Computer Applications for School Administrators

School Administrator, June, 1995 by George E. Pawlas

Survival and success in the principalship can e traced to the administrative use of computers. Today principals need help and support to acquire necessary computer skills and applications.

Such help has been presented by author B. Keith Chambers of Montana State University in Computer Applications for School Administrators. He leads the reader with clear, direct instruction through word processing, data base management, spreadsheets, and desktop publishing. The author provides accurate and simple step-by-step procedures in chapters on developing critical skills and applications in calendaring activities, budgeting, enrollment projections, employee compensation, lease-purchase agreements, newsletters and brochures, and more.

Chambers develops concepts on these topics using both IBM and Macintosh platforms. Relevant problems using information presented in each chapter allow the reader to practice what has been learned. Solutions to the problems are provided in the appendix.

(Computer Applications for School Administrators, by B. Keith Chambers, Technomic Publishing, Co., Box 3535, Lancaster, Pa. 17604, 1994, 158 pp. with index, $24.50 softcover)