Course Description
Information Processing is a one-semester course designed to help students in becoming more efficient and effective in written communications. The class is designed to provide training for personal or career development. The students will demonstrate mastery of touch keyboarding using correct keying techniques including correct posture and finger placement. The student will improve speed and accuracy in keyboarding by using appropriate drills and timed writings. Some activities include proofreading exercises, creating and editing Word documents, creating a research paper using MLA formatting, creating a resume using a wizard and a cover letter with a table, creating a document with a table, chart, and watermark, generating form letters, mailing labels, and directories, and creating a professional newsletter.
Course Content
Unit: Touch Keyboarding
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Review and use proper keyboarding techinques using touch keyboarding
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Review the ten-key pad
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Identify and use options from the toolbars in Microsoft Word 2007: New, open, save, printing, preview, spell check, cut, copy, paste, undo/redo, show/hide non-printing characters; Font style, alignment, bullets/numbering, spacing
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Navigate and complete lessons in typing software program
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Complete 1-minute timed writings
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