6th Grade Computer Rotation





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Ms. Cassidy's E-Mail address is kcassidy@frederickbombers.net
Every student must have their parent sign the Staff-Communications form and return to me before they will be assigned an e-mail account.

BBC Typing Lessons

1-2/1/25 (PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #3 and #4)Students will begin working on the Typing Lessons on line daily - learning keyboarding skills. Students should complete each lesson with 40 wpm with 0 errors. Once they have accomplished this they may go onto the next lesson. After completing the first 4 lessons students will need to take the Typing Test #1, when they complete the test at 40 wpm with 0 errors they can go onto Lesson 5; etc.
Test #1 = Lessons 1,2,3,4 - Do you know the Homerow Keys? - Play this game and see.
Test #2 = Lessons 5,6
Test #3 = Lesson 7
Test #4 = Lessons 8,9,10
Test #5 = Lesson 11
Test #6 = Lesson 12
Test #7 = Lesson 13
Test #8 = Lessons 14, 15
Test #9 = Lesson 16 - Practice here.
Test #10 = Lesson 17 - Try this for a refresher Typing Adventure 1
Test #11 = Lesson 18
Test #12 = Lessons 19,20,21,22,23
Test #13 = Lessons 24,25,26,27,28,29,30
Test #14 = Review of all lessons
Test #15 = Review of all keys
Learn the Number pad - Play this game using the correct fingers.
Arcademic Skill Builder

BONUS: Basic Keyboarding Questions

Complete the Keyboard Challenge.

Once students have completed the Keyboarding assignments they will be assigned an e-mail account Click on this link to login. Their username is their first name and last name with no space no capitals and their initial password is password (students will immediately login in and change the password in the Options section). Students may use this to communicate with me during the class the rest of the 9 week period.

Brush up on your Vocabulary at this link let me see your score for bonus points.
1-26/2-1 (PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #1 and #3)

Step 1 - Watch the online video about the Microsoft Word program.

Step 2 - Complete the Microsoft Word 2007 tutorials. Complete all the exercises on the lesson then save as lesson?firstnamelastname

Step 3 - Attach each lesson as you complete them to an e-mail to me to be graded.

2-2/2-3Write a "Letter to the Troops" that the FMS STUCO is sponsoring using the Microsoft Word program. This letter must be in a business letter format, a graphic from the Microsoft clipart site, and the students’ signature (DO NOT use your last name) at the end of the letter. the Return address is as follows:
their first name
c/o Ms. Cassidy
Frederick Middle School
300 E. Grand
Frederick, OK 73542

Students are sending the letter to a soldier and the address is as follows:
address the letter to Dear Soldier, and for the mailing address
U. S. Soldier
c/o Michael Morris
376 AEW/HC
APO AE 09353.

Step 5 - Students must also create an envelope (in the letter document on Microsoft Word)
Bonus:StoryBird. Your user name and password have been sent to your e-mail. Select "Classes" once you are logged in and select "Assignments." You may want to read a few of the "StoryBird" online books and then complete the assignment - the due date is on the assignment. Click on this link for help on StoryBird Help

2-6/2-10
Step 1 - Watch the online video.

Step 2 - Complete the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007tutorials, Complete each exercise on each lesson save the lesson and attach it to an e-mail to me.(there are 3 lessons)

2-13/2-14(PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #1, #3, #5 and #6) - Students will build an 11 slide PowerPoint presentation following the guidelines of color, text, organization, and content rules to achieve the best grade. Presentations must be in outline format. Each step of the Scientific Method must be depicted on a slide, with a brief explanation and a picture. And, make the last slide a bibliography, citing where the information came from using the correct style.

2-15/2-22(PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #1, #3, #5 and #6)

Watch the online video.

Step 2 - Complete the Microsoft Excel 2007 tutorials, using the same procedure as the Word and PowerPoint lessons.

2-23/2-24 - (PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #1)Students will study the information at the Computer Basics website.
Copy and paste these questions (they are in red) into a Word document (You will need to select All and change to font color to black, once you are in the Word program) - type the answers to the questions - save in your folder - E-Mail to Mrs. Cassidy for a grade.
1. Pushing the Reset button on the front of a computer will _____.
2. A parallel port is most often used by a ______.
3. To remove static before touching the inside of a computer, you should _____.
4. A device that provides emergency power to your computer, conditions the voltage, and protects against powers surges is called a _____.
5. The drive that receives a diskette is the _____ drive.
6. The computer must be off to connect or disconnect a _____ port.
7. The cable connecting the hard drive to the motherboard _____.
8. A period of low voltage on your electric power lines is a _____.
9. A device that is connected to the motherboard is _____.
10. The device that converts power from a wall outlet to the type that the computer needs is the _____.
11. You sometimes need to use the DOS command line when _____.
12. Two different files can have the same name if _____
13. The safest choice for a password is _____.
14. When you have a question about your software or hardware, you should first _____.
15. The maximum length for a file's name under DOS is _____
16. You are using a network printer and the printer is busy printing another job. You want to print a document. You would _____.
17. A file is named budget for 1998.doc using a Win95 word processor. Listing the directory under DOS would show the name of the file as _____.
18. Before printing, you can change the page margins using the _____ dialog box.
19. If your document MyReport.doc is saved in folder MyDocs which is on drive E on your PC, the path to the document is _____.

2-27/3-2 - (PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #2 and #6) Begin learning about Censorship and Copyright laws pertaining to publications and public schools by reading and answering the questions in the Jostens Taking Issue - A Student Guide to Publication Law. Answer the questions at the end of each chapter and save them as your (student’s) name on the Yearbook Server. A good site to investigate the CopyRight Law is the Student Press Law Center. Another resource for information is Copyright Kids. Copyright Basics is another good information site.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

3-5/3-9 - (PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #1, #3 and #5)Fun! Fun! Fun! Today we will begin learning Photoshop. Students will learn to select sections from the pictures; to lighten images; add text to the picture; and anything else they can imagine doing.
LEARNING PHOTOSHOP: First students will read, study and practice each of the 8 Lessons (this means complete each of the exercises, homework, assignments, and reviews) at the Adobe Photoshop Basics website.
Then students will complete each of the following and e-mail them to Ms. Cassidy for a grade.
PhotoShop Basics Quiz 1 - Lessons 1 & 2
PhotoShop Basics Quiz 2 - Lessons 3 & 4
PhotoShop Basics Quiz 3 - Lessons 5 & 6
PhotoShop Basics Quiz 4 - Lessons 7 & 8


3-12/3-16 - Students will review and complete the PhotoShop Tutorials
Beginning Photoshop
How to Sharpen and Image
Using Masks To Improve Landscape Images
How to use the displace filter
How to Extract
How to Fix Over Exposed images
How to Resize an Image without losing quality
How to Wrap text abound an object)
How to work with Shadows.

Extra Credit - (PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #1, #3, #5 and #6)Students will begin learning to build web pages. Students will learn to place images on pages - add text - resize text - change the color of the page and text - add links to the page - and more. Read/study each of the links given in order to begin building a webpage about the information used on the Educational PowerPoint presentation. Lissa Explains and HTML Coding

Extra Credit - (PASS - Instructional Technology strd. #1, #3 and #5)Students’ will learn the Audacity sound editing software program. Students may need to download the Software onto their computer. Go to My computer - Msapps on fpsserver1 - Cassidy - doubli-click audacity-win-1.2.6 - then follow instructions to load program - Next to use the Headphones students will need to download the driver software and it is My computer - Msapps on fpsserver1 - Cassidy - double-click driveragent_94 and then load this. Students will then need to read and study the on-line Audacity Tutorial to begin using the program.

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