Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Understanding how to use the Paint program tools to draw and color pictures and knowing how to create pictures and add text and designs to existing picture file.• Understanding what search engines are and how to use them.• Understanding how to use Microsoft Word features to create and format various types of documents.• Learning how to create computer based presentations Using Microsoft PowerPoint.• Understanding how to use Windows Movie Maker program features to create a variety of videos.• Making the students have fun in learning science information by doing simple science experiments.

Outcomes

• Acquiring the skill of drawing, editing and creating pictures using the Paint program.• Acquiring the skill of using the Internet to search for information and images required for school researches and projects.• Learning how to use Microsoft Word program to create school researches. • Acquiring the skills of organizing and presenting information required for school activities and projects.• Acquiring the required skills of creating videos.• Learning scientific facts in an interesting way and knowing how to present them using Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint programs.

Course Contents

MS Paint• Knowing how to draw shapes and fill them with colors.• Knowing how to use brushes and add text to pictures.• Knowing how to color pictures and how to erase parts of them.• Understanding how to use the program tools to create simple pictures for example creating simple greeting cards.• Knowing how to set pictures as desktop background.• Learning how to open an existing picture file in Paint to edit it.Internet• Knowing how to use the Internet browser to open websites.• Understanding how to use search engines.• Knowing how to copy and paste text from webpages to Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint programs.• Knowing how to save pictures and use them in computer applications.Microsoft Word Program• Introducing What Microsoft Word is and knowing how to create and save documents.• Knowing how to use the program interface.• Understanding how to add and format text.• Knowing how to undo an action and redo it again.• Knowing how to add a page border in Microsoft