Vocab Quiz #7; SLC covers

We will be taking vocab quiz #7 at the beginning of the hour, just like normal.  You will have several minutes for review.

After the quiz you need to complete your SLC folder covers.  Remember, you need to have at least these 2 items - your name (in WordArt), and an image of your rainforest animal.  Once you have those 2 items you may add any other images or information to your cover.  These must be done today, so you will need to print the cover out before you leave class.

Once you complete the cover you should work on any assignment that you have missing.

If you are all done you may go to the practice website and practice your keying - with your speed skin on the keyboard.

IP address vs. ISP; SLC folders

To start we will discuss the difference between an IP address and an ISP.

We also need to review the process for uploading and downloading to Google.  This is an important process, and one that we should have mastered, yet we still have some students who are not doing this correctly.

Then we will work with our SLC sheet and printing out assignments.

Lastly we will be completing the SLC folder covers.

FA10; creating a cover for SLC folder

We do have a vocab quiz this Friday - if you are responsible for defining words then you need to get your words defined and posted no later than Wednesday, Nov. 6th.

Today we are going to jump ahead a little and start to work on Formatting Activity 10.  The reason for the jump is that next week we hold our Student Led Conferences, and one of the things that we do in Computer Apps is we put a "cover" on your SLC folder.  The cover will have images that you insert into Word - so we need to learn how to do that before we are able to create your SLC folder cover.

The cover that we are going to create is going to consist of at least 2 things - your name (created using WordArt), and an image of your Rainforest animal.  Beyond that you will have some creative freedom to choose what you want to add to your folder cover (maybe a favorite sports team, for example), but as always anything that goes on the cover must be school appropriate.

Before we get to creating the SLC cover we will complete FA10 in class.

SLC cover

Today we are going to work on creating our SLC cover in Word.  You will learn to use WordArt and to insert images into a document.

Creating a folder cover for SLC

What we are going to do today is create a cover that you will staple to your SLC cover for next week.  This folder should be a reflection of you rather than a just a bunch of images.  For example, you may choose to include an image of the rainforest animal that you did research on.  You might also want to include images of an activity that you are involved with - Builder's Club, Football, Cross Country, or Student Council (these are just examples - there are obviously others that you may be involved in here or outside of school that you want to include).

In order to create your cover page, you'll need to first open Word.

The first thing that I want you to include is a WordArt with your first and last name.  In order to do this, go to the INSERT menu, then put your cursor on "Picture" and choose WordArt (about halfway down the sub-menu list - see below):

Inserting WordArt

You'll then need to select a style to incorporate into your document.  Be careful here!  You'll want to select a style that allows you to be able to read what you have written - some are difficult to read!

Once you select a style a box will pop-up in your document - double click in the box and then a window will open up - type in your name, change the font style, and change the font size as you please.  When you are done, hit ok.  You'll end up with something that looks like this:

WordArt example

You'll be able to click and drag the circles in the corner to change the size of your WordArt.  If you want to edit what you have, double click on the letters of the WordArt and the WordArt window will open up again.  

Next you'll be inserting images into your document.  This is a little more difficult for a couple of reasons.  First, you'll want to do some research (probably on Google) to find the pictures you want.  Second, these images must be school appropriate.  Third, you'll need to find pictures then save them to your account (save them in your Computer Application folder we created earlier in the year).  Fourth, I highly recommend that you choose pictures that have very little dark background or dark colors to them - the reason for this is that we are going to be printing in black and white (sorry - no color printing anymore!) and if you have a bunch of dark colors the image will not look very good once it is printed out. 

I am including a visual description of how to save pictures from a website to your computer, then insert the saved images into your document next:

1. Go to Google.  Select "Images" in the top-left corner so that you are only searching for images.
   


2. Find a picture on the Internet (if you hav pictures saved in your account from another class and you want to use them, you will not need to do this step;  this is only if you are getting picture(s) from the Internet).  Once you find the picture you want, put your cursor on th picture, then hold down the Control key and click on the picture - you'll get a menu that pops up (shown in the picture below on the right of the picture) - and then click on "Save Image As...".  Save the image into your Computer Applications folder that we created earlier in the year (give it a name you can remember!).
3. The next step is to insert the picture into your document, so we now need to go to Word.  In Word, go to the INSERT menu, put your cursor on Picture, and click on "From File".
   
4. Once your picture is in your document, you're going to want to change the formatting on the document so that you can "freely" move your picture anywhere you want within your document.  To do this, first double click on the picture so that you open the following window:
    
   Just as you see in this picture, select "Layout" in the bottom left, click on Tight under "Wrapping Style", and then click on "Advanced" 
5. In the Advanced Layout window, on the bottom-left side under "Options", make sure that the box next to "Move Object with text" is NOT! checked (see the blue arrow below).  This will allow you to move your picture freely within the document.  You may also want to change the size of your image - in order to do that click on the image once, then grab and drag one of the circles in the corner of the image to resize it.