Productivity Software

Create an entry with a list of the features of Word, Excel & PowerPoint that you use on a regular basis. List 3 projects that you could have your students do to learn or use Word, Excel or PowerPoint.


Word:

• Tables
• Text Formatting/Fonts
• Margin Formatting
• Spell Check
• Bookmarking/Hyperlinking
• Headers/Footers/Page #
• Columns/Bullets
• Find and Replace
• Footnotes and Citations
• Review Markup
• Thesaurus

Excel

• Formulas and other math functions
• Merge cells
• Sort
• Drag to Repeat
• Cell formatting
• Charts and Graphs (not really on a regular basis)
• Comments
• Mail Merge (I know how to do it, but I don't use it regularly)

Powerpoint

• Custom animation
• Design
• Text formatting
• Slideshows
• Timings

For any of the above, students could go on a "scavenger hunt," checking off all the features they have used of each software. Of course, they would need to show proof. :)

Students could use Excel to create graphs of data related to the classroom--especially if students are in a data unit in math.

Students could create a living autobiography using Powerpoint, or use it to present their project on a certain country, for example.