CIS 110
Computer Literacy

Fall 2009

http://www2.umassd.edu/CISW3/CoursePages/pages/cis110/outline.html

Course Objectives Course Information Course Principles Portal
WeekDateTopic Reading Assignment
1 Sept. 2

Fluency

Sept. 4

History

  1. Review the Course Information and Course Principles.

  2. Become familiar with access to your course portfolio (Learning Portal). The functions and features provided require some familiarity. All your submissions for this course will be presented in the Portal. It is to your advantage to become a user of this system. Please refer to the user's guide for assistance.

    The Learning Portal is available at http://web.cis.umassd.edu. If you have not used Portal in a previous class, you must register as a new user.

  3. Reading are assigned for the next class period. The purpose is to have you read the material that will be discussed prior to the discussion. I believe in active classes which require students who are current with the course materials.

2 Sept. 7
Labor Day - No Class
Sept. 9

Computers

Chapter 1

Sept. 11

3 Sept. 14

Computer (cont.)

Chapter 2

History Worksheet
Sept. 16

Interface

Sept. 18

4 Sept. 21

conclude Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Sept. 23

Formatting Tasks

Sept. 25

Chapter 3

5 Sept. 28

Networking (cont.)

Sept. 30

Networking (cont.)

Oct. 2

Networking (conclusion)

Chapter 4

6 Oct. 5

HTML

Oct. 7

HTML (cont.)

Oct. 9

Exam 1 - Covers chapters 1-3 in text and all lecture notes thus far.

Monday, Oct. 12th, is Columbus Day. No Classes!
Tuesday, Oct. 13th follow a Monday class schedule.
7 Oct. 13

HTML (cont.)

Oct. 14

HTML (cont.)

HTML (cont.)

Oct. 16

URLs in HTML

8 Oct. 19

URLs in HTML

Oct. 21: Mid-semester
Oct. 21

URLs in HTML

Oct. 23

Anchors and Links

9 Oct. 26

Search the Web

Chapter 5

Oct. 28

Search the Web

Oct. 30

Organizing Information

10 Nov. 2

Bits and Bytes

Nov. 4

Bits and Bytes (cont.)

Nov. 6

Bits and Bytes (cont.)

11 Nov. 9

Nov. 11

Veterans Day: No Class

Nov. 13

Nov. 12 is the last day to withdraw from Fall classes.
12 Nov. 16

Multimedia

Chapter 11

Nov. 18

Exam 2

Covers material on www, html, searching, and binary representation.

Nov. 20

Multimedia (cont.)

13 Nov. 23

Spreadsheet

Nov. 25

Thanksgiving Recess: Nov. 25 - Nov. 29
14 Nov. 30

Dec. 2

Dec. 4

15 Dec. 7

Dec. 9

Dec. 11

16 Dec. 14

Dec. 15th is the last day of class. Dec. 16th, is a study day.
Final Exams: Dec. 17-23
Final Exam: December 21, 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM