Information Technology Fluency I - CIT11
Professor: Priscilla Grocer
Office: K-112
Phone: 508-678-2811 ext. 2403
Course Description:
This course will introduce the students to the technical and application concepts of information technology. The
students will develop a basic understanding of computing, operating systems, application packages in word processing and
excel and the basics of developing a web site. The students learning will involve acquiring the intellectual knowledge as
well as the concepts, skills and the capabilities essential to a deep understanding of information technology. This is the
first of three courses needed to fulfill this objective.
Course Objectives:
This is the first course in the three course Information Technology Fluency certificate. The goal of this course is to
allow students to develop fluency in information technology and allow them to successfully apply this fluency to their
professional and personal lives. The courses will cover the intellectual capabilities, information technology concepts and
information technology skills as laid out in the Being Fluent with Information Technology guidelines.
This certificate provides students with the opportunity to develop skills in computers that is beyond the literacy level but
is still not the intensity required to be a computer major. This certificate follows the national guidelines developed by the
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council and their goal to "address what everyone needs to know
and understand about information technology".
- Foundation of computer skills and hardware and software concepts
- Basic concepts of data storage
- Basic concepts of computer components
- Basic concepts of word processing
- Basic concepts of spreadsheet development
- Basic concepts of an operating system
- Basic concepts of web page development
- Basic concepts of searching and researching
- Techniques of problems solving when technology "goes wrong"
Textbook:
Fluency with Information Technology
by Larry Snyder
ISBN 0-201-75491-6
Addison Wesley
Course outline for course:
- Concepts
- basic computing concepts
- introduction to technology
- using a computer to do word processing
- internet concepts
- netequette
- email
- creating web pages using HTML
- effective use of search engines
- research and the web
- solving computing problems (basic level)
- more on how a computer works
- operating systesm and networking (introduction)
- introduction to alorithmic thinking
- spreadsheets
- Skills and capabilities
- word processing
- HTML and web page development
- operating systems
- spreadsheets
Requirements:
There will be a lot of reading, homework assignments, researching for information and projects.
Scheduling information about assignments, projects and exams will be kept
on the Web site. Students are responsible for checking the schedule and doing the assigned work.
Grading:
- 10% Final exam
- 80% Homework, projects and quizzes
- 10% Class participation, responsibility about work, keeping up to date, quality of work, adding extras that are above and beyond, showing initiative, figuring out problems etc.
Evaluation:
Assignments and programs are graded using either number grades or letter grades based on
the following (A=90-100), B=(80-89), C=(70-79), D=(60-69), F=below 60). The students grade
for the course will use the same scale and will be based on the percentages explained in
the grading section. Plus and minus grades will be given.
Many of the assignments in this class are open ended - the grading will be based on how well
the project demonstrates mastery of the material. Students who do a minimum of work will be graded
accordingly. Resubmission is allowed on open-ended projects to improve grades.
Note: Non open-ended assignments that are completed accurately, with no errors, according to the parameters of the assignment will be
graded as A. To achieve an A+, students must have done sufficient extra work in design or implementation that makes the
assignment standout. In doing assignments, students must do their own work. Relying too heavily on my examples or working
too closely with someone else will be penalized.
Methodology:
The course is being taught as a distance learning course. The
student is responsible for keeping up to date with assignments, studying notes and
presentations and finding additional tutorials and resources to support their learning.
This SYLLABUS is not to be construed as a CONTRACT in any way, shape, manner or form.
This SYLLABUS is a SUGGESTED course OUTLINE and will be GENERALLY followed, subject to
change according to the INSTRUCTOR'S discretion and needs. Academic FLEXIBILITY is important!
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