TTI10_CourseOutline

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 * **Course name:** Integrated Tech. || **Level of Difficulty:** Open ||
 * **Course Code:** TTI10 || **Hours of Instruction:** 110 ||
 * **Credit Value.** One || **Textbook:** None ||

Overview of Objectives
This course enables students to understand the technological and computer concepts they need to order to design, develop and build usable products or to deliver services, as well as to pursue further technological studies. Students will use the technological design process and a variety of tools and software to solve problems, complete projects and strengthen their communication skills.

Course Description
This course is designed to be a starting point to develop technical competence useful for the rest of the student’s high school career. We will learn the proper techniques in the following areas:


 * Touch Typing
 * Word processing
 * Spreadsheets
 * Databases
 * Programming
 * Web page construction (HTML)
 * Presentation software
 * Graphics software
 * Computer Aided Design

The course has been design to allow for time to practice the skills of the particular program and then a major project will be used to evaluate the comprehension of the skills. It is expected that skills or talents gained from one program will be incorporated into the next when completing the major project component. The final project's evaluation will incorporate all of their knowledge from all the different software and the problem solving skills that they have gained over the entire term.

Evaluation

 * 70% Formative Evaluation
 * Formative Evaluation and assessment will include some or all of the following; test, quizzes, assignments, investigations, performance task, rich assessment tasks, journals, teacher-student conferences and oral presentations
 * 30% Knowledge and understanding
 * 15% Thinking/Inquiry
 * 15% Communication
 * 40% Application
 * 30% Summative Evaluation
 * A final summative project will be used to evaluate the knowledge and skills acquired during the term of the semester.

Absences
If a student must be absent from any class, it is their responsibility to Inform the teacher IN ADVANCE of the absence, if it is foreseeable Arrange for another student to collect any handouts or class notes and relay it to them Make up for the lost time when they return to ensure they don’t fall behind other students in the course.

Getting Started
By the second week, all students are required to have:
 * A Subject Binder in which to store any handouts and notes. The student is responsible for this information by the time of their summative evaluation.
 * Their Network USERID and PASSWORDS