Tech 10: Research and Information Technology

Class Calendar: Fall 2008 (subject to change)

Unit 1: Computer Software and Graphical User Interfaces

Learning Goals:

• Identify key hardware vs software parts of a Personal Computer
• Characterize different types of software
• Use email effectively
• Navigate the Windows operating system
• Create Microsoft Word documents and document templates
• Create visually appealing word processor documents
• Analyze and display data with spreadsheets
• Identify, create, and use simple databases

Lecture Material Computers and their Operating Systems The Graphical User Interface GUI Powerpoint Quiz – Wed/Thu Aug 27/28 Software Everywhere Quiz – Mon, Sept 8 Unit Test - Wed/Thu Sept 17/18

Assignments Submitting Projects - Tue, Aug 19 Manipulating Files - Fri, Aug 22 Make Your Resume - Tue, Aug 26 Document Formatting - Fri, Aug 29 Spreadsheet - Fri, Sept 5 Pizza Database 1- Fri, Sept 12 Pizza Database 2 - Wed/Thu, Sept 17/18

Unit 2: Computing and Networking Equipment

Learning Goals:

• Demonstrate effective use of internet search engines
• Characterize the primary methods of interconnecting computers into networks
• Evaluate the quality of search engine results
• Evaluate the quality of internet websites
• Examine the Ethical and Responsible use of computers
• Characterize the role of computers in real-world careers

Lecture Material Computer Hardware Networking Equipment The Internet Unit Test

Assignments Searching the Web Evaluation of Websites Computers and Ethics Computer Careers

Unit 3: Presentation of Information using Computers

Learning Goals:

• Use computers to create and modify digital images
• Use to computers to create and modify technical drawings
• Communicate effectively using presentation manager software

Lecture Material Photoshop Tutorial PowerPoint Tutorial Visio Tutorial Unit Test

Assignments Digital Art with Photoshop Dream House Floorplan with Visio Technical Presentation with PowerPoint

Unit 4: Communicating with The World Wide Web

Learning Goals:

• Describe how documents are stored and retrieved over the World Wide Web
• Characterize the difference between a document's structure and its presentation
• Create simple webpages using HTML and WYSIWYG editors
• Communicate ideas by creating custom websites

Lecture Material HTML Basics Executable Content, Javascript Executable Content, Flash Unit Test/Final Project

Assignments Personal Web Page WYSIWYG Web Page HTML Tags Dreamweaver Custom Web Page