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Year 7 2008 2009

WEEK 16 – 5^th January

7.3 Lesson 1 Endangered Animals – Designing a Corporate image. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Understand and be able to explain what is meant by “Corporate Image”.
• Apply elements of the corporate image to produce a suitable front cover for WWF. 

Task 1 Setting up a New Folder

Within your ICT folder create a new folder called Unit 7.3 Endangered Animals. 

STARTER –World Wildlife Fund leaflet covers.

Open Example WWF front covers (Reso1a).  The leaflets are from two different time periods, but from the same organisation.  Open the Similarities and Differences worksheet (Reso1b).  Add your name to the name dialogue box.  Save this into your Unit 7.3 Endangered Animals folder.  Call it Similarities and Differences.  On the worksheet write down five similarities and three differences between the two leaflets. The first has been done for you. 

Start thinking about…

Informative writing: “Seals face many different threats; these include predators such as wolves, foxes, polar bears and the biggest threat of all – humans!  Fishing means that seals struggle to find food and many starve to death.  In addition, the pollution in the Arctic seas is creating a high level of danger.” 

Persuasive writing: “Please, please help save these beautiful, defenceless animals – just a few pounds a month could make a huge difference.” 

• What is the difference between the way these two paragraphs are written? 

Task 1 – Design a WWF leaflet

You have been commissioned by the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) to design a cover for their next leaflet.  You can choose what you focus on but you must keep to the corporate image.  That means you have to include the same features as those used on the covers they have already produced:

• Two logos
• Slogans
• Web address
• Postal addresses
• A suitable picture

Try to copy the design of the blue WWF leaflet you looked at in the starter as closely as possible to keep to their corporate image. 

Corporate image is the way an organisation presents itself.  There will usually be key items in company leaflets that remain the same, including the positioning of the logo, colours, font and so on.  This is so that the audience are able to immediately identify who has produced it. 

Task 2 – Use a pre-designed template

Open the document WWF template (Reso1c).  Add your name to footer (View / Header and Footer).  Save this into your Unit 7.3 Endangered Animals folder.  Call it NAME WWF leaflet cover.  Follow the instructions on the template and insert appropriate features from the WWF Images and information (Reso1e) document. 

Task 3 – Insert an image into your template

Use the items in WWF Images and Information (Reso1e) to help you design your WWF leaflet cover.  You can copy them into your own leaflet by selecting the image you want and choosing Edit > Copy. Then paste it into your own document by clicking on the page and choosing Edit > Paste.

You can save images you find on the Internet into your Unit 7.3 Endangered Animals folder.  First right click on the image and choose Save Picture As.  Give it a name you will recognise (e.g. leopard).  Go to your document and choose Insert / Picture / From File.  Find the folder where you saved the image.  Select the image and click Insert.  The image will be placed in the document. 

Task 4 – Insert text or WordArt

To add text to your document, first draw a text box using the Text box tool.  Type our text in, or copy and paste text from WWF Images and information (Reso1e) document.  If you want to add WordArt, click on the WordArt icon.  You will then be given a gallery of styles to choose from.  Select the style you want and click OK.  The type your text in and click OK again.  The WordArt will appear on your page. 

NOTE: you should ONLY use WordArt for titles. 

EXTENSION WORK 

Open Homework sheet (Reso1f).  Add your name to the name dialogue box.  Save this into your Unit 7.3 Endangered Animals folder.  Call it Leaflet Cover Planning Sheet. 

Plan the layout of the cover of a leaflet for a charity organisation called PEAT (Protecting Endangered Animals Together).  The charity helps to protect a wide range of endangered animals such as polar bears, elephants, whales, leopards and pandas, to name but a few!  Look at the example leaflet cover from the WWF leaflet.  Your cover should have the same elements.  These include:

• Title
• Logo
• Date and issue number
• Picture
• Slogan
• Website address

You should also write on your plan what colours and pictures you are going to use.  The diagram on the left is a plan that might have been created for the production of the WWF cover on the right.

WEEK 8 – 20^th October

7.1 Lesson 8 Where I live: London – Our Capital Assessment Activity

In this assessed activity you will work on behalf of the London Tourist Board.  They have organised a trip to London for a group of students from Australia.  The Australian students are visiting London for five nights.  The students are between 11 – 13 years of age, and want to see all the sights. 

