Week 1

• INTRODUCTION/CLASSROOM PROCEDURES
• ELECTRONIC MAIL
• OVERVIEW OF COURSE SOFTWARE
• Windows 95, 98, NT Workstation
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Access
• Publisher
• INTERNET BROWSERS-NETSCAPE/EXPLORE
• Evaluating World Wide Web Information
• TWA flight 800
• ETHICS IN TECHNOLOGY

Week 2

• NT WORKSTATION/ 2000

Weeks 3 & 4

• INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSING BASICS--WORD 2000
• BASIC EDITTING
• BASIC FORMATTING
• Letters
• Reports
• Memos
• Title page
• INTERMEDIATE FORMATTING
• Paragraph Indents and Margins
• Special paragraph Settings
• Columns, Tables, Watermarks
• ADVANCED EDITTING
• Reformatting Margins and Indents
• Adding Graphics and Charts
• Headers and Footers
• Hyperlinks and Bookmarks
• Footnotes, Bibliography

Weeks 5, 6, & 7

• INTRODUCTION TO SPREADSHEET BASICS--EXCEL 2000
• Values, Labels, Cells, Formulas, Functions, etc.
• CREATING BASIC SPREADSHEETS
• ENTERING FORMULAS
• ADVANCED FUNCTIONS
• IF Functions
• LOOKUP Tables
• FV, PMT
• CREATING CHARTS
• PROJECTS

Weeks 8, 9, & 10

• INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT
• Editing, Formatting, Printing, Objects, WordArt, Clip Art and Slide Shows
• Slide Outlines, Charts and Tables, Organizational Charts, Multimedia Elements, Color Schemes and Templates, Animation, and Linking
• PRESENTATIONS/ BASIC GUIDELINES/ XAP SHOT/ SCANNER/ VIDEO CAPTURE
• PRESENTATION OF MATERIAL FROM AN ACADEMIC CURRICULUM AREA
• USING PERPHERIALS-XAP SHOT CAMERA, SOUND, SCANNER, VIDEO CAMERA

Weeks 11, 12, & 13

• INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS 2000
• DATABASE TERMINOLOGY
• Tables, Records, Fields, Query, Reports, Macros
• CREATING A TABLE
• ENTERING DATA
• SORTING DATA
• SELECTING DATA
• Creating Forms
• Creating Database Reports
• MACRO GAME/ PRESENTATION

Weeks 14 & 15

• INTEGRATION OF APPLICATIONS
• WORD PROCESSING AND DATABASE FORM LETTERS
• WORD PROCESSING AND SPREADSHEETS, CHARTS, AND DATABASE
• WORD PROCESSING AND INTERNET DATA AND GRAPHICS

Week 16

• INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT PUBLISHER
• DESKTOP PUBLISHING TERMINOLOGY
• WORKING WITH OBJECTS
• LAYERING
• PAGE LAYOUT
• NEWSLETTER PROJECT

Week 17

• INTERNET TERMINOLGOY
• SEARCH ENGINES/ PROS & CONS
• DATA SEARCHES ON THE INTERNET (Authenticity) SHORTCUTS
• PRIMARY RESOURCES vs. SECONDARY RESOURCES
• INTERNET PROJECT

Week 18

• TESTING AND FINAL EXHIBITIONS