Standard I Technology Operations and Concepts
Teachers demonstrate a sound understanding of technology operations and concepts.
 

Standard II Planning and Designing Learning Environments and Experiences
Teachers plan and design effective learning environments and experiences supported by technology.
 

Standard III Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers implement curriculum plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning.
 

Standard IV Assessment and Evaluation
Teachers apply technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies.

Standard III Technology Productivity Tools
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology enhanced models, preparing publications, and producing other creative works.
 

Standard IV Technology Communications Tools
Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
 

Standard V Technology Research Tools
Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.

Point, Click and drag, and double-click with the mouse

Describe the different functions of a single-click and a double click and knows when it is appropriate to use each type of click

Use shift-click and control-click to select/deselect multiple items

Knows when and how to use the left and right mouse buttons

Insert/eject a floppy disk

Save a file

Describe the difference between minimizing windows and quitting a program

Give a file a unique name while saving

Determine and direct where a file is saved

Select the most appropriate place to save a file (i.e. floppy, hard drive, network drive)

Copy and paste between documents from different applications

Rename an existing file

Use Explorer to find, move, and delete files

Describe the differences between file types including application-specific documents, applications, and system files

Logon to a local network and logout

Retrieve and save files to your home directory on the local server

Understand rights for logons and passwords

Create a word processing document

Name a word processing document

Save a word processing document

Open a word processing document.
Print a word processing document

Change fonts

Size text (resize existing text also)

Apply font styles

Spell check

Set margins

Know what red underline means

Know what green underline means

Insert graphics (Clip art, other file formats)

Cut and paste text

Import graphics from the Internet into a document

Add automatic page numbers

Adjust the viewing percentage

User the thesaurus

Insert a file (another document, spreadsheet, or graphic)

Insert headers/footers/footnotes/end notes

Create and format tables

Save as different file formats (html, text, doc, rtf)

Customize toolbars

Write protect documents

Create templates

Create new publication using template

Create, format, and position text

Rotate text

Resize and position objects. Import text

Import graphics. Link text/wrap texts. Add boarders and shading

Use template to create a concept map with 3 hierarchical levels

Resize boxes

Change attributes of boxes (color, appearance, shape, etc.)
Position and relocate boxes in diagram

Add notes to portion of outline

Add boxes

Print diagram/outline

Change to outline format

Add items to existing diagram. Do outline, change to diagram

Export outline

Site electronic resources

Understand and communicate to students the difference between electronically published opinion, facts, and fact-based opinion

Summarize copyright laws and how they apply to education

Properly document resources used in a presentation, web page, etc