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 * 8th Grade Computer Exploratory **

*Computer FINAL*****

FINISHED WITH THE FOLLOWING?? UPLOAD BOTH TO your GOOGLE Drive

1. Writing a Letter to yourself

2. or your FUTURE SELF Assignment. Use a creative ppt background: [|FREE POWERPOINT BACKGROUNDS]

=3. College Activity=

4. [|Web 2.0 Tools] - TRY one of these sites and create a poster, comic strip or wordle that says something about your 8th grade year!!! (your likes, your hobbies, your activities) ADD it to your presentation.

= PREVIOUSLY did you do the following? =

= FRIDAY: Create an avatar =

= Magazine Cover - Create a magazine cover with your picture on it. May use ipad to take pic or do you have one saved somewhere? Use it. =

1. [|Magazine yourself]

2. [|Your cover]

3. [|Fakezine]

If you are finished, then work on this Budget Assignment


 * DID you finish all of the following EXCEL assignments? If so, you can start working on your letter to yourself:** Writing a Letter to yourself

1. Use basic formulas to calculate the classes weekly pay for Saxton Publishing **. **

2. Your paycheck

3. YOUR BUDGET Calculating your BUDGET

4. **Finding and Financing a CAR** SAVE pictures of your car to use in your presentation that we will start on Friday.

Use either the manufacturers website, for example: [|www.ford.com] or [|www.blueknobauto.com]

AST assignment: Tips and Tricks

Finished with everything? Explore Google Earth - [|Wonders of the World] ..........Explore Google Docs (will you remember how to upload documents to your Google Account? PLEASE write down your email in your planner and your password)

Google Docs has more aps that you can explore. Go to Google Drive and click on CREATE and find more useful APS.

Nothing more to do??? Yes, you can go to Coolmath BUT you should explore more in Google Docs.

Want to carve a pumpkin?? [|Click here.]

=__ October 20 -22, 2014 __= 8th grade computer class: Continue working on your PowerPoint Project. Please make sure your questions range in difficulty as the price increases.

Google Earth - [|Wonders of the World]

= Week 3: =

= Red-Ribbon Activity and Cyberbullying Poster =

__ EXCEL Activities and Lessons __

1. Excel Basics and [|Excel Basic Formulas]: Read over the basics and look at the basic formulas and then practice using this assignment 2. Personal Budget - Download and complete all the colored cells by adding the appropriate formulas.

3. Create an expense spreadsheet

4. Excel Activity Calculating Pay

= Week 1  =

1. Organize your network folder by putting all of your documents into folders or delete documents that you will not longer be using.

2. Go to your Google Account by clicking here: [|docs.google.com]

Login: first initial last name (might need to try first TWO, if you have a common name) Password: do you remember it from last year? If not, see Mrs. Saxton

3. Complete Google Docs Activity

4. Another Google Doc Activity, SEVEN WONDERS of the ANCIENT WORLD

5. __ Searching Lessons __

= Week 2  =

= WORD ACTIVITIES:  = A. Goals B. Computer Ethics Assignment

= Week 3  =

__ EXCEL Activities and Lessons __ 1. Excel Basics Read over the basics and then practice using this assignment 2. Personal Budget
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/vnd.ms-excel.png caption="Summer Payroll.xls" link="file:lvcomputers/Summer Payroll.xls"]] ||
 * Summer Payroll.xls ||
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet.png caption="Budget_personal.xlsx" link="file:lvcomputers/Budget_personal.xlsx"]] ||
 * Budget_personal.xlsx ||

- Download and complete all the colored cells by adding the appropriate formulas.

3. Excel Activity Calculating Pay 4. Budget: Finding and Financing a CAR **File Not Found**
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/vnd.ms-excel.png caption="Car Assignment.xls" link="file:lvcomputers/Car Assignment.xls"]] ||
 * Car Assignment.xls ||

Use either the manufacturers website, for example: [|www.ford.com] or [|www.blueknobauto.com]

5. Budget: Renting or owning a home? Rent.com (login: tsaxton@lvsd.k12.pa.usPW: lvcomputers) or search for a Realtor in the area if you are interested in buying a home, Howard Hanna, Coldwell Banker, etc. Use PMT formula to calculate your payment or use an [|online calculator.]

ADD your CAR PAYMENT and RENT or Mortgage Payment to your budget. What else can you complete?

6. INCOME??? College: 4-year degree, 2-year degree or Trade School No College?? ?

[|Read this article to see] what the difference is in salary. [|Check out this graph]to see how much you will be making in a week. You may also look for other information on this subject.

Input your income into your budget. COMPLETE YOUR BUDGET.

7. More Practice with Excel, Weather Assignment,
 * [|Details]
 * [[file:lvcomputers/weather_14.xls|Download]]
 * 37 KB

= Week 4  =

= 1. PowerPoint PROJECT - Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Cash Cab TEMPLATES = = = = Rubric for PowerPoint Game  =

2. LETTER TO SELF - MUST DO

3. More Excel, try to find the total for the TWELVE DAYS of School. 4. Cyberbullying Activity

ASSIGNMENT for Monday, February 23: POWERPOINT presentation - "Me in 2025 ~ My Future Life"

Need a PowerPoint Review? [|Click here]

[|Presentation Tips] for students

=Microsoft Word=

= WORD ACTIVITIES: =

= A. [|Creating GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS in WORD] =

= B. Snowglobe ACTIVITY =

= C. Goals =

D. Letter to SELF

E. Computer Ethics Assignment

=Microsoft Excel=

1. Excel Basics and [|Excel Basic Formulas]: Read over the basics and look at the basic formulas and then practice using this assignment

Excel Cheat Sheet - Basic information and FORMULAS

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2. . Calculate a personal monthly budget for Tom.

3. Create an expense spreadsheet

4. Excel Activity Calculating you pay AFTER TAXES!!!