IT Academy Lesson Plans

Keith Loeber

A Technology Education Program available to Schools, designed to ensure students are Career Ready and College Ready upon graduation and to provide the local community with an opportunity to develop the 21st century skills necessary to be competitive in the rapidly evolving workplace.

What is IT Academy?

IT Academy At A Glance

Providing industry-leading IT training and Microsoft certification to enhance employability, college success and encourage life-

long learning

Digital Literacy

IT Academy Curriculum Solutions

Career Forward

Test Bank

GoalEnable students to acquire technology skills that will benefit their current and future projects

Better Together

eLearningCertification

Lesson Plans

Pre-asses

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Post-asses

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Projects

Test Bank

• Word 2010 containing 200 test items

• Excel 2010 containing 200 test items

• PowerPoint 2010 containing 100 test items

• Access 2010 containing 200 test items

• Publisher containing 100 test items

• SharePoint 2010 containing 100 test items

Curriculum: E-LearningFast Facts:Benefit Overview

What is it:•Unlimited internet access to up to 250 award-winning internet accessible Microsoft E-Learning courses•Available in 17 languages

Value to Educator:•Educators can use E-Learning as the core curriculum or supplementary to an existing curriculum both in and out of the classroom•Educators can manage multiple E-Learning courses for a single class and easily assign activities using the group-level messaging feature •Educators can access usage reports for each of their students to ensure progress

Value to Student:•E-Learning provides students with more hands-on practice through a multimedia learning experience•Can be used as self-study in and out of the classroom allowing the student to capture concepts at their own pace

Technologies Covered: •Office, Windows client, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio and Dynamics

Educators and other staff employed at the institution can use E-Learning for Professional Development – which helps to lower PD budgets

Can be used as a standalone self-study course or as supplementary to classroom instruction

Takes only a few minutes to provision a course to multiple students

For an additional fee, IT Academy members can purchase non-Microsoft E-Learning

Curriculum: Lesson Plans Fast Facts:

Lesson plans Include:•Links to E-Learning•Quiz material•Student projects•References to videos to be used in class or out of class for reinforcement•Free with ITA membership•Accessed via Member site

Benefit Overview

What is it:•Supplemental lessons based upon certification exam objectives and include links to relevant E-Learning, free demos and videos

Value to Educator:•Saves time with ready to use lesson plans to use as is, or to customize for specific teaching and learning goals•Supplements E-Learning and maps to Certification•Includes ready to use project-based learning activities for higher education, high school and middle school students

Value to Student:•Allows students to use project-based learning activities to demonstrate and practice skills on Microsoft Technologies and prepare for certification

Technologies Covered: •Specialized Lesson Plans on Office2010, SharePoint, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Expression Web •Exam Readiness Kits (ERK) mapping to Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) are also available

Lesson Plan Coverage

• Office2010–Introduction to Office–Word–Excel–PowerPoint–Access–Publisher (no exam)–SharePoint

• IT– Windows 7– Expression Web 4– Windows Server 2008

Active Directory– Windows Server 2008

Network Infrastructure

Lesson Plan ComponentsPowerPoint Example

Elements•Lesson Objectives•Lesson Discussion and Demonstration topics•Quizzes•Student Projects•E-Learning and video links

Additional Resources•Answer Keys•Projects by Audience•Quizzes•E-Learning lab mapping

Lesson Plan Walk Through

Project Examples for High School & Middle School

PowerPoint / Publisher Excel

Access Word

• Hometown attraction/event presentation• Sales presentation for a fund raiser• Club membership drive presentation• Presentation of events in your state during

your high school term• Presentation of recent family vacation or

recent trip• How to do something• Decision Making Skills Presentation• Healthy Eating Habits for teenagers• Keys to successful testing• Slide Show Movie

• Club Budget• Personal Budget• Fast Food Nutritional Data• Sports Team Statistics Report• Graph student demographics in your school• Create a plan for financing your dream car• Win a $1,000 shopping spree at the mall –

create a spreadsheet of your planned purchases

• MP3/Music collection spreadsheet• Fitness Chart• Photo collection inventory

• Baseball Card Collection• School sports database• School club database• Video Game database• Address and Telephone database of friends

and family• Newspaper route database• Movie database (including genres and review

scale)• Club Membership Database• Club community service project database

• Poster for School Fundraiser• Family Newsletter• Write a Movie Review• Create a mail merge to student body for the purpose

of increasing club membership (Student Government)

• Create a report layout school trends (technology or fashion) for the current school year.

• Plan your family vacation• Create a Family Tree• Club Newsletter• Create a greeting card from a template• Create a brochure

Putting It All Together

eLearning

Certification

Lesson Plans

Pre-asses

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Post-asses

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Projects

MOS Certification Alignment

Computer Based Hands-on Exams Word and Excel Only Validates advanced Office skills

(depth)

Validated through multiple specialist and expert exams

Validates breadth and depth of Office suite skills

Word Expert, Excel Expert, PPT, & Outlook or Access

CORECORE

EXPERTEXPERT

MASTERMASTER

Computer Based Hands-on Exams Focuses on single Office suite

product Validates Office skills (what & how) Eligible for college credit

SPECIALISTSPECIALISTMicrosoft Office

EXPERTEXPERTMicrosoft Office

Specialist

MASTERMASTERMicrosoft Office

Specialist

Lesson Plans

Microsoft Certification Family

ASSOCIATEASSOCIATEMicrosoft Technology

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTTECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTMicrosoft Certified

IT PROFESSIONAL / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER

IT PROFESSIONAL / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER

Microsoft Certified

MASTERMASTERMicrosoft Certified

ARCHITECTARCHITECTMicrosoft Certified

SPECIALISTSPECIALISTMicrosoft Office

EXPERTEXPERTMicrosoft Office

Specialist

MASTERMASTERMicrosoft Office

Specialist