ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:
Please turn off and put away all laptops & anything with ear buds/head phones, set cell phone/pagers to vibrate. TAKE OUT PAPER AND PEN.
Welcome! Introductions,
Questions?
Labs begin on Tuesday September 6. Bring a 2-Gig pen drive (thumb-drive USB flash memory stick) to lab.
Log into Blackboard, begin weekly technology posting, questions for me or TAs, reactions to other postings, etc.
Reading:
Know the
course pages: Read
Syllabus carefully!
http://www.uvm.edu/~agri085/fall2011/labbook.html
http://www.uvm.edu/~agri085/fall2011/CALS85syllabusFall2011.html
Google
article from Newsweek,
How Search
Engines work from Sci
Am. Use your
zoo/netID login and password to read online with Adobe
Acrobat.
LECTURE:
Preview of Lab Next Week: PowerPoint Presentation. Example.
Everyone should be giving their presentations in lab the week after next (Sept 12-16). Try out your presentation on the computer in the lab BEFORE your lab and give yourself time to fix it if needed! The labs have MS Office 2010, so older versions PowerPoint Presentation should work, or convert the file with zamzar.com. If you are sick or have an accident and have to miss lab, notify your lab instructor BEFORE LAB or you will earn no credit (zero) if you are absent.
You may also use Google Docs Presentations (you need a Google Account) (more here).
Knowledge Quiz