Information Technology Self-Assessment Tool 4

Information Technology Self-Assessment Tool 4

Information Technology Self-Assessment Tool 4

For this writing assignment, complete the Information Technology Self-Assessment Tool. When completed review and determine at least three new goals you would like to achieve. Submit your completed form with a brief description of your experience and comfort level with the use of technology not only in your Program but as a practicing nurse.

Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the ‘.docx’ extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

ORDER CUSTOM, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER

Virginia Niebuhr, Donna D’Alessandro, Marney Gundlach

This tool is designed to help you to assess your information technology skills and to develop short-term goals.

Rate yourself on how successfully you can complete the following skills:

1. I have never done this before

2. I could do this with help

3. I can do this alone, but might make some mistakes

4. I can do this alone with confidence

5. I can teach others to do this skill

Never Done

With Help

Alone

Confident

Can Teach Others

Word Processing, i.e. Microsoft Word

I can cut and paste text within a document

1

2

3

4

5

I can change font size, style, and color

1

2

3

4

5

I can create bulleted or numbered lists

1

2

3

4

5

I can create a table and adjust columns and rows

1

2

3

4

5

I can create a hyperlink

1

2

3

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5

Spreadsheets, i.e. Microsoft Excel

I can create a new table (spreadsheet)

1

2

3

4

5

I can use math functions (e.g. sum, mean, percent)

1

2

3

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5

I can create a graph and adjust the properties

1

2

3

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5

PowerPoint Presentations

I can create handouts from the presentation

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2

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5

I can change font size, style, and color

1

2

3

4

5

I can insert a picture or ClipArt

1

2

3

4

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade tInformation Technology Self-Assessment Tool 4o suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.