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Dear students,
We officially start the class today. I hope you are all prepared and feeling confident to move on with this journey. As you introduce yourself, please indicate your experience with computers, your time zone, your computer platform (PC or MAC), and your MS application software package (e.g. 2010). Please make sure that your MS Office 2010 includes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Discussion questions are posted under the conferences for each chapter. Please respond to the topics posted there and interact with other students. Each week runs from Monday to Sunday and all conference activities will be closed on the following Monday morning.
Additionally, please check in at the Cyber Café conference to communicate with each other and post any question related or not to the course. Furthermore, you should also do concept checkups required on the particular week. To get to the Concept Checkups please follow these steps:
Course content > Course Resources > Additional Resources > Concept Checkups
Below is the Checklist for this week.
Checklist for Week One:
· Read Chapter 1 – An introduction to Computers
· Read Chapter 2 – Inside the Computer: Processing and Memory
· Participate in the Introductions conference
· Participate in the Week One conference topics
· Work on MS Word 2010, Units D and E
· Send a Private message to me using Private Message Feature on WebTycho – to make sure you are able to contact me
· Send an e-mail to me using my e-mail address
visar.azemi@faculty.umuc.edu
– to make sure you are able to contact me
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns.
Good luck!
Visar
New Technological Improvements
Describe a technology that you use every day and the benefits and risks associated with that use. If you chose not to use this technology because of the possible risks associated with it, how would your life be affected?
Assignment
The answers should be in your own words and not just a copy from some source.
· All students should submit their answer as a response to this topic.
· You should list the sources you used to develop your definition.
· This is an open forum for discussion.
· Students should respond to each other’s posting and address any questions posted to them by the other students or the instructor.
The Future Computer
If you were asked to design a hypothetical computer of tomorrow, the equivalent of a desktop or notebook PC today, how big would that computer be? Would it be portable or built into furniture or some other object? Should it be wearable or embedded in a person’s body? What is the ideal future computer?
Assignment
The answers should be in your own words and not just a copy from some source.
· All students should submit their answer as a response to this topic.
· You should list the sources you used to develop your definition.
· This is an open forum for discussion.
· Students should respond to each other’s posting and address any questions posted to them by the other students or the instructor.
Processor and Memory
All students should research the kind and type of processor and memory in their machine and post the specifications here. You should be able to find the basic information about the type and amount of processor and memory through your operating systems or CMOS setup program. The specifications should be able to be found on the Internet too.
Assignment
The answers should be in your own words and not just a copy from some source.
· All students should submit their answer as a response to this topic.
· You should list the sources you used to develop your definition.
· This is an open forum for discussion.
· Students should respond to each other’s posting and address any questions posted to them by the other students or the instructor.
