| 6th Computer Enrichment |
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of topics covered during 9 weeks |
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| I. Keyboarding improvement |
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| 2. Elements of Word - Outlines, Creative
writing, Drawing toolbar, Edit, View, Insert various media |
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History of computers - time line of major events in technology |
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Elements of Excel - math symbols and order of operations, creating Excel
applications, buying and selling stocks, budgets, $ earned for odd jobs |
| 4. Power Point - Inventors, how things work |
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| 5. Internet Use - research, OPAC browser, Urls |
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| 6. Introduction to Access - creating a
database of fun info about classmates |
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| 6th Computer
Vocabulary |
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| General Terms |
Definition |
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| 1st Quiz on math problems |
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| Math Symbols |
( ),^,/,*,-,+ |
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| 2nd
Quiz is on the following |
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| 4 functions |
storge/processing/input/output - RAM, C drive, CD/CPU/keyboard,
mouse/monitor |
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| windows |
computer's operating system |
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| outline |
summry of main topics in a document or other form of communication |
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| moving cursor in outline |
tab to indent , shift and tab to unindent |
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| taskbar |
contains start button and open documents |
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| Keyboarding rules |
one speace btween words,2 space btween sentiences, no sp before
punct,1 sp after punct within sen., tab ato indent |
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| abacus |
first mechanical calculator invented by Chinese in 2600 BC |
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| Office |
group of application programs used to organize, compute, and
store date (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access) |
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| CPU |
the brain of the computer - does the processing |
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| Parts inside the computer |
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| 3rd Quiz is on the following |
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| Spreadsheet (ss) |
Columns and rows of data that do calculations |
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| Excel |
the application software that creates an uses spreadsheets |
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| 3 types of data in xls |
numbers, labels, formulas |
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| cell |
location of 1 piece of data in ss or intersection of a column letter and
row number |
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| "=c6/d6" |
Give an example of a legitimate formual (correct syntax) |
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| examples of Spreadsheet uses |
grade avg., accounts payable and accounts receiveable, budgets,
taxes, sales projections, scientific calc. |
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| binary code/binary number system |
the coding that computers understand, consists of 0s and 1s,
know as a bit (binary digit) |
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| byte |
8 bits, size requirement for 1 character on one's keyboard |
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| kilobyte (K) |
1024 bytes |
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| megabyte (MB) |
1 million bytes |
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| Gigabyte (GB) |
1 billion bytes |
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| Hi level programming language |
Comp. programming languages more like english to provide
instructions to comp. to tell it what to do. |
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| Examples of prog. Language |
Fortran, Pascal, C++ |
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Record of Keyboarding for grade - Neatness: 2, Parent
Sign.: 2, Complete: 4, Improvement: 2 |
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Power Point and Brochure graded
Participation Grade |
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| Grade
determined by avg of following: |
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| 2 Class projects graded |
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| Participation Grade |
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| Keyboarding Record - Neatness: 2, Complete: 4, Parent Sign.: 2,
Improvement: 2 |
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