BRMS Computer Elective

Today’s Agenda

8th Grade (Periods 1, 3, 4, 5)

1. Period 1 assembly. Period 1 will turn in their PowerPoint projects on Monday.
2. Keyboarding warm-up. (10 minutes)
3. PowerPoint Review - Today we finish. Before submitting your project for grading, make sure you have done the following: (30)
   1. Check your work. Look for errors. Look for ways to fine-tune the appearance of your presentation.
   2. Have your partner check your work, looking for mistakes and ways to improve your presentation. Listen to what they have to say. Work together to improve your final product.
   3. Make the improvements that your partner suggested.
   4. Have your partner check your presentation again, this time grading it.
   5. Reverse the process…you check their work.
4. When you KNOW you have finished, submit your file to me using iChat. (5)
5. After turning in your project, start gathering pictures related to your theme. Save the pictures in the Pictures folder of your Finder and/or in iPhoto. (5)

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7th Grade (Period 7)

1. Keyboarding warm-up. (10 minutes)
2. PowerPoint Review - Today we finish. Before submitting your project for grading, make sure you have done the following: (30)
   1. Check your work. Look for errors. Look for ways to fine-tune the appearance of your presentation.
   2. Have your partner check your work, looking for mistakes and ways to improve your presentation. Listen to what they have to say. Work together to improve your final product.
   3. Make the improvements that your partner suggested.
   4. Have your partner check your presentation again, this time grading it.
   5. Reverse the process…you check their work.
3. When you KNOW you have finished, submit your file to me using iChat. (5)
4. After turning in your project, start gathering pictures related to your theme. Save the pictures in the Pictures folder of your Finder and/or in iPhoto. (5)

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6th Grade (Period 6)

1. Keyboarding drill practice. (20 minutes)
2. You asked about metronomes. Check this and this.
3. Today we continue report writing. We will discuss looking at Websites and how to use MS Word to collect information for your reports. (30)
   1. MS Word settings and toolbars.
   2. Copy and paste from a Website to a Word document.