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Tech Integration Project
Lesson Accelerator: Project Launcher

Extra! Extra!
Application: Word 2008
Platform: Mac

Description

The process for creating the example project using Microsoft® Word 2008 is described below. The Completed Project Movie shows what the finished product might look like. The tutorial movies that follow demonstrate, step-by-step, how to construct the Extra, Extra! newsletter using the sample articles provided in the downloadable resource packet. This project can be easily modified or adapted for creating document templates for newsletters, reports, or presentations about other subjects currently under study. For a complete project description, including goals, objectives, and materials, see the Project Overview.
The Example Project
The Completed Project movie will show you what the completed example project looks like.
expand  Completed Project Movie
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. preview What the example project looks like 46238 1:25
Subscribers have access to download the resource materials for this project, which includes all example files, an assessment rubric, and information about adapting and extending the example project.
Creating Your Own Project
We will begin by creating a new document in Microsoft Word. We will create and format some graphic WordArt for the title of our newsletter, add a horizontal line, and text for the date of the newsletter. Then we'll change the body of the newsletter so that the article text will be in two columns. Since all of these things will remain the same from one newsletter to the next, we'll save our work as a document template that can be reused. We'll modify the template to contain articles about the current events going on in the classroom, before saving and printing a copy of the current newsletter.
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Changing the margins 46239 1:27
2. locked Using the 2008 interface 46240 1:18
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Using WordArt to create a title 46241 1:41
2. locked Moving & resizing WordArt 46242 1:30
3. locked Inserting a dividing line 46243 1:01
4. locked Customizing the line 46244 1:46
5. locked Adding the date 46245 1:27
6. locked Inserting a section break 46246 1:00
7. locked Adding columns 46247 1:20
8. locked Saving as a template 46248 2:25
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Toggling between two documents 46249 1:12
2. locked Adding text to text boxes 46250 1:28
3. locked Formatting text pt. 1 46251 1:21
4. locked Formatting text pt. 2 46252 1:46
5. locked Inserting clip art 46253 1:49
6. locked Formatting clip art 46254 1:58
7. locked Spell checking your newsletter 46255 1:17
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Saving with a new name 46256 1:25
2. locked Printing your file 46257 1:17
Tutorial series by Tabitha Wiedower
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