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Lesson 1: Features of a word processor

Year 7 – Using media – Gaining support for a cause

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Lesson 1: Features of a word processor

Objectives

In this lesson, you will:

  • Select the most appropriate software to use to complete a task
  • Identify the key features of a word processor
  • Apply the key features of a word processor to format a document
  • Evaluate formatting techniques to understand why we format documents

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Guess Who: software edition

Starter activity

Work in small groups to match the:

  • Icon
  • Name
  • Definition/use

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Guess Who

Starter activity

Rules:

Stay in your groups and put your hand up when you think you have the correct answer. Points are as follows:

After clue 1 = 5 points

After clue 2 = 4 points

After clue 3 = 3 points

After clue 4 or 5 = 2 points

Any incorrect guesses = – 5 points

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Spreadsheet

software

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Presentation software

Email software

Word processing software

Image editing software

Web authoring software

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Guess Who

Guess Who

Starter activity

Game 1 clues

  1. You can use me to add text
  2. You wouldn’t use me to add numbers together
  3. You can use me to animate text
  4. You can embed videos in me
  5. I am made up of multiple slides

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End of clues

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Spreadsheet

software

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Presentation software

Email software

Word processing software

Image editing software

Web authoring software

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I AM...

Starter activity

Game 1 clues

  1. You can use me to add text
  2. You wouldn’t use me to add numbers together
  3. You can use me to animate text
  4. You can embed videos in me
  5. I am made up of multiple slides

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End of clues

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Presentation software

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Guess Who

Starter activity

Game 2 clues

  1. You could use me to underline text
  2. For me to work properly, I need a network — usually the internet
  3. You could use me to send a message with an attachment to multiple people at the same time

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End of clues

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Spreadsheet

software

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Presentation software

Email software

Word processing software

Image editing software

Web authoring software

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I AM...

Starter activity

Game 2 clues

  1. You could use me to underline text
  2. For me to work properly, I need a network — usually the internet
  3. You could use me to send a message with an attachment to multiple people at the same time

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End of clues

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Email software

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Guess Who

Starter activity

Game 3 clues

  1. You don’t need a network or the internet for me to work
  2. You could use me to make a table
  3. You could use me to present graphs
  4. You would use me to automatically work out calculations using formulas

End of clues

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Spreadsheet

software

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Presentation software

Email software

Word processing software

Image editing software

Web authoring software

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I AM...

Starter activity

Game 3 clues

  1. You don’t need a network or the internet for me to work
  2. You could use me to make a table
  3. You could use me to present graphs
  4. You would use me to automatically work out calculations using formulas

End of clues

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Spreadsheet software

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Word processing

Activity 1

  • What is the purpose of a word processor?
  • What does the term ‘formatting’ mean?
  • Can you name three tools that all word processors have that allow you to ‘format’ a document?

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Investigate

the features of

word processing software

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Activity 1

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Why do we format documents?

Activity 1

  • To make the text easy to read
  • To make it easy for the audience to extract the information that they need
  • To highlight the important information
  • Sometimes, to attract the audience to read the information

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Which one is better formatted and why?

Activity 1

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Formatting

Activity 2

What is wrong with the appearance of this document?

How could a word processor help?

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Quiz time

Plenary

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Next lesson

Summary

In this lesson, you…

Identified the key features of a word processor

Applied features of a word processor to format a document

Evaluated formatting techniques to understand why we format documents

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Next lesson, you will…

Select appropriate images for a given context

Apply appropriate formatting techniques

Investigate Creative Commons licences

Demonstrate the ability to credit the original source of an image

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