Frequently Used Features:
- Word
- Cut, copy, paste, highlighting, spell check, paragraph formatting, headers, editing tools (comments, track changes, etc.), and various formatting tools (lists with bullet and numbered formats, etc.)
- Excel
- Graphing tools, sorting tools, functions and calculations for statistical purposes
- PowerPoint
- Most of the basic tools from Word, layout tools, inserting pictures and graphs, design themes, presentation tools
Potential Activities to Learn Basic Office Programs:
- As a future English teacher, I find the editing features of Word especially helpful. Students could practice peer editing their essays on computers utilizing Word's editing features.
- Word also has citation tools that I have yet to explore. I can imagine that these tools would be especially helpful to English students. I could have students create an annotated bibliography of resources for a research paper using the citation tools offered through Word
- To learn the features of PowerPoint, students could create a presentation for a book report in which they have to incorporate pictures relevant to the book or characters, as well as a video or sound clip.
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