1. Welcome to School! Computer Applications Class Don Miller, Teacher How to Access my Web Page: Go to www.mvla.netwww.mvla.net Click on “Los Altos High” Click on “District Staff Directory” Type my last name in the search box. On the right side, click on “visit”

2. What will we do in this class? Become expert users of the most popular applications in businesses and schools. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel Spreadsheets, and PowerPoint). Alter and Edit computer graphics in PhotoShop. Selected topics in computing including hardware, software, memory, malware, history of computing, the development of computers. Beginning HTML (Web Design)

3. Lab Rules No food/water/drinks Bring paper & pen daily. Copying another person’s file constitutes cheating and invokes administrative intervention. Students and parents are held responsible for willful damage to any computer’s hardware or software. Students must abide by the district computer use agreement. Use of social networking sites and online games violates the computer use agreement and is disallowed. Students should check personal e- mail at home, not at school.

4. A USB FLASH DRIVE. DON’T BUY AN EXPENSIVE ONE. You will need: These computers are aging. Keep a backup of your work on your Flash Drive!

5. Grades 85% student generated products and performance on small quizzes and end-of-quarter projects. Assignments are given different point values, depending on the importance of each assignment. This will be referred to as “written work” even though most student generated products will be “written” on the computers. 15% of the student’s grade will be determined by the Final Exam.

6. Grading Scale Grading Scale: Standard percentage. (90-100%=A, 80-89%=B, 70-79%-C, 60-69%=D, below 60%=F. Homework policy: Work not completed in class AUTOMATICALLY becomes homework.

7. Late Work? No!!! Students have as many days as excused absences to make up missing work. (So if a student is sick for two days, s/he has two days to make up the missing work.)

8. It’s been a long day. What are we doing today? Everyone in here will have a password into their computer. Your password is your student number, located on the top, left corner of your schedule. Leave out the zeros at the beginning of your student I.D. Memorize your student I.D. That means your teacher will visit each of you today to set up your accounts!