Content Standard (Post 6)

I am going to work with Content Standard 7 for Technology Instruction Grades 9-12.

This standard will allow me to use Inspiration because I will be able to have students create concept maps of new key concepts that students are expected to explore.  For example, students can create a concept map about electronic publishing or accepted principles of design after researching and/or reading articles about the selected topic. 

This content standard also lends itself perfectly for visual learners.  Because students are required to design video and multimedia, generate images in a 3D format, and work with images, visual learners will benefit from many different activities related to this standard that require critical viewing. Screen shots, which are helpful to visual learners, will also be provided for students to help them utilize and work with new technologies and key concepts.      

Communications Systems
Content Standard 7: Students will understand and be able to effectively apply physical, graphic and electronic communications techniques in processing, transmitting, receiving and organizing information.
	a.     describe electronic publishing and give examples of this technology
	b.     demonstrate the proper use of the terminology associated with electronic publishing graphic arts and computers
	c.     identify and describe component functions of a microcomputer electronic publishing system
	d.     apply accepted design principles of text and graphics to the layout of printed and electronically published materials
	e.     operate a scanner and digitize a video image using appropriate software
	f.     demonstrate skills in marketing printed products
	g.     send and access information through a network
	h.     design and produce a video and multimedia production
	i.     capture a signal from an orbiting satellite
	j.     transfer information using laser transmission technology
	k.     communicate using fiber optic cables
	l.     operate a computer-aided drafting (CAD) system
	m.     generate a computer image of an object in 3D format
	n.     render an object to include texture, density, lighting and rotational movement
	o.     export and import images in a variety of file forms