Using Google doc and Google drive

An easy way to create class newsletter will be to use the templates for newsletter in Microsoft Words. Further collaboration by the students on the newsletter can be carried out via Google Docs as shown below.

Create a new word document and choose a newsletter template.

Students can then replace the text and photos on the template as shown below. They can add more pages or delete them as necessary. 

They can save the document in word document for editing as well as pdf for the final version.

By using Google Docs, the students can collaborate and contribute the part assigned to them as well as read the part completed by their classmate. They can do this by accessing Google drive through their email account. They can then create the Google docs in the Google drive.

The leader of the team can open up the file which they have created using the Microsoft Word templates.

The leader can then assign rights to his/her team members to edit the document.

Sharing can also be done in the Google drive.

Compressing pictures in Microsoft Words and Powerpoints

Many of us are using a lot of pictures in our report or for our powerpoint presentations. This make our file size very big and poses a problem for us in storage and sendig them through the email.

One of the solutions which I will be showing here is to compress the pictures in the file. Open your document and click on one of the pictures. A picture toolbar will appear. If there is no picture toolbar, click on the top menu -' view' -'Toolbars' -'Picture', as shown on the image below. Then click on the icon to compress the pictures. After you had click on the icon to compress the picture, a pop-up box like the one below will appear: Select 'all pictures in document' and 'web/screen' then click on OK. A pop-up box will appear again - just click 'Apply".

Save your file again, maybe under another name and you will be able to see the difference in the size of the files before and after the pictures are compressed.