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Tech Tip
Click and Type
From Kim
Overstreet
FCPS TRT
Word 2000, Word XP, and Word 2002 include a feature known
simply as Click and Type. This feature means that when you are
working in Print Layout view or Web Layout view, you can
double-click your mouse in any open area of your document (where
there is not text), and begin typing
right away.
Normally, you begin typing at the left side of the screen.
If you later want to adjust your text to the right margin or
center it on the screen, you do so by using the toolbars or
menus. Click and Type, however, allows you to quickly format and
enter text at the same time. The result is faster editing and
formatting.
You can tell if Click and Type is active by how the mouse
pointer behaves on screen. If the mouse pointer, when moving
within the document window, looks like a simple I-beam insertion
pointer, then Click and Type is not turned on. If, instead, it
looks like an I-beam with some horizontal lines near by, then
Click and Type is active and ready. These lines indicate the
formatting of the text that you can insert. There are four
possibilities:
- Left aligned. If the horizontal lines are near the
upper-right side of the I-beam, then it indicates that
double-clicking your mouse will result in a left-aligned
paragraph where you click.
- Left aligned, first line indent. If the horizontal
lines are near the upper-right side of the I-beam, but there
is also a very small arrow at the left side of the first
horizontal line, then double-clicking will result in a
left-aligned paragraph where you click, with the first line
of the paragraph indented.
- Centered. If the horizontal lines are directly beneath
the I-beam, then you can enter a centered paragraph by
double-clicking your mouse.
- Right aligned. If the horizontal lines are near the
upper-left side of the I-beam, then it indicates that
double-clicking will add a right-aligned paragraph where you
click.
Remember that Click and Type only works if you are viewing
your document in Print Layout view or in Web Layout view.
My
Schedule
| Thursday,
Jan 23 |
Float |
| Friday,
Jan 24 |
Grant
Writing |
| Monday,
Jan 27 |
Grant
Writing |
| Tuesday,
Jan 28 |
Lansdowne |
| Wednesday,
Jan 29 |
Lansdowne |
| Thursday,
Jan 30 |
Staff
Meeting/Grants |
| Friday,
Jan 31 |
Harrison |
NOTE: I
will be speaking at the Florida Educational Technology
Conference and I will be gone from Monday, February 3rd through
Friday, February 7th. |
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Web
Sites of the Week
INTERNET
SEARCH TIPS -- PRINTABLE:
http://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/netguide21_22.pdf
Intermediate: Try these internet tips
for students to help get them started on using the web for
research projects. Included are tips on using keywords to
conduct searches. From Classroom
Flyer.
SNOW MATH:
http://riverdeep.net/current/2002/01/011402_snow.jhtml
How hard did it snow in Buffalo? Almost seven
feet actually, enough to call in the National Guard to help with
snow removal. Find out what "Lake Effect Snow" is, and
compute the averages for snowfalls per hour, convert
measurements, and interpret weather maps in this winter math
exercise. From
Classroom Flyer.
A LEXICON OF LEARNING:
http://www.ascd.org/educationnews/lexicon/lexiconoflearning.html
Teachers & Parents: Sometimes educators may seem to speak a sort
of gobbledy-gook only known to insiders. Here is the low-down on
learning lexicon, on just what is meant by authentic assessment,
restructuring, or heterogeneous grouping, for instance.
From Classroom Flyer.
Up-Date
on Learn to Read:
A few
weeks ago, I sent you a URL for the Learn to Read web site
suggested by Diane Newton at Lansdowne. One of our TRTs,
Leanne Prater, ordered the free books and sent an e-mail to all
the TRTs with this comment:
"I
just wanted to let all of the elementary people know that
teacher's can order booklets to go along with the starfall.com
site that Barbara had sent us a while back. I ordered a set of
ten to see what they looked like before I suggested anything to
the teachers. They were delivered today (UPS) and are great!!
For each child they sent a pencil, a take-home book that matches
the stories on line, a writers journal that also go along with
the stories on line and three certificates with stickers to be
given as the child completes the stories. The URL to order is
given at the bottom of the website. It is free to order (they
even pay shipping!). Anyway, I thought that this would be a
great way to integrate technology with reading and writing at
the K-2 level."
For those
who teach emergent readers, here is the address again:
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/index/play.htm
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