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Greetings to you other life forms, I am Andrew and I come in awesomeness! Have a look at my awesome webpage of awesomeness. I worked really hard on this awesome page to make it really awesomeish. I mean I awesomely wrote it with awesomeness, I made these awesome pictures with awesomeness in mind, and I even awesomely copied the awesome text to make my awesome graphs of awesomeness! It's so awesome, it will awesomely blow your awesome minds away. Well I hope you think it's awesomer than everyone else's! (which it is..or maybe not)

Have an awesome time, Andrew (who is awesome) btw How is Life?

Copyright Andrew 2009

We learned many //MS Word// skills in Word Processing. First, we typed a document showing skills on word processing. Such as spacing, indenting, block paragraphs, subscripts, superscripts and much more. Personally I found subscripts and superscripts the most interesting because I already knew how to do everything else (kind of)**.** We also learned the difference between //MS Word 2003// and //MS Word// 2007; I felt that the new //Ms Word// was a big improvement because it had tabs which made it easier to navigate. That was lots of fun, especially Mr. Williams’ pet frog //Fluffy//. [|AndrewL66WPS.doc]
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In this project, we combined word processing with Internet Searching to do a bit of “research”. Mr. Williams told us to use the search engine //Google// to find and solve different questions. Example: Who wrote the song “Sk8er Boi”? Then, we pasted the answers into //MS Word// and used some word processing skills to create a URL hyperlink showing where we got the information. This lesson was also very informative and interesting (kind of…).
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Word Processing and Editing with Track Changes __** We used the Track Changes features //MS Word// to practice editing a word processed document. This was a short lesson but will be useful when we start peer editing our non-fiction and fiction writing. [|AndrewL66MS Word - Writing Process.doc]

I have never used //MS Publisher// so this was a bit new to me. We pasted pictures into //MS Publisher// and twisted them, turned them, and stuck them on top of each other. The result was a great collage to bring back memories. I also picked up some new skills, such as cropping, reformatting, borders, and basically how to handle //MS Publisher//.
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Google Earth __//** //Google Earth// was probably the most enjoyable “project” of all. We explored the whole earth and found our very own homes. We learned how to measure distances and find directions to places. I also learned that Mr. Williams owned three homes and one was close to Mickey’s house! We also explored other places we’ve never been before. Awesome and fun! [|AndrewL66GoogleEarth.pdf]
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Early Man Graphic with //Inspiration// __** We learned how to use inspiration, with information from //MS Word// we copied information and converted it into a “web” with inspiration. I learned about how to create a successful web on one page. After we made the web, we learned how to replace our title with a graphic and exported the //Inspiration// as a //JPEG// and //Word// file. I learned a lot of new skills making it. [|AndrewL66EarlyManINS.jpg]

Early Civilization Graphic with //Inspiration// __** We did the same project as the Early Man Graphic with //Inspiration//, but used information about early civilizations.
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Early Man Timeline with //TimeLiner// __** We put information of Early Man into a timeline format with //Timeliner 5.//0. First, we pasted all the information from //Word// into the information area of timeline. Then it automatically converted itself into a timeline. We organized everything so that it would be readable, inserted a few graphics, and exported it. I had a lot of fun working around with //Timeliner// and I learned some new skills about how to format things. [|ANDREWL66ANCIENTMANTL.JPG]


 * __//MS Excel// Spreadsheets__**

Today, we had a very tasty class! We learned how to use //Microsoft Excel// to record M&M colors. Then we used that information to make a chart. I had no idea that Excel was so high tech. It practically made the graph for you; all you had to do was click a few buttons. But I admit, the best part about class was eating the M&M’s! [|AndrewL66M&MColor.xlsx]

We looked at a spreadsheet as a database. Each of the cells was a piece of information about the students in the Middle School. We saw how a database can be sorted, based on the information. We updated our own personal information. **There is no example because this is confidential information**.
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Today was a very humorous (and humiliating) class, we took a perfectly good (or in my case bad) picture of ourselves and “altered” it with //Photoshop//, Mr. Williams called it altering. When I had my finished result, it looked like I had a complete facial overhaul! But still, we learned about //Photoshop// and how it worked. Like filtering, distorting and messing with your picture. I never actually used //Photoshop// before so it was great fun, (and great weirdness!) Here is some other work that I did. [|Andrew - Sunny Ray's Lab.pdf] [|Andrew66ClimateGraph.pdf] [|Andrew66Weather-Maps.pdf]
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