CIS 1-A Introduction and Welcome Stefan Bund, MS

CIS 1-AIntroduction and

Welcome

Stefan Bund, MS

http://websites.rcc.edu/bund/

you’ll use this site for all your assignments, syllabus and lesson plans

you’ll email me at:

stefan.bund@rccd.eduand telephone me at 949.433.7487 (Text ok

too!)

our syllabus is ready for download

at:

please visit this address now:

my RCC website, where we’ll go to the first week

acquaint yourself with the structure of the site, and how it works

CIS 1-A is aboutusing word processing, spreadsheets,

presentation media and the internet to,generate original research, prepare for

undergraduate coursework in all majors, andgenerally have a good time (geeking out)

kidding -- CIS 1-A with me works like a virutal research laboratory, where you will hone

your technology skills while working on an authentic research project

get ready to learn!

general statistics for Riverside

•population, 2,189,641 (for the county)

•median age 33.7

•163,248 companies

•79.3% high school graduates

•800,707 housing units

•median income, $58,365

more stats on us

•foreign born, 477,852 (~22%)

•% below poverty level, 14.2%

•veterans, 140, 659 (6%)

how did we get here?

where are we going?

energy health

education transportation

culture work

shopping justice

government safety

can we be reassured that the future will resemble the present?

how can we predict where we are

going?•take a look at simple numeric

indicators like:

•price of alternatives

•what people can afford vs what they already spend

•what do people wish for?

•what works, what does not work

in CIS 1-A, we will do all of that

•to arrive at a clearer picture of where we are going, and what the future will likely hold

but for now...

•we will study how to get knowledge, so on with our final exercise:

•on a piece of paper, write down 5 questions

•ask these 5 questions of 3 people nearby you in this lecture hall

•collect their responses

how did it go?•was it efficient to collect data this

way?

•do you know what the average answer was?

•can you summarize or make a conclusion from your data?

•what’s missing? Can you collect data this way for, say, a thousand people?