Description

Features

• Standard chapter format–Advanced organizers, “Show Me,” “Let Me Try,” and summaries create stand-alone units, each devoted to a separate software application.

  • Allows instructors to better tailor the course to the needs of their students; chapters may be taught independently, in whatever order is desired.

• Visual “screen captures” format with minimal verbiage–Guides students, step-by-step through the use of the software via “Show Me” sections on each major function followed by “Let Me Try” sections that encourage hands-on practice.

  • Provides graphic representations of what software looks like on the student's computer screen by showing rather than telling, and providing actual practice opportunities, it makes concepts clearer and hastens learning.

• Works templates of standard teaching/classroom “products”–Newsletters, grade books, lesson plans, posters, and other items that future teachers can take into their first classrooms and use immediately or modify quickly and easily to meet specific needs.

  • Creates a wealth of practical, concrete items that demonstrate the versatility of the software applications.

• Companion CD-ROM–With additional examples for each Microsoft Office component.

  • Broadens text usefulness: instructors can choose from a wide range of examples, and students can use additional examples for separate study on their own.

• Thorough appendices–One for each software application discusses uses of the software that go beyond the basics.

  • Enlarges the audience for the text by providing information on advanced uses of the software, as well as side issues, such as “netiquette” for e-mailing.

• Coverage of ISTE standards–Significant attention paid to these in the introductory chapter emphasizes their importance in today's classrooms.

  • Ensures students know these standards, especially important in light of current expectations of accountability.

• Reading/instructional level geared to those with minimal computer literacy–Almost all one needs to know is how to turn on the machine and how to use a mouse.

  • Extends the applicability of the text to instructors and students for whom applications software is still a mystery.

New To This Edition

• NEW!  Chapter on Publisher 2003-The desktop publishing program for creating professional-looking materials and messages.
• NEW!  Chapter on integrating Microsoft Office-Provides helpful tips and ideas for using the programs together.
• Additional step-by-step "Let Me Try" exercises and classroom examples-In the book and on the CD.
• NEW!  Updated CD-Contains activities and examples that readers can follow as they read.
• NEW!  Glossary-Defines terms used throughout the text.

Table of Contents

Note:  Each chapter begins with an Outline, Learning Objectives, Technical Terms, and an Overview.  Chapters 3-9 end with Show Me, A Challenge, and Tying It All Together

Chapter 1  Technology and the Classroom

            About This Book and Using Technology

            Expectation of Teachers

            Expectations of Students

            Copyright in the Classroom

            Acceptable Use Policies

            Teacher Production of Materials

Chapter 2  Getting Started with Office

            Working with Microsoft Office Suite

            Tying It All Together

Chapter 3  Word

            About Word

            How Teachers and Students Might Use Word

Chapter 4  PowerPoint

            What is New in PowerPoint

            About PowerPoint

            Working with PowerPoint

Chapter 5  Excel 2003

            How Teachers and Students Might Use Excel

            About Excel

            Working with Excel

            A Word About the Excel Workspace

            Moving About in a Worksheet

Chapter 6  Access

            How Teachers and Students Might Use Access

            Working with Access

Chapter 7  Outlook

            How Teachers and Students Might Use Outlook

            Working with Outlook

            A Word About the Outlook Workspace

            E-Mail Netiquette

Chapter 8  Publisher

            How Teachers and Students Might Use Publisher

            About Publisher

            Working with Publisher

Chapter 9  Integrating Office

            About Integrating the Office Products

            Working with the Office Products

Appendix A  Windows

Appendix B  Macintosh

Glossary

Index

Courses

Microcomputer Applications for Teachers  (Instructional Technology)
Alternative Certification  [GENERAL EDUCATION]   (Curriculum & Instruction)
Computers in Education  (Instructional Technology)

Next Edition(s)

• Microsoft Office for Teachers, 3/E
  Gibbs & Fewell
  ©2009  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Paper; 336 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131589709  |  ISBN-13: 9780131589704
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  Are you prepared to use Microsoft Office to support your teaching? The third edition of Microsoft Office for Teachers is a practical guide for teachers who want to learn how to use the Microsoft Office suite as a tool in instruction, learning, and classroom management. Through step-by-step how-to exercises and helpful classroom examples, you will learn the various features of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook, and Publisher, as well as how they can help you and your students in the classroom. Imaginative teachers will also appreciate learning interesting ways of integrating these programs with one another, a springboard to further creativity.

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