Wednesday, October 28, 2009

violations of copyright in popular music


It's interesting to look at some examples of legal cases involving violations of copyright in art and in popular songs (you might be surprised at how famous some of the songs are).


graphic design

Musical Plagiarism at Wikipedia

or try some Google searches, such as
plagiarism songs
or
plagiarism Bollywood


Below is a collection of links I put together last year on the topic of copyright violations. I haven't checked all of them yet this year.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

week of Oct. 26 : Legal Issues

This week we being our study of several legal issues pertaining to working in an IT environment.

We'll learn about copyright, trademarks and patents, largely by looking at the website of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO).


Go to the Pickup Folder and find a file with questions you can answer by looking at pages on the CIPO.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

week of Oct. 19: test & macros


The test this week will cover templates, styles and forms.


Macros are among the most useful tools you can use to increase your efficiency with Word (or Excel or Access or almost any major application).

What is a macro? -- A macro is a series of commands, key presses or mouse clicks that are recorded and performed automatically when a certain key is pressed or a certain command is entered.
For example, you will create a macro that with a single key combination indents a paragraph one inch from both margins and inserts a footnote. And you will create a macro that with another key combination automatically reformats an entire document to get rid of unwanted paragraph breaks.


NOTE: Be sure that your macro security setting (Tools / Macro / Security) is Medium. Your macros will not work if Macro Security is set to High.

 


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Forms: an enrichment activity

Students who finish the exercises on Forms before the rest of the class should visit the webpage below for an optional enrichment activity. The page explains how data is collected from forms and transferred into an Excel spreadsheet.
  • See the article entitled Transfer data from Word forms to an Excel worksheet at TechRepublic.
  • Open a document based on one of the templates containing forms that you have created.
  • Fill in a form with data.
  • Follow instructions on the above webpage to extract data from the form and import it into Excel.
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Forms - showing fields in order to check your work

While creating a Word form, you can check your work by toggling between seeing the data and seeing the fields.

First, make sure the form is unprotected.
Then press Alt-F9 to toggle between the two modes.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Test next week on templates, styles & forms

There will be a test next week on templates, styles & forms. It will be done on the computer (not on paper), with your finished files left in the DropOff Folder.
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week of Oct. 12 - Forms

This week we begin to look at Word forms.


We start by looking at simple fill-in fields to create a document reminiscent of a mail merge in that it consists of "boilerplate" text plus text inserted by a field - in this case a fill-in field rather than the kind of mail merge field you worked with earlier.

Then we look at other kinds of form fields that can be inserted using the Forms toolbar.


NOTE: - A handy shortcut key combination is Alt-F9, which toggles between viewing and hiding the form field codes. It allows you to check whether you have used the correct field and to see whether you have accidentally added a field which you cannnot see.
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Styles

Styles are very useful - for example:
-to make changes throughout a long document
- to create a Table of Contents (TOC)
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Templates

Do take time to read carefully in order to become clear on the idea of a template.

After you learn how to create a template, it's crucial to understand the difference between editing or opening a template in order to make changes to it (File / Open / Files of type: Document Templates (*.dot))

and opening a document based on a template (double-click on the .dot file).


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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Word online tutorials for Word templates

Notice the icon for a Word template (a yellow bar at the top) and the file extension .dot

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