ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

Attendance

Labs meet this week!

Results of Knowledge and Skills Test

Questions?  Posting in Blackboard?

Websites of the Week: http://www.intellicast.com/ and NOAA Weather pages, Google Docs with video explanation.  Google Docs can be yet another place to save your work!  Create an account, try saving some files there, and share those that you are working on with others.

Reading: How Internet e-mail works.  Google article from Newsweek, How Search Engines work from Sci Am.  Use your zoo/netID login and password to read online with Adobe Acrobat.

    Textbook on Graphing, Read Sections 1-2 (pages 0-16)

    Digital cameras from How Things Work ,   How digital cameras work from Sci Am . 

    Read Syllabus carefully (may be a question on first exam!) 

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks: 

1. Power Point Presentation (questions?).  Everyone should be giving their presentations in lab next week.  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. 

2. Zoo cluster & WinSCP.   Draw the connection between PC and zoo.  Learn how to save things on the zoo file server and upload and download these files with WinSCP.  Download and install WinSCP on your own PC, or Fetch or Fugu on Macs.  Capture screen and windows/sections in screen.  In Mac, google search "screen capture in Mac".

LECTURE:

Information Technology in perspective: Time Line

What is an operating system? Video: How Bill Gates became the richest person (on Reserve in the Media Library downstairs in Bailey-Howe, under: Triumph of the Nerds: Riding the Bear).