Using Microsoft Word Year 7

USING MICROSOFT WORD TOPICS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Page Setup, Margins Aligning Text Bullets and Numbering Headers and Footers Columns Using Word Art Inserting Pictures Inserting Objects Using Autoshapes

The purpose of this class is to cover some of the functions of Microsoft Word so that you can present your work more clearly, and in a format which is appropriate to the task. This also allows you to produce work which includes information about the task. 1.

PAGE SETUP a.

Start a new page and select File/Page Setup

b.

Reset your page to have margins of 2cm all around, make sure your page size is A4.

2.

ALIGNING TEXT a.

Copy the text from page 1 four times.

i. justify paragraph 1 using Left Align ii. justify paragraph 2 using Center Align iii. justify paragraph 3 using Right Align iv. justify paragraph 4 using Full Justify (this produces a neat paragraph look for formal essays and reports, also to use in newspaper report tasks) 3.

BULLETS AND NUMBERING Copy this list: Page Setup, Margins Aligning Text Bullets and Numbering Headers and Footers Columns Tables Setting Tabs Inserting Pictures Inserting Objects Using Autoshapes Using Word Art I. Format these as bullet points II. Format them as numbered list III. Use the TAB key to move the list across the page (Shift TAB moves them backwards)

4.

HEADERS AND FOOTERS a.

Start a NEW PAGE

b.

Select View / Header and Footer

c. Place a title in the Header. Format the text, change its size to 16 pt and the font to ARIAL. Use Bold and Centre Justify d.

Select Footer. Insert the Name, Page, Date

5.

COLUMNS a.

Using this page divide it into two columns (Use the Format / Column )

b.

Copy this text into the columns and Full Justify

HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS IN THE INFORMATION AGE SOCIETY The demands of educating students to participate in society reflect the needs of the time. Throughout the industrial age, education was geared towards preparation for factory and mechanical work. In more recent decades, the educational emphasis was on the acquisition of knowledge and skills in preparation for white-collar professional careers. The technological world in which today’s students are engaging is one where infinite knowledge is accessible at the touch of a button. To prepare students for participation in this knowledge age demands a shift in educational policies from knowledge acquisition to knowledge management and from learning to how to learn. School must now enable students to become ‘’critical and creative participants in society and not merely passive consumers of information’’ (Loveless, 2002, p.8). The future for our students is one of continued learning and to enable them to journey well on this path of life-long learning, we need to promote the skills of critical thinking, application of learning, flexibility and creativity (NCCA, as cited in Savage, 2002). Trilling and Hood, cited in Loveless (2002) categorised a list of ‘C’ skills essential for the knowledge age including critical thinking and doing, creativity, collaboration, communication, computing, career and learning self-reliance. These critical, creative and collaborative components of higher order thinking underpin the requirements of the knowledge society (Loveless, 2002). In stating that the educational aims for children with Mild General Learning Disability reflect those that are relevant to all students, the NCCA acknowledge that these children must be given exposure to differentiated tasks aimed towards the development of higher order skills. 6.

USING WORDART a.

Save the document you have just created

b.

Using the same document remove the header and footer

c.

Place a heading in the document using Word Art

d.

Save this document with a different name

e.

Compare the size of these two files

(wordart should only be used for special presentations as it often takes up too much filesize. Do Not use WordArt for tasks that need to be submitted electronically)