Digital Literacy 6th Grade Syllabus
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Tanglewood Middle School
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2023-24 Digital Literacy
School Year: 2023-2024
Instructor: Todd L Harrison
Course: Computer Tech 6 (1 Semester)
Room #: 609
Phone: 864-355-4512 ( I share a phone with two other facility members)
Email address: tharriso@greenville.k12.sc.us
General Course Description:
This course provides the student an opportunity to work with word processing, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentation.
Class Overview:
Computer Tech class uses school and workplace themes to introduce students to the basics of Google’s productivity apps: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drawings, and Sites.
Textbook:
Learn By Doing Google Apps 2nd Edition, B.E. Publishing 2018.
Materials Needed:
Student Chromebook
Other materials will be provided
Course Outline
Unit 1 Title: Google Drive
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Managing and Organizing Your Files
2. Sharing your First Document
Unit 2 Title: Gmail
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Managing and Organizing Your Account
2. Sending Your First Email
3. Collaborating with Gmail
Unit 3 Title: Google Docs
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Formatting and Printing a Document
2. Formatting Lists
3. Editing Basics
4. Working with Columns and Capitalization
5. Working with Tables and Links
6. Retrieving and Copying a Document
7. Using Shapes and Graphic Tools
8. Formatting and Organizing Text
9. Translating a Document
10. Collaborating with Docs
Unit 4 Title: Google Sheets
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Creating and Formatting a Spreadsheet
2. Using Spreadsheets to Calculate Data
3. Using formulas
4. Working with Hyperlinks
5. Creating Pie, Column, and Bar Charts
6. Creating a Line Chart
7. Collaborating with Sheets
Unit 5 Title: Google Slides
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Formatting Text and Images
2. Using Shapes
3. Working with Imagines
4. Preparing to Present
5. Collaborating with Slides
Unit 6 Title: Google Forms
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Creating and Sending a Form
2. Viewing Responses and Data
3. Customizing a Form
4. Collaborating with Forms
Unit 7 Title: Google Drawings
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Drawing with Basic Tools
2. Arranging Objects and Inserting Images
3. Using More Drawings Tools
4. Collaborating with Drawings
Unit 8 Title: Google Sites
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Creating a Site
2. Formatting a Site
3. Collaborating with Sites
Unit 9 Title: Saftey
Anticipated Begin and End Dates: approximately 2 weeks
Specific Outcomes (Objectives/Standards):
1. Identify major causes of work-related accidents in offices.
2. Describe the threats to a computer network, methods of avoiding attacks, and options in dealing with virus attacks.
3. Identify potential abuse and unethical uses of computers and networks.
4. Explain the consequences of illegal, social, and unethical uses of information technologies (e.g., piracy; illegal downloading; licensing infringement; inappropriate uses of software, hardware, and mobile devices).
5. Differentiate between freeware, shareware, and public domain software copyrights.
6. Discuss computer crimes, terms of use, and legal issues such as copyright laws, fair use laws, and ethics pertaining to scanned and downloaded clip art images, photographs, documents, video, recorded sounds and music, trademarks, and other elements for use in Web publications.
7. Identify netiquette including the use of e-mail, social networking, blogs, texting, and chatting.
8. Describe ethical and legal practices in business professions such as safeguarding the confidentiality of business-related information.
Materials Needed:
All materials will be provided
Grading Policy and Assessments:
A = 90-100
B = 80-89
C = 70-79
D = 60-69
F = 0-59
Quarter Grading:
Major Assessments: 50% (minimum 3-4)
Minor Assessments: 50% (minimum 12)
Major assessments will consist of:
Demonstration Assessment
Unit Tests
Minor assessments will consist of:
Daily Assignments
Attendance Policy:
Please review the Student Handbook for details.
What to do if you miss a class:
The student needs to plan with the teacher to make-up their missed work. All of your assignments are located in your Google Classroom.