{"id":144,"date":"2023-09-27T23:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2023-09-27T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:19:40","slug":"intro-to-computer-applications-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/intro-to-computer-applications-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Computer Applications 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introductory Computer Applications :<\/strong>\u00a0The purpose of this Applied Skills course is to develop keyboarding proficiency as a personal life skill and as a foundation for career development. During the first 2-3 months, students will learn the techniques of keyboarding; mastery of letter, numbers, and symbols through touch-typing. After mastery of the keyboard, students will then use the features of word processing to create a variety of business documents. The purpose of daily warm-ups is two-fold: to allow students to practice and to provide both the teachers and the student with a measure of their performance. Introduction to PowerPoint and Excel is also included. All work is completed during class time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evaluation<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Students are graded on typing proficiency and in-class assignments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What type of student enjoys and is successful in this course?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students who want to learn proper keyboarding techniques, and those who like structure will be successful in this class<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would be a good alternate to this course<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>BCA 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Description: Introductory Computer Applications :\u00a0The purpose of this Applied Skills course is to develop keyboarding proficiency as a personal life skill and as a foundation for career development. During the first 2-3 months, students will learn the techniques of keyboarding; mastery of letter, numbers, and symbols through touch-typing. After mastery of the keyboard, students will then use the features of word processing to create a variety of business documents. The purpose of daily warm-ups is two-fold: to allow students&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/intro-to-computer-applications-9\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8713,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/adst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}