• Understand the building Internet plan
• File Bookmarks
• Perform basic navigation using links, buttons & URL’s
• Perform Basic Searches in Yahooligans
• Use other search engines
• Change home page for start-up
• Print a file from the www

• Use the Internet for the RAP process

Understand username, password and e-mail address Send & receive e-mail

Create & use mailboxes (trash) to organize mail

Create & use nicknames

Use forward & reply

Use CC & BCC

Create a signature

When to leave & retrieve mail on server

Use priorities

Clean up mailboxes

Retrieve & file attached documents

Attach documents

Send an email message to jerickson@pekin.net with an attachment and cc zbrixey@pekin.net and bcc to kfort@pekin.net

Page setup

Create format, edit, save and print a document

Use Cut, Copy & Paste Save and retrieve documents from hard, floppy & desktop

Use spell check & grammar check

Create bulleted list

Use tables to organize information

Insert clipart into a document

Create a document using at least 3 fonts, bold, italic and underlined text, clipart, a bulleted list, and a table. Attach the document and send it to zbrixey@pekin.net or deliver a hard copy to Zan Brixey.

Open and navigate a slide show

Select a layout for a slide

Apply design template to new and existing slide

Insert text and graphic on a slide

Format text using Bold, Italic, Size and color

Add new slides to a slide show

Move and resize frames

Use a variety of views to edit and review a file

Use the slide sorter

Create slide transitions

Animate objects on slides

Add sounds to animations

Print a slide show in outline form

Create a presentation of at least 4 slides using various slide layouts, sounds, fonts, clipart, animations and transitions. Attach the document and send it to jerickson@pekin.net or deliver a disk copy to Jeff Erickson.

Start menu

Understand desktop, icons, shot cuts, etc.

Properly shut down computer

Left, right and double clicks

Change the appearance of the desktop

Run quit, minimize and switch between programs

Move and resize windows

Save documents to desktop, hard and floppy disks

Perform print operations

Manage file system: Create, find, organize, save and delete files and folders.

Use My computer and Windows Explorer to manage files

Competency verification will be evident through the assessment of Word, PowerPoint, Eudora and Netscape.

An assessment will be administered to staff in August to determine needs of training. It is anticipated that some training will be needed in all strands. The inventory will determine the baseline data of staff competencies, attitudes and dispositions. The assessment will develop a school profile and an individual profile. The staff profile will be updated periodically to determine progress toward the goal of staff competency for an electronic learning community. The individual profile will assist staff in determining which strands of the training program will be of most value to them.

Training will be offered in pilot classrooms and in the Learning Center throughout the year. Trainer leaders will recruit assistants to support the training effort. It is our goal to have all staff demonstrate competencies by the end of the first semester.

Training sessions will begin on Wednesday afternoons at 3:20 (except for the first Wednesday of the month which is reserved for the monthly general staff meeting). Staff may self-select the sessions they wish to attend. However, there is an expectation that staff will attend a training session, work on demonstrating a competency, or provide training / support to other staff members.

It is suggested that staff develop competency first in Windows 95 in order to understand and appreciate the other modules. Competencies should then be developed in Word and PowerPoint or Eudora and Netscape. The rationale for grouping the training is the relatedness of the topics.

Once a staff member demonstrates competencies in the Netscape and Eudora strand they will be issued a district e-mail account (if they do not already have one) and a workstation will be designated for their e-mail account (if they do not have a laptop). At that time all general communication will be delivered through electronic media and will result in paperless communication system.

It is also the goal of the project to develop a mailing list of all staff members to foster collaboration, communication and problem solving. This will fully take effect when all staff is competent in the electronic communication strand.