1. What previous computer skills did these students have?
Our students have two computer lab periods in our schoolwide lab
for 40 minutes each week. Our students work on word processing.
They worked on drawing skills. They have worked on a little database
work, and they have done some spreadsheet work in that we use the
spreadsheet to put down mathematical information and create graphs
on the computer with that particular work. They have had a lot of
experience in word processing. They have had some experience in
spreadsheets, not in the way that we used them, but in a different
manner. They were familiar with the framework of it, even if they
didn't know how to do the formulas. Also, they have used some art
programs like Kid Pix, and that helped. They could use those sort
of things when they did their travel posters, if they wished, but
most of them did them by hand.