A presentation has been created for the students to give them a taste of what they can expect to see when they get here.  However, the London Tourist Board is not very happy with the presentation as it stands, and they want you to improve it.  There are comments it the notes section of each slide telling you what changes are necessary.  It is your job to help to sell the trip to the Australian students.  Make them have no doubt that they are going to have the time of their lives.  You have only one hour to do this, because they’ll be arriving very soon.

Open London Presentation (Reso8b).  Choose File / Save As and navigate to your Unit 7.1 Where I Live folder.  Rename it NAME London Presentation e.g. Mrs Munro London Presentation. 

Open the London Images folder.  This contains the images that you will need to use to improve the presentation. 

The Notes sections is beneath each slide at the bottom of the screen.  Use the scroll bars to find all of the instructions. 

Work individually, in silence.  I will not be able to show you how to do any of the tasks.  Good luck.  REMEMBER: Save your work regularly as you go along.

WEEK 7 – 13^th October

7.1 Lesson 6 & 7 Where I live – Altering a Presentation and Annotating a Presentation

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Recognise that presentations need to be altered when made for different people. 
• Make appropriate changes to your own presentation to make it suitable for teenagers. 
• Show clearly what choices you made and your reasons for these choices
• Clearly identify ways in which a presentation could be improved. 

 

STARTER – Tempting Teens

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs.  Put the title “Top ten things to tempt teens to our town”.  Write a list in order of most to least tempting.  Do we all agree?  Has anyone chosen anything that we don’t agree with?

 

Task 1 Shep’s Final Presentation

Use your white board.  Work in pairs.  Watch Shep’s Final Presentation (Reso6a).  Shep has adapted his presentation content and style to focus on teenagers.  What changes has Shep made to make the presentation more appealing to this age group.  Watch Shep’s Improved Presentation (Reso4c) to see the contrast. 

 

Task 2 Creating a New Version (Teenage Version) of your Presentation. 

1. To create a new version of your presentation, choose Save As and rename your new version Teenagers Where I Live Presentation.  Make sure you have saved it in your Unit 7.1 Where I Live folder. 
2. Work through your presentation to make it more interesting for teenagers.  You must change at least;
   1. one image
   2. one piece of text
   3. one formatting element e.g. font or background)

 

Do you want to add shadows to your pictures to make them stand out?  Select the picture.  Click on the Shadows icon in the Drawing toolbar.  Choose Shadow Settings to change the colour and size of the shadow. 

 

Extension Task Adding a Hyperlink to your Presentation. 

1. To add a hyperlink, highlight the word, phrase or image which you want to link to the other web page.  Choose Insert / Hyperlink.  Add the URL (web address) of the site to the dialogue box and click OK. 

 Watch this VIDEO  to see how to add a hyperlink. 

Now add a hyperlink to one of the attractions you have included in your presentation e.g. a pony club or coffee bar. 

 

TEST YOURSELF

Use your white board.  Work in pairs.  Each of you must write down one aspect of both;

• content
• design

which you chose to alter.  Explain to your partner what you changed and why. 

 

WEEK 7 – 13^th October

7.1 Lesson 6 & 7 Where I live – Altering a Presentation and annotating a Presentation (continued)

 

STARTER – Do you know the language of presentations?

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs.  Read through the Key Words worksheet (Reso7a).  Can you remember what each of the words mean?  Write its meaning in the right-hand column. The first has been done for you. 

 

Task 1 Annotating your Original Presentation

Open your original presentation Where I Live Presentation and makes notes after each slide in the Notes section found at the bottom of the screen.  Give as much detail as possible about the choices you made and who the presentation is aimed at.  Take a look at the model answers on the system Unit 7.1 Model answer Level 4 and Level 5 to get more guidance about what to write. 

 

Task 2 Annotating your Final Presentation

Open your original presentation Teenagers Where I Live Presentation and makes notes after each slide in the Notes section found at the bottom of the screen.  Explain how and why you changed certain things.  Explain why you think that this presentation will be more appealing to teenagers.  Take a look at the model answers on the system Unit 7.1 Model answer Level 4 and Level 5 to get more guidance about what to write. 

 

REMEMBER: If you cannot think of a good reason why you did something, then maybe it wasn’t such a good idea. 

 

Task 3 Evaluating you Presentation

1. Complete the self evaluation sheet (Reso7b).  If you can identify ways to make improvements then you may be able to reach a higher level. 
2. Now swap sheets with your partner.  Evaluate your partner’s presentation. 

