Mrs. Elliott - 6th Grade Keyboarding

6th Grade Keyboarding Course Evaluation

This has been a fun and challenging class for all of us. Please help me to make this course even better for Lowrey students next time. In the discussion box below, please submit the answers to the following questions. Restate the question in your answer and use complete sentences.

Please be honest. If you wish to remain anonymous, change your name in the name and email boxes before you submit.

1. What have you learned in this class?
2. What have you enjoyed about this class?
3. Did you ever visit the class website outside of class? Why or Why not?
4. What should Mrs. Elliott change about this class? Why is this important?
5. What would you tell your friends about this class?
6. Would you like to take a different computer class next year? Why or Why not?
7. Did your typing speed and accuracy increase over the past few weeks?
8. Did you continue to use the home row skills while you worked on your project? Why or Why not?
9. Do you think you will continue to use the home row skills when you use a computer?

1. copy and paste
2. cut and paste
3. invisibles: Non printing formatting marks used to show or hide things like return, space, tab and/or page break.
4. troubleshooting
5. network

1. window
2. operating system
3. byte

1. case sensitive - When the computer application looks for capital letters and lower case letters. Passwords sometimes do not pay attention to the case of characters, sometimes they do. Upper or lower case.
2. verify
3. CPU
4. motherboard
5. hard drive

1. glitch
2. font
3. cursor
4. image
5. URL

1. wordwrap
2. output - any computer-generated information displayed on screen, printed on paper or in machine readable form, such as disk, tape, projector or ipod.
3. dropdown menu - a list of computer commands at the top of your screen. You can use them for print, save, format and also for quitting and getting help.
4. input

1. icon
2. peripherals
3. RAM and ROM
4. hard copy
5. soft copy - data displayed on a video screen. It can be edited at any time, turned in on iLearn, or deleted. opposite of hard copy.

1. hardware
2. software
3. dock: A row of graphic images at the bottom of your Mac computer screen. Click on one of them to launch application programs or files.
4. file menu
5. tool bar

1. keyboarding: Typing on a computer keyboard using proper posture and finger position to improve speed and accuracy.
2. AUP (Acceptable Use Policy): school district or workplace rules for using information networks and Internet access.
3. process: A systematic way of completing a task or computer function.