
Course Overview
This course provides a foundation to understanding key applications, computing fundamentals, and online living. It is one semester with 7 units containing 48 instructional lessons and 1 project. Most lessons in this course are designed to take 1-2 days to complete, while most projects take 2-3 days.
- Unit 1: Describe technology basics including finger placement on the keyboard and the differences between hardware and software.
- Unit 2: Describe the functions of operating systems and their utilities.
- Unit 3: Identify computer networks, how they work, and computer and internet safety.
- Unit 4: Identify different communications industries and how to use email, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Unit 5: Describe how to create spreadsheets, enter data, create graphs, and use formulas and shortcuts in the spreadsheet.
- Unit 6: Identify the functions of PowerPoint, digital media, intellectual property law, workplace crimes, privacy concerns, digital citizenship, and how to stay safe on social media.
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Curriculum Content and Skills Focus
Unit 1: Technology Basics
- Review proper keyboard techniques and identify home row on the keyboard.
- Demonstrate keyboard speed, accuracy, correct finger placement through timed tests.
- Identify hardware and software types and how they work together.
- Explain how technology helps a worker be more efficient and effective.
Unit 2: Operating Systems, Utilities, and File Management
- Explain the functions of operating systems and their utilities.
- Identity and describe common operating-system utilities such as file management, security, communication, accessibility, and entertainment.
- Compare pros and cons of operating systems: Apple, Microsoft, and Linux.
- Explain how to operate a user interface.
- Create a file directory and examine file management procedures.
Unit 3: Networks and Security
- Explain what a computer network is, function, types, and benefits, of using one.
- Determine the difference between LAN, MAN, and WAN.
- Examine the characteristics of reliable and safe Internet sites.
- Identify computer storage types, their reliability, and options to protect data.
- Explain what malware is, problems caused by malware, and how to protect against it.
- Determine digital solutions to security threats.
- Identify hardware components and functions and the difference between storage and memory.
- Explain the differences between RAM and ROM and the function of a central processing unit.
- Describe repetition (looping structures in Java, how to minimize errors in looping, and how-to code and use nested loops.
Unit 4: Email and Word Processing
- Identify guidelines for effective electronic communication, including netiquette.
- Identify and describe the components of the telecommunications industry and the strategic role of telecommunications technology within the workplace.
- Send, receive, reply to, and print e-mail messages.
- Explain basic presentation techniques in PowerPoint and describe how to create a PowerPoint presentation.
- Explain the purpose and function of Microsoft Outlook.
- Explain the rules of netiquette and apply netiquette in electronic communication.
- Demonstrate how to open, save, share, and print a document and create folders for organization.
- Change text formatting of a document to include color, size, and effects.
- Format page margins, page orientation, and include columns.
- Insert and format images and a table in a document.
Unit 5: Spreadsheets and Databases
- Identify the parts of a spreadsheet and create a basic spreadsheet with data.
- Write formulas to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
- Use shortcuts to enter formulas and create spreadsheets with formulas.
- Identify the correct order of operations and errors in formulas.
- Create spreadsheets with advanced formulas.
- Select the appropriate type of graph. Create and edit a graph from data in a spreadsheet.
- List the actions a database can perform.
- List the differences and similarities between a database and a spreadsheet.
- For a specific business task, select a spreadsheet or a database based on which is more appropriate.
- Plan and build a simple database.
- Locate, sort, and update data.
- Add and delete records.
Unit 6: Digital Media and Protections
- Open PowerPoint and identify the sections of the PowerPoint window.
- Modify the views of the PowerPoint screen and configure the toolbar.
- Create, modify, and design text, animations, and transitions in presentation slides.
- Insert pictures, WordArt, and SmartArt into a presentation.
- Recognize the Insert tab as the location for accessing image formatting options and add audio and video into a slide presentation.
- Discuss the advantages of using both audio and video in communication media.
- Compare different programs for audio and video production.
- Describe five administrative positions related to audio and video production.
- Compare and contrast digital media and traditional forms of media.
- Define intellectual property rights and describe potential benefits and harmful effects related to intellectual property rights.
- Identify sources of privacy concern and identify problems related to the collection of private data through automated processes.
- Explain security measures in an office/work environment in terms of efficiency, feasibility, and ethical impacts.
- Describe digital citizenship and identify components of a digital footprint (e.g., active and passive data) and its lasting impact.
- Develop a plan to help keep you safe when using social media.
- Identify some laws that relate to social media and interaction on the web and discuss cybercrime.
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Additional Resources
In addition to the default course content, some projects may require software applications to complete the assignment.
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