Presentations Organize –Creating PowerPoint presentations –Effective Organization Minimize –PowerPoint guides you and the audience while –You tell the story Practice –Oral presentations require rehearsal Go There

15 Internet Research Locating print resources –Library Catalogs –Book descriptions –Booksellers Locating online resources –Techniques –Webography –Caveats Capturing Pages and Full Web Sites Indexing and Searching Captured Data Go There

16 Math and Science Creating graphs with Excel Roles of Word and Excel documents in school assignments Word features for math homework Using Excel to create visual representations of math and science concepts Go There

17 Role of programming in today’s schools Relevance to the standard curriculum Supporting students with a natural interest in programming The role of programming in university and business life Programming in support of the school mission Go There

18 Picking a Computer Help students and parents decide what hardware and software a student needs Establish reasonable budget expectations Determine the most economical sources Go There

19 Conclusion The objective has been to organize and present the meta-knowledge a student needs to study efficiently This has been a Whole-Earth-Catalog approach. Please offer your feedback: –What else does it need? –What ought to be dropped? –What level of depth is appropriate? Click Here to open a pdf version of the narrative for the whole series. Takes a LONG TIME to downloadHere


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