 

Task 4 Printing your work

1. Open your original presentation Where I Live Presentation in Note Page View (View / Note Pages).  Add your NAME to the footer (View / Header and Footer / Notes and Handouts / Footer).  Print your original presentation Where I Live Presentation as Note Pages in Greyscale.  Send it to the KC2mono printer. 
2. Open your final presentation Teenagers Where I Live Presentation in Note Page View (View / Note Pages).  Add your NAME to the footer (View / Header and Footer / Notes and Handouts / Footer).  Print your final presentation Teenagers Where I Live Presentation as Note Pages in Greyscale.  Send it to the KC2mono printer. 
3. Open Self Evaluation sheet.  Make sure that you have added your name to the Name dialogue box.  Print your Self Evaluation sheet.  Send it to the KC2mono printer. 

 

TEST YOURSELF

Play the “Definition Game”.  Each pupil has a key term. I nominate someone in the class to define the term.  If they get it right, they tell the group their term and nominate someone else in the class to define their term, until we run out of terms.  The key words are fitness of purpose, document, slide, font, purpose, annotate, evaluate, effective, audience and layout.  I decide if the definition fits the key term.

continuing lesson 4…

Task 3 Slide Transition

Watch the following video to add slide transition to your presentation.  (Slide Show / Slide Transition).  No more than 2 types of slide transition – one for  title and conclusion slide and one for all of the other slides. 

Task 4 Text and Image Animation

Watch the following video to add text animation to your presentation.  ( Slide Show / Animation Schemes or Custom Animation).  Use only one type of text animation.  You can use another type for your images.   

WEEK 6 – 6^th October

7.1 Lesson 5 Where I live – Adding Sound

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Add suitable sounds to a presentation

 

STARTER – Sounds

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs.  Listen to the sound files from the Sounds Presentation (Reso5a).  After you have listened to each sound, fill in the grid;

1. Explain what the sound reminds you of. 
2. What sort of atmosphere you think it creates.

 

Task 1 Shep’s Presentation with Sound

Use your white board.  Work in pairs.  Listen to the Shep’s Presentation with Sound.  There are two versions.  The first has more sounds – are they appropriate?  What do you think about the number of sounds – too many? / too few?  Which version is better and why? 

 

Task 2 Adding Sound to your Presentation

Sound is important.  It can have a huge impact.  E.g. The music that denotes the presence of the Great White Shark in Jaws adds tension.  The film wouldn’t be as scary if the music wasn’t in it!

Decide where you want to insert sound and what you would like the sounds to be.  You should not have more than three different sounds in the whole presentation. 

1. To insert sounds from the Sounds presentation, right click on the sound icon you want, then copy and paste it into your own presentation. 
2. To insert short sound clips, choose Insert / Movies and Sounds / Sounds from File.  Find the Smart sounds folder and open the Short sound clips folder and select a sound.  Either choose to play it automatically or click to plat it. 
3. To insert long sound clips, open the Smart sounds folder, choose Long sounds clips folder, right click on the sound and choose Copy.  Position the sound on the slide from your presentation and select Paste.  NOTE: these sound clicks will not play automatically.  Click on them to play them and they will open and play in Windows Media Player (in the background). 
4. To create your own sounds e.g. a commentary, choose Insert / Movies and sounds / Record Sound.  Give the sound a Name and click on the red circle to record and speak into the microphone.  The blue rectangle stops the recording and the blue arrow allows you to hear what you have recorded. 

 

TEST YOURSELF

Work in your pairs.  Show your partner the sound choices you have made.  Constructive criticisms – share you thoughts with your partner, but be mindful of their feelings.  What sounds do you like?  What sounds don’t your like? Tactfully suggest one improvement!

WEEK 5 – 29^th September

7.1 Lesson 4 Where I live – Choosing Colours and Fonts

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Understand that font style, size and colour can change the meaning of a presentation
• Evaluate the effects of fonts and colour on a presentation

 

STARTER – Choosing fonts

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs. 

1. Look at slide 1 – Choosing fonts.  Which font do you prefer and why?
2. Look at slide 2 – Choosing fonts.  Different styles are appropriate for different purposes.  Which font would be appropriate for each task?  You can use the same font more than once.

What ever your personal preference for colour, font, etc, it is important that your presentation has “consistency” – the same fonts and background throughout the document to make it clear, easy to read and professional looking. 

