See how fast you can type

Put your WPM on your blog.

Click here. Do a 1 minute test and copy and paste the results on your blog.

Test completed - here are your results:
Net Speed: 78 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 98%
Gross Speed: 79 WPM
(words/minute)
Print results

PowerPoint project

"All About Me!"

You may present it for extra credit on July 29. Everyone will turn it in on FreerSchool.com by July 30, 2009.

Chapter 15, 16, 17 PowerPoint practice is up if you are interested in preparing for next Thursday's performance exam.

Databases in the news

First click here:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=database

and find an article about databases in the news. Give a brief summary about how the database is being used. Write this on your blog.

Access "Possessions" Project

For this project you are going to create a database and a table of your most important possessions.

You will need at least 6 different fields with one being numeric.
You will need at least 8 unique records.
You will need at least 4 queries.

UPload to FreerSchool.com by July 27, 2009.









You are done!

Budget Project

Budget Project:



The purpose of this project is to keep an accurate snapshot of your spending, saving, and earning potential for a ten day period.



You will keep track of your earnings and money spent using Google Documents, specifically Google Spreadsheets.



One sheet will be specifically for money coming in minus taxes. Include the date you were paid.
One sheet will be specifically for money going out. Include the date you spent the money. Include a brief description of the purchase. You'll need this for your graphs.
Within this sheet you will divide purchases into the following categories:
Transportation
Consumables
Entertainment (include cable and Internet)
Clothing
Rent (include electricity)
Other
Finally sum up all purchases.
One sheet will calculate the difference (Are you saving the excess or using a credit card to finance your purchases?) and include the following graphs:
On this sheet you will create a bar graph of your money spent per day.
Create a pie chart with the five categories and how you much you spent for each.
Create a line graph of your money spent per day.

Using spreadsheets

Today we will be using Google Spreadsheets to compare Google and Yahoo!

Here is the assignment. Add me as a viewer.

Here is a sample from last year.

Today's Excel exercise

This was the example I did in the beginning of class.

Please read this article about the new version of Office 2010 and comment on your blog. I will check your blog on Friday.

Tomorrow we will work on a budget and do some comparisons about corporations using Excel.

Here is an example of a Word web page

Here it is.

Objective test Wednesday

Here's what you need to know for the Word objective test:
Left, center, right justified alignment
Line spacing (single, double)
Format painter
Cutting
Copying
Pasting
Paste options
Bullets
Office Clipboard
AutoCorrect
Footnotes
Works Cited
Hanging Indent
Margins
The placement of paragraph text relative to the left and right margins is known as the ________.
Undo
Redo
To keep two words together as one unit, so that Word does not split them at the end of a line, insert a(n) __________ space.
What is a "Symbol"? How would you access it?
A set of formatting characteristics that can be applied to a paragraph with one shortcut command is known as a 'style'.
A list of information about a reference source, usually including the name of the author, the full title of the work, the year of publication, a Web address, and other publication information, is called ____________.
Document Properties
Insertion point
Title bar
Word wrap
Formatting
Font
Sans serif
Serif
Keyboard shortcut
Live preview
Footer
Scroll box
Scroll bar
Quick Access Toolbar
Formatting marks
ScreenTip
When you select text, the __________ toolbar displays buttons that are commonly used with the selected object.
Selecting text
Bold
Italics
Underline
Which view displays page margins?
How do you quickly access the shortcut menu with the mouse?
Word Art
Floating graphic
Rotate handle
Anchor
Shapes
Leader characters
Tab stop
Cell
Table
Table style
A(n) ___________ symbol indicates the paragraph to which an object is attached.
When a graphic is selected, ___________ display around the edge of the graphic.
A banner is an example of a predefined __________ that can be inserted into a document.
A series of dots following a tab that serve to guide the reader's eyes is known as a dot __________.
To move from cell to cell across a table as you enter text, press ___________.
To create a table in Word, click the ___________ button on the Insert tab.
Shading button and its relation to tables.
To set the alignment of a table on a page, display the Table tab of the ________ dialog box.
Merge cells

**If you answer the questions at the end of chapters 5-8, it will be beneficial for your objective exam on Wednesday! **

Read the following about the housing bubble

Read this book review/ interview with the author.

Answer the following questions on your blog:

1. Who do you think is to blame for the housing bubble?
2. How does the author of the book feel about using government money to promote home ownership?
3. Alyssa Katz mentions another similar bubble situation. How was it resolved?
4. What happened in Lehigh Acres ?
5. Would you invest in real estate now?
6. Would you be interested in the book?

Stock market update

On your blog give a snapshot of how your stocks are doing. Are you going to change strategies? What are you going to need to do differently?

summerMDC is the game id and password.

Five links to help write a resume

Find five links to help your classmates write a better resume and summarize quickly why they are good pages.

View the first page. These samples are tailored for college students and recent graduates. This might be useful for my fellow classmates.

This page describes how important experience is when it comes to finding a job. College students would be advised to take on jobs relevant to their major.

Professional resume writers are willing to shape a resume for you. This site guarantees you will have an interview AND get hired or they'll pay you $50.

The objective statement summarizes what your goals are for your job search. This slideshow describes the process.

This forum is dedicated to people discussing their resumes. It seems like a lively site as there are thousands of posts.

It's a bell curve!

Please upload your business plan to FreerSchool.com

First you are going to write a business plan with WordPad. The business plan needs to be at least a page.

Second you are going to create a logo with Paint.

Third, use your blog to write a press release about your exciting new business. The press release should also be approximately a page and should describe how exciting your new business is!

Lastly you will zip up your business plan and logo and upload it to FreerSchool.com.

Thanks.

Here is my document.