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COMPUTER SCIENCE: The SMES community is empowered by emerging technologies without boundaries, transcending traditional approaches to teaching and learning by integrating technology into established disciplines and campus life. Through a process that promotes experiential, collaborative and creative learning, we demystify the complexities often associated with technology by assuaging fears and promoting the freedom to explore. Students, faculty and staff will develop a greater capacity for problem solving, expand competencies to translate and communicate ideas through a variety of electronic tools, and engage in research and scholarship which will be applied to life-long pursuits and participation in the global community. Consequently, the Computer Technology Department seeks to impart to its students through its K-12 curriculum an enduring understanding of specific knowledge, principles, and habits of mind such as:

 Select appropriate technologies and critically examine sources

 Engage in research and problem-solving utilizing technologies applicable to each curricular area

 Learn in a collaborative community that is connected to the world at large

 Become confident in using technology to enhance the learning processes and utilize as a life long tool

 Facilitate the development of being student and teacher of life long skills

Course Description:

A hands-on approach to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.  A project-based class, the student will complete comprehensive projects throughout the semester.  The student will examine the interactions of text based and multi-media applications.  In addition to projects, the students will research alternative solutions through Internet resources.

 

REVISED 10-6-06
Week One `

Course Overview, Web Outlook,  Introduction to Microsoft Office 2003 iCheck series by Glencoe, Accessing the Data Files, Word Lesson One, Pages 4 - 33
Week Two

Word  Lesson 1 & 2
Week Three

Word  Lesson 2 & 3
Week Four

 

Word Lesson 3 & 4
Week Five Word Lesson 4- 5
Week Six Introduction to Excel, Lesson 1,
Week Seven

 

Excel Lesson 2
Week Eight

 

 Excel Lesson 3
Week Nine 

 

 Excel Lesson 4
Week Ten PowerPoint Lesson 1

 
Week Eleven PowerPoint Lesson 2
Week Twelve PowerPoint Lesson 3
Week Thirteen PowerPoint Lesson 4
Week Fourteen Access, Lesson 1
Week Fifteen Access, Lesson 2
Week Sixteen Independent Project
Week Seventeen Independent Project
   

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