USING MICROSOFT WORD

TOPICS

1. Page Setup, Margins

2. Aligning Text
3. Bullets and Numbering
4. Headers and Footers
5. Columns
6. Using Word Art
7. Inserting Pictures
8. Inserting Objects
9. Using Autoshapes

The purpose of this class is to cover some of the functions of Microsoft Word so that you can
present your work more clearly, and in a format which is appropriate to the task. This also allows
you to produce work which includes information about the task.

1. PAGE SETUP

a. Start a new page and select File/Page Setup

b. Reset your page to have margins of 2cm all around, make sure your page size is A4.
2. ALIGNING TEXT

a. Copy the text from page 1 four times.

i. justify paragraph 1 using Left Align

ii. justify paragraph 2 using Center Align
iii. justify paragraph 3 using Right Align
iv. justify paragraph 4 using Full Justify (this produces a neat paragraph look for
formal essays and reports, also to use in newspaper report tasks)

3. BULLETS AND NUMBERING

Copy this list:

Page Setup, Margins

Aligning Text
Bullets and Numbering
Headers and Footers
Columns
Tables
Setting Tabs
Inserting Pictures
Inserting Objects
Using Autoshapes
Using Word Art

I. Format these as bullet points

II. Format them as numbered list
III. Use the TAB key to move the list across the page (Shift TAB moves them
backwards)
4. HEADERS AND FOOTERS

a. Start a NEW PAGE

b. Select View / Header and Footer

c. Place a title in the Header. Format the text, change its size to 16 pt and the font to
ARIAL. Use Bold and Centre Justify

d. Select Footer. Insert the Name, Page, Date

5. COLUMNS

a. Using this page divide it into two columns (Use the Format / Column )

b. Copy this text into the columns and Full Justify

HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS IN THE INFORMATION AGE SOCIETY

The demands of educating students to participate in society reflect the needs of the time.
Throughout the industrial age, education was geared towards preparation for factory and
mechanical work. In more recent decades, the educational emphasis was on the acquisition of
knowledge and skills in preparation for white-collar professional careers. The technological world
in which today’s students are engaging is one where infinite knowledge is accessible at the touch of
a button. To prepare students for participation in this knowledge age demands a shift in educational
policies from knowledge acquisition to knowledge management and from learning to how to learn.
School must now enable students to become ‘’critical and creative participants in society and not
merely passive consumers of information’’ (Loveless, 2002, p.8). The future for our students is one
of continued learning and to enable them to journey well on this path of life-long learning, we need
to promote the skills of critical thinking, application of learning, flexibility and creativity (NCCA,
as cited in Savage, 2002). Trilling and Hood, cited in Loveless (2002) categorised a list of ‘C’ skills
essential for the knowledge age including critical thinking and doing, creativity, collaboration,
communication, computing, career and learning self-reliance. These critical, creative and
collaborative components of higher order thinking underpin the requirements of the knowledge
society (Loveless, 2002). In stating that the educational aims for children with Mild General
Learning Disability reflect those that are relevant to all students, the NCCA acknowledge that these
children must be given exposure to differentiated tasks aimed towards the development of higher
order skills.
6. USING WORDART
a. Save the document you have just created

b. Using the same document remove the header and footer

c. Place a heading in the document using Word Art

d. Save this document with a different name

e. Compare the size of these two files

(wordart should only be used for special presentations as it often takes up too much filesize. Do Not
use WordArt for tasks that need to be submitted electronically)