12/3 Test

Post a response to the Question of the Day in 5 minutes or less, using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

ICT Essentials 1
Question of the Day:  Go to Engrade for part 1 of your test. Sign in.  Click on your class.  1. Click on the quiz tab.  2. Click on the quiz.

Part 2: Question of the Day:

Are Your Tech Habits Hurting Your Grades? 

By SHANNON DOYNE AND HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO

Tell us about your digital media habits. How much time (and money) do you spend texting? Do you recognize yourself at all in these teens’ stories? Do you often switch between doing homework and things like checking Facebook, watching videos or playing games? Do you find it hard to focus on and process your schoolwork? Are your grades affected? Do you – or your parents – try to set limits on your use of technology? 

Daily Objective:

Identify and use new and emerging tools, technologies and software.

Keep the up to date on current technologies.

Identify how to maintain ICT literacy and Tech competencies.

Describe and use desktop publishing software and tools to create a finished project.

Understand the design principles used in desktop publishing.

Word of the Day: Habit- A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. An established disposition of the mind or character.

ICT Essentials 2 Go to Engrade for part 1 of your test. Sign in.  Click on your class.  1. Click on the quiz tab.  2. Click on the quiz.

Part 2: Question of the Day:

Are Your Tech Habits Hurting Your Grades? 

By SHANNON DOYNE AND HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO

Tell us about your digital media habits. How much time (and money) do you spend texting? Do you recognize yourself at all in these teens’ stories? Do you often switch between doing homework and things like checking Facebook, watching videos or playing games? Do you find it hard to focus on and process your schoolwork? Are your grades affected? Do you – or your parents – try to set limits on your use of technology? 

Daily Objective: 

Understand the basic hardware that makes up their system.

Describe how a computer processes information.

Identify ways a computer stores, organizes, and accesses information.

Describe how to keep computer systems more secure.

Identify ways to prevent viruses, reduce spam, and secure data.

Word of the Day: ASCII - The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (acronym: ASCII; pronounced /ˈæski/ ASS-kee)^[2] is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many more characters than did ASCII.