Microsoft Word
A User-Friendly Writing Tool that Supports Language and Learning Skills
Create professional-looking articles, papers, and essays using Microsoft Office Word 2003. This familiar and easy-to-use writing tool has unlimited uses across all subjects, helping teachers and students to generate legible, clear documents for revision and sharing. Writing assignments has never been easier. Using Word for projects and lessons, students can be more creative with language, and develop their writing skills. Word gives them greater control of their written work, and helps them to check and amend their spelling, and deliver polished assignments. Teachers can use Word to make changes and correct students’ projects. You can make amendments and add comments and explanations to documents to help students improve their literacy and technique. It is also easy to write up course guidelines and adapt them to different subjects, or create templates for letters or reports. Word integrates with many other products in the Microsoft Learning Suite. You can share or distribute Word documents to colleagues or students using e-mail in Microsoft Office Outlook. It is easy to convert information in Word into Excel spreadsheets, or embed research-based links from Encarta into project information for students. Useful LinksJennie Sloan of Woodford County Schools offers some great suggestions for getting students to practice basic Word skills. Learn how schoolchildren in the U.K. France, and Italy used Microsoft applications to create rich media e-mails to send to pen-pals, and give presentations at the end of the project. Visit the Word homepage for more information and support resources. |  Learning Suite products for schools
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