athomeontheprairie Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 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! 1 Quote
Ellie Posted March 29, 2016 Posted March 29, 2016 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. Quote
Jess4879 Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 We use this: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/office 1 Quote
athomeontheprairie Posted March 30, 2016 Author Posted March 30, 2016 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 Quote
Jess4879 Posted March 30, 2016 Posted March 30, 2016 (edited) 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. Edited March 30, 2016 by Jess4879 Quote
Timberly Posted April 9, 2016 Posted April 9, 2016 (edited) 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. Edited April 10, 2016 by Timberly 1 Quote
indigomama Posted April 9, 2016 Posted April 9, 2016 Great question, thank you for asking. I've been wanting to cover this stuff with my DC, but didn't know exactly how. Quote
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