Mail-Merge

Info Tech 2 students spent time this week learning how different Microsoft applications can interact with each other.  Students created business letters, envelopes, name tags, certificates, and more that could quickly be personalized to recipients that were listed in a spreadsheet or database.  Students will finish demonstrating their learning by creating video tutorials showing how to use mail merge, then we will move on to desktop publishing.

Week 5: Database Assessment then PowerPoint

This week we will be finishing up with our database section.  Students will create a full working database that includes tables, forms, reports, and queries.  Once students complete their database, they will create a video tutorial demonstrating the more complex skills that they have learned.  We will then move on to a program that allows for us to demonstrate a little more creativity by using advanced features of PowerPoint.  Mid-term grades get posted this week, and students are really doing a good job in this class!

week 4: Microsoft Access Databases

Info Tech 2 has finished up with their Microsoft Excel learning.  We created some video tutorials that allowed students to demonstrate some of the advanced skills they learned this unit.  Next we will be getting a quick review of the basics of Microsoft Access, then will be jumping into the advanced features.  Students will be creating several databases that can be used in various career fields.

week 3: spreadsheet work

This week info tech 2 students will continue learning about Microsoft Excel 2016.  We will be working with logic/if statements.  Below is a brief tutorial showing a way these could be used.  Students will then be working on a series of worksheets for a sporting good store, then will demonstrate what they have learned with a spreadsheet over content of their choice.  Finally, students will create a series of video tutorials demonstrating key skills about spreadsheets.  Students have been working very hard so far this term and I am really pleased with their efforts and how they are progressing!

week 2: spreadsheets

This week info tech 2 will finish up their video editing work and will have a good understanding how to create video tutorials that they can use to demonstrate their learning of software from this term.  The next thing we will do in class is start learning advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2016.  We will get a quick refreshers course to knock off the rust from our spreadsheet skills, then will jump into creating some complex and elaborate spreadsheets that can be used in a variety of career settings!

2017 Term 1 Info Tech 2 (week 1)

Welcome back everybody!  I hope everyone had a great summer vacation and is recharged for another great school year!  Information Technology 2 will be starting off first period in room 1537.  We will start off getting to know each other, getting our IT user name and passwords, mapping our network drives so we can save and share our work, and getting all of the administrative tasks out of the way so we can then jump into learning the advanced properties of the Microsoft Office 2016 Suite.  This class is great for people interested in a variety occupations as technology and especially Microsoft Office skills are needed about everywhere.  In the technology field it is important for jobs in customer service, troubleshooting, data science, product management, and much more!  I'm looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Access and Databases (week 8)

Info Tech 2 students have finished up with their PowerPoint 2016 activities and are now ready for the next unit.  Next week we will be learning about databases and advanced features of Microsoft Access 2016.  Once we are finished with Access we will do some multiapplication interaction and create some projects that use all of our programs we have been learning about!

PowerPoint Kinetic Typography (Week 7)

Info Tech 2 students are continuing to work on their PowerPoint projects in preparation for the MOS certification for PowerPoint 2016.  Next week we will be using the features we have been learning about to create kinetic typography videos that promote our school.  The best projects can be used on our display board in the gym which are displayed throughout the days and during events at our school.  As of right now, we are looking at taking the PowerPoint certification test next Friday.

Presentations with PowerPoint 2016 (week 6)

Next week info tech 2 will finish up with their Microsoft Excel unit and take their certification.  The next item on the agenda will be learning the advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 and will be working towards a certification for PowerPoint.  Hard to believe we are over half-way through the term!  Keep up the good work!

More Excel (Week 5)

Info Tech 2 students have been really working hard again working towards their MOS exams for Excel 2016.  Next week we will continue going through all of the advanced features of Microsoft Excel and will hopefully be ready for our MOS exam by the end of next week, or early the following week.  This program has a lot of features to learn, and these students have been doing a great job!

Excel (Week 4)

We had a great productive week of information technology 2 this week!  Congratulations to Christian, Braden, Anthony, Maxwell, and Ivy for earning their MOS Certification in Microsoft Word 2016!  I was really pleased with the work ethic these kids demonstrated and they are really doing a great job making themselves marketable career-ready individuals!

This week we are starting Microsoft Excel.  We will be working towards the MOS certification for Excel 2016.  We are doing a few review spreadsheets to refresh our memory, then we will be using logical formulas and various if statements.  I'm excited to see how we do on this next MOS exam!

Microsoft Certification (week 3)

Info Tech 2 students have been working their tails off pushing through our Microsoft Word 2016 curriculum.  Students have been creating and modifying a large variety of professional documents that are common place in the work force and IT industry.  Next week, we will take a GMetrix test that covers everything students have learned, then will have some time to review and ask questions about the certification process.  On Tuesday we will take our MOS certification test for Microsoft Word 2016 through Certiport.  This test not only gives students industry-recognized certification in Word, but is also used as a summative assessment, so it is very important students study for this outside of class as well.  Students all have a study guide that covers the information and gives some short descriptions on how to complete the various tasks.  On Wednesday, we will start moving on to Microsoft Excel 2016 and working towards that certification.

finishing word certifications (week 2)

We've made it through the first week of info tech 2 class at NPHS!  Students have done a great job working through their projects and learning advanced features of Microsoft Word 2016.  We finished the week with a GMetrix test to measure our progress, then created a tutorial of our choice over an advanced feature of Microsoft Word.

Next week we come back to class on Tuesday and will keep pushing through our Microsoft Word materials.  We will be looking to take our MOS exam to earn certification for Word either at the end of next week, or the start of the following week.  These exams are also used as our summative assessments, so they will also count for a grade.  Students have a study guide they can print off or save to their google drive so they may access it anywhere.

It's been a great start to the quarter, so let's keep up the great work!

Microsoft Word Certifications (Week 1)

Welcome back everybody!  Looking forward to seeing everyone after a great break!  Information Technology class 2 will start off this term by learning classroom expectations and procedures for this term.  Students will be getting their IT accounts that we will be using this term.  They will also be getting accounts for GMETRIX and Certiport, which we will talk a great deal about later.

Students will then be working towards earning their MOS certification for Microsoft Word 2016.  These certifications are not only used as our summative assessments for the term, but they also look great on job applications as these our industry-recognized certifications.  Normally, these tests would cost around $96 each, but because of a partnership we have with the University of Nebraska and Microsoft, we are able to offer the MOS certification exams to our students in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access for free.  It is very rare that you find a high school course that offers you the opportunity to leave with such powerful tools that can really help students to be career-college ready and can really boost a resume.

We will see everybody on Monday!