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Subject: TOURBUS -- 01 FEB 01 -- MICROSOFT IN ED / KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
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TOURBUS Volume 6, Number 56 -- 1 Feb 2001
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
Microsoft in Education / Keyboard Shortcuts / Southern Words
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/keyboard/keyboardsearch.asp
http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
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On with the show ...
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Microsoft in Education
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Please don't let my professors at Pepperdine know this, but while I
was working on a homework assignment for my Mentoring and Team
Leadership class I accidentally found a site that is really cool: the
"Microsoft in Education" Tutorials page at
http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/default.asp .
Microsoft's goal is to help educators learn how to use Microsoft's
products in the classroom, but the information on the Tutorials page
is written in such a way that *EVERYONE* can use it. You don't have
to be an educator.
The page has five main sections:
1. In and Out of the Classroom
A collection of free, step-by-step lesson plans that shows you
how to perform basic tasks in some of the most popular
Microsoft products (Word, Works, PowerPoint, Windows, and so
on). The lesson plans won't teach you everything, but they'll
certainly get you started. And, if you are a Mac user, you'll
be happy to hear that Microsoft even has lesson plans on how
to use Office 2001 or Works on a Mac!
2. Tutorial Packs
While the "In and Out of the Classroom" section teaches you
how to use Microsoft's products, the "Tutorial Packs" teach
you how to use Microsoft's products to actually DO something.
The tutorial packs are collections of free, downloadable
tutorials, PowerPoint presentations, and demonstration scripts
that show you, step-by-step, how to use Microsoft's products
to perform a certain task. For example: creating a course Web
site using FrontPage, analyzing data using Access or Excel, or
collaborating with others using Outlook.
3. Online Tutorials
The Online Tutorials section contains a small collection of
free, interactive, online tutorials that are extremely
helpful. They're also ... well ... a little too "cute." It
is kind of hard to explain. You'll have to check it out for
yourself.
4. Accessibility Step by Step Guides
This takes you to another part of Microsoft's Web site that
shows people with disabilities how to customize their
computers and Microsoft software.
5. Academic Cooperative
This takes you to an external site for "community college and
university faculty who teach computer science, engineering and
information systems courses."
Microsoft says that their tutorials page provides "step-by-step
instructions designed to help you learn Microsoft applications quickly
and easily." I couldn't agree more. If you are just starting out
with Word, Excel, or even Windows and need a good, free resource to
help you get started, check out the Microsoft in Education free
Tutorials page. You don't even have to be a teacher to use it. :)
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Microsoft Keyboard Shortcuts
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I love keyboard shortcuts. I can't tell you how many times a day I
press and hold the Windows logo key and then press the letter M to
minimize all of my open windows at once, or press and hold the Alt key
and then tab through my open programs and documents.
The problem is trying to figure out what all the keyboard shortcuts
are.
Well, buried deep within Microsoft's accessibility pages is an amazing
resource that shows you almost ALL of the keyboard shortcuts for most
of Microsoft's most popular programs -- Word, Windows, Internet
Explorer, and so on. Just go to
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/keyboard/keyboardsearch.asp
and then pick the program you are interested in. That's it.
I've been looking for this for AGES! :)
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The Southern Word Homepage
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Okay. Enough Microsoft. Let's have some fun.
For the past five years, I have ended almost every one of my TOURBUS
posts with a Southern Word of the Week. A couple of years ago, I went
through all of my old TOURBUS post, collected all of the Southern
Words, and created the Southern Word homepage at
http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html .
After much procrastination, I finally updated the Southern Word
homepage last week. If you haven't visited the homepage recently,
stop on by and tell me what you think. :)
That's it for this week. Have a safe and happy weekend, and we'll
talk again next week.
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
Microsoft in Education / Keyboard Shortcuts / Southern Words
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/keyboard/keyboardsearch.asp
http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
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TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE WEEK
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STAY-UMP (noun). A small piece of gummed paper sold by a government for
attachment to an article that is to be mailed.
Usage: "Don't forget to fetch ya some of them new 34 cent stay-umps."
[Special thanks go to Cary Lowe for today's word]
You can find all of the old Southern Words of the day at
http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
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