Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v4 - SHS 1
ORGANISING, MANAGING AND PRESENTING INFORMATION USING ESSENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY
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ORGANISING, MANAGING AND PRESENTING INFORMATION USING ESSENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY
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Subject: Ict
Class: SHS 1
Term: 1st Term
Week: 7
Grade code: 1.1.1.LI.5
Strand code: 1
Sub-strand code: 1
Content standard code: 1.1.1.CS.1
Indicator code: 1.1.1.LI.5
Theme: ICTs IN THE SOCIETY
Subtheme: ORGANISING, MANAGING AND PRESENTING INFORMATION USING ESSENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY
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In our daily lives, both in school and beyond, we create a lot of digital information—from typing assignments and letters to preparing reports. If we don't know how to store this information properly, we risk losing all our hard work, especially with unpredictable power supply ("dumsor"). Furthermore, we often need to produce a physical copy (a "hard copy") of our documents to submit to teachers, apply for opportunities, or share with others. This lesson focuses on the fundamental and essential skills of saving and printing digital documents using common productivity software like Microsoft Word. Mastering these skills is a vital step towards becoming digitally literate and efficient.
This lesson will focus on three core commands found in almost all productivity applications (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint). We will use Microsoft Word as our primary example. Concept 1: Saving a Document
When you create a document on a computer, it is temporarily held in the computer's Random Access Memory (RAM). RAM is volatile, which means its contents are lost when the computer loses power. To store your work permanently, you must save it to a non-volatile storage device, such as the computer's hard drive, a pen drive (flash drive), or cloud storage.
There are two primary commands for saving: Save and Save As.
A. The "Save As" Command