Fast Forward

Windows 7 and MS Office 2007 (with MS Office 2010 Updates)

Fast Forward

Windows 7 and MS Office 2007 (with MS Office 2010 Updates)
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    The revised edition is an upgraded edition of Fast Forward, a series aimed at making the study of computer science engaging and interactive for students through a combination of interesting features.

    Fast Forward

    Fast Forward

    The revised edition is an upgraded edition of Fast Forward, a series aimed at making the study of computer science engaging and interactive for students through a combination of interesting features.

    Authors and Contributors

    Alka Sabharwal , Sangeeta Panchal

    This upgraded series is based on MS Office 2007, with Windows 7 as the operating system. The MS Office 2010 features have also been highlighted at relevant places in the MS Office chapters. Designed for students of classes 1 to 8, the series covers the basics of computers and of Internet services. The MS Office modules focus on the main software comprising MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Access. The series also takes up MSWLogo in primary and QBASIC in the middle school as an introduction to the concepts of computer programming.

    • Coursebooks
    • E-book
    • Teacher’s Manual
    • Online Resource
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    Key Features
    1. Practice Time after every major topic provides students situational exercises with their solutions to reinforce learning.
    2. Fast Forward highlights the keyboard shortcuts for commands, to help users save time while performing routine operations.
    3. Top Tip gives students useful tips on the options available for different operations.
    4. Tricky Terms at the end of a chapter lists the important terms a student comes across in the chapter along with their definitions.
    5. Memory Bytes summarizes the chapter for a quick review of all the topics in that chapter.
    6. Exercises contain a variety of questions to comprehensively test the student on the theoretical understanding of concepts.
    7. In the Lab provides situation-based practical questions that are to be tried hands-on, thus encouraging critical thinking in students and developing their ability to choose the correct commands and operations.
    8. Test Papers after every three or four chapters align with formative assessment recommendations of the NCERT and the CBSE while the Final Test Paper is a model for summative assessment.
    9. Update: MS Office 2007 highlights the important differences between the interfaces of MS Office 2003 and MS Office 2007.
    10. Appendix contains challenging Projects, a set of Practice Questions for the Cyber Olympiad, and Revision questions.
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    Teacher's Manual
    The teacher’s manual accompanying each of the coursebooks is carefully structured to provide useful support to teachers. It includes lesson plan, chapter-wise worksheets, chapter-wise test papers, Multiple Choice Questions.
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    e-book
    It is intended to assist classroom teaching. The e-book incorporates a number of interesting tools that allow teachers to highlight text, insert notes, etc. The e-book also has the complete answer key to the exercises and test papers of the coursebook.
    • Key Features

    • Teacher's Manual

    • e-book

    • 1. Practice Time after every major topic provides students situational exercises with their solutions to reinforce learning.
      2. Fast Forward highlights the keyboard shortcuts for commands, to help users save time while performing routine operations.
      3. Top Tip gives students useful tips on the options available for different operations.
      4. Tricky Terms at the end of a chapter lists the important terms a student comes across in the chapter along with their definitions.
      5. Memory Bytes summarizes the chapter for a quick review of all the topics in that chapter.
      6. Exercises contain a variety of questions to comprehensively test the student on the theoretical understanding of concepts.
      7. In the Lab provides situation-based practical questions that are to be tried hands-on, thus encouraging critical thinking in students and developing their ability to choose the correct commands and operations.
      8. Test Papers after every three or four chapters align with formative assessment recommendations of the NCERT and the CBSE while the Final Test Paper is a model for summative assessment.
      9. Update: MS Office 2007 highlights the important differences between the interfaces of MS Office 2003 and MS Office 2007.
      10. Appendix contains challenging Projects, a set of Practice Questions for the Cyber Olympiad, and Revision questions.
    • The teacher’s manual accompanying each of the coursebooks is carefully structured to provide useful support to teachers. It includes lesson plan, chapter-wise worksheets, chapter-wise test papers, Multiple Choice Questions.
    • It is intended to assist classroom teaching. The e-book incorporates a number of interesting tools that allow teachers to highlight text, insert notes, etc. The e-book also has the complete answer key to the exercises and test papers of the coursebook.

    Fast Forward includes:

    • Primary
    • Middle
  • Fast Forward

    Fast Forward

    Windows 7 and MS Office 2007 (with MS Office 2010 Updates)

    Welcome to the Fast Forward teachers site! Here you will find extra resources to help you when using {1} in your class.

    The online resources include a wide range of textbook-linked exercises like skill based worksheets, lesson plans, question bank with answer key, value-based questions, unit based assignments, practice worksheets, formative assessment ideas, open text-based assessments, project work ideas, and much more.

    You'll need your Oxford ID login details to access these resources.

    If you are not already signed in, you will be required to sign in with your Oxford ID login details or register and fill up a detailed registration form for accessing resources. Teaching resources are password protected and recommended for user teachers only. We follow a rigorous validation process for providing access. It usually takes 48 hours to validate these accounts. Your Institute can be contacted for verification, so please share authentic contact details and email address.

    Welcome to the Fast Forward teachers site! Here you will find extra resources to help you when using {1} in your class.

    You'll need your Oxford ID login details to access these resources.

    If you are not already signed in, you will be required to sign in with your Oxford ID login details or register and fill up a detailed registration form for accessing resources. Teaching resources are password protected and recommended for user teachers only. We follow a rigorous validation process for providing access. It usually takes 48 hours to validate these accounts. Your Institute can be contacted for verification, so please share authentic contact details and email address.