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Free Technology Websites to Enhance Your Learning Plans
These learning goals and corresponding websites are designed to give youth the knowledge they need to keep themselves safe while using their computers and other electronic devices. Some of the sites are pretty cool, too!
Learning Goal: Knows how to use the internet to locate resources.
Locate resources that provide internet access (e.g. library, school)
Describe the functions of a search engine (e.g.) Yahoo, Google, MSN.
Use the search engine to find information with job search, postsecondary education, financial aid, and leisure time.
http://www.filamentality.com/kne_search.html http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/strat/ http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html Learning Goal: Knows about free word processing software and office suites.
Identify two websites that free word processing software (e.g. Google Docs, OpenOffice).
Explain features provided by each.
http://www.learnopenoffice.org/ http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html Learning Goal: Can use a computer to complete homework assignments.
Explain when to use word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
List different types of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
Demonstrate the use of the application.
Demonstrate creating, saving, opening, retrieving and printing documents.
