CS 102 Course Materials
Spring 2001

General

• Syllabus.
• Final Grades. (See instructor for password.)
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Maryland.
• Spring 1999 course materials.
• Scanning --- Instructions for using the scanner in HS 149.
• Accessing Your Web on Phoenix.
• The New Revolution: Information Technology.

Reading Assignments

• Jan. 19.
• Jan. 22.
• Feb. 2: Go to Primary types of Web Search Tools and read the pages on Directories, Keyword Indexes, Metasearch Tools, and Searching for People.
• Feb. 5:Evaluating Internet Information, Evaluating Internet Resources.
• Feb. 14: Microsoft Excel 95/97 Basics, Excel Basics. (Each reading is one page.)
• Feb. 26: A Brief History of the Internet, Life on the Internet: Net Timeline.
• Mar. 7: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, read these sections: Getting Started, HTML Documents, Markup Tags, and Linking. The Bare Bones Guide to HTML is an excellent HTML resource. You aren't responsible for anything in it --- just use it if you want to know more about a specific HTML tag.
• Mar 14: Chapters 1 and 2 of the FrontPage 2000 text.
• Mar 16: Chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7 of the FrontPage 2000 text.
• Mar 30: Web Style Guide.

Labs

• Word labs (Jan. 24, 26, 29, 31):
  • Project 3. Following that, you may want to do the Preparing a Resume Practice and the Enhancing the Computer Training Cover Letter Challenge at the end of the Project.
  • Project 4. Following that, you should do the Formatting a Research Paper Practice and the Formatting the Course Descriptions Document Challenge at the end of the Project.
  • Project 5. Following that, you should do the Adding Clip Art to an Invitation Practice and the Adding a Table to the Computer Training Concepts Letter Challenge at the end of the Project.
  • Project 6. Following that, you should do the Merging a Cover Letter for your Resume Practice at the end of the Project.
• Search Engine Lab, Feb. 2.
• Search Engine Comparisons Lab, Feb. 5.
• Evaluating Internet Information Lab, Feb. 7.
• A Javascript Program, Feb. 12.
• Excel I, Feb. 14.
• Excel II, Feb. 16.
• Excel III, Feb. 19. The spreadsheet you are to create.
• HTML Lab, Mar. 7.
• FrontPage 2000 I, Mar. 14.
• FrontPage 2000 II, Mar. 16. The formatted version of the page.

Projects

• Paper I, due Feb. 16. Example of how the references should look.
• Internet Wild Goose Search, due Feb. 26. Solution. (See instructor for password.)
• Excel Project, due Mar. 9.
• Web Site Project, due May 2. Web Style Guide: web site evaluation criteria.
• Optional Project, due May 8.

Quizzes

• Quiz 1.
• Quiz 4 groups.
• Quiz 5.
• Quiz 6 groups.

Class Materials

• Week 0:
  • Jan. 17: Class survey instructions, Class survey document.
• Week 1:
  • Jan. 24: Accessing the Shared Network Drive.

Class Outlines

• Week 0: Jan. 17. Jan. 19.
• Week 1: Jan. 22. Jan. 24. Jan. 26.
• Week 2: Jan. 29. Jan. 31: Last day of MS Word labs. Feb 2.
• Week 3: Feb. 5. Feb. 7. Feb. 9: Technology discussion, quiz.
• Week 4: Feb. 12. Feb. 14. Feb. 16: Excel Exercises.
• Week 5: Feb. 19: Excel Exercises. Feb. 21: Excel Exercises. Feb. 23.
• Week 6: Feb. 26. Feb. 28. Mar. 2.
• Week 7: Mar. 5: Cyberfluency issues discussion. Mar. 7.
• Week 8:
• Week 9: Mar. 30.
• Week 10:
• Week 11: Apr. 13.
• Week 12: Apr. 18: Information Technology Presentation.