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In one of the planning threads for middle school next year, someone commented they'd be teaching Microsoft Office. Beyond playing with Office, how do you teach the skills to use the program? I'd like to be intentional about it. Some things my kids know-and can figure out. But they may not realize they want to bullet a list, or that they can outline neatly, or ctrl+c is the same thing as copying, or how to make a graph, etc. I'd like to cover some of these things (and other features I don't even know about!)

If you teach MO, what do you use? Suggestions please!

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In one of the planning threads for middle school next year, someone commented they'd be teaching Microsoft Office. Beyond playing with Office, how do you teach the skills to use the program? I'd like to be intentional about it. Some things my kids know-and can figure out. But they may not realize they want to bullet a list, or that they can outline neatly, or ctrl+c is the same thing as copying, or how to make a graph, etc. I'd like to cover some of these things (and other features I don't even know about!)

If you teach MO, what do you use? Suggestions please!

 

Did you mean Microsoft Word? Office is a collection of applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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Ellie, I was thinking about all of office. At least word, excel, and PowerPoint. But if you have something that you used for just word I'd be open to the recommendation!

 

Jess, thank you. I'll check out that link

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Ellie, I was thinking about all of office. At least word, excel, and PowerPoint. But if you have something that you used for just word I'd be open to the recommendation!

 

Jess, thank you. I'll check out that link

 

We used it as a starting point to cover the basics and then I assigned some type of end-of-unit project.  This year we focused on PowerPoint and the kids had to do a slideshow on an animal of their choosing.  It got them researching, adding text, pictures, etc. 

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https://www.lynda.com.  It is offered for free through my city library membership.  My girlfriend used it to teach herself Word and Excel and then started a business teaching Word to small businesses.  I haven't used Lynda.com but it's on my To Do List

 

ETA: after I posted that we hadn't tried Lynda.com, I asked DS13 to try it for a few minutes.  He liked it so much he stayed on there for 2 hours.  What a nice surprise.

 

 

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