Technology Skills Update B

For Module 3, my learning objectives were to apply spacing and alignment with ruler options, as well as with the formatting palette and toolbar options.  I also was able to experiment with setting tabs in a variety of ways and using outline options.  I continue to be amazed at the many ways that there are to do things in Word.  I still find myself forgetting that the dialog boxes expand into so many more choices!  Last week I experimented with more ways to format my newsletter, so I am including a copy of that.  This week, I began composing my parent letter that I hope to merge progress monitoring data into.  I have included that as well, but it is currently a work in progress.  I can tell I will need to spend more time on that during this module because I am very unfamiliar with data files. 

Updated Skills Checklist
Newsletter Feb. 14
Parent Letter

Skills Assessment A

For my first module, I am working on learning more options for Word.  Each week I send out a parent newsletter summarizing skills we have covered.  My plan was to reformat my newsletter (currently it is just a page of paragraphs with a heading preceding it) into columns and sections.  My homeroom students see two main academic teachers, myself and the teacher who teaches in the room behind me.  We each have sections in our homeroom newsletter for the other to write and summarize work that has been done in our particular classes.

This newsletter as you will notice is not complete due to the fact that we didn't have school on Friday and I was not at school to access all of the information I wanted to include.  The format, however, is in place.

I was excited to discover some new, simple things that I could do easily in Word.  The neatest thing I've discovered is using the current date and time in the header.  I wish I had know about this before.  It's the perfect thing for a weekly newsletter.  The best part of it is the update feature.  The date will automatically update for me!  I love it.

I used the help feature to learn about automatic page numbering, turning on and off automatic formatting and using tabs.

Here is my newsletter: New Newsletter


Here is my updated Skills Checklist