We require a =BD credit Computer Applications course to fulfill =
graduation requirements. Our students have demonstrated proficiency for =
the majority of the NETS standards by the completion of 8th grade so we =
don't focus on many of the basic skills in US. The purpose of the =
Applications course is to verify that our students are technologically =
proficient for the types of assignments that our US teachers will assign =
during the course of the year since we are a 1:1 school. Units must be =
continually revised depending on the technologies available. It seems =
like we have had to revise much more the past few years because our =
teachers continually find great new tools that they want to integrate. =
We try to do as much as possible in the Computer Applications course to =
save class time. Typical project based units include: Personal =
productivity (One Note, Google Docs, Outlook, etc), Computer Maintenance =
(backing up, setting up wireless, etc), Internet Safety, Programming (we =
have used Alice for the past 5 years), Website design, Photo and Video =
Editing, Web 2.0 skills (wiki's, blogs, Glogster, etc.), Digital =
Literacy, and we do still include some of the advanced functionalities =
of Office. =20
Good luck,
Connie
Connie White
Director of Technology & Media
Lakeview Academy
Gainesville, Georgia 30501
770-531-2605
________________________________
From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Duff, Carole
Sent: Fri 9/25/2009 7:44 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Computer Science and Technology Courses
Good morning!
Does your upper school curriculum include technology and/or computer
science as a graduation requirement? If so, what classes fulfill that
requirement?
Thanks!
-C.D.
Carole Duff
Curriculum Technologist
Notre Dame Preparatory School
815 Hampton Lane
Towson, MD. 21286
410-825-6202 ext. 1022
[ For info on ISED-L see http://www.gds.org/ISED-L ]
Submissions to ISED-L are released under a creative commons, =
attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license.
RSS Feed, http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?RSS&L=3DISED-L
[ For info on ISED-L see http://www.gds.org/ISED-L ]
Submissions to ISED-L are released under a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license.
RSS Feed, http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?RSS&L=3DISED-L
