| Date |
Topic |
Day's
Computer Tip |
| 8/26M |
Map Reading Skills
and GPS: Making our Lives Easier |
Screen
capture and image cropping |
| 8/28W |
Map Reading Skills
and GPS: Making our Lives Easier
|
Word
wrapping an image |
| 9/4W |
Flooding, Water
Quality, and You, Q1
Video: Hard Rain
|
Useful
keystroke commands |
| 9/9M |
Flooding, Water
Quality, and You--Field Trip to Meridian County Park (will require entire
class period) |
How
much disk space left? |
| 9/11W |
Michigan Lakes
and Ski Hills: Gifts of the Glacier. Q2 Video: Waterworld
|
Turning
images off to improve browser downloading performance |
| 9/16M |
Michigan Lakes and
Ski Hills: Gifts of the Glacier.--Field Trip to Glacial Landforms Park (will
require whole class period) |
Advantages/disadvantages
of "cookies" and how to manage cookies |
| 9/18W |
Impact of Weathering,
on Roads, Homes, and Buildings, Q3 |
Toolbars
and customizing menu icons |
| 9/23M |
Impact of Weathering,
on Roads, Homes, and Buildings
|
Creating
a watermark |
| 9/25W |
Soils:
Know Where to Build Your House or Plant Your Garden,
Q4
|
Excel:
creating a graph with data from the world wide web |
| 9/30M |
Soils:
Know Where to Build Your House or Plant Your Garden,
|
Excel
and Word:
Freeze panes and split |
| 10/2W |
Michigan Beaches,
Q5 Video: Beach:
River of Sand |
Quickly
accessing and closing active applications from the "Taskbar" |
| 10/7M |
Michigan Beaches |
Methods
for selecting contiguous or separate files for deletion, copying, or
moving |
| 10/9W |
Tectonics,
Earthquakes, and Settlement, Q6
Video:When the Bay Area Quakes |
Sorting
files by name, date, size, or type |
| 10/14M |
Tectonics,
Earthquakes, and Settlement
|
Selecting
all and finding a record |
|
10/16W |
Volcanism and
Settlement, Q7
|
Accessing
and cleaning cache |
| 10/21M |
Volcanism and
Settlement
Video: Eruption of Mt. St. Helens
|
"Outline"
view and its use in writing a paper |
|
10/23W |
Atmospheric
Composition: Importance of CO2, O3, and H20
Q8
Video: Deep Impact
|
Draw
toolbar and enhancing documents |
|
10/28M |
Atmospheric
Composition: Importance of CO2, O3, and H20
|
|
|
10/30W |
Temperature and Human Health, Q9 |
|
| 11/4M |
Temperature and
Human Health
Video: Titanic
|
Picture toolbar: enhancing image quality |
| 11/6W |
Wind, Human Health,
and Weather Prediction, Q10 |
Tips
for tables |
| 11/11M |
Wind, Human
Health, and Weather Prediction
Video:Total Recall
|
Selecting
text and inserting a background |
| 11/13W |
Humidity, Human
Health, and Weather Prediction, Q11 |
Word count, change case, split window |
| 11/18M |
Humidity, Human
Health, and Weather Prediction |
Page
setup |
| 11/20W |
Clouds and Weather Prediction,
Q12 |
Find
and replace |
| 11/25M |
Clouds and Weather
Prediction |
Excel:
Page setup: headers and footers, keeping column titles for multiple pages |
| 11/27W |
Predicting Weather
with Weather Maps, Q13 |
Creating
shortcuts on Start menu and Desktop |
|
12/2M |
POSTER
PRESENTATION at University Center |
Display
properties: screen savers, background, settings... |
|
12/4W |
Predicting Weather
with Weather Maps |
Sorting
files by name, date, size, or type |
|
Tips for Windows |
| How much disk space left? |
Quickly accessing and closing active
applications from the "Taskbar" |
Useful keystroke commands |
| Screen capture and image cropping |
Word wrapping an image |
Methods for selecting contiguous or separate
files for deletion, copying, or moving |
| Creating shortcuts on Start menu and Desktop |
Sorting files by name, date, size, or type |
Display properties: screen savers,
background, settings... |
|
Tips for Netscape |
| Search strategies |
Turning images off to improve downloading
performance |
Specifying a home page for your
browser |
| Creating a signature file |
Creating an address book and setting up
nicknames |
Accessing and cleaning cache |
| Selecting all and finding a record |
Creating and managing bookmarks |
Advantages/disadvantages of
"cookies" and how to manage cookies |
|
Tips for Microsoft Word |
| "Outline" view and its use in
writing a paper |
Toolbars and customizing menu icons |
Creating a
watermark |
| Draw toolbar and enhancing documents |
Draw toolbar (cont.): grouping and ordering
objects |
Draw toolbar (cont.): using and enhancing
"text boxes" |
| Picture toolbar: enhancing image quality |
Tips for tables |
Selecting text and inserting a background |
| Word count, change case, split window |
Page setup |
Find and replace |
|
Tips for Microsoft Excel |
| Excel:
creating a graph with data from the world wide web |
Sheets vs. files vs charts |
Tips for column width |
| Page setup: headers and footers, keeping
column titles for multiple pages |
Freeze panes and split |
|
| Selecting records and enhancing readability |
Means, medians, and paste special |
|
