General material you should know:

• Go over course and other part of the Syllabus
• CSCI 104 Test Out
• The Edinboro computing environment
  • Why do I want/need to connect to the EUP network?
  • What do I need and how do I connect to the EUP network?
  • Should I use the e-mail EUP provided or my other on-line e-mail account?
  • How do I check my EUP e-mail?
  • Where can I go to use a computer?, What's software is on them?
  • Tech & Comm published “Technology Handbook”
• Tech and Comm website resources
• Make sure you can use your e-mail
• MS Office Assignments ← ** Important **

	REQUIRED RESOURCE!  THIS IS OUR "TEXTBOOK"! You will need to purchase the Lynda.com access from Lynda.com website. This is the only place you can purchase the access for this college course. The access level you need is $24.99 per month.  You will have access to the required course videos as well as the other 4,000 videos.  Lynda.com offers a free 10 day trial period, so you can sign up for the free trial right now and start the subscription payment after the 10 day free period. This is our primary textbook and the assignments and notes will be aligning with the videos from Lynda.com. This is a required resource! (and a good deal compared to most course texts) Get the "Standard Package"  & below are the practice file FILES Download the zip file and then extract the items into a folder Exercise files for Windows play list Computer Literacy for Windows Word 2013 Excel 2013 Excel 2013 - functions and formulas Power-point 2013 Office for students Exercise files for Mac Play list Computer Literacy for Mac Word 2011 Excel 2011 Excel 2011- functions and formulas Power-point 2011 Office for students
	I strongly recommend you purchase a copy of the reference book: Title: Office 2013 In Depth Author: Joe Habraken This book is to be used as a reference book to look up various skills as you work through the application.  We will not be "working through" this book. The hope is that you will find it useful enough to keep it when the course is complete. Best practices would be for you to "mark" various topics that you find difficult to remember.  There are special tab sticky notes you can purchase to mark these pages (I find they work great, certainly better than just dog-earring the page).  You will find this very helpful for exams and as you complete some of the items for the portfolio.
	You will need a copy or access to a copy of MS Office 2013 or Office 365 or Office 2011/2016 for MAC.  Office is available on all Edinboro Computer labs. Edinboro University provides students with a copy of Office 365 and the desktop version (Office 2013).  This can be downloaded and installed on your computer for use in this course.  The link Technology Resources - student information is Office 365 Advantage
	Office 365 is a subscription service.  Office 2011/2013 is the desktop software that you can purchase for your computer and have forever.  Your subscription to Office 365 is already provided by Edinboro University so you do not need to purchase Office 2011/2013.  To read more about Office 365 vs Office 2011/2013: Plural Sight How To Geek If you have any problems you need to call the Edinboro help desk at (814) 732-2111 or use the link: Help Desk

1/18 - 2/5

(3 Weeks)

Assignment 1:Using Windows Explorer - show me a good directory structure of your flash drive for this semester.  This will include directories for each course, topics, and assignments.

• On the root of your flash drive or "S" drive make a folder for this semester (i.e.Spring 2016).  Then make a separate folder for each course you are currently taking.

  • Within the folder for this class (CSCI 104 - Essentials of Computing I), make folders for each sub-topic:
    • Concepts Homework
    • MS Word
    • MS Power Point
    • MS Excel
    • Portfolio Report
  • In the MS Word Directory make folders for:
    • Job Document
    • Resume
    • Cover Letter
    • Computer System

  Watch this Video on how to use Windows Explorer, getting started with this project

• Eventually you will put the homework file you will make for this assignment and the PC purchase assignment in the concepts homework folder that you made for this assignment.
• Do a print screen of your directory structure showing the folders, paste it into MS Word, and turn in to the D2L drop box. .
• Read through the this Power-point on Good Passwords and Email
• Due:1/28

Assignment 2: Knowing how to purchase a PC.

Watch the following video to get some background info on what your needs are:

You have $750 to buy a laptop, go to www.HP.com and customize a laptop for this price or less. Using MS Word give a short reason why you chose the processor, RAM size, Hard-drive size and if you got a CD Burner or not and any other special options.

Screen print the listing from the web site and attach the word document to it. Put it in the D2L drop box

Link to Sample of good solution.

Assignment 3: Lynda  Videos & Concepts Scavenger Hunt

• View Lynda Videos:
  • Computer Literacy for Windows - Intro, plus the 10 videos and conclusion
  • Or if you generally use a Mac -Computer Literacy for Mac - all plus 10 videos plus conclusion
• Some Review Questions I go over in the lecture you may want to look at and ask questions about
• Computing Concepts Exam -> this is the "Computing Concepts Internet Scavenger Hunt" quiz in D2L

Concepts Quiz  2/9  !!!

2/8 - 2/26

(3 Weeks)

Microsoft Word

We are using Lynda.com for our course text book instead of a traditional text book.  We'll start out with:

Word 2013 Essential Training: Chapters 1 → 14 (except 10 & 12)

I also made some videos for the on-line version of this course
(Navigate to the Microsoft Word box)

MS Word Assignments

• Read the portfolio project description
• Review the style guide
• MS Word Assignments in the portfolio project
  • Job Document → Sample
  • Cover Letter → Sample
  • Resume → Sample
  • Computer Systems → Sample

 

2/29 - 3/4
(Extra)

3/14 - 4/8

(4 Weeks)

4/11 - 4/22

(2 Weeks)

Power Point 2013 Essential Training

There is also material from Microsoft at: Microsoft tutorial

Sample Exam

We'll have the Power Point exam integrated into the final exam.

Final Exam - Comprehensive, hands-on, based on Word, Excel & Power Point

12:30 section- Thursday @ 10:15 am - 12:15 pm

2:00 section - Tuesday @ 12:30 - 2:30

Notes about the Final Exam