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Syllabus Objectives:

1. Become familiar with information technology hardware including the basic internal anatomy of a personal computer.
2. Understand the role of Operating Systems and demonstrate knowledge of command-line UNIX, Windows 7, and OS X.
3. Demonstrate file and folder management on PC, disk, flash memory stick, and zoo home directory server and backup server.
4. Detect and elimination of Computer Viruses & Spyware and protect your PC with Zone Alarm fire-wall software.
5. Demonstrate proficiency with electronic communication: e-mail, etiquette, attachments, and signature files.
6. Be familiar with the Blackboard^® environment and post journal entries.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in presentation graphics applications by giving a presentation in front of a class.
8. Demonstrate proficiency in word processing applications including tabs, hanging indent, and citing references for images and ideas.
9. Demonstrate proficiency in converting between decimal and binary numbers and an understand of using binary to code for text, images, and sound.
10. Demonstrate proficiency in spreadsheet and graphing applications including choosing the correct graph type, given a data set.
11. Understand and demonstrate how to present and interpret data in graphic form including basic descriptive statistics (central tendency and variation).
12. Understand what a peer-reviewed publication is, and the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary data.
13. Demonstrate finding reliable, credible sources of information on the web, and sources in the University library.
14. Find useful data on the Internet, be critical of those data, and interpret those data.
15. Demonstrate knowledge of data classification (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, etc.).
16. Understand, create, and interpret X Y scatter plots, box plots, histograms, population pyramids, and choropleth maps.
17. Create World Wide Web Pages using HTML code and publish on the web using the zoo web server.
18. Understand the history and legacy of computing.
19. Appreciate the utility, benefit, and limitations of computers and information technology.
20. Improve writing skills.

ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

EXAM Two Weeks Away: Nov 6, 8!:   Be on time or lose points. 

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks:
This week:  First Web Page Lab
Next Week: Cascading Style Sheets Web Pages

Reading:  Keyboards, How roller mice work,  How roller and optical mice work, How touch pads work, How active-matrix screens work.  You should have finished reading the TEXT Book.

Websites of the Week:  Quizlet - online flash card generator (Thanks to Tory Gerald for posting on Blackboard), Backup Server - how to set up, How to Evaluate Web Site Credibility, What Peer Review Means, Ten phone apps that can make you smarter (thanks to Kay Tetreault) Here's a TED Talk from the 10 apps on the Khan Academy.  Here's a review of Binary Numbers from Khan Academy.

LECTURE:

   Catholics in the USA, Tsunami 2004 (from Wikipedia.org)

   Good use of Choropleth maps to tell an interesting story

Circle Graphs