Thursday, February 21, 2008

Directions for Week of 02/26-02/29

Tuesday










Your Assignment for today will be to add the pinky finger letters to your Wheel Method Power Point. You will be adding 3 slides today.

Slide info
1st slide- Title(Left hand Pinky Finger) Include letters with arrows (aqz)

2nd slide- Title (Right hand Pinky Finger) Include letters with arrows (;p/?) you may also put a shift button in this slide)

3rd slide- Title ( third and fourth Finger Words) Include works using only third and fourth finger letters. You should not include words that you already used. insert some pictures that go with your words.Make use of custom animation, word art, and slide transitions

If you finish, work in microtype please.

Wednesday-Thursday




Waiting Room Project (MS Paint)
We have all been to waiting rooms at the dentist or the doctor. What is in a waiting room? Using Microsoft paint your are to design a waiting room layout. Design your waiting room as if you are looking at it from above. DO NOT USE CLIP ART OR PICTUES EVERYTHING MUST BE DRAWN USING THE TOOLS IN PAINT.

Your waiting room should include at least the items below but you can add more.
Bathroom
Seating for the patients
A desk for the reception person (what is on a desk? Computer, Phone etc…)
Refreshments (water food)
A fish tank
Table with magazines

This is only the minimum be creative and think what else is in a waiting room. I have provided an example of a layout below.

Your waiting room should include at least the items below but you can add more.
Bathroom
Seating for the patients
A desk for the reception person (what is on a desk? Computer, Phone etc…)
Refreshments (water food)
A fish tank
Table with magazines

This is only the minimum be creative and think what else is in a waiting room.

Friday- Scavenger Hunt on the Web

If you finish your waitting room project you can start the web scavanger hunt. Test your search skill by finding the information provided in the hunt.

The questions can be found in the student shared folder. Open the file and save it to your network drive name it "Scavenger Hunt"

Good Luck!


Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Directions for Thursday and Friday

Thursday

You should have studied your middle finger letters for a little while before logging on.

Remember the written part of your test is tomorrow. I will finish the quiz on Monday.

Your Assignment for today will be to add the middle finger letters to your Wheel Method Power Point. You will be adding 3 slides today.
Slide info

1st slide- Title(Left hand Middle Finger) Include letters with arrows (DEC)

2nd slide- Title (Right hand Middle Finger) Include letters with arrows (KI,>) you may also put a shift button in this slide)

3rd slide- Title (first and second Finger Words) Include works using only first and second finger letters. You should not include words that you already used for first finger words. insert some pictures that go with your words.

Make use of custom animation, word art, and slide transitions.

If you finish continue to work in Microtype, Remember your quiz Friday
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Friday
I hope you did well on your test.

Check out these internet typing games by clicking on the links. If a game does not work for you try a different one.

There are quite a few games on this site my favorite is Metor Typing Blast
http://www.freetypinggame.net/play.asp

Here are some more.
http://www.onlytypinggames.com/

Here is one from the UK, give it a try.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

If you are bored with these games continue working in Microtype
Have a great weekend see you on Monday