• Pre-assessment, embedded evaluation, post-assessment and electronic portfolio creation

• Templates

• Handbooks

• Comprehensive final report

• 3 Graduate credits or 4.5 CEUs                          

Computer Basics

• Discuss commonly held opinions about education technology

• Describe important events in the history of educational technology

• Understand the development of the personal computer

• Understand the development of software used in education

• Define common computer terms

• Demonstrate the proper use of a computer

• Demonstrate the proper handling of a CD-ROM

• Use the mouse to click, point and drag

• Launch and exit a software application    

• Use menus, icons and buttons within a software application

• Locate information within a multimedia encyclopedia

• Print a document          

Operating Systems                                      

• Identify the components of a computer system                  

• Understand the relative storage capacity of a kilobyte, a megabyte and a gigabyte  

• Understand read-only memory (ROM) and random-access memory (RAM)  

• Identify input and output devices                           

• Launch the operating system and application software                   

• Introduce the components of the computer desktop                        

• Move and resize windows                                    

• Minimize, restore and maximize windows                          

• Customize a computer desktop through the Control Panel                          

• Organize files and folders on a hard disk drive                    

• Create and use a shortcut to an application                       

• Open, edit and save a document                          

• Format a floppy disk                                

• Transfer files from the hard disk drive to a floppy disk                     

• Create, rename and delete files and folders                       

• Understand the importance of backing up files

Internet                                

• Define terms related to the Internet                       

• Describe the history of the Internet                       

• Create and send electronic mail                           

• Read messages posted on an Internet discussion group                 

• Use an education-related chat room on the Internet                        

• Enter an address to locate a specific Web site                  

• Explore various sites on the World Wide Web                   

• Use hyperlinks in Web pages                               

• View educational resources on the World Wide Web                      

• Use a search engine to locate information on the World Wide Web                         

• Describe good search techniques                         

• Examine educational Web sites                           

• Critically evaluate a Web site

Word Processing                             

• Create a document                                  

• Open, print and save documents                          

• Change text font and size                                    

• Enter and edit text                                  

• Use the Find function                              

• Cut, copy, and paste text                                    

• Modify the alignment and line spacing of text                     

• Bold, italicize and underline text                           

• Create headers and footers                                  

• Insert footnotes                           

• Add bullets to a list                                 

• Modify a document’s margins                               

• Create a table                             

• Insert clipart images                                

• Use the Spell Check, Grammar and Thesaurus functions

Graphics                             

• Distinguish between bitmap graphics and object-oriented graphics                          

• Use graphics tools to create and modify images                

• Create shapes and lines                                      

• Change the colors of an image                             

• Create a gradient                                    

• Modify the layers of objects                                 

• Group and ungroup objects                                  

• Select and erase a portion of a graphic                 

• Rotate and flip graphics                           

• Move and resize graphics                                    

• Group and ungroup multiple graphics                    

• Create graphical text effects                                 

• Duplicate images                                    

• Insert and modify clipart                           

• Crop an image                            

• Create shadows and 3-D effects

Spreadsheets                                   

• Identify the parts of a spreadsheet                        

• Locate a cell by its column and row position                      

• Select a cell and a range of cells                          

• Enter data into a cell                               

• Modify row heights and column widths                  

• Enter a formula into a cell                                    

• Use a function within a formula                             

• Use the Fill function                                

• Insert rows and columns                                      

• Select fonts and styles                            

• Modify the number format of a cell                        

• Graph spreadsheet data using a pie chart and a column chart                     

• Format a chart              

• Add color and shading                           

• Print a spreadsheet                               

• Use absolute and relative cell references             

• Enter an If…then statement into a spreadsheet    

• Insert a header into a spreadsheet

Advanced Spreadsheets                            

• Modify the size and position of a chart                

• Use multiple sheets within a spreadsheet file                   

• Change the scale of a chart                   

• Create a graph with two X axes or two Y axes     

• Sort data within a spreadsheet               

• Modify the colors and text of a chart                   

• Analyze, interpret and chart data            

• Create formulas to calculate sums, differences and averages                    

• Create a bar, column and line chart

Educational Software Usage and Evaluation                        

• Discuss use of a computer lab versus the use of a classroom computer    

• Identify categories of educational software                       

• Describe criteria for evaluating educational software                     

• Discuss different methods for evaluating software             

• Critically evaluate an educational software application      

Desktop Publishing                                     

• Define terms related to desktop publishing                      

• Use a wizard to create a document                     

• Alter the zoom percentage of a document                       

• Create a text frame and enter text                      

• Insert clipart into a document                 

• Incorporate graphics from a multimedia encyclopedia                   

• Align objects within a document             

• Layer objects

• Add a border to a page

• Modify font, font size and style

• Move between multiple pages within a document 

• Link text frames

• Create and format a table                       

• Insert page numbers into a multi-page document

• Create and modify a picture frame

• Modify how text wraps around a graphic

Databases

• Define terms related to databases

• Create a database

• Move between records and fields

• Enter and edit information in a database  

• Change a field’s number format and data type

• Hide and reveal selected records and fields

• Locate records that match criteria

• Add fields and records

• Protect a database

• Insert and delete records           

• Use appropriate database views 

• Sort database records   

• Find and replace data    

• Merge information from a database into a word processing document

Advanced Databases                                   

• Perform a multiple-field sort                    

• Add a graphic to a database form           

• Create, format and print reports              

• Change the row height and column width of a report         

• Perform mathematical functions based on selected data

• Add borders and shading to a report

• Analyze and interpret data                     

• Perform advanced queries using and, or & not

Multimedia

• Create a linear multimedia presentation

• Insert sound and video

• Add clipart images to slides

• Animate text and objects

• Alter slide timings

• Add transitions between slides   

• Create buttons and hot spots

• Modify the background of and change the order to slides

• Create a branching multimedia presentation

• Play a multimedia presentation

Integrated Unit Design

• Complete an “open-computer” technology examination

• Discuss classroom goals

• View a sample technology-infused unit

• Practice integrating technology into a sample unit

• Review and discuss the Integrated Unit project

Integrated Unit Creation

• Share ideas for the Integrated Unit project

• Integrate technology into a thematic unit

• Generate samples of student work by using word processing, spreadsheet, database, desktop publishing and graphics applications

• Create a multimedia presentation for the Integrated Unit project

Integrated Unit Presentation

• Finish the Integrated Unit project

• Present the completed integrated units to the class

• Assess technology skills acquired throughout the course

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