Do-Type Activities

This week, we are working with creating "do-type" activities.  Most of the training that I have created has been what is known as "absorb-type" activities where the learners watch a PowerPoint presentation while I instruct them in person.  I have created some practice lessons that learners have completed and sent back to me.  The first time I did this was way back in the late 1990's when I conducted a training on Microsoft Word basics.  The assignment was to edit a fairy tale that I had written and left blanks for the learner to fill in using some of the things they had learned like changing font color, size and style.  The fairy tale was about Princess Colleen, so it was really funny to read the things that people wrote.

For this week's assignment, I went to a website that I have used for years, http://www.puzzlemaker.com/.  This site gives you several options for creating puzzles, such as crosswords and word search puzzles.  It's really easy to use!  Give it a try.  I created a word search puzzle using Windows 7 terminology.  All I did was enter the words separated by commas and it created the puzzle for me.  Here it is:

C O N A O H Y R X J R W B X S 

D P J G B G S Y U H S E M P A 

Q E J V D W N M B H P I R B Y 

G R S M O P P I A A V V Q F G 

T A K D M L Y K N H C E F S F 

V T N E I Z E S Y N J R Z R P 

L I B S E S E T O N I P X T Q 

W N T Q X P L S M J A P P S Y 

X G E F H M R B E W O K J Y P 

N C U C A W T R I A D V Z S V 

P T P D S T I C K Y R Q F T Z 

A V D V Z X I G T Q F C T E O 

R A B K S A T H I R Z U H M R 

H O D F T B D X W M P I C I E 

S M T M G Z U U J Z A S A X A 

AERO

JUMPLIST

NOTES

OPERATING

PEEK

PINNING

PREVIEW

SEARCH

SHAKE

SNAP

STICKY

SYSTEM

TASKBAR

WINDOWS

Until next week...happy learning!