 

Task 1 Improving Shep’s Presentation

1. Watch Shep’s Presentation (Reso4b).  Work in pairs.  Jot down on your white boards at least five changes that you would make the presentation better.  Think about the font, background and pictures.
2. Watch Shep’s Improved Presentation (Reso4c).  On your white boards jot down as many reasons as you can think of to explain why this presentation is better.  Think about the font, background and layout. 

 

Task 2 Adding Text to your Presentation

The key purpose of adding text to your presentation is to convince people that your town is a great place to live – be persuasive.  REMEMBER: your text needs to appeal to all of the family! 

1. To add text to a slide, click into the text box and start typing. 
2. To add a text box to a slide, click on the text box icon, click on the slide where you want the text box to be and start typing. 

You should not use more than two fonts in your presentation.  Add interest by using BOLD, ITALIC and UNDERLINE. 

1. To add further effects to text, chose Format / Font.  

Do not get carried away adding text.  The GOLDEN RULE is no more than 5 lines of text with no more than 6 words per line – that’s 30 words – be concise. 

 

Task 3 Slide Transition

Watch the following video to add slide transition to your presentation.  (Slide Show / Slide Transition).  No more than 2 types of slide transition – one for  title and conclusion slide and one for all of the other slides. 

Task 4 Text and Image Animation

Watch the following video to add text animation to your presentation.  ( Slide Show / Animation Schemes or Custom Animation).  Use only one type of text animation.  You can use another type for your images.   

Task 5 Adding a Colour Scheme to your Presentation

Read through Colour Rules (Reso4e).  You should choose contrasting colours for the text and background (e.g. blue background and yellow text) to make it easy to read.  The colour scheme you choose should be applied to all of your slides. 

1. To add one colour background, choose Format / Background – use the drop down arrow and More Colours to see the whole selection. 
2. To add a gradient background, choose Format / Background – use the drop down arrow and Fill Effects.  You can choose Colour 1 and Colour 2 and you can change the ay the colours mix by clicking Shading styles and Variants. 
3. To use a pre-designed template, choose Format / Slide Design, click on the different Design Templates to preview them. 

 

TEST YOURSELF – 2 Stars and 1 Wish

Work in your pairs.  Show your partner the formatting choices you have made.  Constructive criticisms – share you thoughts with your partner, but be mindful of their feelings.  What features do you like?  What features don’t your like? Tactfully suggest one improvement!

WEEK 4 – 22^nd September

7.1 Lesson 3 Where I live – Adding Images

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Find suitable images for each slide
• Be able to alter the images
• Insert them into a presentation

 

STARTER – Image Cards

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs. 

1. Open Starter Image Cards and decide which group or groups of people would like each image.  Choose from Teenagers / Older People / Nobody / Everybody. 
2. What makes some images appeal to different audiences?
3. What makes some images unappealing?

It is important to use powerful pictures – positive images will appeal to students and their parents e.g. smiling children, action shots of students doing sport, friendly dinner ladies. 

 

Task 1 Finding Images on the Internet

Use Google Image Search to find images of your local area.  Use keywords and the + sign to narrow your search. E.g. “Shrewsbury” + “River Severn”. 

 

Task 2 Collecting and Saving Images for your Presentation

1. Collect and decide on one image for each of your slides.  NOTE: the maximum number of images allowed per slide is two.  Your images must appeal to all age groups. 
2. When you have found a good images, right click on it and choose Save Picture As.  Give it a name you will recognise e.g. Music Hall.  Create a new folder in your Unit 7.1 Where I Live folder.  Call this subfolder Images or Pictures.  REMEMBER to save all of your images for your presentation in here. 

 

Task 3 Inserting Images into your Presentation

1. Open the slide in which you want to insert the image. 
2. Choose Insert / Picture / From File.  Find the Image or Picture folder.  Find the image and click Insert.  The image will appear on your slide. 

 

Task 4 Editing images

• Crop

To cut unwanted areas off an image, open the Picture toolbar (View / Toolbars / Picture) Select the picture and choose the crop tool.  Click and drag on the picture’s selection handles to cut off the bit you don’t want.  To come out of Crop mode, click on the page away from the image. 

• Resize

To make a picture bigger or smaller, select the picture and click and drag on a corner selection handle.  IMPORTANT if your don’t use the corner handles you will distort the image!

 

TEST YOURSELF

Work in your pairs.  Show your partner the images you have selected.  Constructive criticisms – share you thoughts with your partner, but be mindful of their feelings.  What images do you like?  What images don’t your like? Tactfully suggest one improvement!

