College of Micronesia-FSM

CA 100 Kosrae DOE

Course Title Level Campus
CA 100 In-Service teachers Kosrae

Course Description

This course represents a first and possibly only contact with computers for in-service teachers working for the Kosrae Department of Education (KDOE). The teachers in the course are taking the course as part of their ongoing development and not necessarily as a part of any certificate or degre program. Several of the students have attended COMFSM and have AA degrees from the College. Some of these have taken CA 101 back when it was computer applications I. As a result this course will seek to cover more ground than only word processing.

Course Schedule and Topics

Week One: Prepare a resumé
Image of WordPad

Monday 0624 Tuesday 0625 Wednesday 0626
Introduction to Hardware

keyboard
mouse
disk drives
monitor
CPU
Printer
 Ergonomics
Home keys

Use of Notepad or TextEdit

TeXT format
Starting up
New Open Save
Save as
Print
Undo Cut Copy Paste
Delete
Select all
Time/date
Word Wrap
Search Help
Scrollbars
Text advantages
Start typing up resumé
Name
address
ed bg
work bg
education aspirations
career aspirations
 Use of WordPad/Write
Rich Text Format
Notepad functions plus...
New menus: View Insert Format
View all toolbars
Toolbars
Ruler
Font family
serif sans-serif
print versus web
Font size
Font style: italic
Font weight: bold
Font decoration: underline
Font color
Text align
Bulleted lists
Tabs
Indent
Page setup
Overtype mode
Insert mode
RTF advantages
Size issues

Stone Song Text TXT 2834
Stone Song Rich Text RTF 3366
Stone Song Web Page HTML 3933
Stone Song Word DOC 22016
 Transfer resumé and improve
Thursday 0627 Friday 0628 Saturday 0629
Introduction to Word

Notepad + Wordpad + ...

File menu

Save as
document, versions, HTML
Page setup
Properties

Edit menu

Undo and Redo
Cut Copy Paste Clear
Paste special
Find
Replace
Go to

View menu

Normal
Page layout
Toolbars
Ruler
Overtype in statusbar
Header
Footer
Creating a cover page
Horizontal centering
Vertical centering
Different first page
Breaks
Soft return/ word wrap
Hard return/ paragraph (enter)
Line feed (shift-enter)
Soft page break
Hard page break (control-enter) 		Format menu

Font
Paragraph
Alignment Spacing Line spacing Before After First line idents Hanging indents Indention
First line indents
Hanging indents
Block indents
Spacing
Widows orphans
Keep lines together
Bulleted lists
Numbered lists
Creating an outline in standard academic format

Tools menu

Spellcheck
Thesaurus
Lupanmwet... 		Quiz One

Creating an image or drawing:
Use of paint to create drawings
Toolbox
Color box
Custom colors
Status bar
Translations
Attributes
Draw opaque
Screen capture
Inserting the picture
Work on story

Week Two:
Image of Word

Monday 0701 Tuesday 0702 Wednesday 0703
Images
www.freefoto.com
Frame and text flow around images
Wrap up story work 		Insert menu

Break
Page numbers
Date and time
Symbols
Footnote
File
Thursday 0704 Friday 0705 Saturday 0706
Columns

Tables
Merging cells
Borders, backgrounds, font colors, and highlighting 		Power Out Midterm

Air conditioner out

Calculator View
Clear
arithmetic ops
reciprocal
powers
roots
pi
memory
transcendentals
inverse
base changes

Week Three:Excel
Population spreadsheet Linear regression of a run to Utwe

Monday 0708Tuesday 0709Wednesday 0710
Population table. Data entry. Basic functions: sum, average, count. Making column and pie charts. Setting up sample gradebook. Gradebook functions: sum, max, percentage. Covered, but made optional: if-then, choose.
Thursday 0711Friday 0712Saturday 0713
Linear regression: Run to Utwe Quiz Three. Wrap up Excel. Powerpoint Once Over Lightly

Week Four: Internet and Web Pages
Google Micronesia

Monday 0715Tuesday 0716Wednesday 0717
Internet: history and structure. Email
  1. Hotmail
  2. Yahoo
  3. COMFSM WebMail
  4. Email etiquette
  5. Chain letters
  6. Viruses
  7. Hoaxes
  8. Bank info hoaxes
  9. ALL CAPS
  10. Netiquette
  11. Flaming
 The World Wide Web
  1. Google
  2. Alltheweb
  3. Yahoo
  4. Altavista
  5. HotBot
  6. Search engine watch
  7. Advanced search ops
  8. Trusted sources
  9. CNN
  10. Time
  11. EB
  12. Plagiarism
  13. Copyright
  14. Ownership
  15. Ease of detection
  16. https
  17. credit card
  18. debt issues
  19. know vendor!
  20. Amazon
  21. Barnes and Noble
  22. Roadrunnersports
  23. Walmart
Doing research with the Web: Search engines
Doing research with the Web: Reliable source
Thursday 0718Friday 0719Saturday 0720
A first web page: CSS in header to control appearance, X11 colors, header, paragraphs, hyperlinks,images
<html>
<head>
<title>A Place for Shrativer</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {background:seashell; color:saddlebrown; font-family:verdana,sans-serif}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Shrativer!</h1>
<hr>
<p>I like playing with my friends Doughnut and Mouse!
<img src="sharisey.jpg">
</p>
<p><a href="http://pbskids.org/sagwa/">I like Sagwa!</a></p>
</body>
</html>
    
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