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| Assignments due in one week unless otherwise stated. I may add some things during the week, so double check the schedule each week! | ||
| Week #1 Assignments Week of September 1st |
Please read the pages under About This Course which include Read Me First,
Introduction to CIT11 and the Syllabus. Please read though the chapter entitled Terms of Endearment - Defining IT. On the preliminary version of the book this is chapter #1 and #2, on the final version it is just chapter #1. Read several articles about the history of computers - you can find links for these articles under Information Links at this site. Assignments to turn in: Logbook assignment due at the end of the semester |
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| Week #2 Assignments Week of September 8th |
Please read the chapter in your text entitled What the Digerati Know. I would experiment
with some of the things covered in the chapter using a computer - playing helps! This week I want you to get involved with a word processor. Information about open source word processors, Word and WordPerfect are available at the web site under links. Please let me how familiar you are with word processing. Your assignment will be based on your evaluation of yourself. Note that the reading you do on word processing can be entered as logbook entries. Assignments to turn in: Word Processing assignment Due in three weeks | |
| Week #3 Assignments Week of September 15th |
Please read the chapter in your text entitled Making the Connection. Your logbook entries this week should be on subjects related to the Internet. There are a couple of sites on my list of links that provide lots of information in a wide variety of areas. Read to supplement what you read in the book and follow your interests. Assignments to turn in: Continue working on the word processing assignment given last week. |
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| Week #4 Assignments Week of September 22th |
Please read the chapter in your text entitled Marking Up with HTML. Be sure to check out some of the HTML Tutorials under links - you should use HTML for your logbook this week! Please view the web site and HTML presentations and the HTML examples that can be found at: Notes, examples and presentations Assignments to turn in: HTML Assignment Due in two weeks |
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| Week #5 Assignments Week of September 29th |
Please read the chapter in your text entitled Searching for Truth. Assignments to turn in: Web search assignment |
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| Week #6 Assignments Week of October 6th |
Please read the chapter in your text entitled Searching for Guinea Pig B. Assignments to turn in: Write a short paper: Assume that you are a college instructor or high school teacher explaining to your students how to make sure that that the information they get off the web is factual and reliable. What guidelines will you give your students? |
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| Week #7 Assignments Week of October 13th |
We are going to continue working with the web this week. Please get your pages
set to be able to load them onto a web site. Look at the PowerPoint presentation
about loading pages to a site using a free provider. I used www.brinkster.com. Assignments to turn in: I want you to get your web pages loaded on the web. I would suggest signing up for a free site at www.brinkster.com and then following my directions on the presentation. When you site is loaded, send me the address. If you have problems, let me know. Lets try for having it up in three weeks. Do the exercises on page 174 (the end of chapter #6). |
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| Week #8 Assignments Week of October 20th |
Please read the chapter in your text entitled Too Err is Human. Assignments to turn in: Do the exercises on page 201 and 202 at the back of chapter #7. I ended up feeling to sick to go to the conference, so I am home and willing to correct and help - so continue sending email!. |
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| Week #9 Assignments Week of October 27th |
Please read the chapter in your text entitled Bits and the "Why" of Bytes. You should also read the handout about numbering systems and codes under Notes and handouts. (Please note that this handout deals with 7 bit ASCII and you are going to deal with 8 bit ASCII as described in your text). You can also find other sites to reference under your site links. Assignments to turn in: Numbering systems and codes |
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| Week #10 Assignments Week of November 3rd |
Read the chapter in your book entitled Following Instructions. Do some additional
reading under the links for this course on hardware and operating systems. Try
to develop a basic understanding of hardware components and how an operating system
works. You should also understand a little about the various kinds of operating
system in use today. One of the last topics in this course is spreadsheets. If you do not have a good book on Excel, let me know and I will let you use one of mine. Assignments to turn in: Quiz on hardware and operating systems use your book and resources on the web Hard drive paths assignment |
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| Week #11 Assignments Week of November 10th |
Read the chapter in the book called Sound, Light, Magic. Note that we are
skipping a chapter that we will cover later - probably in another course. Find a web site that deals with Excel and do start to get comfortable with its use. Look at the presentation on introduction to Excel. Assignments to turn in: Buy a Computer After looking at the presentation on introduction to Excel, I want you to create the spreadsheet that I created. |
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| Week #12 Assignments Week of November 17th |
Spend some time with Excel tutorials or Excel text books and become comfortable
with some of the basic concepts of creating an Excel spreadsheet. Be sure to
look at things like copying formulas etc. Assignments to turn in: Spreadsheet assignment | |
| Week #13 Assignments Week of November 24th |
I have set up a site at Brinkster to use with you. The site is
To debug To get to this site the password is cisfluency. I will send you the password via email. There is a page called debug1.html in the subdirectory robin. It uses an image in the subdirectory images and wants to link to a page in more. This shows you the page in the subdirectory more. This is another page Assignments to turn in: Your assignment is to debug this web site and get it working. I want the image to come up and I want to link to the other page. You should also add a link in the second page to link back to the first. | |
| Week #14 Assignments Week of December 1st |
Excel Mous Assignments to turn in: Look through the specifications and tell me which ones you know how to do. Pick 5 things that you do not know how to do and demonstrate them in a spreadsheet. | |
| Week #15 Assignments Week of December 8th |
No new work this week. Your final is due on December 18th by 7:00. The final and the required status sheet will be posted one week before the final. | |
| Final Exam Week Week of December 15th |
I have sent out the final and the required status sheet. The final has a
spreadsheet that I converted to the format you needed.
Here is the required status sheet:
Status sheet Final Exam |
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