What are Essential Computer Skills?
• I.(2 wks) Introduction to Computing, Hardware Terminology, Operating Systems, Electronic Mail, TU Computing Center Policy (Skills 1, 6, 7)
• Windows XP, UNIX Operating System, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook Web Access
The System UnitThe System UnitWhat is the motherboard?
Also called the system board Main circuit board in the
system unit Contains many
electronic components
• II (1 wk) Research on Web, Browsers, Internet Search Engines (Skill 6)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
• III(1 1/2 wk) Word Processing and Downloading Web Graphics, Decompressing Files (Skills 2, 6)
• Microsoft Word 2003
• IV(3 wks) Producing Graphics, Digital Camera, Scanner, Processing of Graphics, Creating Slide Presentations (Skill 5)
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
Postcards
Presentations
• Pascal
• Ethics
• Psychology
• V (2 wks) Using Spreadsheets to Solve Quantitative Problems, Spreadsheet Creation and Chart Presentations (Skill 3)
• Microsoft Excel 2003
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• VI (3 wks) Computer Networks and the World Wide Web, Downloading and Installing Applications, File Transfer Protocol, HTML and Web Page Construction (Skills 2, 5, 6)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Front Page 2003
WEBSITES
• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~epalomaa
• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~aknapp/index.htm
• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jlamba/
• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~swingfie
• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~emurillo
• VII (1 1/2 wk) Using
Databases to Organize
Information; Database
Design, Reports, Updates,
Queries (Skill 4)
• Microsoft Excel 2003,
Microsoft Access 2003
Plant ID
Common Name
GenusSpecies
Flowering
2 Sweet William
Diantus barbatus
Yes
3 Amethyst Flower
Browallia speciosa
Yes
4 Butterfly Bush
Buddleia alternifolia
Yes
5 Canterbury Bell
Campunula
medium Yes
6 Foxglove Digitalis purpurea
Yes
7 Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Yes
8 Lotus Nelumbo nucifera Yes
9 Cranesbill Geranium himalayense
Yes
10 Costmary Chrysanthemum
balsamita
Yes
11 Catnip Nepeta cataria No
12 Wormwood Artemisia absinthium
Yes
14 Marigold Mint
Tagetes lucida Yes
15 Bluebonnet lupine texana Yes
16 Yes
Technological Literacy• “Computers are useless. They can only
give you answers. . . .Pablo Picasso
Visual Literacy• The proper artistic response to digital
technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything that's eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy.
. . .Ralph Lombreglia
Cultural Literacy• "There are no passengers on spaceship
earth. We are all crew."
–Marshall McLuhan
So . . . . .
. . .let’s get to work!
Essential Computer Skills 1300Trinity University
Fall 2005