Google Calendar Immersion training Organising your daily schedule, homework and key dates for school and home life effectively is a skill you will need for life. In this immersion training you will learn how to setup your Google calendars and add reminders to your homework and key dates. This training is designed so you are able to use as an e module after the class training,
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How to access Google Calendar
We will be using Google Calendars to setup your digital organisation platform
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Watch the following video on how to access Google Calendar and complete organisation tasks
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Organisation tasks |
- Open up your student portal and access Google Calendar
Setup your first Calendar
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Watch the following video on setting up your first calendar and complete the organisation tasks
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Organisation tasks |
Create the following calendars (each one is a separate calendar):
- school and assessment calendar
Add events and notifications to your calendar
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Watch the following videos on adding events and add notifications then complete organisational tasks
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Organisation tasks |
Create events for the following:
- School and assessment calendar: Add all assessment and homework with all subjects
- Family and social calendar: Add events you know you will being doing this week
- Sport calendar: Add all sporting commitments to this calendar
Immersive reader
Immersive reader is a is a free tool that implements proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people, regardless of their age or ability.
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Watch the following video on the immersive reader and complete the activities below.
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Reading with immersive reader |
- Open the following "What is immersive reader" word online document. Click here to access
- Adjust fonts and themes and use the play function
- Add the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
- Change line focus and turn the picture dictionary on and investigate all functions.
How to link documents from the cloud to desktop applications
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Watch the following video on creating folders in One Drive
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N.B: Linking and sharing documents activities will be done with the Advanced Powerpoint presentation activity.
Powerpoint advanced features
Powerpoint has a range of advanced features that most people do not know about. The following tasks will take you through how to use these features in your assignments.
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View the following Advanced Powerpoint presentation, video and complete the following activities.
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Advanced Powerpoint presentation |
Task preparation
Following the steps below to complete this activity.
Task preparation
Following the steps below to complete this activity.
Task preparation
- In Onedrive open your "Advanced Powerpoint task folder", then open your Powerpoint Online presentation.
- Open the desktop Powerpoint app and login with your education email (you only need to login once). Tip: if you get a proxy popup box Use your username with @detnsw
- Title your presentation "Immersion lesson advanced Powerpoint" and your name
- Insert two slides with title only
- Choose two holiday locations you would like to visit
- Using the insert pictures from online sources add the two holiday locations pictures on your first slide
- Use the design tab feature to change the design of your slide
- On the second slide title morph, add two planet photos
- duplicate the slide and move your photos around. Click on transitions and morph function.
- Share your Powerpoint with your partner and insert a new slide in your partner's Powerpoint
- Design a slide with an online photo and title of your favourite sport
Final Microsoft Office immersion
This final lesson for Office 365 is a self directed and will give you better skills with Microsoft Office.
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Choose ONE immersion lesson from Microsoft Word or Excel
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Microsoft Word Immersion |
- Work through each section and practice with your own created Word document. Click the image to go to each section.
- Create a Word document and save in the One drive Sub folder: Word_Excel immersion tasks created earlier.
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For more help download the interactive "Word Tour" document
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Microsoft Excel Immersion |
- Work through each section and practice with your own created Excel spreadsheet. Click the image to go to each section.
- Create a Excel spreadsheet document and save in the One drive Sub folder: Word_Excel immersion tasks created earlier.
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For more help download the interactive "Excel Tour" document
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Homework
The following are for you to complete after the immersion lesson:
- Create school folders from the induction lesson into One Drive. Click here for the folder structure. Remember always save your files in TWO places.
- Consider completing the final immersion lesson for the program you did not do in class.