CSIT58 Friday Participation Credit 10/9: Values and PowerPoint

Part 1 Values Discussion (5 points)

The Internet and other technologies like camera phones and messaging have made cheating in college easier than ever. You will examine this in a discussion. Read "Author explains moral deterioration in America" at http://www.dailytoreador.com/2.13413/author-explains-moral-deterioration-in-america-1.1827320

1. Start a New Topic in the Values Discussion. Write a paragraph saying how you feel about cheating. Have you done it? Why or why not? Do you think that the number of students cheating at Harbor College is as high as David Callahan says? Use information from the article in your post. The article gives lots of reasons why people cheat.

Don't worry, I'm not going to report your or judge you. I think everyone has crossed the line at least a little or has been really tempted. You don't have to give any specifics.

2. Write a second paragraph where you discuss what should be done to stop cheating (or if it should be stopped at all). Whose responsibility is it? 

3. Read another student's topic. Reply describing a value that is demonstrated in their post. Do not just use values from a reply another student has already posted. Either find other values that you think the other student missed or reply to a different student's post.

Society Values at http://www.gurusoftware.com/GuruNet/Social/Topics/Values.htm 

Personal Values at http://www.gurusoftware.com/GuruNet/Personal/Topics/Values.htm#personal_values

Part 2 PowerPoint (5 points)

This exercise covers the material in PowerPoint Projects 1 and 2 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. Increase 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. Insert a new slide at the end of the presentation. Use the Blank Slide layout.
14. Insert a text box on the slide and type some ending text like "End of presentation"
15. Format and size the text to look nice.
16. 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.
17. Press the Enter key to move from slide to slide (clicking draws). Keep the annotations.
18. Add a slide transition to the whole slide show.
19. Add a custom animation effect to a title.
20. Run the slide show
21. Click the Office button and choose Print. Change Print What to say Handouts.
22. Change Color/Grayscale to Pure Black and White.
23. Under Handouts, change Slides per Page  to 3.
24. Cancel without printing.
25. Save the slide show as today's date and upload it to Tasks, Tests and Surveys.