Sunday 24 March 2013

MS Office

Microsoft Word

I had thought I knew a lot about Microsoft Word, but couldn't expect there were still so many services and options I had never used. I'd seen interactive texts with hyperlinks, and now I know how to create them! What a progress!

Interactive text: My Favourite Painter (about Pierre-Auguste Renoir)

And here're some Microsoft Word samples I had to deal with. Frankly speaking, I don't think they'e very convenient, for you have to re-establish everything to your taste, so that much time is spent on this. What I liked, nevertheless, were sertificates.

Brochure
Leaflet
Diploma
Invitation
Schedule

Microsoft PowerPoint

Not only texts, but also presentations can be interactive; these two ones are about Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his paintings. I suppose these variants can be used to carry out quizzes during lessons.

Simple Presentation
Simple Presentation (Variant 2)
Mischief Mouse Test(Lexical)
Mischief Mouse Test (Grammar)


Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel appeared to be very useful to put down there test results. You don't have to count everything mechanically, as there're a number of special options making it easy to sum or multify numbers in a moment!

Grammar Test Results

Audacity

The next program I've learned to work with is Audacity. Maybe it isn't a new one, but it's still possible to create something out-of-ordinary if you can use this one proficiently. We had to record and process our voices here, but one can also edit music files and convert them into a suitable format.


Movie Maker

Movie Maker was a pleasure for me to work with! Honestly, I've always enjoyed creating films - maybe not films, but clips, but all the same. In fact, I had known already what to do in this program - the only news for me was to add my voice there and somehow combine my comments with the background music in Film 1. That was difficult, but really informative and useful, I hope.
Here're my films:

Film 1 (about Pierre-Auguste Renoir): 

Film 2 (about Vyacheslav Tikhonov)
Film 3 (about Whitney Houston)