Week 1 Lecture - Getting up to speed with BCIT IT ResourcesBSYS 1000

New Computer Desk by Karin Daziel, CC by 2.0

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7694471.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0UjN0FNUPE

Course textbook◦ Don’t need to buy a print textbook from the bookstore◦ If you mistakenly bought one, you can return

Net Generation & Multitasking My Background Course costs and benefits Tips Key websites Share-in / Share-out

◦ Overview◦ Accessing from home via FTP

Tips and warnings

Agenda

http://dontapscott.com/books/grown-up-digital/

http://www.netgenskeptic.com/

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/tims_editor

“The Internet is a passing fad”

“Twitter is a passing fad”

Cost

• Tuition• Your time and opportunity cost– 2 hrs. in lab, 1 hr. lecture per week– working on your two team projects... approx. 10

hrs.– e-portfolio... approx. 5 hrs.

Benefits

• Equipped with the office tools you will need to be successful in your other courses at BCIT– More productive

• Better job during your time at BCIT or after you graduate– Some grads hired specifically because of good MS

Office skills (especially Excel)

Benefits

• Better equipped for modern, rapidly changing life• Communicate better with the IT Dept.• IT very much embedded in International Trade &

Transportation, Finance and Marketing sectors• You will likely need to be a generalist in your

entry level job• E-Portfolio and social media skills

98.5% of the businesses in B.C. are smallbusinesses (less than 50 employees)

Anti-virus -- free.avg.com

BSYS 1000 Fall 2011 Course Website Access

http://zencoursesites.com/bcit-bsys-1000-fall-2011/

timetables.bcitbusiness.ca

Share-in / Share-out

https://my.bcit.ca/cp/home/displaylogin

Tips and warning...

• Back up all your important work in at least 2-3 different places

• Secure your home computer and/or laptop– Anti-virus– Firewall

• Solve most lab computer problems by just rebooting

• Don’t save important files on the Desktop• Most labs should have Windows 7 installed

Tips and warnings cont...

• Don’t send the wrong files to share-in• Don’t submit files to the wrong folder (e.g.

Wrong set)• Don’t save private material to the Work folder– Other students can see and copy

• Use “strong passwords”(e.g. maBwbA12 vs. pizza)

• Ask your instructors how they prefer to communicate (e.g. Mybcit.ca email, other?)