A layered approach to tech literacy for social science students

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Level
Tool Box 0-Basics 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Email Sources: Workshops during orientation, online reference documents, quick-fix videos
L0E1 (account, signature, spam, phishing, bcc, reply all, email etiquette, attachments)

L1E1 (Join email list and change settings; holiday messages; using google calendar for appointments)

2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Web L0WW1 (domain names and URLs, search with options, cookies and do not track)

Browsers, clients/servers, cloud apps, forms, creating form with google forms

2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Social Media 0-Basics 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Word Processing

L0WP1 (available applications1, show/hide format symbols; formatting: text and paragraphs; styles, headers and footers (with fields))

Generic etiquette, document fundamentals (double spacing, cover sheets, naming documents)

using the ruler, creating styles, sections, columns, images, captions, cross-references

Citing sources, plagiarism, bibliographic formats, types of reference material.

2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Spreadsheets L0SS1 (available applications, cells, rows, columns, changing size; set print area; simple cell formatting, simple formulas) 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Presentations L0P1 (available applications, change slide type, add slide, delete slide, hide slide, run slide show) 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Applications 0-Basics

Zotero plugin for Chrome, add-in for word; pick up reference from web page; pick up from database; automatically format bibliography in word.

2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
Coding 0-Basics 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
2D 0-Basics 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
AUDIO 0-Basics 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced
VIDEO 0-Basics 1-Skills 2-Tools 3-Courses 4-Advanced