Goals & Objectives: HS Tech Lab
Lab Topics:
- Organizing and maintaining digital files
- Comply with Lake Michigan Academy's Acceptable Use Policy related to ethical use, cyberbullying, privacy, plagiarism, spam, viruses, hacking, and file sharing.
- Create and name folders and subfolders in, both in Google Drive and through their operating system.
- Share folders and files with others.
- Change the color of a folder in Google Drive.
- Understand the purpose of the "star" feature in Google Drive.
- Digital Citizenship
- Explain Fair Use guidelines for using copyrighted materials and possible consequences (e.g., images, music, video, text) in school projects.
- Analyze and explain how media and technology can be used to distort, exaggerate, and misrepresent information.
- Give examples of hardware and applications that enable people with disabilities to use technology.
- Explain the potential risks associated with the use of networked digital environments (e.g., internet, mobile phones, wireless, LANs) and sharing personal information.
- Understand that using information from a single internet source might result in the reporting of erroneous
- Word processing and manipulating spreadsheets
- Use the Track Changes feature in Review for peer editing of documents
- Differentiate between formulas with absolute and relative cell references.
- Use multiple sheets within a workbook, and create links among worksheets to solve problems.
- Import and export data between spreadsheets and other applications.
- Coding and website development
- Complete 20-hour coding course(s) at Code.org.
- Create an interactive website (Google, Weebly)