Course Description
Students will continue with proper keyboarding techniques spending 5-7 minutes every session working on speed drills. Students will continue building their speed on the numeric keys using the Ten-Key pad.
Areas of content will continue building on outlining, typing a bibliography, using dialogue writing, and writing reports. Students will also continue to use the word processing program “Microsoft Word” while continuing to learn how to organize their computer space by creating folders and useful filenames for easy retrieval.
Next, using the program “Microsoft Publisher” students will complete a project designing a cover page, which will later be entered into a contest to be chosen for this year’s middle school yearbook.
Afterwards, using the presentation program “Microsoft PowerPoint” students will create a larger project than in any previous classes on a topic of their choice.
Finally, using the database program “Microsoft Access” student will create a database project that contains information about their classmates to later be used to generate a second project using Publisher.
Software used:
MicroType4, Office (WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS, PUBLISHER, and POWERPOINT), and Internet Explorer.
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