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Mary HeuerMain essential pointsp. 209 1-8, 12, 13, 14 (very imp), 15,16 must __Development plan- include information about visuals too (use template above)__ Preparing to Use Word Processing with Students in a Lab Setting Welcome to the computer lab. What do we need to know to Prepare to take our students to the lab and teach word processing to our students? Signing out and preparing the computer lab. Using the Over Head Projector What to Teach? Logging on to the Computers Opening a Word Document Saving the Document to a Folder Formatting Editing Hints: Save! Save! Save! Click once on Print (not a double click)! Are the caps locked? Don’t hit enter to go to the next line. Let’s Practice: heading, title, 2 paragraphs Printing Shutting Down

Review? Evaulation? prototype is a sample training

Word 2003 Essential Vocabulary

1. Pull down menu- the choices that appear when you click on an item in a toolbar 2. formatting tool bar- tool bar with icons for bold, italics, underline, justification 3. Scroll bars- bar on the right of the document used to move up and down; does not move cursor 4. text wrap- while typing, the text automatically goes to the next line 5. Arrow Keys- for keyboard navigation within document 6. highlight – to drag over text to edit 7. Copy- copies highlighted text and can be pasted into another area or document 8. Cut- removes what is highlighted and can be pasted to another area 9. Paste- to insert text or graphics that have been copied or pasted 10. Right Clicking- displays options for editing such as copy, cut, and paste 11. tab key- can be used to indent 12. “save” and “save as”- “save as” is used to name and save a document when it is created, “save” is use to save changes to a named document 13. font- a letter or other symbol, the size and style can be changed using the format toolbar options 14. document- the page or pages (as in “Open a Word document”) 15. cursor

Welcome to the training for instructing students to use Word to create a docucment. I will model for you how to instruct your students to create and save a document with a heading, title, and 3 paragraphs and to print the document. Before we can use the computer lab for instruction, the computer lab must be signed out. I have created a brief Power Point presentation of the steps involved in signing out the lab. Insert Lab Sign Out Power Point here. Before taking your students to the computer lab, inform the students of the objective of the lab lesson which is to create a word document according to the instructions you will be giving them. Let the students know that you will be demonstrating the steps using the over head projector and that they are to watch what you do and then do the same thing at their computers. You may also want to remind students of your behavior expectations. Before you take your students to the lab, you will want to check the lab to be sure the computers are on (this saves a lot of time), the printer has paper in it, and that the overhead projector is connected. We will talk more about the printer and the overhead projector later.

Plesase turn on your computer. Now we will practice what to do once you have your class in the computer lab. When the computer is on, you will see a sign in screen. There is no password needed so just hit enter.

“Please hit enter on your computer. There is no password needed. Now look up at the screen. Do you see the blue W on the desktop? That is the icon for Word. I am going to double click on the blue W. You will see that a blank Word document is on the screen. Now open Word on your computer. Once Word is opened, look back up at the screen. I am going to show you the heading I expect you to use. You will begin by typing your first and last name, being sure to capitalize both of the first letters in your names. Use the shift key to capitalize, not the caps lock key. Go ahead and do this. Next, hit tab one time and type 5 and your section. For example, if you are in Mrs. Brown’s homebase, you will type 5BR. Now look up at the screen again. I am going to hit “enter” one time. Do you see the “enter” key on your keyboard? Now I am going to type the date using all numbers and dashes. The dash key is next to the number zero in the top row or you may use the numbers and dash in the number pad. Watch as I type the date. Now hit enter and type the date on your document. After typing the date, hit enter 3 times as I am doing on my document. Check and see if your document matches the one on the screen. This would be a good time to save our work. Watch as I move my arrow up to “file”. When I click once on file, I see some choices, including “save as”. I am going to click on that and you will see options for where to save you work………………………………………….. Now I am going to show you how to type a paragraph with a title. For now, you are to just watch the screen then I will give you a topic to practice typing a paragraph. First, I want the title to be centered so I an going up to my tool and clicking in the toolbar on the icon for center. Look where my cursor is. Now watch as my arrow moves up to the top of the page to the center icon. When I click on it, my cursor moves to the center of the page. I will now type my title, being sure to start with a capital letter and capitalize each important word in the title. Let’s see my title will be How to Create a Word Document. Do you see how it is the center of my page. I am going to hit the enter key three times. Now, I don’t want the paragraph I am going to type to be centered. So watch as I move my arrow up to the top of my page and click back on “align left”. Do you see that my cursor is back to the left? As in writing class, we need to indent the paragraph so I am going to hit my tap key one time. Now I will start my first sentence. Of course, I will capitalize the first letter using the shift key. So, here is my introductory sentence. Today Mrs. Brown’s students went to the computer lab and learned something very important. Did you notice that the words went to the next line. The computer will do that automatically for you. Do not hit the enter key. After typing a period at the end of my sentence, I am going to hit the space bar twice. We always space twice after a period, question mark, or exclamation point. Now I will being my next sentence. (type a sample second sentence to the paragraph). Okay, now time for a quick review then you will try it. Name, homebase, enter, date, enter, change to center, type title, enter twice, back to left align, indent using tab, and begin your paragraph. Remember, period space space. Your topic is (give students a topic of your choosing). Mary Heuer