Welcome to Still Middle School and Essential Tech!
Essential Tech is an 18 week long class for 6th grade students. They will learn word processing, spreadsheets/graphing, programming, and some basic visual design and presentations.
Assignments will have due dates, but students can take the entire quarter to complete and turn in the work. This is because not everyone has a home computer or comparable software for students to do the work outside of school. I encourage the students to stay on top of their assignments and the grade book and grade will reflect the late or missing work.
Assignments will have due dates, but students can take the entire quarter to complete and turn in the work. This is because not everyone has a home computer or comparable software for students to do the work outside of school. I encourage the students to stay on top of their assignments and the grade book and grade will reflect the late or missing work.
Visual Design
Visual design is the use of imagery, color, shapes, typography, and form to make communications easier to read and understand. In this unit you will learn how to use the elements of design to improve the look of your creations!
The document below is just a sample. Open the Word document on the Courses drive for your class work.
The document below is just a sample. Open the Word document on the Courses drive for your class work.
| the_fundamentals_of_design.pdf |
Computers & Problem Solving
Is this a computer?
| lesson_4_-_what_is_a_computer.docx |
Input & Output Devices
Go through everything at this really helpful site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx8hpv4
