The following is adapted from a memo by Dr Hepler.

List of Computer Skills

1. PC Basics
   1. Topics
      1. Starting and Closing Win95
      2. Logging on Network
      3. Win95 Desktop
      4. Directories and Subdirectories
      5. Network and Local Drives
      6. File Finding, Explorer
      7. Basic File Operations
      8. Security: passwords
      9. Viruses
   2. Skills
      1. Starting with computer turned off, log on network, find a given file on a network drive and copy it to a floppy disk.
      2. Open the file in a Win95 application such as Wordpad and print it on the default printer.
      3. Find a file on the local hard drive. Copy it to a specific subdirectory on the network.
      4. Scan a diskette for viruses
2. E-mail Basics
   1. Topics
      1. What e-mail is (addresses, address books, attachments)
      2. How to open new mail list, editor, compose and send message to self.
      3. Copy to self, confirm delivery, confirm reading
      4. How to print message
      5. How to save and retrieve message from Archive
      6. Attachments
      7. Interoperability & conversions.
   2. Skills
      1. Starting from Win95 desktop, compose and send message to self.
      2. Use address book to find teacher’s e-mail address & send message
      3. Open new mail folder, read and print mail
      4. Archive message
      5. Exit
      6. Attach a document to an email message.
      7. Retrieve an attachment.
      8. Configure a viewer.
      9. Deal with a document in a foreign format.
3. Contact Lists & Calendar Program
   1. Concepts
   2. Skills
      1. Make an appointment
      2. Print a calendar for a day or week
      3. Schedule a meeting
      4. Enter a contact name address, etc.
4. Word Processing Basics
   1. Topics
      1. Creating, opening and saving documents
      2. Automatic backup, opening as copy, "saving as"
      3. Finding and replacing words
      4. Spell checking a document
      5. Clipboard: blocking, copying, cutting, pasting within one document.
      6. Appearance of words: fonts, boldface, italic, etc.
      7. Margins, Justification and Tabs
      8. Numbered and bulleted lists
      9. Headers and Footers, page numbering
      10. Footnotes and Endnotes
   2. Skills
      1. Starting from Win95 desktop, create and save a simple document
      2. Import, check and correct a document in another word processing format
      3. Open document as a copy or save as a copy
      4. Find a given file. Open it. Find and replace all examples of a certain word or phrase in context. For example, replace examples of "for" incorrectly used as the number "four."
      5. Spell check a document in context, e.g., containing correctly (or incorrectly) spelled technical words not in spell check dictionary. Add a correctly spelled technical word to the dictionary.
      6. Create (enter) a provided sample document with centered titles, boldfaced text, indented paragraphs, margins and tabs that are not the default, headers, footers, page numbers, footnotes, etc.
5. Spreadsheet Basics
6. Database Basics
7. Advanced Word Processing
   1. Topics
      1. Working with databases
         1. using address books/contact lists for one address
         2. mail-merge
      2. Multiple documents -- pasting between documents
      3. Changing printers
      4. Changing printer paper size and type, e.g., envelopes
      5. Creating and Editing Columns
      6. Creating and Editing Tables
      7. Inserting and Editing Graphics (e.g., sizing)
      8. Styles, section headings
      9. Templates: using and revising
      10. Table of Contents
   2. Skills
      1. Insert one address from "contact list" into a letter
      2. Do a mail merge and print mailing labels or envelopes
      3. etc. to demonstrate mastery of specific topics as above . . .. Eventually, be able to produce camera-ready copy of -- for example -- a three-panel brochure and/or two-column technical paper with different fonts, tables, graphic cuts, table of contents and short list of references.
8. Presentation Software
   1. Topics
      1. Graphic Formats
      2. Illustrations and Shows
      3. Basic Use of Color and Format
      4. Printing Slides, Handouts and Speaker Notes
   2. Skills
      1. Given a slide show, produce a camera-ready copy of handouts
9. Bibliographic Software
   1. Topics
      1. Awareness (purpose of program)
      2. How to generate bibliography from manuscript
   2. Skills
      1. Describe purpose of bibliographic software
      2. Generate a bibliography in a given format from a provided manuscript.