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Technology Plan: New Brewster Teacher Competencies
General Technology Skills for all K-12 Teachers
Tool/Productivity software skills for all K-12 Teachers
Internet/Information Research Skills
Graphics/Presentation/Multimedia Skills
General Technology Skills for all K-12 Teachers
Level I |
- Understand how to start up and shut down a computer system (Windows) and peripherals
- Understand how to open, close, minimize, and maximize windows
- Start an application (using an icon, toolbar, taskbar, or from the program menu)
- Name, save, retrieve, revise a file
- Understand printing options (local vs. network)
- Insert and eject floppy disk and CD-ROM
- Copy document from hard disk to floppy disk and vice versa
- Understand how to login to a network and change password
- Understand how to login to EClass (Win School) and take attendance
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Level II |
- Create and name/rename subdirectories/folders
- Understand the physical connections of the networked computer
- Use the cut, copy, and paste functions between Windows applications
- Use right click mouse options
- Open and work with more than one application at a time
- Understand how to manage files inside subdirectories/folders (save, open, copy) using Windows Explorer
- Understand how to startup a wireless computer lab (if available)
- Understand how to save to different areas (hard disk, floppy disk, network
- Understand how to submit grades in EClass (Win School)
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Level III |
- Understand how to manage student folders
- Understand how to copy files from peripherals, such as CD-ROM, digital camera, scanners, etc
- Understand how to move computers from room to room and connect to the network
- Understand hoe to search for files on computers or network
- Understand how to setup and use the EClass grade book
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Tool/Productivity software skills for all K-12 Teachers-
Using Excel and Word
Level I |
- Understand the major uses of Microsoft Word and Excel
- Create, name, and save a new document in Word and Excel
- Understand the major areas of the screen in Word and Excel
- Format text, understanding fonts and text sizes
- Move, cut, copy, and paste information between Word and Excel
- Understand major characteristics of a database
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Level II |
- Create and modify tables in Word
- Insert clip art and picture files in Word and Excel
- Use of the Word count and readability feature
- Use drag and drop to move text· Apply bullets
- Understand how to control and use the toolbars
- Create and manage multiple documents
- Create a simple database in Excel
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Level III |
- Create graphs in Excel· Create templates in Word
- Understand Word Art· Search and replace functions
- Use headers and footers· Set tabs and margins in Word
- Use advanced functions in Excel· Sort data in Microsoft Excel
- Understand how to use Word templates to create different documents, such as a newsletter
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Internet/Information Research Skills-
Using Email and a Web browser
Level I |
- Understand the major uses of email and a web browser
- Understand the district acceptable use policy
- Navigate web sites using forward, back, and hyperlinks
- Understand how to use a search engine and online reference too
- Understand copyright laws
- Understand how to save web sites in the "favorites" folder
- Understand how to access email accounts using Microsoft Outlook and web access
- Understand how to save and print search results
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Level II |
- Know how to evaluate websites for appropriate instructional use
- Create search queries with Boolean operators (And, Or, Not)
- Understand how to manage "favorites" folders
- Send attachments in email messages
- Understand how to add Internet sources (URL's) to Word documents
- Understanding of the district filter system and the limits it places on Internet access
- Understand how to use Electric Library on-line resource
- Understand the basics of the Big6 information research skills model
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Level III |
- Understand the differences among search engines
- Understand how to manage multiple folders in email application
- Understand how to perform more complex searches using multiple Boolean operators and multiple sources
- Use additional on-line reference sites, and know the differences among them
- Understand how to use the Big6 information research model with students to access and evaluate information
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Graphics/Presentation/Multimedia Skills
Level I |
- Basic understanding of Power Point, its advantages and limitations
- Create, edit and exhibit a multi-slide presentation
- Understand to how connect a projector to a computer
- Understand how to import a graphic in a document
- Use a digital camera
- Insert clip art or picture files
- Create and format a table
- Understand what a scanner is and how it works
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Level II |
- Use graphics in PowerPoint presentation
- Understand how to use animation in PowerPoint
- Understand how to use a scanner and use scanned contents
- Understand how to use save and import digital camera images
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Level III |
- Format and change digital images
- Use sound and multimedia in presentation
- Modify graphics. (Resize, move, reshape, recolor, rotate, fill, flip, group, smooth, etc.)
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