Using the Draw Tools in Word

It is important that the vocab lists get filled out on Wikispaces as soon as possible.  For the last couple of vocab lists we have had too many people not get their words posted on Wikispaces.  The vocab words should be defined before school starts on Wednesday, so plan accordingly.  Leaders - make sure you are dividing the words and letting your group members know which words they need to define.

The theme for most of the rest of the semester will involve multimedia and graphics (this is also the theme of the vocab list for this week).  In many ways, we've already incorporated much of multimedia and graphics into the class in a variety of ways.  However, over the course of the last couple of weeks we are going to dig even deeper and look at various other ways that we can use and incorporate multimedia and graphics when working with a computer.

To begin on that front we are going to watch a video today covering podcasting.  Here it is:


Podcasting in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo

Today we are going to learn how to insert autoshapes, text boxes, and WordArt into Word, and then learn how to format those objects.  We are going to cover in class today the following aspects of formatting objects:

1. Changing the size of objects
1. using the mouse
2. using the format menu and popup window
2. Changing the color of objects
3. Adding border to objects
4. Inserting WordArt into Word
5. Formatting WordArt
6. Moving objects freely within Word

Activity 9