Paul Revere Middle School Technology Applications

Expected Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

These are the skills, vocabulary terms, and keyboard shortcuts that you are responsible for learning and demonstrating. You may be tested over any and all items on this page at any time. If there is something here that we have not covered in your class, let me know!

S1: Grading Cycle 1 | Grading Cycle 2 | Grading Cycle 3

S2: Grading Cycle 4 | Grading Cycle 5 | Grading Cycle 6

Grading Cycle 1

• Correct keys for keyboarding, including home keys
• Be able to type without looking at the keyboard
• Keyboard shortcuts for:
  • Quitting
  • Saving
• How to copy and paste
• Our lab procedures, including the reason for each one
• Be able to locate and be familiar with the Revere Appropriate Use Policy
• How to create a simple presentation in Powerpoint
• Saving documents
  • How and where to save your work
  • When to use "Save as..." and when to use "Save"
  • The difference between Save and Open
  • How to give a file a descriptive file name, and the reason for using descriptive file names
  • How to save your work on a flash drive and safely remove a flash drive from the computer
  • How to tell the difference between files with the same name when saving, and be able to decide when a file should be replaced
• In a web browser,
  • at least one way to go back a page
  • reload or refresh a page
  • get a new tab/page
• Computer Virus vocabulary and how you might get a virus on a computer.
• Copyright
  • Vocabulary.
  • Know why we have copyright.
  • Be able to identify specific works that are in the public domain and tell why they are in the public domain.
  • Identify the Creative Commons licenses.
• Impact of Technology
  • Vocabulary

Grading Cycle 2

Grading Cycle 2 includes everything in Grading Cycle 1 plus:

• Online Research
  • at least two ways to narrow your search in a search engine
  • at least two ways to determine if a web site might be trustworthy
  • why wiki.answers.com, answers.yahoo.com, and similar web sites are not always good sources for serious research
  • why Google, Ask, Bing, and other search engines can not be cited as sources
  • all of the vocabulary terms on this page
• Impact of Technology
  • Vocabulary
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• Spreadsheets
  • Spreadsheet terms
  • how to move the contents of a cell to another cell
  • how to insert a row
  • how to sort
  • how to change the width of a column

Grading Cycle 3

Grading Cycle 3 includes everything we've done so far plus:

• Spreadsheets, how to:
  • create a simple spreadsheet from a blank document
  • put borders on cells
  • write simple formulas
  • use the SUM() and AVERAGE() functions in formulas
  • create column, line, and pie charts
• Password protecting Microsoft Office documents

Grading Cycle 4

Word Processing

• Terms
• Rules

You should know how to

• properly align text to the center or to the left
• indent properly
• change the typeface and point size
• hide/show the invisibles
• find and remove unwanted tabs, spaces, paragraph endings (the <Enter> key), and page breaks
• choose and modify styles
• use Find and Replace for words, spaces, and invisible characters such as tabs.
• change the margins
• edit headers and footers

Grading Cycle 5

Word Processing

In addition to skills covered in the 4th Grading Cycle you should know how to

• insert, resize, and control text wrap around graphics in a text document
• insert a drop cap
• insert a manual page break
• use a numbered list
• take a screen shot of the full screen or just the active window and paste it into a document