The affordances of office software
In this lesson we will explore what we can do with office software as a teaching and learning resource.
At this stage, you should spend no longer than an hour studying the ideas and/or skills required to produce two examples of documents that could be useful to you in your lesson preparation, teaching or other roles you play as an educator. Remember your learning focus you identified in the previous lesson section.
- Explore some of these links or research some ideas by yourself and identify two documents you would like to create. Set yourself a challenge – try to learn something new. Use different applications for each document e.g. a word processor and a spreadsheet.
- Find out how to create these documents if there are skills you are lacking. Use the Technology Enhanced Teaching Resources page as a source of skill tip sheets or look for demonstrations and guidelines online. You will find the resources page under the Resources tab if ever you are looking for it again.
- Create and save a draft of these two documents. You will share them and submit them in the next lesson section. Name each of your documents with a file name that starts with your own name, followed by a descriptive file name that describes the contents of the file (as you would with any file name).
