Dear Carmody 7th & 8th Grade Elective Computer Class Students and Parents.

October 12, 2006

  1. Great News Flash!!! The PC Lab will be completely rewired on Tuesday, October 17, 2006. It will be an all-day reinstallation of all network wiring and switches. Hopefully, the computer technicians will find the source of our networking problems once and for all and the lab will again be fully functional for both students and teacher alike. For the last three weeks, it hasn't been networking at all.

  2. In preparation for the restoration of our lab, we will also upgrade our lab with the addition of eight newly refurbished Pentium III computers with Windows 98 and two Pentium IV computers with Windows XP. With a bit of luck in the coming weeks, the Pentium III's will eventually be upgraded to Windows XP Professional operating system. And the PC lab will no longer have any Pentium II computers with Windows 95.

  3. All of Dr. Data's classes will meet in the library classroom on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 while the district completely unwires the PC Lab. We will watch a technology oriented video that day with assigned film review worksheets.

  4. All The Right Type typing software has been ordered for those who ordered it several weeks ago and should arrive in 10 days or so from Vancouver, Canada.

  5. Parents needed in Dr. Data's class on a regular basis!! Believe it or not, the best school districts in the USAA are not found in the wealthy suburbia schools such as in Beverly Hills, California, Winnetka, Illinois, Short Hills, New Jersey;, etc., but in the U.S. Military Schools throughout the USA. Why? Parents there are required to assist their children's teachers regularly or they get a military court marshal. 60 Minutes TV show some 5 or 6 years ago did a feature story on the U.S. Military Schools on USA military through the country and found that they consistently had the highest ACT and SAT college qualiying tests in the entire nation. What's important here is that military families abundantly live in sub-standard on military bases just to enroll their children in the military base school. With a dozen or more parents regularly assigned in the class room on a daily basis, students get more quality instruction than any private or public school in country. Money is not reason either. So if there are any parents are ever available to assist Dr. Data with any of the following units of instruction below, please volunteer. Below is the 7th grade curriculum.

    8th grade parents might also have expertise in some of the following areas:

  6. Parents Who Need To Learn Computers and with no charges! Dr. Data cordially invites all parents to participate in daily classes along with their children to learn PowerPoint, Database Management, spreadsheets, Internet Search engines, etc. and all for free on a daily basis. Just look at the curriculum calendar above for which weeks for each unit above. Dr. Data really wants to parents to learn with their children in class if parents can schedule themselves.

  7. Note: 7th grade is basically finishing the word processing unit of instruction with assignments at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/claris_syllabus.html#Required . The entire semester's curriculum can be found at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Curriculum_Preview.html#August

    Special 7th Extra-Credit Assignments: For Those Students Looking To Accelerate!!!

  8. See Dr. Data for the following assignments. The CSAP assignments are worth 75 extra-credit points per assignment and the others are worth 25 point per assignment. Any of them can be done at home or in class. Here are three CSAP web sites to introduce you to some of the kinds of supplemental CSAP activities used in my web-based instruction. The CSAP extra-credit assignments can be done over and over again. Just pick a different topic and start writing again and earning more extra-credit points!

    Your Favorite Words, Crossword Puzzle , Crossword_Puzzle2 , Practice Activity, Hello, My Name Is .........., Definitions , and others.

  9. 8th graders are completing week 8 as the first week of a two week instructional unit on spreadsheets on how their relate to running a teenage business at weeks 8 and 9 at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Lesson_Plans.html. Week 10 will cover Power Point presentations and week 11 will cover newsletters. Beginning in week 12, we will concentrate on web pages in three segments: 1) HTML, 2) GUI and 3) Dreawweaver.

  10. 8th grade curriculum is focused on doing spreadsheets for their businesses. The daily assignments can be found in week 8 at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Week8.html. The entire semester's curriculum is found at: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/business/Lesson_Plans.html

    11. Special 8th Extra-Credit Assignments: For Those Students Looking To Accelerate!!!