ComputerApplications is a one semester course. This course emphasizes learning the keyboard, formatting documents, use of automatic features, use of edit functions, and producing error free documents. One semester Computer Applications or equivalent. Students will be required to provide own data disk. Part of the first semester will be devoted to word processing as a continuation of the semester Computer Applications class.
Further emphasis is placed on skill development.
This course will include such topics as terminology, information processing concepts, keyboarding original documents on files, storing files, retrieving files, work procedures and software applications in word processing, data base and spreadsheet. Students will be working primarily with template diskettes. The remainder of the year will be devoted to desktop publishing using PageMaker. Students will learn how to turn printed copies into publications using graphics and layout design. Students will learn processing, importing and exporting graphics, using templates, linking text and graphics, formatting text, using style sheets and drawing.