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Tech Integration Project
Lesson Accelerator: Project Launcher

Extra, Extra!
Platform: PC
Application: Word 2010

Description

The process for creating the example project using Microsoft® Word 2010 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 94960 0:59
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 Beginning a new file and changing the margins 94941 0:59
2. locked Viewing the ribbon 94942 1:29
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Using WordArt to create a title 94943 1:04
2. locked Moving & resizing WordArt 94944 1:39
3. locked Inserting a dividing line 94945 1:23
4. locked Customizing the dividing line 94946 1:31
5. locked Adding the date 94947 1:56
6. locked Inserting a section break 94948 1:41
7. locked Adding columns 94949 1:19
8. locked Saving your file as a template 94950 1:14
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Opening the template to begin the monthly newsletter 94951 1:28
2. locked Toggling between two documents 94952 1:07
3. locked Adding text to text boxes 94953 1:56
4. locked Formatting text pt. 1 94954 1:37
5. locked Formatting text pt. 2 94955 2:55
6. locked Inserting clip art 94956 2:14
7. locked Formatting clip art 94957 1:59
8. locked Spell checking your newsletter 94958 1:09
9. locked Saving and printing the completed newsletter 94959 1:39
Tutorial series by Cindy Rybaczyk
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