ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

Attendance

Questions?

Results of Knowledge Test from our first lecture: CALS 85

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.  

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

    Read Syllabus carefully 

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks: 

1. Power Point Presentation (questions?).  Everyone should be ready to give their presentations next week.  Try out your presentation on the computers in Morrill at least three days BEFORE your lab!  Morrill lab has MS Office 2003, so you may have to save your PowerPoint Presentation as the 2003 version, 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). 

2. Zoo cluster & FTP.   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 1

What is an operating system? Video: How Bill Gates became the richest person.