Below is an example of what the students projects will like once they have completed their work.  They will be adding text boxes, WordArt, editing and adding special effects, grouping items in each square and more.

Here is a list of skills covered in the lesson this week:

Skills Covered will include:

• Define the Internet - an international network of computers connecting schools, government agencies and other organizations for the purpose of sharing information

• Discuss logging onto the computer and the Internet

• Launch a web browser

• Define World Wide Web - a large part of teh Internet where users can access millions of Web pages containing text, graphics, and other elements

• Define hypertext - text or graphics linked to other Web pages, creating a quick and easy way to access related Web sites

• Log off the Internet

• Launch our template for today's lesson from a file on the desktop of your computer

• Zoom in to 150 percent

• Read the text

• Display layout guides - appear on all pages of a publication to assist users in positioning text and graphics (review vocabulary word)

• Create a text frame inside an area on the template

• Enter text

• Change text size

• Resize a text frame

• Reposition information on the page

• Define grouping - grouping objects allows a user to reposition and resize multiple objects as one large object

• Group objects and verify the grouping

• Scroll on the page

• Define WordArt - a feature in Publisher that creates fancy titles out of regular text

• Create a WordArt frame

• Stretch text

• Add a shadow to text

• Select and apply border

• Discuss CD-ROM and Disk Drives

• Create a graphics frame

• Locate and insert a graphic

• Define modem - converts telephone signals into a format that can be understood by the CPU and vice versa

• Define layering - a term which refers to positioning objects behind or in front of one another in a document

• Layer frames in the document

• Center objects on the screen

• Align objects on the screen

• Add a colored pattern to WordArt

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