Course Outline

Lesson 1: Get Down to Basics

Students will have an introduction to the tools available in COOLSchool as well as the opportunity to get their files organized

Lesson 2: Dynamic Documents

Students will work with various document formats that are commonly used on the Internet, including Microsoft Word©, text, ASCII, and PDF files.

Lesson 3: Spreadsheet Savvy

Students will learn to use computer and online spreadsheet tools to compute car payments and make graphs.

Lesson 4: Everything Email

Students will research the capabilities of their e-mail service and practice using the various features.

Lesson 5: Internet Safety

Students will learn to evaluate their own and others' online safety.

Lesson 6: Consider the Source

Students will learn to evaluate Internet resources for validity and accuracy.

Lesson 7: Strategies for Searching

Students will be introduced to a variety of tips and tricks for locating information on the Internet.

Lesson 8: Cite the Source, of Course!

Students will learn about the importance of copyright and learn how to use an online tool to cite sources of information used in their research.

Lesson 9: You're History

Students will use their research skills and explore reference-oriented Web sites to complete a fun project

Lesson 10: Portal Power with Yahoo

Students will customize their own Internet startup pages with Web sites and tools that are useful to them.

Lesson 11: FURL

Students will create and customize their own online bookmarks.

Lesson 12: Podcasts

Students will learn to listen to podcasts and create their own.

Lesson 13: Animations

Students will create their own 2D or 3D animations.

Lesson 14: Create a Web Page and a Blog

Students will customize their own Web page and blog using a Web-based application.