Lesson 5

Getting Started (Intro to Basic eActivity Manipulations, continued)

Most of this lesson will be hands on. eActivity is a great application because there is so much you can do, and you can save your work.

But, before you begin, please open the System application from the main Menu (you may need to scroll down). Click the button and select Regular for the font type if it is not ready selected.

This “Select your font set” feature makes it easier to see math and text on the handheld ClassPad but is not really needed on the PC. On the PC, we can make the ClassPad Manager larger by right clicking on it and selecting LCD or zoom x2 (if we want to).

Part I

In this part, you will learn the difference between a text line and math line. We will also practice drag & drop and copy & paste.

1. Entering Text

When you click inside eActivity and the shows, the line you are on is a text line. This means that when you press EXE nothing happens.

2. Entering Math

When you click inside eActivity and the shows, the line you are on is a math line. This means that when you press EXE something will happen!

3. Text, Math and Drag & Drop

Now, we will evaluate our expression for different values of a, labeling each as we go.

4. Text, Math and Drag & Drop (continued)

Part I


Practice Exercises

Before beginning the practice exercises, open a word document, type in the following information and then save it as Lesson5 in your CASIO folder within My Documents:

  • Date: (enter today's date)
  • To: (put your instructor's name here)
  • From: (put your name here)
  • Re: Lesson 5
  1. Please open the eActivity application and clear the window.
  2. Type in your favorite type of food and make it bold.
  3. Get a screen capture and paste it into your Lesson5 document (under a title of PART I).
  4. On the next line, evaluate: 4.99+18.05-3.95.
  5. Drag the result to the next line, add 5, and then display the output as a decimal.
  6. Get a screen capture. Add two blank spaces following the first screen capture and paste this one.
  7. Change your next input line to a text line and input “This is fun stuff.” Press EXE or Enter.
  8. Select “This is fun stuff.” and drag it to the next line.
  9. Select one word in the sentence and drag it to another location in the sentence. Notice what happens.
  10. Get a screen capture. Add two blank spaces following the second screen capture and paste this one. Thank you.