WEEK 3 – 15^th September

7.1 Lesson 1 & 2 Where I live – An introduction to Presentations and Setting up a Presentation

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Understand different uses for multimedia presentations and what presentation software can do
• Open a new presentation containing six slides, save it to their folder and print handouts. 
• Identify the good and bad points of a presentation
• Plan and set up a presentation using Outline View.

 

STARTER – What is a multimedia presentation?

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs.  Jot down at least three things that might be included in a multimedia presentation DELETE – e.g. images, video, sounds, etc.

 

Task 1 Viewing a Multimedia Presentation

1. Open SurfSeeker Holidays Presentation 1 (Reso1a).  You are looking at this presentation in Normal view.  Showing the individual Slides.  Work with your partner through the following points. 
2. Change to Outline.  When would you use this view?  When working in this view, you must remember to open the Outlining toolbar (View / Toolbars / Outlining)
3. Change to Slide Sorter View (View / Slide Sorter).  When would you use this view?
4. Change to Note Page View (View / Note Page).  When would you use this view?
5. Change to Slide Show View (View / Slide Show).  When would you use this view?

 

Task 2 Purpose and Audience

1. Watch SurfSeeker Holidays Presentation 1 (Reso1a) and complete Activity 1 on resource sheet purpose and audience in presentations.  REMEMBER: you can discuss what you think with your buddy!
2. Watch SurfSeeker Holidays Presentation 2 (Reso1b) and complete Activity 2 on resource sheet purpose and audience in presentations. 

 

These two presentations were created with very different audiences in mind.  With your partner jot down answers to the following questions;

1. Why would the first presentation include sound, but not the second?
2. Why are images included in the first presentation?
3. Why are graphs included in the second presentation

 

Task 3 Setting up a New Folder

Within your ICT folder create a new folder called Unit 7.1 Where I Live. 

 

Task 4 Opening a New Presentation

1. Open PowerPoint and create a new document.  Choose File / Save As and save this new presentation into your Unit 7.1 Where I Live folder.  Call the presentation Where I Live Presentation. 
2. Plan your presentation in Outline View.  Make sure the Outlining Toolbar is open (View / Toolbars / Outlining). 
3. Create six new slides.  To create a new slide choose Insert / New Slide, and then choose the layout you want.  Your first slide will be the title slide then the others will contain text and images. 
4. You can change the order of your slides by using the Move Up and Move Down arrows on the Outliner Toolbar.

 

TEST YOURSELF

Work in your pairs and create a simple two slide presentation.  Slide one should explain what is meant by audience and slide two should explain purpose.  Save this presentation into your Unit 7.1 Where I Live folder.  Call the presentation Audience and Purpose.  Add your name to the footer (View / Header and Footer / Notes and Handouts / Footer).  Print out as handouts (File / Print / Print what – Handouts / Slides per page 2. 

 

WEEK 3 – 15^th September

7.1 Lesson 1 & 2 Where I live – An introduction to Presentations and Setting up a Presentations (continued)

 

STARTER – What is good about where you live?

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Work in pairs.  Jot down at least three things which are good about where you live.  You should think about not only the things you like but also the things your parents, your brothers and sisters, and your grand parents like. 

 

Task 1 Shep’s Presentation

1. Watch Shep’s Presentation (Reso2a).  In your pairs, complete Activity 1 (5 things I learned about where Shep lived) and Activity 2 (5 things I would like to know about where Shep lived) on the worksheet Shep’s presentation (Reso2b). 
2. On your white boards jot down 3 good things about Shep’s presentation and 3 bad things.  Think about How could it be improved?
3. In your pairs, complete Activity 3 (5 things I liked and didn’t like about Shep’s presentation). 

 

Task 2 Where I Live Presentation

1. Work in your pairs.  On your white boards write the title “Great Stuff to do in my area!”  Now jot down six topics to include in your presentation.  Think about things that will entice people to come and live in your area.  E.g. Shrewsbury, The River Severn, Music in Shrewsbury, etc.
2. Open your Where I Live Presentation in Outline View.  Use your notes to add headings to the six slides.  You can use the demote tool to add subheadings as well. 

 

TEST YOURSELF

Work in your pairs.  On your white boards list 3 “dos” and 3 “don’t” when making a presentation.  Which do we agree are the best? 

 

EXTENSION WORK: Collect 6 images to include in your presentation 

Starter: Look in turn at the following websites and with the person sitting next to you, decide whether you think they are serious or hoax sites.

