Curriculum
Category Computer Lab
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Walt Carlson of the Fairfax County School District sent me their curriculum guidelines for what all students should be able to do by the time they graduate. I posted it in our wiki, but I thought it was worth adding here, as well.
What graduates of the school pyramids should know about COMPUTER technology and what they should be able to do with it when they graduate:
1. How to Keyboard:
a. Learn to key at a rate of at least 30 words per minute.
b. Know and understand all of the special characters and capabilities of the standard keyboard.
2. How to use a mouse: Right click, left click, and that wheel in the middle.
3. Basic computer technology concepts and terminology.
4. How to Manage and Find Files:
a. Creating Folders and Files.
b. Finding Folders and Files Using Various Selection Criteria
c. Protecting Computer Information
5. How to perform word processing:
a. Opening and saving files
b. Moving the insert around documents.
c. Selecting text.
d. Formatting text.
e. Inserting and using tables.
f. Working with multiple document files at the same time.
g. Using a “glossary” or auto-text capability to insert text.
h. Using “Undo” and “Redo”
i. Inserting document separators and organizers.
j. Performing page layouts.
6. How to use an Internet Browser:
a. Moving around browser pages.
b. Using multiple browser applications at the same time.
c. Selecting text from browser pages.
d. Find text in browser pages.
e. Using Browser “File” capabilities
f. Managing “Bookmarks”
7. How to search the Internet:
a. Understanding the Internet
b. Ethics and Dangers of the Internet.
c. Authenticating Information Gathered on the Internet.
d. Understanding Boolean Logic
e. Using Internet Search Engines
f. Using Internet Search Directories
g. Know and Using Meta Search Capabilities
h. Search the Internet Using “Fields”
8. How to use E-mail Effectively
a. Ethics and Etiquette
b. Emoticoms
c. Maintaining an Electronic Address Book
d. Creating and Using Distribution Groups.
e. Using Listservs
f. Using Filters
9. Discussion and User Groups: How to Create and Use them
10. Moving Information Around: within applications and between them.
a. Using the Clip Board and other similar capabilities.
b. Using different applications concurrently.
11. How to get Electronic Help - Whatever you’re doing.
12. Developing Presentations and Putting Them on the Internet.
a. Creating web pages.
b. File Transfer Programs
c. Publishing and publicizing websites.
d. Creating web graphics.
13. Using Spreadsheets
14. Creating Electronic Presentations with Tools like Powerpoint.
15. The essentials of data bases: creating, maintaining, protecting, and using them.
16. The Basics of Creating Graphics on the Computer.
Bookmark :
Walt Carlson of the Fairfax County School District sent me their curriculum guidelines for what all students should be able to do by the time they graduate. I posted it in our wiki, but I thought it was worth adding here, as well.
What graduates of the school pyramids should know about COMPUTER technology and what they should be able to do with it when they graduate:
1. How to Keyboard:
a. Learn to key at a rate of at least 30 words per minute.
b. Know and understand all of the special characters and capabilities of the standard keyboard.
2. How to use a mouse: Right click, left click, and that wheel in the middle.
3. Basic computer technology concepts and terminology.
4. How to Manage and Find Files:
a. Creating Folders and Files.
b. Finding Folders and Files Using Various Selection Criteria
c. Protecting Computer Information
5. How to perform word processing:
a. Opening and saving files
b. Moving the insert around documents.
c. Selecting text.
d. Formatting text.
e. Inserting and using tables.
f. Working with multiple document files at the same time.
g. Using a “glossary” or auto-text capability to insert text.
h. Using “Undo” and “Redo”
i. Inserting document separators and organizers.
j. Performing page layouts.
6. How to use an Internet Browser:
a. Moving around browser pages.
b. Using multiple browser applications at the same time.
c. Selecting text from browser pages.
d. Find text in browser pages.
e. Using Browser “File” capabilities
f. Managing “Bookmarks”
7. How to search the Internet:
a. Understanding the Internet
b. Ethics and Dangers of the Internet.
c. Authenticating Information Gathered on the Internet.
d. Understanding Boolean Logic
e. Using Internet Search Engines
f. Using Internet Search Directories
g. Know and Using Meta Search Capabilities
h. Search the Internet Using “Fields”
8. How to use E-mail Effectively
a. Ethics and Etiquette
b. Emoticoms
c. Maintaining an Electronic Address Book
d. Creating and Using Distribution Groups.
e. Using Listservs
f. Using Filters
9. Discussion and User Groups: How to Create and Use them
10. Moving Information Around: within applications and between them.
a. Using the Clip Board and other similar capabilities.
b. Using different applications concurrently.
11. How to get Electronic Help - Whatever you’re doing.
12. Developing Presentations and Putting Them on the Internet.
a. Creating web pages.
b. File Transfer Programs
c. Publishing and publicizing websites.
d. Creating web graphics.
13. Using Spreadsheets
14. Creating Electronic Presentations with Tools like Powerpoint.
15. The essentials of data bases: creating, maintaining, protecting, and using them.
16. The Basics of Creating Graphics on the Computer.
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