Digital Literacy Computational Thinking and Coding Skills and sites and all that Jazz...

Digital Literacy Website This is the site for our course. On it you can find the Instructions for the days class with links to video clips that we looked at, everything you would need to catch up after you are away. There are also links to sites that we use, and important documents. This is the address: http://teachers.sd43.bc.ca/msandilands/default.aspx

Some basic computer Facts File Extentions Picture files .bmp .gif .jpg Operating system files .dll .exe 3D printing Files .obj .stl Text and Word processing documents .doc .docx .rtf .txt Web Page files .htm .html These go at the end of file names and tell the computer what kind of file it is and what kind of program you need to run it.

General Computer Skills-OFFice 365 Office has many Apps: Email Word PowerPoint Sway Excel And more Use your district login and password to open Office 365 (from the Maillard Website) You can also install the desktop version at home FOR FREE

General Computer Skills- Word and PowerPoint You could work online Or work in Word on the desk top

General Computer Skills-saving your work Saving files? Give a name Saving Files in your network drive

Printing Don’t send things to the printer more than once. If it does not print FIND OUT WHY! Is the printer on? If it’s in energy save mode push the blue lit up button Is there a paper jam? READ THE DISPLAY Is there paper? CHECK THE TRAY. Put some more paper in the machine.  Did you send it to the right printer? 

Sharing files in Office365 You can share files to collaborate and work with a partner or group By sharing a file you can work at home on the same file without having to put separate files together 

FreshGrade Go to FreshGrade Student. Create a digital portfolio to share all of your work.

Your Digital FootPrint (aka dossier or Tattoo)

Digital Citizenship We are going to use a program called Ignition to complete a series of 7 modules: 1. Choosing a computer 2. Wireless Communication 3. The Viral World 4. Internet Resources and Credibility 5. Creating Multimedia Products 6. Digital Relationships and respect 7. The Future of Technology and You When You have finished all the modules you will be able to print you certificate, and upload it to Freshgrade

copyright Click to add text Plagiarism: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them  off as one's own. synonyms: copying, infringement of copyright, piracy, theft, stealing;  informal cribbing.

Creative Commons Click to add text Creative Commons is the global community that breaks down the walls that keep people from sharing their knowledge. Creative Commons provides free, easy-to-use copyright licenses to make a simple and standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work– on conditions of your choice. Click to add text

What is coding? Instructions written in a coding language for a computer to follow. Once the coding is done the computer will compile the code into binary Examples of coding languages: C C++ Python Kodu HTML Scratch Wikipedia list of coding languages

Programming Rule #1 Computers are stupid Rule #2 Don't Forget rule #1

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