Computer Tech Lab

Units We will Study

Standards (Things you should know.)

• Perform power up and power down procedures
• Name, save and retrieve files to and from various locations
• Create backup files
• Print documents using various print options
• Proofread to produce error-free documents
• Care for storage media and computer
• Demonstrate a knowledge of ethical considerations, computer crimes, and licensing agreements
• Troubleshoot a word processing program by obtaining assistance from help screens and printed materials
• Select a network printer

Standards (Things you should know.)

• Define terms related to desktop publishing
• Identify tools in toolbars and palettes
• Apply tools in toolbars and palettes
• Use editing tools (eg. copy, cut, paste)
• Create an effective focal point
• Use text objects and associated features (eg. word wrapping, drop caps, initial caps, sizing, color, linkage, frames)
• Create a text block

The Travel Through Time Brochure project is a desktop publishing project to help you learn the fundamentals of the Microsoft Publisher software. As we move through the tools of Publisher, you and your partner will work for the Travel Through Time travel agency and create a fun travel brochure to another time chosen from the list provided. Click on the link to the left to see the requirements for this project including a timetable and grading rubrics.

Standards (Things you should know.)

• Edit graphics
• Create scanned files
• Create files from a digital camera
• Download graphics from the Internet
• Create original drawings in illustration software
• Design and create publications (i.e. newsletters, brochures)
• Explain the purpose and functions of Windows Paintbrush
• Access Paint programs and use the electronic tools to create graphic files
• Save, retrieve, and print graphic files
• Use the draw feature to create images
• Color, insert, cut, copy, and move text and drawings
• Edit graphic files

• Interpret, analyze and solve word problems
• Open a spreadsheet program
• Identify parts of a spreadsheet
• Identify major uses of spreadsheets
• Save a worksheet
• Exit a program
• Build a spreadsheet
• Demonstrate moving through a worksheet
• Go to a specific cell
• Insert row or column
• Enter text (labels)
• Enter numbers (values)
• Format a spreadsheet
• Change column width
• Change label alignment
• Specify number format
• Format the screen
• Enter formulas
  

• Enter arithmetic formulas
• Recalculate data
• Replace contents of a cell
• Erase data from a cell
• Erase a range of data
• Enter sum and average functions
• Replicate data with copy and move
• Prepare graph from data
• Print hardcopy of worksheet
• View a chart
• Save a chart with a worksheet file
• Use data from a worksheet to create a simple graph
• Print a chart document
• Create an embedded chart in a worksheet with the ChartWizard
• Print an embedded chart
• Delete an embedded chart from a worksheet
  

• Identify major uses of word processing
• Define terms related to word processing
• Create documents
• Demonstrate proficiency in basic text formatting (caps lock, bold, underline,etc.)
• Demonstrate proper usage of text entry features (deletion, hanging indent, headers and footers, etc)
• Demonstrate proper editing features (type over, move, copy, paste, etc.)
• Demonstrate ability to use spell, thesaurus and grammar check

• Proofread documents for content, format, and typographical errors
• Move (rearrange) text
• Insert text
• Rename text
• Delete text, files or records from storage
• Create headers and footers
• Insert field codes in a header row
• Add borders and shading to paragraphs