Whew! It seems that the BTT test is postponed! I think that it has moved over to NEXT Wednesday, which would be the 18th. I have also chosen the book that we will review for the next episode of The Moh Joh Show: Star Wars The Force Unleashed!

Lastt BTT class, we got a final work period for making pages about the MS Word Book and adding those tutorials to the Woodbine Wiki. We added the tutorials to the Woodbine Wiki to help us study for the test on Wednesday. I made a page on the menubar Edit Basic Functions that class, and I already had a tutorial up on the wiki about the WordArt Toolbar. That makes 4 tutorials for the MS Word Guide, and 1 up for the Wiki!!!

Today in BTT01, we learned a lot of important things! First of all, there will be a test next Wednesday about Microsoft Word and Legal Rights (podcasting). A pixel is a very small blot on the screen short for Picture Element. We learned that there are different colors used for ink (cyan, magenta, and yellow), then the colors used for light or on the computer screen (red, green, blue). These six colors complement each other. For example you could get cyan by mixing green and blue together, and you could get blye by mixing cyan and magenta together. The more colors you have in light, the lighter your picture gets while the more colors you have in ink the darker your picture gets. Each color in light (red, green, and blue) can have 256 different shades or tones. So if you multiply 256 by 256 by 256, you would get around 16.7 million different color combinations! That means that each pixel has a piece of red, green, or blue in it (or none if you want a perfect color). If you wanted a perfect color, you would type in 255 for the color you wanted (because 0 is a level too) and then 0 for the other two. It is also good to note that if you put 0 for all three of your colors, you will get black. If you put 255 for all of your colors, then you will get white. If you have any equal levels in between (such as 78 for all three colors), then you will get a shade of gray. Also, colors are measured in the hexadecimal or Base 16 system. The values for this system are as follows: 1, 16, 256, 65536, etc. Since the computer would get confused if you were to write 10 in this sytem, we use the letters A-F to represent the numbers 10-15. So A stand fors 10, B stands for 11, C stands for 12, D stands for 13, E stands for 14, and F stands for 15. There is no need to have any other numbers after F, because then it becomes 16 again. The hexadecimal color is used as a code (for example 3F4B8E) for a certain color, and you can actually see the code in Adobe PhotoShop. Speaking of Adobe Photoshop, we learned how to use a neat function called the Eyedropper. This function turns your cursor into an eyedropper, from which you can see the colors used in a picture and see it's actual coding. This would be really neat to try on a scanned picture. Whew! That was a long post-Mohammad Signing Out.

Today I handed in my Basic File functions into the BTT tutorials. This tutorial is basicaly about all of the simple features and functions of File. I'm currently working on one for Basic Edit functions.

Today I was supposed to go to the library in the morning or at lunch to comlete my Mail Merge Letter. Unfortunately, I woke up a little late so I couldn't go to he library in the morning and I had student council at lunch. I also had to pick up my little sister after school. However I finished it right now at home, because I forgot that one of our computers actually had Microsoft Word 2003.

Today in BTT, Mr.Case was not here and there was a supply teacher. Anyway, there were instructions on the Wiki to create a mail merge letter. I started off and created 10 entries, each with ten fields. Unfortunately, by the time I had a chance to start my letter the period was almost over. That means that I'll have to go in the morning and at lunch in the library to finish off my letter.

Wow, I can't believe that it is Febuary already! Anyways, on the wiki I uploaded the sixth episode of The Moh Joh Show, replied in some forums, and reated a page about the Word Art Toolbar. I think that I'll be getting around to creating a page about New Window and Arrange. Another cool idea popped into my head for our MS Word Tutorial Book (Getting To Know MS Word): what if I could create a page for all of the simple functions in each of the menubar functions? This way we wouldn't have to explain functions like Cut or Copy in their tutorials, but put the very, very basic functions into just one tutorial page.