ICT Newsletter

Grade 9 students have completed Document Production unit successfully. Different types of text formats such as plain text and rich text format were introduced. Students have worked in details on Microsoft Office Word 2007 to master:

• setting page size, orientation, number of columns and line spacing
• using page margins and gutter purposefully
• explaining why it is necessary to use page, section and column breaks, to adjust pagination and to avoid widows and orphans
• setting line spacing, including: single, 1.5 times, double, multiple, spacing before and after paragraphs
• formatting text as bulleted or numbered lists to meet the needs of the audience
• customizing headers and footers by inserting date, page number, text, image and document property fields
• inserting and editing images and tables

Students have discussed the difference between serif and sans-serif fonts. Moreover, bookmarking and inserting hyperlink allowed students to navigate to sections of documents with multiple pages. Students can also use Google Docs for word processing and document production.