Week Beginning Thursday, August 13, 2009

Week 5, Term 3

Goals for the next week of classes

1. Learn more about Word and how to use it in a business.
2. Use Wordpress to discover how a blog can be used as a business website.
3. Teach other about time management and organising activities to be completed.

Wordpress Activities

1. Adding widgets to the sidebar - Google it and see what you can find!.
2. Add a static page as the home page.

Create a static page that describes your business. Add an image, some text about what your business is all about, and at the bottom put the date that it was last updated and an email link to your self.

Word Activities
Complete Activity 2 Word skill Exercises from last week
Ex 5
Ex 6
Ex 7
Ex 8

Using Word in a Business
This is a project to use Word in business applications.
Read the Overview of the project - page 1, page 2, page 3 and page 4. Job #1 is on page 5 and page 6

Work that is due today (by 10:p.m.)

1. Word skill Exercises (printed copy with a footer and the exercises added to your Wordpress blog media gallery with links in a post in your blog.

• Ex 5
• Ex 6
• Ex 7
• Ex 8

Activity 3 More CRAP (contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity
Here is a short summary of the alignment principles tht we looked at last week. Those exercises showed us how to arrange the lines of text on a business card or a document to make it look better! Try these exercises on repetition listed below.
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7.