Thursday, March 27, 2008 MOS

MOS - Computer Applications

AIM: Students will be prepared to learn and use PowerPoint

DO NOW: Today, when when Ms. Kirshner woke up to the news on television, an announcement was made that a new museum of business and commerce, dedicated to the history of money has just been opened in the historic Bank of New York building on Wall Street.
What would you expect to see on exhibit in this new museum? Why would you or would you not want to take a field trip to the museum?

LP: Today we will leave Excel for the time being, to prepare for our introduction to PowerPoint.
Questions for students: What is PowerPoint? Is it part of the Microsoft Office suite of programs? What is it used for?
Who uses it? Can it help you with your school projects, if you knew the program? Have you ever used PowerPoint? Discussion about it and what we can do with it. Open to page 372-373 in the Spiral MOS books, and we will begin to examine the program.

We will explore the layouts for the slides and the toolbar options today.

The goal is to create a presentation using the software. We can begin with the "History of Money" as a first title slide, when we look at page 374 and 375 and read aloud round robin today. Students will create their first slide.

Ms. Kirshner will walk around and help students as needed.

Students will next research online in class: The history of money for a slide presentation project incorporating what they learned in MS Excel and MS Word.