Program

Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
   Year 7

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Activities

• Use of a variety of hardware and software to create interesting and informative reports including digital cameras, videos, scanners and  music.
• E-mail homework to student school e-mail accounts and work e-mailed home.
• Use of a variety of search tools to retrieve information for reports.
• Create original artwork using paint programs  - including for example merging of original images into new works.
• Preparing documents for use on sports days etc.   (eg. lists of students in teams, tables for results, draw sheets, invitations, posters and reports for newsletters).
• Help in maintenance of school hardware.
• End of year PowerPoint/ VCD presentations ofor year 7 advancement, to be burnt on CD for students to purchase in place of a year book. 
• Develop personal profiles/portfolios for year eight interviews.
• Use Word and FrontPage features effectively including at least, auto shapes, text boxes, drawing tools and tables to present information. eg Job applications, character webs and magazine covers.
• Students use PowerPoint features effectively including, timings, buttons, animations and sound.
• Use of FrontPage to create personal webs that include pages which have animations and interactive features.

Skills

Publishing Skills

A. Create and save new documents (Word / Excel / FrontPage / PowerPoint)

• Identify intended use
• Use save and save as
• Create web of pages using FrontPage 2000

B. Open, view, and print documents

• Use print preview
• Print entire file or selected parts

C. Format documents

• Justifying text
• Selecting font style & size
• Line spacing
• Indenting using tabs
• Selecting page orientation
• Setting margins
• Selecting page orientation
• Using tools provided with a program to enhance page layout
• Using headers, footers, & pagination

D. Edit text

• Cutting, copying, pasting, & deleting text
• Using spell check
• Using thesaurus
• Using find & replace feature
• Using insert/over keys

E. Use desktop publishing techniques

• Columns
• Tables
• Using graphics form a variety of sources

F. Use a word processor in real world context to:

• Type reports
• Generate letters

Fundamental Computer Skills

A. Use and understand basic computer related terms:

• Login (log-in)
• Cursor
• Edit
• Word processor
• Hardware
• Software
• Network
• Electronic mail (e-mail)
• Directory
• Copyright
• Software piracy
• License agreement
• Computer manual
• Database
• Internet
• Query
• Field
• Record
• File
• Retrieve
• Spreadsheet
• Cell
• Column
• Row
• Formula
• Telecommunication
• Multimedia
• Desktop publishing

B. Identify computer hardware components and peripheral devices:

• Keyboard & mouse
• Monitor
• Printer
• Hard drive, Floppy drive, USB Flash Drive
• Disk
• CD-ROM, DVD, Burner
• File server
• RAM

C. Care and use of hardware

• Care and use of keyboard & mouse
• Care and use of computer disks
• Care and use of CD-ROM, DVD
• Ability to log off/on independently
• Care and use of printers
• Use of special keyboard keys. (ESC, Shift, Arrow keys, Spacebar, Backspace, Delete, Enter, Alt, Ctrl)

D. Identify the functions and advantages of computer productivity software

• Word processing
• Spreadsheet
• Database
• Telecommunications

E. Use computer management skills

• Ability to access and exit software
• Ability to manage files (saving, retrieving)
• Ability to organise files
• Ability to use disk utilities (formatting, copying, deleting, creating backup, saving)

Computer Networking and Telecommunication Skills

A. Use the network by:

• Appropriate use of log-in names
• Appropriate use of network printing
• Saving files to individual home directories
• Using multiple storage drives
• Accessing information from a directory
• Sending and receiving electronic mail
• Changing e-mail passwords
• Accessing on-line information for research

Legal/Ethical Skills

A. Shows understanding of appropriate legal/ethical conduct by:

• Following the EHSS Policy regarding learning technology resources
• Respecting the privacy of all users through use of security rules outlined in EHSS Policy
• Obeying copyright laws

Information Management Skills

A. Access/retrieve information:

• Identify a need for information and identify appropriate resources
• Define search parameters
• Use of library catalogue (LAN)
• Use of commercial database
• Use of student created database
• Use of Internet

B. Information organization:

• Cite electronic sources for bibliography