Business and Academic Reports

Well we have begun our 2nd 9 weeks in BTA and it seems like time is just flying by! Right now we are learning about formatting Academic and Business Reports and it takes much longer to produce those documents so we will be spending more time on this unit. We have been working on how to properly cite sources, insert page numbers and page breaks in a report. The most interesting thing we learned this week was how to use the reveal formatting command. Ask your student to show you how to do this!We will  be learning to insert endnotes and footnotes next week. Last week we took a little break from formatting documents and spent a couple of days learning about Computer Hardware, Software and the Information processing cycle. That is always one of my favorite units because the students are so involved with technology that it is very interesting to them. I hope everyone had a good week and enjoy the cooler weather along with some SEC football this weekend!

Business Letters

Well we have wrapped up another great week in BTA! We have been learning about Business Letters this week. We talked about letterhead and how to properly format a business letter. I asked the students to go home and check with parents to see if they received any business letters in the mail they could look at. I think it is important for them to see that businesses really produce business letters! It is shocking to me how many of them think I am just making up the rules for formatting in my classroom. We talked about MLA ( Modern Language Association) and how they come up with the standards for formatting documents. When I asked who they thought set the formatting standards the most common answer was Bill Gates! We also learned about setting margins, line spacing, spell check, cut and paste and several other editing and formatting features in Word. Looking forward to next week!