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My Classroom Skills List

Responsible Use
Email Responsibilities and Use
Network Rights and Responsibilities
Internet Safety
Copyright
Web Publishing Rules
Keyboarding 20 wpm by 5th grade

Basic Operations
Open and Close Programs
Moving between 2 open programs
Open files from server
Open files from disk
Moving files
Save a file
Save as a file
Short cut keys:  crtl o, s, p, alt tab,
File Structuring
Creating and naming folders
Appropriate file naming
Drive locations
Share Access
Right click options
Adjusting window size
Finding a file
Printing a file
Trouble shooting printing errors
Shut down and restart

Keyboarding Skills
Speed - 15 wpm min.
Accuracy
Use of  home position
Shifting for caps
Spaces
Proper posture
Using other symbols

WORD
Ideas - webs, charts, fact collection sheets
Auto shapes, tables, forms,
Draft - heading, word count, page layout, and outlines, font color size and format,
Editing - track changes, spell check, word count, thesaurus, find and replace, insert and delete text, OVR
Revising - highlight tools, comments
Publishing - adding graphics insert picture, word art, headers, footers, page numbers, send to PowerPoint, creating webpages
Management Tools - mail merge, parent letters

Excel
Entering data - cell merge and alignment
Sorting data - auto filter tools
Analyzing data - functions
Displaying data - selecting graphs, labels, titles, colors
Image maps - linking information, hyperlinks, and backgrounds
eFolio data collection - setting up sheets and forms
Publishing findings - creating html charts
Management tool - tracking grades, monitoring notes, mail merge

PowerPoint
Planning
Outline from WORD
Adding text
Layers
Grouping Objects
Clip Art 
Insert Picture from file
Backgrounds
Animation
Slide transitions
Setting up a show
Sound
Layouts
Linking pages

Internet Skills
Proper clicking
Using back button
Stop button
Reload button
Figuring out where you are
Opening in new window
Simple searching
Copy and Paste
Using quick define
Saving an image

Working with Images
Scanning
Getting images from digital cameras
Image formats jpeg/gif/bmp
Resizing 
Stretching 
Drawing
Inserting images to other programs - when to save or when to use copy and paste
Getting images from digital cameras 

 

 

Successful Skills

These skills are what my students need to acquire in order to feel successful with the use of technology. I make sure I try to introduce and teach these skills as needed for the technology model and tool selected.  I try to make the teaching of these tools a seemless as possible.

 

 Off Site Resources

These are how to sites that help develop specific skills with the following programs

WORD
Memphis City Schools WORD Tutorials

EXCEL
Memphis CIty Schools Excel Tutorials

PowerPoint
Memphis City Schools PowerPoint Tutorials

PowerPoint 2002 Tutorial

PowerPoint in the Classroom
 

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