Welcome to Sentinel high school.

The goal of any computer curriculum is that each student will achieve a superior level of understanding of computing, computers, and computer-based processes and their applications.

The curriculum breaks this up into three parts:

• Foundations
  • It is expected that students will:
    • practise and reinforce their keyboarding skills
    • demonstrate the ability to formulate questions and to use a variety of sources and tools to access, capture, and store information
    • demonstrate the ability to program information technology tools
    • use programming effectively to create products or systems
    • practise handling Internet information in an ethical way
    • demonstrate an awareness of the impact of electronic resources on education, careers, and recreation
    • evaluate the impact of information technology tools on the workplace, on individuals, and on society
    • compare the use of information technology in different job settings within the community
    • demonstrate competence in using basic information technology tools
• Process
  • It is expected that students will:
    • solve problems using information technology tools and resources
    • use information technology tools to gather and organize information and produce documents
    • evaluate the suitability of information technology tools for solving problems related to specific tasks
    • demonstrate the ability to install software that can be shared within a network
    • develop guidelines for evaluating and using information in an ethical way
    • develop criteria to evaluate information for bias
• Presentation
  • It is expected that students will:
    • create multimedia documents using a variety of electronic sources
    • demonstrate the ability to use special effects in multimedia presentations to influence a message
    • apply ethical and legal principles when presenting information
    • evaluate the effectiveness of the component parts of multimedia presentations
    • demonstrate the ability to manage the process of creating multimedia presentations

Here is how you will be graded this year. This is subject to change without notice.

Attendance, Punctuality, Preparedness, Effort - 5%
Quizes - 20%
Projects

• Office 97 Studies
  • Comparison Table (individual) - 10%
  • Height Spreadsheet (individual / group) - 10%
    • Shoe Size Spreadsheet
    • Cars Spreadsheet
  • Database (individual) - 10%
  
  
• Multimedia Studies
  • All About Me (individual) - 10%
    • Graphics

• Communications (Understanding, Searching, and Assessing the Internet)
  • Web Basics - 5%
  • Web Site Competitive Analysis (individual) - 10%
   
• Programming
  • HTML and Web Page Design (individual / group) - 10%
    • Graphics
  
  
• Notetaking
  • Resource Book - 10%

Total - 100%