Seniors

Senior Schedule and Curriculum

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Curriculum

This year we will be building on specific skills that will increase you skill set in preparation for future careers. The curriculum is as follows:

www.mycareeressentials.org

This is a skills USA tutorial that will teach you about employability skills, such as:

  • Continuous Improvement

  • Initiative

  • Collaboration

  • Customer Service

  • Change Management

  • Career Readiness

Each grade is being assigned one of the three Career essentials courses. Sophomores will be completing the Advanced Experiences course. You will receive an enrollment key and be instructed on creating an account during the first week of school. We will be doing this tutorial each Friday morning.

Semester 1: RocketFusion

This is an exciting new addition to the program. RocketFusion is a CMS (Content Management System) designed by and used by Montague WebWorks, in Greenfield. It has been used to create over 300 websites in Western Mass. Ms. B spent time working there this summer, to learn the system and to help with a large update to the user interface of the system.

Once you learn this system, you will have a specific skill set that will be useful to have in Western MA, if you are interested in doing Web Design in the area.

We will have our own "server" that we can use to create websites using the system. We will learn how to do the following in RocketFusion:

  • Ransomware, a real life perspective (W1 - September 28)

  • What is a CMS, and what is RocketFusion? (W1)

  • Plan for your website, and pick a template (W2 - October 13)

  • Create the Website frameworks using RocketFusion (W2)

  • Upload and use images and create image categories (W3 - October 26)

  • Create your home page and Contact Page (W3)

  • Create an image gallery page (W3)

  • Carousels (W3)

  • Site Settings (W4 - November 9)

  • Creating News and FAQs (W4)

  • Selling stuff (W5 - November 23, 3 day week)

  • Delving into the CSS (W6 - December 7)

  • Create a website from scratch project (W7-W8 - Dec 21 and Jan 11, work on over vacation)

  • Present Website and Unit Exam (W8 Jan 14 and Jan 15 End of Semester 1)

  • If we have time in Semester 1 - a brief look at Lucee (aka "ColdFusion" which is what RocketFusion is written in)

Note: the order in which the lessons are taught may change.


Semester 2 - Google G Suite Certification

Google G Suite is formerly Google Apps - a growing number of companies are using Google G Suite because it is Cloud Based, Reasonably Priced, and is more up to date with current technology than other office systems. An official Google Certificate in this would be an excellent addition to your resume. This is an entirely cloud based tutorial, and covers the following:

1. Using Drive - Week 10 - January 25

  • 1.1 Managing files. Considerations include:

    • Copying

    • Moving to trash

    • Downloading to hard drive

    • Uploading from hard drive

  • 1.2 Creating and managing folders. Considerations include:

    • Moving

    • Renaming

    • Removing (moving to trash)

    • Uploading folders from hard drive

  • 1.3 Locating files. Methods include:

    • Search

    • Recent

    • Shared with me

    • Computer and device sync settings

  • 1.4 Changing display and settings. Settings include:

    • Grid or list view

    • File or folder details

    • Offline accessibility

    • Notifications (adding content, delete a file)

    • Folder activity (for example, last modified date)

  • 1.5 Sharing files and folders. Options include:

    • Add to My Drive

    • Assign or removing ownership

    • Permission settings (Off, Folders: organize, add, edit; view only; Docs: edit, comment, view)

    • Sharing notifications

    • Publish to web

2. Using Gmail - Week 11 - February 8

  • 2.1 Personalizing settings

    • Set vacation responder

    • Desktop notifications

    • Language and Display preferences

  • 2.2 Managing your inbox. Considerations include:

    • Applying filters and blocking addresses

    • Archiving messages

    • Mute

    • Multiple inboxes

  • 2.3 Managing and communicating with contacts. Considerations include:

    • Composing, replying/reply all, forwarding email messages, CCing, BCCing

    • Launching a text chat

    • Launching a video call

    • Sharing files (attaching or linking)

    • Inserting image

  • 2.4 Locating messages

    • Searching and sorting your inbox

    • Sent messages

    • Drafts

2.5 Using Gmail Offline.

3. Using Hangouts Meet - Week 12 - March 1

  • 3.1 Scheduling a Hangout
    3.2 Launching a Hangout
    3.3 Presenting your screen in a Hangout
    3.4 Managing sound, video and bandwidth. Actions include:

