Keyboarding
Goals
- Be able to type the alphabet and common punctuation marks using touch typing skills (without looking at hands and use the correct finger for each reach).
- By end of trimester, type at least 20 wpm with 93% accuracy.
- Use proper keyboarding techniques and posture
- Increase productivity and accuracy in keyboarding.
Word
Goals
Become a productive user of a word processing program.
Formatting skills
- format paragraph - change line spacing, alignment, and use first line indent, bullets/numbering
- format page - change margins, add page number, and header/footer
- insert images and clip art; change the text wrapping
- spellcheck/grammar check
- thesaurus
- bibliography
- create hyperlinks
- create, edit and format tables/columns
Excel
Terms to know
- Column
- Row
- Cell
- Cell Address
- Spreadsheet
- Help
Features to know
· Enter data in a cell
· Format data – change to date/currency/percent
· Change column width and/or row height
· Create a formula to add or multiply ( = A1 * C1) or (=sum (A1:A6)
· Use auto fill
· Create a chart - pie, column, or line
· Add a sheet at the bottom
· Rename a sheet
· Change color of tab
Powerpoint
Internet and World Wide Web
Goals
- Internet Terms
- Search Skills
- Digital Citizenship
- Online collaboration - wikis and blogs