PowerPoint Basics

This week we are focusing on Microsoft PowerPoint. To find images for your project, try these sites.

http://images.google.com
http://www.altavista.com/image/default

Good luck!
-Brett

Found Ross's blog

Ross's blog is here.

Personality Test

Today we will be taking an online personality test and we will brainstorm possible jobs based on the results. To access the test, here.


This is the results of my test. What jobs would be good for me?

Global Personality Test Results

Stability (46%) medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic. Orderliness (29%) low which suggests you are overly flexible, improvised, and fun seeking at the expense too often of reliability, work ethic, and long term accomplishment. Extraversion (57%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

Images in your blog

As long as they are somewhere on the internet, your blog can link to other images you find. Like this:



To do this, find an image you like from the internet, and copy the address from the web browser.

Our Yahoo group has 9 members

The only folks not signed up for the Yahoo group are Ross, Tara and Bryan K. Just give me your email addresses and I will invite you in.

Everybody else's blog

Here's all the blogs I can find from our group. I will try to find everyone else's next time.

Welcome to Chelsea's House
The Matrix in Green
Big Randy's House
The Meremaid Girl
Green Bay
Boysz
Hope or Death

Ross and Bemer and Courtney need to help me find theirs.

How to get a Blogger account

If you have your Yahoo account and have joined our Yahoo group, then it's time to get your own blog. Start by going to http://www.blogger.com/signup.g You may need to enter your email account as part of setting up the blog.

How to get a Yahoo account

The quickest way to get a Yahoo ID is to go to our Yahoo group's main page here - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hsht2004/ then find the button that says, "Join this group!" If you have a Yahoo ID already, just log in. If you don't, then click "Sign Up" and we'll help you with that.

Beginning Blogging

You can do lots of things in your posts, just like a word processor. The text can be bold, italicized, or both. The text can also be in color. Try changing the font, and see if you can figure out how to add a block quote. Oh, and don't forget to spellcheck!