For further information on class progression, exam, quiz and homework visit the course’s blackboard site.
Assignment deadlines are available on blackboard - you are required to catch up on the material on your own if you missed class. Exceptions to these deadlines can be made, but only by instructor permission on a case-by-case basis. If you will be missing classes because of illness, family responsibilities, athletic competition etc., inform your instructor as early as possible so an alternate study schedule can be established for you.
Student Learning Goals
Essential Course Components (Activities)
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With the rapid advance in Internet and PC-based software and hardware, technologies have undergone tremendous changes over the past few years. Students are introduced to a variety of computer-based technological skills being used in businesses. Among these are Internet basics, spreadsheets, databases, web page authoring, virtual presentation tools and online information sharing, online information validation and collaboration services and tools.
You are expected to show up for class, to participate, to complete the exams and solve all assignments and projects.
You are required to attend every class. Your attendance will partially determine your final grade in the class (“Grades” for details), in particular when your grade is close to a cut-off line. If you missed a class because you got sick or something else happened that forced you to skip, make sure you catch up on the material before next class.
Computers are to be used solely to work on class material during class time. If you use the computers for anything else you will receive a very low participation score. It is quite easy to see and hear from the front of the room if someone is using the computer inconsistently with the class material presented. Also, if you choose to use your cell phones or similar during class time you will also not score highly in the Participation category.
Homework = 60%
Projects = 20%
Quizzes/In-class assignments = 10%
Attendance & Participation= 10%
A : 93-100
A- : 90-92
B+ : 88-89
B : 83-87
B- : 80-82
C+ : 78-79
C : 73-77
C- : 70-72
D+ : 68-69
D : 63-67
D- : 60-62
F : 0-59
Note: Scores will be rounded.
There will be at least two projects. You may have time to work on these in class. In addition, you will have to work on them outside class as well. You will have several weeks to complete each project.
There will quizzes as well as in class assignments that are to be completed during class by end of the class session.
We cannot grade what we cannot read! This class is intended to develop your professional skills, and thus, the material you turn in should also look professional. In general: write legibly, make your answers short and significant, type and print whenever possible. Spell and grammar check your work.
In compliance with St. John Fisher College policy and applicable laws, appropriate academic accommodations are available to you if you are a student with a disability. All requests for accommodations must be supported by appropriate documentation/diagnosis and determined reasonable by St. John Fisher College. Students with documented disabilities (physical, learning, psychological) who may need academic accommodations are advised to make an appointment with the Coordinator of Services for students with disabilities in the Office of Academic Affairs, Kearney 202. Late notification will delay requested accommodations.
Please be aware that any work you complete for this course may be photocopied and kept on file for the benefit of studying assessment of student learning.
Week
Topic
Week 1
Start-up and Orientation
Course Orientation
Blackboard, “P” drive, File/Folder maintenance,
Accounts (network login, e-mail, Blackboard, etc.),
Syllabus review, Attendance and Participation
Week 2
Internet Basics
Internet Resources and Searching
Week 3
Excel and Spreadsheet programming
Details TBD
Week 4
Excel and Spreadsheet programming
Details TBD
Week 5
Excel and Spreadsheet programming
Details TBD
Week 6
Excel and Spreadsheet programming
Details TBD
Week 7
Excel and Spreadsheet programming
Details TBD
Week 8
Excel and Spreadsheet programming
Details TBD
Week 9
Access and Database systems
Details TBD
Week 10
Access and Database systems
Details TBD
Week 11
Access and Database systems
Details TBD
Week 12
Access and Database systems
Details TBD
Week 13
Introduction to HTML and Graphics
Constructing Web Pages
Creating Web Graphics
Week 14
Animation programming
SwishMax
Core Course Details
P4: EXPLORATIONS OF THE NATURAL AND TECHNICAL WORLD
These courses are intended to explore specific scientific, mathematical, and technical topics and relate them to contemporary developments. These courses will apply and analyze a discipline-specific process to solve a problem. It will also highlight how other disciplines and the world have been influenced because of the themes of the course. Students are expected to complete two courses in this area of the core. These courses can be from any discipline or combination of disciplines that satisfy the course goals and are designated as core courses, unless your major dictates otherwise. Courses in this core area emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the course content and its application to solve problems in the world around us, making them distinct from those courses satisfying SQ requirements, which are about the nature of science and mathematics.
It is expected that each student has read, understands and conforms to the policy on Academic Honesty as outlined in the St. John Fisher College Bulletin and the Student Handbook. These standards fully apply to all assignments and lab exercises. Any plagarism will result in an F for the assignment.
Collaboration among classmates is encouraged to help one another in the learning and mastery of web surfing and HTML techniques. Effective web surfing is a "skill" best learned by spending time on the Internet and sharing thoughts, ideas, and discoveries.
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Last Modified: 1/11/2015