8th+Grade+Computers+and+Business

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February 4-7: Introduction to unit
Class discussion of unit and creation of unit graphic organizer in MS Word Class Presentation: Graphic Organizer for students to create:

**February 8-18: Create essential business documents to demontrate your learning of Advanced Microsoft Word**
Beaver Mountain Bike Tours has hired you to update some of their business documents. They are glad to have you on their team, as written here in their welcome letter and work order. You should create a new folder on your desktop called BM Bike Tours, and this is where you will save your assignments.

Beaver Mountain Bike Tours has the following deadlines for you and other students hired into the Information Processing Department (//note that you can use Project Templates in MS Word rather than creating these from a blank document//):
 * Due: February 16,17 - Create new Letterhead
 * Due: February 18,19 - Create a Price Memo (note - don't worry about making it the simplified memo style. The important thing is to write a memo. Here is an example of a memo written by an employee of Barnes & Noble )
 * Due: February 22,23 - Create a Business Card
 * Due: March 3 - Create a Promotional Letter

Can't figure out how to do something in MS Word? Get help from: other students, Help Menu in Word, Atomic Learning (click on Resources at the RUSD Dept of Instructional Technolgy) or ask Mrs. Weiss

February 28-March 3: R.A.F.T. Writing Assignment
In our unit we have discussed the importance of good communication skills and using business documents to communicate. As your final project to show why managing business documents is important to businesses and your future, choose one of the following projects.

Option 1:  (RAFT stands for Role Audience Format and Topic)  Be sure that your RAFT will sail to maximum writing points by looking at the
 * Choose from the possible R.A.F.T. writing assignments [[file:RAFT Assignment for BusInfoMgmt.pdf]]

Option 2:


 * Create a Venn Diagram showing the relationship between Business Documents (such as business cards, memos and letterhead) and Informal forms of Communication you do with friends (such as greeting cards, IM chat, Facebook, MySpace, etc). The Venn Diagram should include 5 unique characteristics for each side, as well as 5 overlapping characteristics. You may use bullet points (rather than complete sentences) for the characteristics.

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