Part 1: Ambiguity Discussion (5 points)
You may do this in groups of 2.
1. Go to the Beatrice Santorini Linguistic Humor page at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/
2. There are lots of ambiguities in the links under the headings; Pragmatics, Lexicon and Morphology. You will also find ambiguities in some of the other categories. Look at the links to find an example of an ambiguity that you like that hasn't been posted about already by another student.
3. Post a New Topic to the Participation Oct. 3 Ambiguity discussion. Do the following:
(1 point) Put the ambiguity you chose (or as much as will fit) in your subject line so the other students can see that it has been used.
(2 points) In the body of the message
Repeat the ambiguity (can copy/paste from the web page)
Explain one possible meaning.
Put the name of the other student if you worked together.
4. (2 points) Reply to another student's posting that no one else has replied to yet or where you feel that the reply is not complete. In your reply, describe another different meaning. Note down the name of the person you replied to and type it in the answer box in Tasks, Tests and Surveys.
This exercise covers the material in PowerPoint Projects 1, 2, and 3 in Dozer's Quintessential Guide to Computer Literacy. We will create a slide show about email etiquette from the information at http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/65mailet.htm .
1. Start PowerPoint. Make sure you are in
Normal view where you see the Outline/Slides pane, the Slide pane and the Notes pane.
2. Click in the placeholder for the title and type the title of your
presentation: Email Etiquette.
3. Click in the placeholder for the subtitle and type your name. Press Enter and
then insert the date.
4. Click the Design tab and apply a design theme to your slide show.
5. Change the font for your name.
6. Click the new slide arrow on the Home tab. Choose the Title and Content slide
layout.
7. Click in the title box and type the title for this slide: Composing
Messages
8. Type a bulleted list of the following items:
Summarize your message in the Subject line
Keep your messages short and focused.
Avoid using all capital letters.
It means you are shouting
9. Increate the list level for the last list item.
10. Insert a new slide. Choose the Two Content layout.
11. Type the title for the slide: Addressing Messages
12. Type the text for the slide in a bulleted list:
Don't CC to everyone
Avoid sending messages to large groups
Use BCC if you must address large groups
13. Click the clip art button in the placeholder to open the clipart pane.
Search for a clipart that fits your topic and insert it.
14. Move and size the clipart so it looks good on the slide.
15. Go to the slide about composing Email messages. Click at the end of the line
"It means you are shouting."
16. On the Insert tab, click the Symbol button.
17. Click the Font list arrow and click a Font.
18. The symbols appear for that font. webdings and windings have the best
symbols. Find a symbol that emphasizes the text.
19. Insert the symbol.
20. In the browser, go to Google and click the Images search link. Search for an
image for the title slide.
21. When the image list appears, it shows thumbnails of the image. Click on an
image to display the original. Save a copy of the file to the hard
drive or a USB drive.
22. Go back to PowerPoint and display the title slide.
23. On the Insert tab, click the Picture button.
24. In the Insert Picture dialog box, locate the graphic you saved and Insert
it.
25. Move the graphic and resize it to look nice.
26. Put a border around the graphic.
27. Experiment with the Picture shape and Picture Effects options.
28. Replace the title on the slide with a WordArt. Experiment with the WordArt
Styles.
29. Delete the old text placeholder for the title. Be careful not to delete your
WordArt instead.
30. Insert a new slide at the end of the presentation. Use the Blank Slide
layout.
31. Insert a text box on the slide and type some ending text like "End of
presentation"
32. Format and size the text to look nice.
33. On the Insert tab, click the Shapes button. Put a shape around the text.
Make the text appear in front of the shape by clicking Format on the Drawing
Tools menu and then choosing Send to Back. Experiment with the sizing and Shape
Fill, Outline and Effects until you like the way it looks.
34. Click the Shapes button again and select the Home action button.
35. Drag near the bottom of the slide to create the button.
36. In the Action Settings dialog box, select First Slide in the Hyperlink To
box. Click OK.
37. Run the slide show. Choose a slide to write on. Right-click in the slide and
and set the type of pen and color in Pointer Options. Drag to draw on the slide.
38. Press the Enter key to move from slide to slide (clicking draws). Keep the
annotations.
39. Add a slide transition to the whole slide show.
40. Add a custom animation effect to a graphic.
41. Run the slide show.
42. Save the slide show as Oct3 and upload it to Tasks, Tests and Surveys.