Lyn Belisle Instructor

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Class WIKI

Add/Drop Begins

Introduction to Course
Logon/Logoff
Password Management Site

Making a Weblog
Setting up a Blog on Blogger
Blogger Help
Blogging in an Academic Setting

Note: because this is a special introductory assignment, your blog setup, first entry and email to TA will be due Friday, August 28th, before 12:00 midnight

Syllabus
Course Outline

ITS - Student Resources

Trinity University Computing Policies, Including Voice Mail and Email
Academic Honor Code
Copyright Policy
Plagiarism

Discourse
TLearn
Network Folders
Class
Groups
Shortcuts
Screen Shots

Taking Screen Captures

Joe Hatch - Computer Survival Skills

Screen Shots

Drawing Tools in Word

Network Folders Diagram

• Making Screen Captures with Windows XP
• Making Screen Captures in Vista
• Making Screen Captures with a Mac

Drawing Basic Shapes in MS Word 2007

Read Chapters 1-3 in the textbook. In Ch. 1, pay particular attention to how the new Office applications work together.

• Review screen shots - demo Snagit
• Clean up Groups folders - check for loose documents
• Set up personal Grades folder in Groups (backup for TLearn)
• Download and use non-copyrighted photos from Internet
• Edit photos in Word and Picnik
• Advanced practice using MS Word Drawing tools
• Introduction to page layout using MS Word - Texas Book Festival Press Release

**Word 2003 to Word 2007 Command Guide

Draw with Word (2003, but very informative)

Drawing basic shapes in Word 2007

Cropping Pictures in Word 2007

Adding Clip Art in Word 2007

Read Chapters 4 in the textbook - Advanced Formatting Features.

• Tour of Trinity's Server Room
  Jared Pack, Systems Administrator
  Information Technology Service
• Update the Excel 2007 spreadsheet of each individual student's semester grades
• Understand effective elements of professional-looking document design for formal and informal publications
• Continue to explore MS Word 2007 as tool for formatting newsletters and other publications

Creating Tables

Formatting Tables

Add a drawing to a document

mactopia

Beginning Spreadsheets/Excel, continued

The Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org

Public Knowledge
http://www.publicknowledge.org/

Copyright FAQ
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/

The "Fair Use" defence provided by Title 17
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-30100.html

Federal Copyright Statutes (Title 17, U.S.C.)
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/

• Excel operations
• absolute and relative references
• running balance

Read: Textbook, Chapters 6 & 7

• Functions and data organization
• Creating charts

Benjamin Harris
Assistant Professor
Instruction/Liaison Librarian

• Locating books and articles in the Coates Library
• Finding answers through the Library website
• Using academic databases to search
• Where to go to get help

Excel Practice - Charts and Graphs, Functions

Excel Templates

• Continents
• Temperature
• Employees Discounts

• Understand and identify Excel operations
  • formulas
  • labels
  • functions
• Know when to use absolute and relative cell references and be able to create them in the Excel formula window
• Be able to produce a complex custom graph from Excel spreadsheet data

Spreadsheets from Textbook

Pictures the Lie

Chris Nolan
Assistant University Librarian
Coates Library, Trinity University 
Searching the Internet
Evaluating Web Sites: Intro to PowerPoint

Finding Better Information on the Web

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools (Cornell U.)

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques (UC Berkeley)

Animated GIFs

Photo Corrections

Brain in a Bottle

Hands-on: Animating a GIF File Using Photoshop Elements 6

Mid-semester grades due 12:00 p.m.

Analyze midterm grades on spreadsheet
Linking Data Between Office Applications -
(Excel and PowerPoint)

Linking Information from Excel to PowerPoint

Photoshop Elements 30 Day Free Trial

• How to Download the Trial Version of PSE8 (Windows)
•  PSE8 Mac Trial Version

Robert Chapman
Instructional Support Manager
The AT&T Center for Learning and Technology,
Trinity University

 

TMail Q&A

Presentations:
PowerPoint Methods, Tips, and Tricks
PowerPoint: Custom Backgrounds, Design Template, from Scratch

Inserting Pictures into Slide

Sound and Video

• Microsoft Training (good PowerPoint tutorials on special topics, FYI)

• Top Ten Slide Tips

• Really Bad Power Point - and How to Avoid It

• PowerPoint Tutorial on You Tube

• Sound files

Presentation Guidelines

Prezi

YouTube Videos into PowerPoint

How to put a YouTube video into PowerPoint 2007 .pdf /Belisle

Text: Chapters 12 & 13 (499-564) Creating Presentations

Advanced PowerPoint: Animations and Transitions (One World)

TouTube - Adding custom Animation
(Also see Related Videos)

How to Put a You Tube Video into PowerPoint 2007

Old Photos on the Web

Postcards: Creating a multilayer photocollage

Helpful Links:
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/adobereg/pse5/?sdid=IIFW&uid=0e35245e628d9fa487567920acccd93f

http://www.easyelements.com/basics.html

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/adobereg/pse5/?sdid=IIFW&uid=0e35245e628d9fa487567920acccd93f

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