Word Processing

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar with special word processing formatting techniques including:

• Document (Page (Setup)) Formatting, including:

  • Margin settings (top, bottom, left, and right);

  • Header, footer, and gutter settings;

  • Orientation (portrait and landscape);

  • Paper settings (size and source).

Section Formatting;

• • Paragraph Formatting including:

    • Ruler settings, including:

      • Indents (1st line indent, left (hanging) indent, and right indent);

      • Tabs;

• Alignment/Justification (left, center, right, and full).

• Character Formatting, including:

  • Font Settings (typeface, typesize, typestyle, and typeweight).

Instructions

Step 1: Download Office 365 for Students (Free)

If you do not have Microsoft Office downloaded yet, you can download a free copy as a student. 

1. Go to the Microsoft Office 365 download site

2. Enter your student email (student@xxxxxx.edu) in the entry box

3. Click the GET STARTED button

4. Follow the instructions provided. For additional information, click here.

Step 2: Choose a project to complete (Choice Board or Resume)

Choice 1: Create a Resume

Objectives:

• Modify page margins 

• Insert headers and footers on specified pages 

• Modify font styles 

• Modify font colors 

• Insert and modify tables

Click this link to review instructions

Choice 2: Create a Choice Board for Your Classroom

Objectives:

• Create a Table using Microsoft Word

• Understand ways that students can use word processing to understand content

• Select a design

• Modify text to create a hyperlink

• Modify the color, size and font face of text in Word

• Insert a “mailto” hyperlink attached to text

• Insert an image into a text document

Click this link to view project instructions

Step 3: Write a Reflection

For the final project, you will be selecting artifacts from all of the work we do throughout the course. Use the following questions to reflect on  your learning for the assignment.

1. What is one new skill that you learned that you believe is a "21st century skill"? (It does not have to be word processing specific - it could be anything throughout the readings, as well.)

2. What are two ways that you could have students use word processing to learn? 

3. What are three ways that students could "show what they know" using word processing?

Step 3: Submit project file and reflection

Attach both documents to the assignment link in your course. To learn how to attach documents to in Canvas, click this link.

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