• treeoctopus, sellafield zoo, stick insects, velcro, dhmo, dogisland, beards, boilerplate

Using Email

Today we are going to look at using the school email system using Microsoft Outlook – find and open Microsoft Outlook from your desktop.  After a quick demonstration from me, try and work through the following tasks.

Task 1

Create a new email and sent it to somebody else in the class.  Tell them one thing you like about Shrewsbury High School.

Have a look at the address book.  Can you explain how to use it to the class?

Task 2

You should now all have received an email from someone in the group.  REPLY to your friends email and CC somebody else in the class – do you agree with what they like about the school?  If so, tell them.  If not, tell them what you like.  You could also tell them what you don’t like about the school!

Task 3

FORWARD one of the messages you receive to somebody else in the class and explain that you are forwarding on somebody else’s views about the school.

Task 4

Add your own personal email (NOT your school email!!!) to your contacts so it is easy to send things home.

In order to access your contacts when you send an email message, you will need to do the following (this is tricky so take it carefully!);

• In Outlook choose – Tools – Options
• In the Mail Setup Tab, click on the e-mail accounts button
• Under directory, choose add a new directory or address book and click next
• Then choose additional address books and click next
• With outlook address book selected, click next
• Click OK – you will need to close and re-open outlook for the changes to take effect

WEEK 1 – 1^st September

7.0 Lesson 1 Getting Started Logging On and Saving Work

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In today’s lesson you will learn how to;

• Log on to the school network
• Create and locate a folder structure in your network area
• Create a word processed document and save different versions

 

STARTER – Security and Passwords

The two most important things about a password are:

• It is easy to remember
• No-one should be able to

Grab a white board, pen and cloth.  Look at the passwords listed below.  Work with the person sitting next to you to rate each password in terms of security and ease of remembering. 

• Munro (my name)
• Munro21 (my name and age!)
• Chocolate (the name of my dog)
• Pterodactyl (a word I found in a dictionary)
• Harry (the hero of my favourite film)

 

Task 1 – Logging On to the School Network

• USERNAME: This is one word made up of parts with no spaces – SHR, first 4 letters of your surname e.g. MUNR, the initial of your first name e.g. L, followed by the number 1 unless you are told otherwise.  So it will look similar to this shrmunrl1. 
• PASSWORD: You will now be given your password.  Memorise it!  Do not write it in your planner!! Do not share it with anyone!!! 

 

Task 2 – Using the GDST Portal

Please find your planner and a pen and write down the following site http://myplace.gdst.net .  Now, click on the link and then press “continue with limited functionality”.  Explore!

 

Task 3 – Creating a Folder Structure

We will now take some time to create a folder structure in your network area.  Work through the points below;

1. Create a folder called YEAR 7
2. Use your timetable (It is in your planner) to create a folder for each of your school subjects within your YEAR 7 folder. E.g. ICT, English, Maths, etc
3. Within your ICT folder create a folder called Unit 7.0 GETTING STARTED. 

 

Task 4 – Saving a Document using “Save As”

Work in your pairs again.  Use your white board, pen and cloth to jot down three differences between Shrewsbury High School (SHS) and your old primary school.  You are going to write a letter to your primary school teacher, telling them what is different.

 

What software package should we use?

 

Open MS Word and use File / Save As to save this blank document in your Unit 7.0 GETTING STARTED folder.  Call the letter primaryletter1.  Use your notes to type in a couple of sentences about SHS. 

 

Task 5 – Setting Up a Letter using Letter Wizard

1. Use Tools / Letters and Mailings / Letter Wizard. 
2. Use the Letter Format tab to add the date.
3. Use the Recipient Info tab to add your primary teacher’s name and the address of your old school.
4. Use the Sender Info tab to add your name and a letter ending e.g. Yours sincerely, Best wishes, etc
5. Use File / Save As again to save the new improved version of your letter.  This time call your letter primaryletter2. 

 

Task 6 – Log off

 

The Difference between Save and Save As

Using Save As you save a new version of the document. 

Using Save will overwrite what you have saved before. 

It is really important that you save your work as often as possible. 

 

TEST YOURSELF (If you get stuck ask your buddy to help you!)

1. Log back on to the network (I hope you have remembered your PASSWORD)
2. Find the letter you have just written  – primaryletter2
3. Change one thing in your letter.  E.g. SHS isn’t really scary!
4. Resave your letter as primaryletter3
5. Close down and log off.