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Computers for Beginners!
This is a trimester course (about 12 weeks) and part of the exploratory electives at Eich School. Both 7th and 8th graders are enrolled. We will be using Imacs for our computer lessons.
Computer Lab Contract / Introduction to Computers / Keyboarding / Lessons & Projects / Sound and Movie Files / Clip Art / Blog Using the Internet / Teacher Notes / Trouble Shooting Tutorials: General Computer / Microsoft Office / Imac / Appleworks / PowerPoint / Creating a Web Site Finish your work? Go to Fun and Games
The Curriculum:
This is the plan
1. Keyboarding: Let's work up to 25 words per minute, using the home keys.
2. Computer terms: Identify the parts of the computer
3. Imac tutorial: for those who are new to Mac
4. MS Office 2001: In this program we will learn to use the following applications...Word Processing
Spreadsheet
Drawing
Learning to use a presentation tool: Power Point5. Mastering Internet Skills
Exploring Search Engines
Evaluating web sites
Homework: There will not be much homework assigned for the computer, since not all students have access to a computer or the internet at home. Students who do have a computer and internet at home can work or develop their projects at home. However, students will not be allowed to bring disks from home.
Grading policy: Grades will be based on points earned system. Grades will be based on work completed.
What to bring: Students should always bring their binders with paper and pen or pencil.
Computer Lab Contract I Will.....
1. Refrain from using the computer until the teacher instructs me to use the computer.
2. Refrain from printing until the teacher gives permission.
3. Refrain from calling out for help from the teacher. Instead I will raise my hand or write my name on the board for assistance.
4. Keep the security on the computer unless the teacher turns it off for you.
5. Refrain from placing screen savers of any kind on the computer.
6. Refrain from changing the desktop or adding anything to the desktop.
7. Refrain from adding software to the computer.
8. Inform the teacher immediately after discovering any damage to the computer.
(Failure to do this will hold the student responsible for the damage).9. Refrain from entering any sites unrelated to the assignment at hand.
10. Refrain from saving any information unrelated to the assignment at hand.
11. Refrain from swapping or exchanging computer parts.
12. Refrain from restarting the computers until I check with the teacher.
Failure to comply with the expectations will result in the following consequences:
1. First offense will result in loss of computer use for length of time depending on seriousness of infraction.
2. Second offense will result in a telephone conference with parents, a conference with the teacher, detention, and loss of computer use.
3. Third offense will result in loss of computer privileges and loss of credit for the current assignment and possible dismissal from class.
Introduction to Computers / Parts of the Computers
Tech Bytes: http://www.tech-bytes.com/essentials.htm
Computer Introduction: resources and web sites
Tonya Skinner's Business ed.: Resources
Templates / Charts and posters
Computer Lessons / ProjectsA Section
1. Travel Brochure: Travel with Excite.com
2. Wild Kingdom Project: Junglewalk.com
4. Language Translation
5. Evaluate these sites:
6. Planets and Weights
Scavenger hunts: http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.html
Email for Students
B Section
Bugs
Animal and Insect Movies
Buying a Car
- CarPayment
- Calculator
- Car Loan Calculator
- Are you done? Here's a car game!
Web Site Evaluation
Social Studies Activity: Get a Chinese Name
Newscast of the decades: American Cultural History: the 20th Century
Make sure you finished your work before you play any online game.
Do not download any Shockwave program. You will freeze your computer and not be able to play anymore games.Who wants to be a Millionaire?
Bored? Try Bored.com
History of the Internet by PBS
Ithaca.edu: evaluating the source and lessons
AT &T: Guide to the Internet
Gorospe's Guide to Search Engines
Copyright and Fair Use
TUTORIALS Online Practice Modules- Self-paced versions of courses for Claris HomePage, Excel, Word, Microsoft Works, PowerPoint, etc. (Memphis City School)
Lycos: many topics
Compukiss.com: Different subjects
CNS: macs and pcs
Never used an Imac before? Need help? Best place to go is on the Mac itself. On the menu bar click on "help" and select "Mac help". Choose the topic "Basics".
University of Cambridge: Introduction to Apple
IMC technology: prevention and trouble shooting
Shoreline Public Schools
Lycos How to SiteFloydCalderwood.com: Appleworks Skillsheets
O'Hara's resources: Helpful sites
Alpine School district: Simple and easy tutorial for students
Jordan School district: another great easy tutorial
Los Gatos School district: Appleworks resources and tutorials
Tosa Web: resources
Powerpoint Tutorials
http://www.actden.com/pp/
http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html
http://www.orst.edu/instruction/ed596/ppoint/pphome.htmPowerPoint Templates (downloads)
To upload your website you need a server, like Tripod.com, to host your site.
You also need an ftp program to upload your site to the server.
Tutorial: Using Netscape Composer
http://home.netscape.com/browsers/using/newusers/composer/Peach Boys.com tutorial on creating a web site
Register for your free host, Tripod.com: https://www.tripod.com/
Ftp program for Macs: Fetch
Download and tutorial: http://www-ed.fnal.gov/lincon/tech_ftp_fetch.shtmlFtp program for PC's: CuteFtp
Download: CuteFtp
Tutorial: http://www.iinet.net.au/help/beginners/cuteftp.htmlInstant Web Pages with Templates
Want to make an instant web page? Try GeoCities. It's real easy!
Check out Gorospe on GeoCitiesRemember...only appropriate sounds. Do not click on any site you suspect is inappropriate. Be Smart...
3D Cafe(This is a great site to begin with.)
Movie sounds
Midi Files
Animal and Insect Movies
Insert three movies and a sound with each...Animal Archive and Animal Sounds
Cinenet: (type in "animals" or "insects" in the search engine)
Photos: http://www.ditto.com/
Altavista search for images
History Images: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
History clip art: http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/FunHistory.html
School clipart
http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip
http://awesomeclipartforkids.com
http://www.pics4learning.com
http://classroomclipart.com
http://www.disneyclipart.com
Animations
General Use
Clipart Universe
Clip Art Connection
Barry's Clip Art
AAAclipart.comFonts
Flaming Text.com
Great place for font creations: coolarchive.com/Lines, Bars, Separators
Icon Bazaar
Silicon Valley
Ender Design
Cool Archive
Eosdev.com
OLA: Integrate the Internet
ERIC: Education Technology
McGraw Hill: Integrating Technology
SchoolWebClub.edu: Creating a School Web Site
Teach-nology: A collection of lessons
Media-awarenes: resources
Educ/Tech Connection: resources
DMOZ: resources
EducationWorld.com: resources
Open Learning: Integrating the Internet
LPP: lessons
Trouble Shooting and Questions
For technology questions try these sites
http://www.smartcomputing.com/
http://www.machelpdesk.com
http://www.macfixit.com
Projects to do with MS Office
Apply special effects to text to enhance a document.
Print two pages on a single sheet of paper.
Control a music CD during a slide show.
Save your own drawings as picture files to be used in other Office documents.
Internet 4 Classrooms: Collection of tutorials
Using Excel:
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Blog Sites