This week, the camp will have a theme to all of its lessons/projects. The theme this week is careers. A career is the particular occupation for which you are trained, so Mr. Belanger's career is teaching.
Did you know it is not too early to think about college even as early as 3rd, 4th grade? I always tell my students, you need to be thinking ahead. Also, the decisions you make now, and the study habits that you form now will certainly help you succeed in the future! Mr. Belanger attended Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo, Michigan!
There is no doubt that some of the jobs that exist today will not be there when you graduate from college, and on the other side of the coin, there is no doubt that some jobs do not even exist yet that you may go to college for. Click here for more. With little or no technology training you will not be able to compete in a global society.
DID YOU KNOW...Just to give you an idea how things are changing... Right now if you goto McDonalds and order a Diet Coke, you are pulling upto a drive thru and talking to someone that is working at the 1st window. However, more recently you may actually be talking to someone in a call center, who is 1000+ miles away, and send your order (more accurately) to the McDonalds that you are at! Read more here. Did you know this is a "high-tech" career????
A few weeks ago we discussed recycling. To be honest, the gues speaker really inspired me to go home and realize how little I was really doing for the environment. Since then, I have been on a recycling rampage. Last week, we had only two bags of trash, and I visited the recycling drop off twice! :) Thats change my friends! But have you ever concidered a career in Environmental Technology?? This field is growing astronomically! Environmental technology enables us to understand things like climate change, air quality, and the sustainability of natural resources. It's used to study, monitor, and curb the effects of human activity on the environment, and to harness renewable sources of energy. Can you see the importance of a career like this in a society like ours? Was this career around 25 years ago? Probally not.
Agenda
This week we will be reviewing: navigation in Office 2007. If you attend public schools, they are upgrading to this newer version this summer.
There are a few things that you want to remember: TABS and THE RIBBON.
- Tabs are like the main menus, they run accross the top. You click on then to change the ribbon. The tabs change groups of tasks.
- The Ribbon has specfic tasks, like changing the font, color or borders.
Today's practice PowerPoint
- Open PP by clicking: Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Office - Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007
- The default slide comes up, it is called a Title Slide -- Title yours Zoo Animals
- The small box under it, its called a sub-title -- Write your name here
- You need to create a new slide: Home -> New Slide
- Click on the layout button (next to the new slide button) and see the many options, choose Content with Caption
- Where it says Click to add Title, write Giraffes
- Open Internet Explorer. Visit http://www.wikipedia.com/ - search for GIRRAFE
- Highlight the 1st three paragraphs, then copy it to the clip board
- Paste the cliboard to the area under the title
- On the right BIG box, click on the icon that looks like the four boxes, CLIP ART
- Search for a giraffe, add the photo
You are going to repeat this for at least 3-5 animals--here are few ideas:
- African Elephant
- African Lion
- Agama Lizard
- AlligatorA
- nemone Fish
- Aquatic Beetle
- Arctic Wolf
- Atlantic Oval Squid
- Bactrian Camel
- Badger
- Barn Owl
- Bearded Dragon
- Bengal Tiger
- Bighorn Sheep
- Bison
- Black Lechwe
- Black Swallowtail
- Caterpillar
- Blue Jay
- Blue-billed
- Firefinch
- Brown Pelican
- Candy Darter
- Capybara
- Caracal
- Cardinal
- Caribou
- Cat
- etc...
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