CS 150 PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY USING TECHNOLOGY

Instructor: Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou

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Who am I?

Dr. X PhD from North Carolina State University Worked at IBM Post doc researcher at College of William

and Mary Scuba diver, manga comics collector,

science fiction reader

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Course Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Create and format Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets and PowerPoint Presentations.

Enhance your productivity using Word mail merge, Excel charts, formulas, functions, datasets and

tables Present your portfolio using PowerPoint

presentations and rich media tools. Create, edit and improve a professional

webpage.

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Course Objectives (cont.)

At the end of this class you will be able to: Collaborate using cloud computing

documents. Solve professional and everyday life

problems fast and effectively using Microsoft Office 2010.

Secure your documents and understand safety issues.

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My goals

Help you become proficient with tools that will be useful for your college classes and your major

Explore the beauty of the digital world with you

Study cool emerging technologies with you

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Why did you take CS 150?

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Why do you need CS 150?

Word skills used for: Research papers, Essays Curriculum Vitae Automate repeatable (BORING!) tasks

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Why do you need CS 150?

Excel skills for: Automation of repeatable (BORING!)

computations Performance reports, profit and loss reports Graphs Simulation of what if scenarios

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Why do you need CS 150?

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Why do you need CS 150?

PowerPoint used for: Presentation of your portfolio Everyday use: photo album, notes, outlines Games

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Why do you need CS 150?

Cloud computing App Inventor Wix Security and cybercrime

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Lectures

Attendance will have a part in your grade This means: active participation Complete the in-class work Submit the in-class work on Blackboard

Check our class webpage frequently: http://users.ju.edu/xmountr/CS150/

Read the syllabus and collaboration policies

Reading and examples will be posted online on the course webpage.

Lectures

MyITLab will be used for: Practice exercises Homework

You need to buy the access code to access myITLab

You may buy the access code from the bookstore or online

You may also buy the book Online version (e-text) Hard copy version

The book is recommended not required

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Class structure

Some theory A lot of practice!

Class labs (in-class work) with hands on exercises

Interactive Homework

Practice and apply what we have learned Understand

Exams Evaluate your learning

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Grading

Grades will be determined by: Two Excel Exams: 25% Homework: 25% Project: 40% Class Participation: 10%

Submitting in-class work on Black Board 2% extra credit from

Participating in surveys Participating in RCSS meetings

Project

Theme: Build your own company that produces a product or provides services

Deliverables: A website An Excel spreadsheet A simple mobile app A presentation A blog

Project

Teams of two students You will evaluate your teammates

If one did not do his/her share of work… I will be informed

Policies

Cheating means “submitting, without proper attribution, any material that is directly traceable to the intellectual material written by another person.”

Or even better:“Any form of cheating, including concealed notes during exams, copying or allowing others to copy from an exam, students substituting for one another in exams, submission of another person’s work for evaluation, preparing work for another person’s submission, unauthorized collaboration on an assignment, submission of the same or substantially similar work for two courses without the permission of the professors. Plagiarism is a form of Academic Misconduct that involves taking either direct quotes or slightly altered, paraphrased material from a source without proper citations and thereby failing to credit the original author. Cutting and pasting from any source including the Internet, as well as purchasing papers, are forms of plagiarism.”

I give students a failing homework grade (F) for any cheating

A second cheating attempt will be escalated to the chair of our Division

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Policies

You may discuss homework problems with classmates, after you have made a serious effort in trying the homework on your own Empty hands policy

You can use ideas from the literature (with proper citation).

You can use anything from the textbooks/notes.

The homework assignments and projects you submit must be written completely by you.

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Policies

Read the collaboration policy carefully. Late policy:

2% is reduced for every day the homework is late

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How to get help

Join my office hours: 9-10:30 am M/W/F at Merritt Penticoff 203

Or set an appointment with me via e-mail

Communicate: E-mail!!! Check our class website frequently

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Office hours and help-My schedule

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

9:00 am

Office hours

 

Office hours

 

Office hours:30

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10:00 am  

:30 CS 150 prep CS 150 prep   CS 150 prep

11:00 am CS 150 

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 CS 150

:30 CS 455 prep  

12:00 amLunch Lunch

RCSS club meeting

Lunch Lunch:30

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:30CS 455 CS 4552:00 pm

CS 382 prep CS 382 prep

Research work

:30    3:00 pm

CS 382 CS 300 CS 382 CS 300:30

4:00 pm

CS 300 prep CS 300 prep CS 300 prepRecording Lectures

:30

5:00 pm

:30

Color code: green – available, purple – in class, black – available by appointment only,

red – please do not disturb

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How to study?

Practice: actively participate in class Prepare for class Understand: design principles

behind the software packages that we use

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How to study?

Practice again: submit homework on time

Ask for feedback Study from course webpage links Find other resources Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint in other

college classes. Apply what we have learned