Digital Foundations

DIGITAL FOUNDATIONS (BN910)

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12; 5 credits; One Year Elective

This course is designed to help students develop good techniques in keyboarding and gain a comprehensive overview of word processing. Instruction emphasizes the preparation of letters, memos, reports and other business-related documents. Upon completion, students should be able to keyboard, with accuracy, approximately 35 words per minute for five minutes. Microsoft Word is the word processing package to be used in a Windows environment. Desktop Publishing features of Word will be explored in depth. Students will be introduced to using the Internet as a research tool for other courses. Learning to copy data and graphics from the Internet for use in student documents will be addressed as well as using the net to communicate with others, both locally and globally. Advocating responsible student use of the Internet is a priority. After one year many students develop skills which enable them to obtain part-time employment. Students enrolled in this course can earn Word professional certification from Certiport, the official testing company for Microsoft and Adobe software. Both Morris Hills and Morris Knolls are Certiport Testing Centers.