Making the Most of Microsoft Office or Making Globalization Good

Making the Most of Microsoft Office

Author: Jonathan Elizabeth Luxmoor

Making the Most of Microsoft office provides educators and curriculum developers with the fundamental skills and strategies necessary to become proficient users of Microsoft Office technology and to integrate it effectively into the classroom.

This book is based on Microsoft Office 2000 technology. The text addresses issues such as “word processing” versus “typing,” the importance of communication design for today's students, and how to use the correct tools to work as efficiently as possible. Applications covered in the text include Word, Power Point, Excel, and Access. The authors believe that educators should first learn basic computer skills and the “basics” of teaching and then bring both sets of skills—technology and “teaching”—to such tasks as software evaluation, lesson plans, incorporating technologies, etc. Novice users will find this book very useful while advanced users will find skill building activities in areas such as stylesheets and templates that will allow them to enhance communications to a greater degree.

Features

• Developed and field-tested for many years, this book focuses on Office 2000 but can easily be used with other versions of Office for both the Macintosh and PC.
• "Microsoft Office Menus" at the beginning of each chapter allow students to reference a printed copy of menus instead of clicking and searching.
• Provides an introduction to design principles and word processing guidelines. The text goes beyond “how to” use the software and encourages students to learn to use their computer to improve their communication when creating a variety ofdocuments.
• Points about technical aspects of Office are highlighted as Technical Notes and vertical sidebars for entries highlight important ideas for ease of reference.
• References to ISTE National Technology Standards are embedded throughout the text.
• Focuses on concepts rather than keystrokes, but includes complete instructions for using the programs with "Keystroke Quick References" in selected chapters and the appendices.
• Provides examples of ways for teachers and students to use Microsoft Office both in and out of the classroom.
• Includes many graphics that illustrate examples so that students can verify that they have taken the correct steps in completing a task.

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Book review:

Making Globalization Good: The Moral Challenges of Global Capitalism

Author: John Dunning

Gordon Brown, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph Stiglitz, Hans Kung, Shirley Williams, and a dozen other leading thinkers in international business and ethics identify the pressing moral issues which global capitalism must answer. How can we develop a global economic architecture, which is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive and sustainable over time? If global capitalism-arguably the most efficient wealth creating system currently known to man-is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent institutions (markets, governments, supranational agencies and civil society) must not only be technically competent, but also be buttressed and challenged by a strong moral ethos. The book includes contributions from leading academics, politicians, and moralists. Recognizing that solutions will not come from any one quarter, and that any serious discussion of a just and equitable system will touch on questions of ethics and faith, the book approaches the issues from a range of different disciplines and forums.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, John H. Dunning

1. The Moral Imperatives of Global Capitalism: An overview, John H. Dunning

2. Private Morality and Capitalism: Learning from the past, Deepak Lal

3. Institutions and Morality: An economist's appraisal, Alan Hamlin

4. Towards a New Paradigm of Development, Joseph Stiglitz

5. Transformation of Society: Implications for globalization, Jack N. Behrman

6. Global Social Justice: The moral responsibilities of the rich to the poor, Shirley Williams

7. The Ethical Framework of the Global Market Economy, Hans Kung

8. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: A Christian perspective, Brian Griffiths

9. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: An Islamic perspective, Khurshid Ahmad

10. Global Convenant: A Jewish perspective on globalization, Jonathan Sacks

11. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The perspective of eastern religions, David R. Loy

12. A Universal Culture of Human Rights and Freedom's Habits: Caritapolis, Michael Novak

13. On the Political Relevance of Global Civil Society, Richard Falk

14. [to be confirmed], Robert Davies

15. Governments and Supranational Agencies, Gordon Brown

16. Conclusion, John H. Dunning