Teaching word processing to children and teens in Grades 1-12. Tips for publishing professional documents using Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
Do you want your students to make a fact card? A fact card is a one-sheet document. It provides key information about a topic. Typically, headings organize the facts. Often it includes images to illustrate a point. The goal is to make the data clear and concise. That way, a person can quickly learn about …
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The Microsoft Office Search tool can save you time. Did you know that there are more than 100 commands on the ribbon in Microsoft Word– and that doesn’t even include those on contextual tabs. If you counted those, plus all the extra features available in panes and dialog boxes, then there are literally hundreds of …
When users of Microsoft Word switch to Google Docs, they might be disappointed at first. Adding images seems to be limited to simple formatting choices. At first glance, it appears as if options for creativity are scarce. But wait! While there is no fun gallery of preset styles as in Word, there are plenty of …
Students love to ‘put their own stamp’ on their work. And creativity is something that we, as educators, encourage. Here’s a quick activity that has students design their own custom gradients to fill shapes made in a Word document. It is from TechnoEditor, TechnoKids’ latest release. In this project, students master essential word processing skills …
