Green Year Round Elementary School
 
   
GYR Technology Plan

APPENDIX


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Self-Assessment Technology Skills Survey
 Word Processing

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
2-5
3.1 Enter and edit text and copy and move a block of text
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  • Use the clipboard (a special location in the computer's memory that temporarily holds information)
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  • Cut (a function that removes highlighted information from its current location and places it on the clipboard)
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  • Copy (a function that duplicates highlighted information and places a copy on the clipboard)
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  • Paste (a function that copies information from the clipboard to a document)
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  • Delete text (using the mouse, place the I-beam cursor at the location where the new text is to be placed, click the mouse button and begin typing the new text)
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  • Insert text (using the mouse, place the I-beam cursor at the location where the new text is to be placed, click the mouse button, and begin typing the new text)
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3.2 Copy and move blocks of text  
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5
3.3 Change text format and style, set margin, line spacing, tabs
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  • Size the font (change actual size of text)
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  • Use styles (bold, italics underline, etc.)
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  • Adjust margins (amount of white space on the top, bottom, left and right edges of page)
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  • Adjust line spacing (amount of space between lines in a paragraph such as single space and double space)
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  • Set alignment (left, center, right, justified)
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  • Adjust tabs (used to set amount of indentation for bulletted points, etc.)
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3.4 Check spelling, grammar, word usage  
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  • Use of the spelling checker
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  • Use of the thesaurus
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  • Dictionary, outliner, grammar check as applicable
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8
3.5 Create a header or footer
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3.6 Insert date, time, page number
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8
3.7 Add a table to document
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3.8 Insert clip art or a picture into document
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2-6
3.9 Knowledge of terms such as cursor, format, font, style, header, footer, spell check
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Adapted by Dov Rosenberg from the NCDPI (www.ncpublicschools.org/tap/comp3.htm)