T4 - Jordan School District

What Can You Do with Microsoft Word?

Book reports
Poetry writing
Journal writing
Create tables to categorize/classify information
Insert digital picture of class trips for writing activities
Letter writing
Timelines
Birthday cards
Create AB, ABA, ABBA patterns
KWL (Know, Want to know, Learned)
Create graphs and charts
Math word problems
Post cards
Templates
Multiplication arrays using clip art
Teacher created templates
Graphic organizers
Illustrate geometrical shapes
Trading cards
Posters
Shape poems
Newsletters
Outlines
Storyboards
Lesson plans
Bookmarks
Recipe cards
Brochures 

Microsoft Word in the Classroom

Microsoft Word is a basic word processing program for both Macs and PCs. This class will introduce you to the basic components of this versatile program and will focus on teacher and student creation of projects that will tie in directly with Utah Core Curriculum. We will also briefly touch upon classroom uses of Excel and PowerPoint, the other components of Microsoft Office. Software is presented in a context of strategies for effective educational application.

Class Expectations

• Attend all classes
• Complete the activities each week
• Complete one of the following for use in your classroom that supports the State Core Curriculum:

Poster | Newsletter | Brochure | Another activity based on models and examples from Word Workshop for Teachers

• Submit a reflective paper evaluating the instructional strategies you employed when you used your Microsoft Office project in your classroom and what you.learned from the experience as a whole.
• Submit a lesson plan showing how you would teach or use a Microsoft Word activity in the classroom.
  

Schedule

Week 1

• Using Microsoft Word: Basic Text Enhancing Features
• Format a letter
• Make a Name Tag

• Work with Word Art

• Templates
• Images and Graphics
• Harvesting from the Internet
• Make a Poster
  

Week 3

• Tables and Charts
• Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Make a Newsletter

• Make a Brochure
  

Week 5

• Classroom Strategies
• Odds and Ends
• Labels
  

Resources

Handouts for Teachers
http://www.zianet.com/msaxton/tkgypsy/
More Than Just a Word Processor
http://www.jamestownri.com/school/training/msword/wd_teach/wd_teach.htm
Word Links for the Classroom
http://www.electricteacher.com/links.htm
Watermarks
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/watermark.html
Microsoft Office Classroom Corner and Tutorials
http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials/msword/index.php
Microsoft Office Template Gallery
http://office.microsoft.com/templates/default.aspx
Newsletter Design Clinic
http://desktoppub.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa980402.htm
How to Spot a Bad Newsletter
http://www.put-it-in-writing.com/html/badnewsletter.htm

Tutorials