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Faculty Instructional Technology Skill Sets
Operating System Skills
Beginning
/Intermediate
/Advanced
General Computer Skills /- Identify computer parts
- Use and locate a printer
- Navigate and select menu items
- Back up files to the server
- Remove viruses from a floppy disk and the hard drive
Operating System Skills
/- Log on and navigate both platforms
- Learn to use either Mac OS8 or Windows 95/98
- Begin a document on one platform and finish on the other
- Rename files
- Convert files between platforms and file types
- Learn how to use both Mac OS8 and Windows 95/98
Computer Troubleshooting
/- 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
- Clear printer jams
- Check status of printer with the print monitor
Production Skills
Word Processing Skills
/- 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
- 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
- Create a template
- Set up and use mail merge
- Integrate a spreadsheet or a chart
Database Software Skills
- Pentamation
- FileMaker Pro
- TreviAC
- Search and retrieve data
- Sort fields by specific data
- Save the database file
- Print a prepared report
- Enter and edit data in a pre-existing file
- Add new fields to a database
- Create new layouts
- Create a new database file
- 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
- 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
- Modify chart layout
- Import and export information
- Import and export data
Presentation Software
/- Open a PowerPoint file
- Create a new presentation in both slide and outline format
- Present a prepared document
- Format a presentation using a template
- Use transitions and builds
- Print handouts
- Create user notes
- Add graphics, charts and multimedia
Internet Skills
Web Skills
/- Launch Netscape
- Use hyperlinks
- Find a specific web site by typing in the URL
- Use basic search engine skills to find information
- Use bookmarks
- Download files from the Internet
- Use advanced search engine skills to find information
- Organize, import and export bookmarks
Email Skills
/- Send and receive email
- Open an attachment
- Enter setting information
- Send attachments
- Utilize features like forward and reply
- Set up signature files
- 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
/- Retrieve messages
- Send messages
- Record a greeting
- Record an extended absence greeting
- Use features such as forwarding and group distribution lists
Audio-Visual Skills
/- Be able to operate the following:
- VCR
- Overhead projector
- Photo copier
- Be able to operate classroom video equipment (Black box)
- Connect a laptop computer to the video system
- Be able to operate EPI Center equipment
Optional Additional Skills
Beginning / Intermediate / AdvancedHyperStudio
/- Open and navigate through a stack
- Understand the concepts of button, card, stack, text and home
- 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
- Add a sound to a stack
- Add a video clip to a stack
- Create an animation
Pentamation (Student records)
/- Log into Pentamation & properly exit
- Query a student’s records
- Print an individual screen
- Use the ring menu
- Query multiple student records
- Print a predefined report
- Select a printer
- Use the FastPath option
- Use Boolean operators to print a report with multiple criteria
MCL Lab Equipment
/- 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)
- 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
- Using a Response Analyzer
- Use Audio program Editor
- Use Test and Quick Test
- Use Response Retrieval with Test
- Fast erase tapes
Claris Home Page
/- 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
- 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
- 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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