Day 3

Today we learned about using Microsoft Publisher.  We also learned a neat trick for Microsoft Word:
It generates random paragraphs (in this case, 3).

Then we had a rollicking session on Fake news:


This afternoon, we learned about some genealogy resources and I was able to find some family grave photos:






Art project progress:







And we are finishing up with Web Design!!

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