Term 3 Basic Spreadsheets

Next week students will be learning how to use Microsoft Excel to create and manipulate spreadsheets.  These can be used at school, home or at work.  We will start off with basics to the program, then will work through how to utilize formulas, functions, charts, and filters.  We will then be able to utilize spreadsheets to analyze and interpret various forms of data.  Below are a few basic tutorials that we will use to get started.

Introduction to Formulas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_e0EOy1Ydo

Introduction to Functions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&v=yZvrHvspMok&x-yt-ts=1421914688

Introduction to Fill Button
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=8cHeQTgcz3k

Introduction to Charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPf8cPP2CJw&x-yt-ts

Info Tech 1 Information Literacy Cyber Citizenship

This week, students are learning how to use technology in ways that help them instead of hurting their futures.  The topics will include digital/information literacy, social media, cyber bullying, online safety, and digital footprint.  At the conclusion of the unit, students will create a product that promotes awareness about information literacy and cyber citizenship.  Below are some tools that we will be learning about this week.

Info Tech 2 Spreadsheets

We have finished up our video-editing activity, so students will know how to create video tutorials to demonstrate skills from class this term.  We are now learning advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2013.  As we have finished with the review of Excel basics, students are now working with formulas, functions, absolute value, and nested if/then statements.  As we continue to progress through our work, students will be preparing to take the MOS Microsoft Certification Exam for Microsoft Excel.  This will serve as our test grade for the unit.  The second half of our grade for this unit will come from created video tutorials demonstrating what they learned about this program.

Info Tech 1 Word Processing/Business Letters

What a great group of kids in 1st period info tech class!  Students have been hard at work from the beginning!  We finished up our technology timeline project, then have moved on to word processing.  Students are learning various features of Microsoft Word 2013, while learning how to create professional business communication documents.  We are finishing up the business letter section by making cover letters for job applications.  Students will then get some experience using cloud computing to collaboratively work on a document using their Google Drive accounts.  At the conclusion of word processing, students will have the opportunity to prepare and take the MOS Microsoft Certification test for Microsoft Word.

Welcome 2016!

I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday break and is rested for a full term of technology!  Info Tech 1 students will be introduced to rules/procedures for class, then will get an introduction to the field of information technology.  After these first activities, we will move on to word processing and become familiar with Microsoft Office 2013.  Students interested will have the opportunity to earn their MOS Microsoft Certification for Microsoft Word, which makes theses students extremely marketable as it is a skill widely recognized by many employers.

Information Technology 2 students will become familiar with rules and procedures for class, then will work right away on a video editing project.  The project serves as a way to meet their class-mates, as well as help them to become familiar with software we will be using to create our video tutorials throughout the term.

I'm excited to get this term started and meet these new classes!