Thursday, August 30th- PowerPoint Techniques

Bell Ringer:
1. Look at the picture on the top of page 17 through 18 to see which fingers to use for keys T, N, and C.
2. Open up your MRI (messes make some moms mad) Word document and type line 6 on page 17, line 10 on page 18 and line 14 on page 18.

What are we learning today?
Cell Phone Policy
1. Warning
2. Teacher takes phone and gives back at end of class (if given willingly)
3. Phone is sent to office for parent to pick up
4. Office Referral
Keys T, N, C
7th Grade and 8th Grade August Keyboarding Olympic Winners announced
When should you use PowerPoint?
How to determine the purpose of your presentation?
PowerPoint techniques

Guided Practice:
@Miss W will review the correct finger placement for keys T, N, and C.
@Miss W will review the most missed Tab and Group question
(Home Tab/Drawing Group to fill in a shape)
@Students will see or review PowerPoint about “When should you use PowerPoint? How to determine the purpose of your presentation?”

Independent Exercise:
Students will work in groups and answer the 5 questions on the PowerPoint. They should EACH type or write the question and the letter of the correct answer. After we review the answer choices, students will write out the complete answer.

Guided Exercise:@ Miss W will model the techniques on the “Skills Checklist” the class will practice these skills and then will apply them to their Presentation project.
@Students will help each other during the skills practice.

Homework: Students need to decide for which ACADEMIC topic (Language
Arts, Science, Social Studies, or Math) they want to create a short (7 slides)
PowerPoint presentation during tomorrow's class. BRING your textbooks for that class
tomorrow! We will be using the PowerPoint you create to learn different old and
new features of PowerPoint 2010.

Exit Activity:
Students will practice touch typing the home row keys with a game
called HomeKeysKennys. Remember- Do NOT look at the keys while
playing.Try your best to click on the keys from memory. http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games/homekey-kennys.html