Learning Additional Features of Word
Page 1: Title Page (All information must be vertically aligned on the page)
- Your full name
- Project Title, Use WordArt
- Class Title – Introduction to Computers
- An Image
- Date
- Period Number
Header and Footer: Should be on each of the following pages. Do not
include this on your title Page.
Header: Your full name and the period number below your name. Font size 8
Footer: The name of the project listed on the left, the page number listed in
the center of the page, and the date listed on the right. Use the icon on the
Header/Footer to insert your date. Use Insert/Page, bottom center for page number. Font
size 8.
Page 2: The History
of Computers. (You must use proper MLA citation
and give credit to all sources from which you derived your information)
- Page margins set to Top: 0.5"Bottom: 0.75"Right: 0.5 "Left: 0.5"
- Include an appropriate nameplate (title), 28-point "Arial Black", blue, bold
font
- Place a top and bottom border around the title – make this a ½ point red triple
ruling line. Make sure only the lines on the top and bottom are turned on
- Set a left tab stop at the far left margin of the page.
- Set a right tab stop at the far
right margin of the page.
- Insert the Issue Information, 14-point Haettenschweiler,
purple font, Issue Information Line (ex. Monthly Newsletter (on the left side); Vol.
V, February, 2001 (on the right side, setting your right tab)
- Insert a ½-point red triple ruling line below this text
- Type your article in 3 columns
- The first line of each paragraph after the Drop Cap paragraph
is indented .25
- Use a colored, Drop cap at the beginning of your starting text
- Use font Times New Roman, size 11, (not Bold) for the body text.
- Justify Align all text in your columns
- Include 3 pictures no larger than 2 inches wide and fitting horizontally within your
column, example, the Abacus, the Anastoff Berry Computer, ENIAC
- Place a vertical rule between the
second and third columns.
- Ideas: - THESE ARE NOT
PC’s –
- Hardware - Abacus, Anastoff Berry, Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage, Hollerith Card
1889, Colossus I, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation, VAX 11/780), IBM mainframes,
Tectonics, Wang, Control Data, Hitachi, Itel (not Intel), AT&T Bell Labs
- Select one or two companies and focus on their history
- Software - COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, UNIX
Page 3 - 5: The History of
the Personal Computer (Any Quotes or pictures
that you use, you must use proper MLA citation.)
- Make a timeline using a table of the History of the PC
- This must be at least a 2 page document – 1 page for hardware and ½ - 1
page on software, ¼ - ½ page on the people who affected the PC and ¼ - ½ on computer
viruses.
- Insert an appropriate title for your document
- Include a table of your choice showing the development of the personal computer. Select
8 examples from 1970 to present (See Example)
- Turn text on side, use bullets for information, use different colors on font. Insert
picture of item
- Use shading and borders in your table
- Emphasize points with font and color
- Include a picture of each PC that you reference
- Ideas - Software: DOS, Lotus 123, WordStar, WordPerfect, MultiMate, BASIC,
OS/2, Windows 3.0, Windows 9x, AppleTalk,
- Hardware - MITS Altair, Trash 80 by Radio Shack, IBM 8086, 8088,
80286,80386,80486; Apple (Lisa, Apple II, Macintosh), Compaq, Lotus, Oracle, Sun,
Commodore, ) Radio Shack’s Model 100, NEC PC-8200, Olivetti M-10), PDP – 11,
Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Xerox (Palo Alto Research Park)
-People – Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak,
Page 6 The Future of
Computers
Using a Table similar to the one used above, create a report about the future of
computers. Each row should be about one specific item, such as "What will computers
be like in the future?" For each row include a heading, a description of the item you
are discussing and an image that represents the information in that row. Make sure to
include an appropriate heading at the top of your page. You must discuss 10 items
regarding the future of computers.
- What will computers be like in the future?
- How will computers be used in the future?
- Ideas:, Virtual healing for paranoia’s, Chip implantation in humans, Chip
recognition to id products, Wallet PC, Voice Activated devices, Robots, Web Vision
- Biometric systems - Retina scanners, Iris scanners, Fingerprint readers
- GPS - Global Positioning Systems
- Home design and comfort, entertainment, thermal zoning, electronic location pinning,
zonal lighting
- Education
- Medical Field , Genome Research, DNA
- When listing items, customize your bullets
Page 7 –
Create a New Document – NO header and footer
- A block formatted letter to your child about how you use computers today and what
you think the future of computers will be
- Set your margins to 1" for the Top, Bottom, Left and Right for this page only
- Center your information:
Tommy Titan
15500 Espola Road
Poway, California 92009
(858) 748-0245
Tommy Titan 15500 Espola Road Poway,
California 92009 (858) 748-0245
- Place a watermark behind your text
- Everything else on the letter should be aligned on the
left of the page.
- Insert the date Quadruple-spaced below your address on the left of the page.
- Insert the Letter address quadruple-spaced below the date
- Double-space your salutation below your letter address
- Double-space down to the first line of your first paragraph
- To include in the body of the letter:
- How using Computers has affected our lives
- Specifics on how technology is used today - minimum
of five items
- How technology will be used in the future - minimum
of two items
- After the body of your letter, double-space down and type the closing
- After the closing, quadruple-space and type your name.
- Don’t forget to sign this letter.
Page 8: Works-Cited Page
- Use proper MLA citation format
- Title is "Works Cited"
- Listing of all the web addresses that were used to gather your information,
images and anything else used for your report
- Use these sites for help
Go to Electronic On-line resources http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm
- Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 1
Oct. 1999 <http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/
Economics.asp>.
Mitchell,
Jason P. Letter. "PMLA Letter." 10 May 1997. 1 Nov. 1999 <http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel/pmla.htm>.
General Information about the Project
URLS to help you – by no means all that are
available on the Web. Don’t forget we still use books too.
- http://www.englib.cornell.edu/ice/lists/historytechnology/historytechnology.html