Presenting the information teachers need to harness the power of ClarisWorks, this guide covers the word processor, spreadsheet, database, drawing, painting, and communications functions. Teachers discover how to create customized lesson plans, create a gradebook, mail merge, and create slide shows. The disk offers templates for creating a gradebook, managing student records, and more.
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Integrating curriculum and technology in the classroom is one of the most important challenges facing educators today. The ClarisWorks® Reference For Teachers™ makes the technology connection easy! Explore all six of the ClarisWorks environments including the word processor, spreadsheet, database, drawing, painting, and communications functions and find out how to create a gradebook, customized lesson plans, and more. Make teaching fun by keeping this easy-to-use reference at your side!
Inside, find guidance on becoming a "techno-teacher" in no time:
- Discover how Mac and Windows users can integrate ClarisWorks Versions 2.1 through 4.0 into their classrooms
- Uncover handy tips and ideas for using ClarisWorks in a one-computer classroom
- Find answers to the most frequently asked ClarisWorks questions
- Discover helpful tips for creating stationery templates for documents you use most often
- Explore beginning layout and design principles in the ClarisWorks draw environment
- Plus Michelle's Top Ten Lists that add to the ClarisWorks educational experience:
- Michelle's Top Ten ClarisWorks Tips
- Ten ClarisWorks extras to go with your computer, including a digital camera, scanner, fonts, photo images, and more
About the Author
Michelle Robinette taught herself to use the computer and is on a mission to take technophobia out of the world of education. She believes that, with a little nonintimidating help (such as that provided by her books) and a positive attitude, any teacher can learn to use the computer. She believes that technology should become a natural part of the education process -- not a subject within itself.
Michelle and her husband, John, live in the suburbs of Atlanta. Their days (and nights) are kept busy caring for their five-year-old daughter, Jessie (who wants to be a princess when she grows up), and John-Michael, an "all-boy" three-year-old (who cries when it's time to come inside), Sarah and Toby (their lovable golden retrievers), and Chelsea (an old gray cat).
In an earlier life (her early 20s), Michelle earned a degree in journalism from Georgia State University (which, to her parents' dismay, she never used -- until now) and spent a couple of wild and crazy years as an NFL cheerleader for the Atlanta Falcons. She later earned her teaching credentials from the University of Georgia and went on to receive her master's and specialist degrees in education.
Michelle's other goals and aspirations include coauthoring a children's story with her daughter Jessie, becoming a storyteller, and drinking in every moment of motherhood.
If Michelle had it her way, every parent would spend a day -- a rainy day without a recess break -- as a teacher in order to fully appreciate the demands of the job!
Other books by Michelle Robinette include:
Macs® For Teachers™ (IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.)
Mac® Multimedia For Teachers™ (IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An easy-to-use, fun, and very helpful reference.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Clarisworks Reference for Teachers (Clarisworks ""X"" Reference for Teachers) (Paperback)
Michelle Robinette, a former teacher, explains how to integrate ClarisWorks into the classroom in this easy-to-use reference book. She explains how to utilize each of ClarisWorsks six environments: word processor,database, drawing, painting, spreadsheets, and communication functions, with simple step-by-step instructions that will make your busy life as a teacher more simplified. A few of these instructions include the ability to print certificates, prepare slide shows, customize lesson plans, and create an automated gradebook. In chapter 20, Robinette shares some of her great ideas about how to put your students to work by utilizing ClarisWorks. Robinette recognizes this is a more challenging task when there is only one computer available for an entire classroom; however, she shares some of her suggestions for this all to common situation. A classroom journal, an ongoing story center, and a skill-and-drill review station are three ideas teachers working with a variety of subject areas, and grade levels can get their students to use ClarisWorks. If you are looking for a concise, fun-to-read ClarisWorks reference book, that includes wonderfully witty technology cartoons; this is the book!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I'm no "Dummy",
By A Customer
This review is from: The Clarisworks Reference for Teachers (For Dummies Series) (Paperback)
In her introduction, Michelle Robinette states that one of her goals is "to write books that serve as useful references - books that you find worthy of a spot on your desktop or beside your computer." Well. this one has a spot on a shelf near my computer, but I don't consider it a "reference". Like Ms. Robinette, I too am a teacher and something of a technology expert - at least among educators. I found the book far to elementary to be useful as a reference - but that doesn't mean that you will. What I'd like to do is pose a couple questions that might help you to decide whether this book is worth the investment, or whether a more advanced book (of the same cost) might be more appropriate.Are you a complete neophyte when it comes to computers? Or are you at least an experienced beginner? If you have only recently begun to use a computer and are still feeling your way around your Mac or PC, this is an excellent book. If you're already familiar with the basics of your Mac or PC operating system and a word processor, then you just might find Charles Rubin's =The Macintosh Bible Guide to ClarisWorks= a far better investment (even if you use a PC). Are you a Mac user or a PC user? I am in total agreement with Michelle Robinette that ClarisWorks is a simple, user-friendly, integrated suite that is exceptionally well suited to cross-platform (Mac-PC) environments. It's a perfect choice for schools which have traditionally been 'Mac shops', but are now making a sometimes painful transition to PCs. Unfortunately, the CD that comes bundled with Michelle Robinette's book is oriented mainly to Mac users. Be advised that if you are using a PC, the CD that comes with this book will be of very limited value. Are you an elementary school teacher or a secondary ed teacher? Michelle Robinette is a technology expert at an elementary school near Atlanta, and the her most useful software and lesson plan suggestions are oriented towards this population and its curriculum. Middle school teachers will still find many of her 'learning links' useful, and may be able to extrapolate appropriate lesson plans from her suggestions, but high school teachers (such as myself) will likely find them much less useful. Finally, I must take issue with one shortcut suggested in the book, namely, the suggestion to use specialized grading software. ClarisWorks offers teachers a means to master a simple, user-friendly, integrated suite that students will find very similar to the 'flagship office suites' commonly found in the workplace. Teachers should be strongly encouraged to use these applications for their own daily classroom management tasks - like attendance, grading, student and parent database, etc. I seriously doubt whether teachers who adopt Michelle Robinette's suggestion to use specialized grading software for these tasks will ever master ClarisWorks' spreadsheet and database applications and gain the necessary competence to integrate them into their curriculum. There is, after all, no need for teachers to have an integrated suite if all they use is a word processor, drawing tools, and grading software. PS On July 28, 1997 Claris announced the release of ClarisWorks Office which includes ClarisWorks 5.0.
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