    • Muting microphone

    • Turning camera off

    • Reducing bandwidth

  • Managing meetings with Hangouts. Features include:

    • Dialing in

    • Inviting users

    • Hangouts chat

    • Muting other users

    • Ejecting users

4. Working in Docs - Week 13 - March 15

  • 4.1 Setting up pages. Factors include:

    • Page size, orientation, and color

    • Adding footers, headers, and page numbers

    • Adding Table of Contents

  • 4.2 Inserting non-text elements. Elements include:

    • Images

    • Tables

    • External links

    • In Doc linking

    • Bookmarks

  • 4.3 Changing text attributes. Attributes include:

    • Font

    • Font size

    • Text and highlight color

    • Bold, italic, underline

  • 4.4 Formatting text blocks. Attributes include:

    • Paragraph styles

    • Alignment

    • Line and paragraph spacing

    • Columns

    • Numbering and bullets

  • 4.5 Using content management tools. Tools include:

    • Spelling

    • Personal dictionary

  • 4.6 Inserting and editing tables. Actions include:

    • Creating/deleting tables

    • Inserting/deleting rows and columns

    • Managing table properties, such as color, border, dimensions, and alignment

  • 4.7 Collaborating and sharing in Docs. Considerations include:

    • Comments

    • Editing

    • Suggesting

    • Revision history

4.8 Download as

5. Working in Sheets - Week 14 - March 29

  • 5.1 Managing values, rows, cells, or columns. Considerations include:

    • Adding

    • Deleting

    • Freezing

    • Inserting

  • 5.2 Formatting sheets and cells. Considerations include:

    • Bolding and italicizing

    • Merging cells

    • Text wrapping

    • Fill color

    • Borders

    • Data validation

    • Alignment

    • Fonts

    • Font size

    • Date formats

    • Currency

    • Adding, deleting, copying, copy to…, and renaming sheets

  • 5.3 Inserting non-text elements. Elements include:

    • Charts

    • Images

    • Links

    • Forms

    • Drawings

  • 5.4 Using functions. Basic tools and functions include:

    • Function list

    • SUM

    • AVERAGE

    • MIN

    • MAX

    • COUNT

  • 5.5 Managing and transforming data. Considerations include:

    • Conditional formatting

    • Naming, sorting, and protecting sheets and ranges

    • Creating filters and filter views

    • Validating data

    • Protecting sheets

    • Creating and modifying charts

  • 5.6 Collaborating and sharing in Sheets. Considerations include:

    • Comments

    • Revision history

    • Download as

  • 5.7 Importing and converting from other file types. File types include:

    • .csv

    • .xls

6. Working in Slides - Week 15 - April 12

  • 6.1 Building a presentation. Considerations include:

    • Adding, copying, deleting slides

    • Apply layouts and themes

    • Presenter notes

    • Creating animations

    • Copy and paste slides and adjust to destination formatting

    • Linking slides

  • 6.2 Working with text. Factors include:

    • Inserting text blocks

    • Font

    • Font size

    • Text and highlight color

    • Bold, italic, underline

    • Setting capitalization

  • 6.3 Working with non-text elements. Actions include inserting and working with:

    • Images

    • Charts

    • Diagrams

    • Lines

    • Shapes

    • Tables

    • Slide numbers

    • Videos

  • 6.4 Arranging objects. Actions include:

    • Sending to front or back

    • Group/ungroup

    • Alignment

    • Rotation

    • Distribute

    • Snap-to guiding lines

    • Resizing

  • 6.5 Sharing a presentation. Considerations include:

    • Presenter view

    • Print settings and preview

    • Publish to web

  • Review: Week 16 - May 3

    • Practice Exam: May 7

  • Review: Week 17 - May 17

    • Real Exam: May 21


Resources

https://cloud.google.com/certification/gsuite

https://cloud.google.com/certification/guides/gsuite

https://applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/en/gsuitecertification

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU8ezI8GYqs5zUuo096bI4_FFgeWAR1ug