• Course overview and introduction
• Registration
• Review of class syllabus
• Discussion/Planning of instructional unit project
• Orientation to lab and operating system
• Setting goals and objectives using a template already mastered
• Planning for unit/productivity tools
• Determine level of ability using Microsoft Word
• Teach/Review word processing skills
• Create outline of unit project including goals, objectives, and timeline
• Save/print outline

• Advanced skills in word processing
• The word processor as a teacher tool
• Create templates for lesson plans
• Design Student Communication forms using form fill with a blank for a table (Unit requirements and grade sheet)
• Importing spreadsheet/data base components
• Merging (labels, address, mail merge)

• Using and constructing a database
• Creating a database as a bibliography
• Identify fields/tags
• Discuss searching for information relating to unit using multimedia reference software and online library sources.
• Create a sample database template for student activity, student template
• Create a unit bibliography with data base software
• Create reference software and Internet sites to gather information
• Create a student database template

• Charting and visualizing data in a spreadsheet/graph
• Export data, use data to create charts/graphs
• Sort data to incorporate data using formulas
• Construct a sample spreadsheet or graph as applicable to the thematic unit
• Search reference software and Internet sites to gather information
• Create table for student information form
• Create grade book page

Session 5 - Multimedia Presentation-Part I - 3 hours

• Using multimedia for instruction, identifying appropriate media

1. Printed material
2. Library
3. Video/ITV
4. CD software
5. Laser disk
• Slideshow presentation
• Begin presentation that will introduce unit to students
• Search reference software and Internet sites to gather information
• Identify new presentation needed to correlate goals objectives
• Add resources to database

• Develop Power Point presentations
• Importing graphics, sound, and animation into presentation
• Create hand printed hand outs
• Six slides saved to disk

• Software selections and hardware requirements.
• Instructional software in the content area.
• Explore various software publishing web sites
• Develop a list of possible software programs that would enhance the unit
• A hard copy of the list of possible software programs related to the unit

• Instructional software in the content area
• Ethics and technology copyrights in the school
• Preview software selections and identify subject area and corresponding IGO’s
• Evaluate software selections and create a form for evaluation
• Hard copy of software evaluation form

• Bookmark folders on an Internet browser
• Set up specific bookmark folders relating to the unit
• Use various search engines/directories to find related sites
• Copy and Paste bookmarks to word processor
• Hard copy of bookmark lists/content; save to disk the bookmarks that were created

• A parent newsletter pertaining to the unit to promote and inform
• Productivity software
• Create a parent newsletter relating information about the unit.
• Import graphics from other sources, such as the Internet, into the newsletter
• Develop editing skills
• Hard copy of the parent newsletter

• Web page design and publishing
• Applications (Lotus Notes)
• Software for Internet
• Design a web page with links that relate to the basic unit
• Share with parents or network with another school
• Save to disk the first part of the web page

• Complete web page
• Test web page with different browser tools

• Critique and evaluation
• Class evaluation