Essential Computer Skills 1300

Lyn Belisle, Instructor

Halsell 201G

lyn.belisle@trinity.edu

What are Essential Computer Skills?

• I.(2 wks) Introduction to Computing, Hardware Terminology, Operating Systems, Electronic Mail, TU Computing Center Policy (Skills 1, 6, 7) 

• Windows XP, UNIX Operating System, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook Web Access

The System UnitThe System UnitWhat is the motherboard?

Also called the system board Main circuit board in the

system unit Contains many

electronic components

• II (1 wk) Research on Web, Browsers, Internet Search Engines (Skill 6) 

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

• III(1 1/2 wk) Word Processing and Downloading Web Graphics, Decompressing Files (Skills 2, 6) 

• Microsoft Word 2003

• IV(3 wks) Producing Graphics, Digital Camera, Scanner, Processing of Graphics,  Creating Slide Presentations (Skill 5)

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, Microsoft PowerPoint 2003

Postcards

Presentations

• Pascal

• Ethics

• Psychology

• V (2 wks) Using Spreadsheets to Solve Quantitative Problems, Spreadsheet Creation and Chart Presentations (Skill 3)

• Microsoft Excel 2003

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• VI (3 wks) Computer Networks and the World Wide Web, Downloading and Installing Applications, File Transfer Protocol, HTML and Web Page Construction (Skills 2, 5, 6) 

• Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Front Page 2003

WEBSITES

• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~epalomaa

• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~aknapp/index.htm

• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jlamba/

• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~swingfie

• http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~emurillo

• VII (1 1/2 wk) Using

Databases to Organize

Information; Database

Design, Reports, Updates,

Queries (Skill 4)

• Microsoft Excel 2003,

Microsoft Access 2003

Plant ID

Common Name

GenusSpecies

Flowering

2 Sweet William

Diantus barbatus

Yes

3 Amethyst Flower

Browallia speciosa

Yes

4 Butterfly Bush

Buddleia alternifolia

Yes

5 Canterbury Bell

Campunula

medium Yes

6 Foxglove Digitalis purpurea

Yes

7 Purple Coneflower

Echinacea purpurea

Yes

8 Lotus Nelumbo nucifera Yes

9 Cranesbill Geranium himalayense

Yes

10 Costmary Chrysanthemum

balsamita

Yes

11 Catnip Nepeta cataria No

12 Wormwood Artemisia absinthium

Yes

14 Marigold Mint

Tagetes lucida Yes

15 Bluebonnet lupine texana Yes

16 Yes

Technological Literacy• “Computers are useless. They can only

give you answers. . . .Pablo Picasso

Visual Literacy• The proper artistic response to digital

technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything that's eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy.

. . .Ralph Lombreglia

Cultural Literacy• "There are no passengers on spaceship

earth. We are all crew." 

–Marshall McLuhan

So . . . . .

. . .let’s get to work!

Essential Computer Skills 1300Trinity University

Fall 2005