March 11

Lesson 1

Introduction to Mac Operating Systems and Network Environments

Blackboard -

Fundamentals of MS Word on a Mac

Formatting Text in a word processor, Clip Art, Spelling Check, Find /Replace

HOMEWORK: FORMATTING TEXT, On-line survey

March 13

Lesson 2

Fonts, Text Frames - Creating Graphics using MS Word (Basic, auto-shapes), Tables

Internet: Common internet Terminology

HOMEWORK : Setting up a document using Text Frames

March 18

Lesson 3

Classroom Response Systems

Project Planning _ Technologies for Classroom Usage

Digital Photography - Taking Pictures, uploading images into the computer

Editing Photographs

HOMEWORK : Digital Magic

March 20

Lesson 4

Classroom Response Systems -

Design Fundamentals - Proximity, Alignment, Repetition, and Contrast

Word Graphics (Setting attributes of fill and line, Shadow, 3-D),

Other sources of Graphics (Internet, Clip Art Libraries)

HOMEWORK - Creating an Effective Flyer

March 25

Lesson 5

Warm-up activity

Creating a Fact Sheet - Columns, Linking Text Frames, Word Art

Internet - Searching the Internet -Directory Searches

HOMEWORK: Specialized Search Engines (Due: Lesson 7)

HOMEWORK: Create a Banner for Fact Sheet

HOMEWORK: Fact Sheet (Due Lesson 8)

March 27

Lesson 6

Internet - Searching the Internet -Search Engines Meta Searches

Creating Audio Clips

Importing Audio into documents

April 1

Lesson 7

Creating Effective Presentations

PowerPoint Fundamentals (Screen Snapshot)

Layout View _ Word for Mac

Internet - Specialized Search Engines

HOMEWORK: Presentation - (Due Lesson 11)

April 3

Lesson 8

Original Video, Screen Recording _ Basic video editing

Advanced Features of PowerPoint, Transitions, Animations, Smart Graphics, Word Art)

Thinking Visually

HOMEWORK: PowerPoint on Presenting Information Visually

Fact Sheet Due

April 8

Lesson 9

Advanced Features of PowerPoint _ Adding a narration, Sound and Video across slides, timing a presentation

Planning your Web Site

SeaMonkey _ Configuring SeaMonkey, Handling Text in HTML

OPTIONAL HOMEWORK:  Scoring a PowerPoint Presentation (Submitted on the Network)

April 10

Lesson 10

Recording off Television, Recording from You Tube

PowerPoint- Action Buttons

Internet - Creating a Web page - (Graphics, Backgrounds, Photographs)

April 15

Lesson 11

PowerPoint _ Printing and Saving Options, Combatibility Issues

Web Site Rubric

Internet _ Creating a New Page, Tables, Custom Layouts

HOMEWORK:  Research Curriculum Links

Presentation Due (Submitted on the network)

April 17

Lesson 12

New Technologies e-beam

Internet- Internal, external, email Hyper-linking

Inserting Word Documents in Web Pages, Text Wrap in HTML

Web Workshop

April 22

Lesson 13

New Technologies, digital microscopes

Design Checklist

Web Workshop

April 24

Lesson 14

Web Workshop

Presentations

Evaluations