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
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- 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,

History of PC Viruses - http://www.bocklabs.wisc.edu/~janda/solomhis.html

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 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (858) 748-0245 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Or Align your information across one line:

Tommy Titan 15500 Espola Road Poway, California 92009 (858) 748-0245 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (858) 748-0245 FREE end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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