Green Year Round Elementary School
 
   
GYR Technology Plan

APPENDIX


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Self-Assessment Technology Skills Survey
 Computer Operations

Name ____________________  Date __________

The following self-assessment survey is provided to help us gauge the needs of the faculty and create a multi-tiered technology staff development curriculum.  Your honest answer will provide us with the information necessary to provide instruction where it is most needed.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation,
The Technology Team

Please rate your ability to demonstrate the following skills by circling the corresponding number

1 = I don't know this skill 2 = I know this skill but would like more help 3 = I know and use this skill 4 = I am able to teach this skill
Student Grade Level
Skill
Response
K-3
1.1 Start up and shut down computer system and peripherals
1
2
3
4
  • Use correct startup/shut down procedure according to computer type
1
2
3
4
  • Start up and shut down printer
1
2
3
4
K-3
1.2 Identify and use icons, windows, menus
1
2
3
4
  • Point, click, double-click, click and drag with mouse
1
2
3
4
  • Maximize and minimize a window
1
2
3
4
  • Use pull-down menus
1
2
3
4
  • Select, open, and move an icon
1
2
3
4
  • Select, open, move, and close a window
1
2
3
4
  • Resize a window
1
2
3
4
  • Scroll up/down, left/right within a window
1
2
3
4
  • Make a window active/inactive
1
2
3
4
2-4
1.3 Start an application and create a document
1
2
3
4
2-4
1.4 Name, save, retrieve, revise a document
1
2
3
4
  • Name a document
1
2
3
4
  • Save a document using both the Save and Save As Commands
1
2
3
4
  • Retrieve a document from floppy disk
1
2
3
4
  • Retrieve a document from hard drive
1
2
3
4
  • Rename a document
1
2
3
4
  • Edit and re-save a document
1
2
3
4
2-4
1.5 Use printing options
1
2
3
4
1-10
1.6 Insert and eject floppy disk and CD
1
2
3
4
9-12
1.7 Name/rename a floppy disk
1
2
3
4
9-12
1.8 Copy document from network to floppy disk and vice versa
1
2
3
4
9-12
1.9 Create and name/rename subdirectories/folders
1
2
3
4
2-4
1.10 Save, open, place documents inside subdirectories/folders
1
2
3
4
9-12
1.11 Open and work with more than one application at a time (multitasking)
1
2
3
4
1.13 Knowledge of terms such as graphical user interface[GUI], document, application, megabyte, hierarchical file system, directory, operating system[OS], RAM
1
2
3
4
9-12
1.14 Knowledge of the storage capacity of floppy/hard disks, CD-ROMs
1
2
3
4
9-12
1.15 Knowledge of the similarities/differences and advantages/disadvantages of various operating systems
1
2
3
4
Adapted by Dov Rosenberg from the NCDPI (www.ncpublicschools.org/tap/comp1.htm)