Baby Steps for Beginners

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Baby Steps for Beginners

• QSITE Warming to Technology
• September 2000

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Classroom Applications
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Skills
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Skills cont...
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Applications

• Word
• timetables
• checklists
• letterheads/fax coversheet
• editing/ proof reading-spelling, punctuation
  grammar
• report cards
• Power Point
• Sose and Science report presentations
• Talking books

• English
• Computers can enhance all students potential to
  use language, to increase their capacities to
  think, express ideas, make decisions and
  communicate.
• word processing and desktop publishing
• adventures and simulations
• computers and society

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Samples
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Curriculum Applications

• Excel
• Data and statistics
• graphing
• report cards
• Front Page
• Web Publishing
• www.kelsoss.qld.edu.au
• Image Composer
• Design pictures and animations for web pages

• Publisher
• Wizards for
• fliers/ brochures
• business cards
• Simple web pages
• school/class newsletters newspapers

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Curriculum Applications

• LOTE
• solve problems relating to language tasks
  dictionaries
• practise acquiring language skills tutorials,
  grammatical drills
• redraft text and analyse language word
  processing
• design and print real life applications menus,
  cards, business letters, street signs
• aid communication national and international
  computer mediated links with schools using
  electronic mail
• provide extension activities foreign language
  versions of simulations, adventure and problem
  solving games, e.g. Where in the World is Carmen
  San Diego?

• SOSE
• research skills
• databases
• spreadsheets incorporating graphing
• simulations and adventure games
• critically evaluating computer mediated
  information
• social implications of technological change
• computer mediated communications

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Curriculum Applications

• Art
• The use of computers in art provides tools that
  allow students to create, solve problems and
  express themselves in an open-ended flexible way.
  Art software programs can be used as a practical
  medium to assist in the development, manipulation
  and enhancement of images and as a medium for
  making works of art. Understanding visual arts
  concepts such as
• layout and composition
• tone and value graduation
• colour relationships
• perspective
• pattern making
• three dimensional construction
• tonal patterns

• Mathematics
• impacts of computers on every day life
• spreadsheets and graphing
• construct numerical formulas
• collect and analyse information
• manipulate plane and solid shapes
• enhance logical thought and sequencing.

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Suggested Activities for Students and Teachers

• Lower Primary
• publish information in text and simple images
• investigate how to operated information
  technologies
• Consider how information can be stored by a
  variety of means
• Control simple systems

• Upper Primary
• Record, sort, interpret transfer and transform
  information by different means.
• Program devices to perform functions
• Undertake searches for information
• Investigate systems used to transmit
  information.

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Software

• Generic
• Microsoft Enterprise Agreement
• Word, Power Point, Excel, Access,
  Publisher, Front Page Image Composer

• Specific
• Carmen SanDiego
• Typing Tutor
• Numeracy Enrichment- Maths Made Easy
• Literacy Enrichment- Instant Readers, Phonics
  Alive
• Ausiesoft- Crossword Genius- spelling and
  dictionary