In class today we learned more about binary and hexadecimal. In the begin of the class I never new that much about binary but Mr.Case cleared everything up for me.

We are going to have a test soon about binary and hexadecimal and I have to know everything and how to get pure blue, pure green, pure red, cyan, magenta, and yellow.

Also if I learn how to do this it can help me in the future with my pictures and text.

Today in class we picked a title for are Btt tutorial. The name was 'Getting to know MS Word'
I wanted to pick 'Step by Step MS Word', but know one voted for it but who cares. I just hope that we can sell a lot of books and have enough for are PIZZA PARTY!



Now when I get home I have to try to come up for a title page design and maybe make a another tutorial.



-Derick

Ten Things I Didn’t Know About Microsoft Word

Paste Options: Appears just below your pasted selection after you paste text. When you click the button, a list appears that lets you decide how the information is pasted into your document.

Repeat Action: To repeat something you click on the edit menu and click repeat. Repeat allows you to repeat an action.

Word Count: Can count how many words you have. Word can also tell you how many pages, paragraphs, and lines are in your document, as well as the number of characters, either including or not including spaces.

Insert Table: It is a tool that helps you insert a table ranging from 1x1 to 4x5.

Macro: An action or a set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.

Tab Stops: Tab stops a location on the horizontal ruler that indicates how far to indent text or where to begin a column of text, enable you to line up text to the left, right, center, or to a decimal character or bar character. To insert a tab stop you click TAB+CTRL.

Translate: You can use bilingual dictionaries to look up words and short phrases in the dictionary of another language, or you can obtain a basic translation of words, phrases, or your whole document by using machine translation over the Web. Click tools and click Language and then click Translate.

Auto Correct: Corrects words that are stored in your dictionary. Left click and click auto correct.

Toolbar: To add things to a toolbar you click View and then you click Toolbar and you select what you want to add in your toolbar.

Split: You can split the document window horizontally into two panes, and then control each pane separately. To active a space you need to click on the window and select split. Drag the split to where you want and then click on the bar or press enter.

Today in class I read a article by Mike Elgan called Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control. He talked about how a few years ago people used to work hard beacause it was it own reward, beacause there parents told there children that it will help them become a better person. He talked about how ever since the computers were invented hard work was becoming less important to successful work ethic than another more useful value called attention. He talks about how distractions effect are productivity and people can never do the work if there checking facebook, IM, email and blogs will doing there work. He also talks about how many peolpe are playing and doing work and callling it work overall, and how things like shopping, videos, and socializing are just one click away, and also how kids are growing up with TVs, computers, and vidoe games and there losing good values such as hard work.

I think that everything that Mike Elgan says is true because sometimes I find myself going on Facebook, MSN, and watching music videos and finding myself distracted and not being able to finish my work. Mike Elgan says that "distractions mask the toll they take on productivity" and that is true because if there wasn't any distractions people would finish there work and not find there selfs multi tasking and basically what he is saying is that the more distractions out there in the world the more are productivity drops.