Teaching IT in SE England for those of us too big for school
Its a happy day for all of us today at Sedlescombe. The weather has confounded the weather people once more and it is a lovely day. Download the image below for our Pixlr session today.
As a reminder there will be no sessions during August 2021 enjoy the sunshine!
Tony
Hi All
Responding to Andrews request on Saturday, we ran through a demanding session using Word to complete a mail merge for making labels. As promised here is a step by step guide to doing it yourself. Any version of Word from 2010 will do for this exercise, except it must be the desktop version, and not the online version of Word that ships with Teams or Outlook.com.
The walkthrough uses the mailing wizard, and takes you from writing a list of names, to printing the labels. There will be another session to follow this one with other ways that this can be achieved.
Here is the link to the resources - click to view
This week it all went pear shaped at Rons cards and gifts when a certain young lady tore up all of Ron's latest Easter cards designs. Can you put them all back together using copy and paste techniques?
This challenge starts easy and gets progressively harder
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We now seem to have a fixed home for the google meet. I reserved it last week and was not sure what would happen but all seems good today. I hope that you all have applied your updates this week or else you might have a tricky time today.
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Hi All,
I have been hard at work on the Wordies power point resource. I am a great proponent of death by PowerPoint and, as the current tome is over 150 slides long, have made something that is really is everything that I don't normally do. The wordies evolution will be converted to PDF and I hope will become a useful book. Thanks to those that joined in the wordies sessions.
The workbook primer that I sent out has proved a challenge if only how to fill it in electronically!
We take a breather from the websites although I have many more tools to share on Google sites.
Today is carousel day, so bring along your 'nagging' computing issues and we will see how many can be solved in the session.
In both Apple and windows land there have been major upgrades around. Please install them before our sessions to avoid disappointment.
Apple Mac upgrade to big sur - click the image below
Windows 10
In Windows 10, you decide when and how to get the latest updates to keep your device running smoothly and securely. To manage your options and see available updates, select Check for Windows updates. Or select the Start button, and then go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update .
For more details click the picture link below
Hi All,
I am not sure how this is done in MacOs but will find out - so much has changed in Apple land with the roll out of yet another upgrade.
In Windows 10 a two edged feature from file explorer is Windows elephantine memory. It displays the recent files to help out, however, remove them from the list once you are done, and Windows replaces your recent files with not so recent files!.
The file explorer settings allow you to clear the file history keeping the list fresh. Have a look at the attached mini-tutorial on using the settings panel.
Hi All,
I am off for my covid jab
Here is the link for the session
The guide deals with creating the first page, changing the header, adding text, graphics and elements like maps.
There will be a follow up part two to improve your use of sites. I hope that this starter will help you all get going. I look forward to seeing the results. email me the name of your website so that I can track it down.
The first Sussex Wordies course is up and running. If you are interested in improving existing skills in Microsoft Word let me know by email or comment here.
Wordies has its own blog too sussexwordies.blogspot.com
So far we have covered different file formats and when you would use them, Using styles in word
I hope that we can move to teams on Saturday with some help from some willing guinea pigs this week
We will get the following features using teams
Last week we introduced the idea of making a free website with google sites. This session we will add items and pages to the website and also show you how to let everyone know how to find your website.
You might not have liked the title of your website from last week but it is really only a playground to learn how to use the tools.
If you have a project in mind though, it will be a good idea to register your website name as soon as possible. After all, last week you found out that websites have to be unique and somebody else might bag the name that you want for your site.
Below is the link to my website that I started last week. I have added a few extra pages already and will cover editing and adding features.
https://sites.google.com/view/mylastsite/home
I have enlisted Menti to make me a survey. Click the link or picture to have a go. I hope that we use this in the class this week. It is a simple survey so don't think that it is an exam!!!
https://www.menti.com/pubmi2s1bs
Hi all
A monster topic today and beyond, adding in topics like websites, blogs, PDF, video and ebooks.
Print the promote yourself PDF attachment by clicking the link to help you with notes
Happy 2021 to all. There are three vaccines under way and so perhaps lockdown will be finished before the end of 2021!
