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Faculty Instructional Technology Skill Sets

Operating System Skills

Beginning

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Intermediate

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Advanced

General Computer Skills /
  • Identify computer parts
  • Use and locate a printer
  • Navigate and select menu items
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  • Back up files to the server
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  • Remove viruses from a floppy disk and the hard drive

Operating System Skills

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  • Log on and navigate both platforms
  • Learn to use either Mac OS8 or Windows 95/98
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  • Begin a document on one platform and finish on the other
  • Rename files
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  • Convert files between platforms and file types
  • Learn how to use both Mac OS8 and Windows 95/98

Computer Troubleshooting

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  • Check electrical and peripheral connections
  • Check keyboard and mouse cables
  • Conduct a “forced quit”
  • Restart the computer after a system crash
  • Accurately report problems to the help desk
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  • Clear printer jams
  • Check status of printer with the print monitor

Production Skills

Word Processing Skills

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  • Locate and open an existing document
  • Create an MS Word or ClarisWorks file
  • Understand and use tool bars
  • Cut, copy, insert and move text
  • Use grammar and spell check
  • Print files and adjust page setup as needed
  • Save files to multiple locations
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  • Change the formatting of a document
  • Create tables
  • Add graphics to a document
  • Use pre-existing templates
  • Save a .doc file as another file type
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  • Create a template
  • Set up and use mail merge
  • Integrate a spreadsheet or a chart

Database Software Skills
  • Pentamation
  • FileMaker Pro
  • TreviAC
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  • Search and retrieve data
  • Sort fields by specific data
  • Save the database file
  • Print a prepared report
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  • Enter and edit data in a pre-existing file
  • Add new fields to a database
  • Create new layouts
  • Create a new database file
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  • Define relationships between fields and files
  • Use calculations
  • Use summary fields
  • Set up and use mail merge

Spreadsheet Software Skills /
  • Open an Excel workbook
  • Enter and edit data in a pre-existing workbook
  • Save the workbook
  • Print a prepared report
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  • Insert, modify and delete rows and columns
  • Create or modify the layout
  • Create a range
  • Enter a formula
  • Sort data
  • Create a new worksheet
  • Create a chart
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  • Modify chart layout
  • Import and export information
  • Import and export data

Presentation Software

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  • Open a PowerPoint file
  • Create a new presentation in both slide and outline format
  • Present a prepared document
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  • Format a presentation using a template
  • Use transitions and builds
  • Print handouts
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  • Create user notes
  • Add graphics, charts and multimedia

Internet Skills

Web Skills

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  • Launch Netscape
  • Use hyperlinks
  • Find a specific web site by typing in the URL
  • Use basic search engine skills to find information
  • Use bookmarks
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  • Download files from the Internet
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  • Use advanced search engine skills to find information
  • Organize, import and export bookmarks

Email Skills

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  • Send and receive email
  • Open an attachment
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  • Enter setting information
  • Send attachments
  • Utilize features like forward and reply
  • Set up signature files
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  • Utilize address book and create distribution lists
  • Create alternate mail folders and use filters
  • Subscribe to and participate in listserv discussion groups

Miscellaneous Skills

Voice Mail Skills

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  • Retrieve messages
  • Send messages
  • Record a greeting
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  • Record an extended absence greeting
  • Use features such as forwarding and group distribution lists

Audio-Visual Skills

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  • Be able to operate the following:
  • VCR
  • Overhead projector
  • Photo copier
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  • Be able to operate classroom video equipment (Black box)
  • Connect a laptop computer to the video system
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  • Be able to operate EPI Center equipment

Optional Additional Skills

Beginning / Intermediate / Advanced

HyperStudio

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  • Open and navigate through a stack
  • Understand the concepts of button, card, stack, text and home
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  • Create a new stack
  • Add cards to an existing stack
  • Add functional buttons
  • Add text and graphics (both paint and draw) objects
  • Transport a stack between platforms
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  • Add a sound to a stack
  • Add a video clip to a stack
  • Create an animation

Pentamation (Student records)

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  • Log into Pentamation & properly exit
  • Query a student’s records
  • Print an individual screen
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  • Use the ring menu
  • Query multiple student records
  • Print a predefined report
  • Select a printer
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  • Use the FastPath option
  • Use Boolean operators to print a report with multiple criteria

MCL Lab Equipment

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  • Starting the system and identify parts of the teacher’s position (ASC DI 8 Console)
  • Use and locate Master PC, VCR, LaserDisk and Vizcam
  • Knowledge of the operation software (The Main Screen, The Menu)
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  • Create, save and load a new class file
  • Enter and modify students’ names to a class list
  • Create , save and load group files
  • Assign sources to program groups
  • Communicate with a single student, group of students or with a conference group
  • Use pairing, conference mode, and telephone mode
  • Monitor students and remote control over their recorders and computers
  • Select a student as a model voice
  • Load a program audio or video tape , CD, laser disc or CD-ROM
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  • Using a Response Analyzer
  • Use Audio program Editor
  • Use Test and Quick Test
  • Use Response Retrieval with Test
  • Fast erase tapes

Claris Home Page

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  • Working in a Claris Home Page document
  • Opening HTML files
  • Using Edit Page mode
  • Cutting, copying, and pasting
  • Using the toolbars and palettes
  • Using the object and link editors
  • Resizing elements using the mouse
  • Previewing your work
  • Using Preview Page mode and previewing your Web page in a browser
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  • Adding extra HTML to your page
  • Using Edit HTML Source mode
  • Changing the text display in Edit HTML Source mode
  • Adding attributes to an element
  • Adding images to your Web page
  • Adding HTML to text
  • Adding HTML to the document tags
  • Setting the color and background of your Web page
  • Using an image for the background
  • Printing your Web page
  • Using the Site Editor
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  • Adding text to your Web page
  • Adding tables to your Web page
  • Using Claris Home Page libraries
  • Creating links and anchors
  • Adding frames to your Web page
  • Adding forms to your Web page
  • Connecting to a FileMaker Pro database
  • Adding multimedia to your Web page

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