7th Computer Enrichment
Sample of topics covered during 9 weeks
I.  Keyboarding improvement
2.  Elements of Word - Create a brochure, Outlines, Tools, Table, Window, Help, Drawing toolbar, Edit, View, Insert various media
3. Paint - create original clip art in jpeg 
3. Excel applications - checkbook balancer, grocery budget, stock investments + more, graphs and charts
4.  Power Point Applications - Prewrite film/screenplay of parable studied in Religion, Profile of Company/ Stock, "I Love My Body"
5.  Internet Use Applications - Scavenge hunts, Research, What makes a good website? 
6.  Access Applications - 50 US states, the Phone Book, Objects, Queries
7.  Create 7th grade Webpage in Word - divided into 7th grade subjects
7th Computer Enrichment Vocabulary
General Terms Definition
1st Quiz covers the following: 
Windows operating system
LAN Local Area Network
4 Functions of the Computer input, output, storage, processing
CPU (Central Processing Unit) brain of the computer
Network the connection of computers so that they may use the same software and hardware
Office the group of application programs that include:  Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Wizard also known as the Office assistant, provides help & templates (pre constructed commonly used form such as business letter)
Math Symbols, Order of Operation Parentheses, Caret, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction
Internet the connection of millions of computers so that they may send and receive data (a tool that connects people to the world
2nd Quiz covers the following: 
4 things to use the Internet communication lines, modem, software, enough memory
Browser software that enables Internet use
URL the complete website address eg. http://www.aloysius.org
Internet referencing Last,First(author)."Title of page." Database. 12 Sept. 2007 (date of visit). <URL(wesite address>
Search Engine Software that allows searching the internet on specific key words
Domain  just the name of the website (aloysius.org)
html (hyper text markup language) the coding of web pages
Dreamweaver software that lets you create web pages
Hyperlink Text or graphic that when you click on it, it takes you to another website, usually changes color
World Wide Web the connection of millions of websites
http hypertext transmission protocol - the rules for transfer data by internet
Home page Website's first page
ISP Internet service provider
ftp file tranfer protocol
3rd Quiz covers the following: 
Spreadsheet (ss) Columns and rows of data that do calculations
Excel the application software that creates an uses spreadsheets
3 types of data in ss numbers, labels, formulas
cell location of 1 piece of data in ss or intersection of a column letter and row number
"=c6/d6" Give an example of a legitimate formual (correct syntax)
examples of Spreadsheet uses grade avg., accounts payable and accounts receivable, budgets, taxes, sales projections, scientific calc.
binary code/binary number system the coding that computers understand, consists of 0s and 1s, know as a bit (binary digit)
byte 8 bits, size requirement for 1 character on one's keyboard
kilobyte (K) 1024 bytes
megabyte (MB) 1 million bytes
Gigabyte (GB) 1 billion bytes
Hi level programming language Comp. programming languages more like english to provide instructions to comp. to tell it what to do.
Examples of prog. Language Fortran, Pascal, C++, Perl
database Huge collection of related data that can easily be searched, sorted and accessed
Access the application software that creates and uses databases
field location of one piece of data in a database
record a group of fields
Table, Query, Form, Report Examples of data base objects,  Query allows selection from a table or query by criteria of =, <>, >, <, <=, or >=
Examples of Databases Phone book, Internet search engines, library card catalog
Grade determined by avg of the following:
2 projects graded
Participation Grade
Keyboarding Record - Neatness: 2, Complete: 4, Parent Sign.: 2, Improvement: 2