Key Electronic Student Skills

 
  • Communication (with Outlook)
  • Organization (of files, email, favorites, calendars, to-do lists)
  • Information Fluency / Media Literacy
  • Electronic Note-Taking, Research, & Bibliographies
  • Remote Access to Files (WebFolders, USB devices, CD burning, VPN, etc)
  • Safe & Ethical Internet Use (online safety, anti-virus, ethics, IM/chat)
  • Primary Software Suite: Microsoft Office, Inspiration, & Elements
  • Navigating the Intranet & School Web Site
  • Care & Feeding of the Computer (computer interface, defragging, basic troubleshooting, audio/video, control panel settings, error messages, temp files, profile issues, etc, etc, etc)
  • Printers & Printing
  • Digital Imaging (still and video cameras)
  • Application Integration (e.g. taking a graph from Excel and putting it into a PowerPoint, taking notes from the Internet into Inspiration, and transferring to Microsoft Word)
  • Typing Skills, Dictation Software, Tablets

 

 

  1. Can you create a paper in Microsoft Word that includes text and pictures?
  2. Can you create an outline in Microsoft Word?
  3. Can you create a concept-map or outline using Inspiration?
  4. Can you put data into a spreadsheet? (Microsoft Excel)
  5. Can you create a graph using Microsoft Excel?
  6. Can you create a slide show using Microsoft PowerPoint?
  7. Can you create a web site using Microsoft FrontPage?
  8. Can you edit a picture using Adobe PhotoShop Elements?
  9. Can you create a timeline?
  10. Can you create a database?
  11. Can you burn your files onto a CD?