Welcome to one of the most geeky videos in the entire series. This video will introduce you to the computer boot process, the way a computer starts from the moment you turn the computer on, till the operating system kicks in.
Material Type: Lecture
Our last video in the Computer Software lesson, part of our Introduction to Computers curriculum. In this video we look at the types of application users can find. We talk about business software and personal software. We also give our 3-5 to picks for viewers to check out. Links from video: http://www.lynda.com/ http://teamtreehouse.com/ https://www.udemy.com/courses/ https://evernote.com/ http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ http://bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm http://www.cultofmac.com/90060/how-to-completely-uninstall-software-under-mac-os-x-macrx/ https://reporting.bsa.org/r/report/add.aspx?src=us&ln=en-us
Material Type: Lecture
The fourth and final video in our Lesson 1 Digital World series looks at what exactly is a computer. We take a quick look at the history of the PC, the general components of a computer and answer the question "what kind of computer should I buy." Our next lesson series, will focus on computer hardware. Links from video: http://lifehacker.com/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/ http://www.techguylabs.com/ http://www.digitalliteracy.gov/
Material Type: Lecture
Our first lesson in our FREE Introduction to Computers/ Business Computers Information Systems (BCIS) course. This video will introduce new students to this series and what they can expect. Our first lesson in our FREE Introduction to Computers/ Business Computers Information Systems (BCIS) course. This video will introduce new students to this series and what they can expect. Our first lesson in our FREE Introduction to Computers/ Business Computers Information Systems (BCIS) course. This video will introduce new students to this series and what they can expect.
Material Type: Lecture
Video 5 in our introduction to computers series looks at computer input devices. We examine some common input devices and look at how to clean your keyboard and mouse.
Material Type: Lecture
The second part of our storage videos. This video looks at some of the removable storage media you can use. We look at floppy drives, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and ROM (flash memory).
Material Type: Lecture
The aim of this video lesson is to teach students about the different topologies of computer networks and how they function. The approach that is used is highly correlated with common knowledge about weddings and the local Malay culture associated with weddings. Students should be able to relate the act of delivering food to a large crowd of people to the basic principles of network topologies and the method of data transfer within each type of topology. The lesson will begin in a classroom with students working in small groups, answering assigned questions. Teaching aids such as color cards will be used. One student from each group will be appointed as the wedding event manager, and she/he will have to discuss and act out with group members in order to answer more challenging questions. At the end of the lesson, students will be asked to come up with their own version of a hybrid computer network topology. The lesson concept taught here not only educates students on computer topologies, but also introduces students to an important cultural perspective of Malaysia. Above all, this video is designed to assist students with their study of Computer Literacy in schools. The lesson will take up to 60 minutes to complete. Materials needed include: 10 red cards representing waitresses; 10 green cards representing waiters; 10 blue cards representing tables in the hall; a sketch book; and classroom tables and chairs.
Material Type: Lecture
Students will conduct research on common malware programs and infections.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Video 7 of our information security series (part of Introduction to Computers) we examine malware. Malware is a blanket term that means malicious code, it includes things like viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware. Links from Video: -AVG by Grisoft: http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage -AVAST: http://www.avast.com -ClamWin: http://www.clamwin.com/ -Microsoft Security Essentials: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download
Material Type: Lecture
Our 6 video in the Information Security series (part of Introduction to Computers). We introduce students to the concept of Internet Security. Specifically we look at defining the players: hackers, crackers, and script kiddies. We also look at steps the home user should take to harden the computer: keep their computer updates, run anti-malware software, and have a firewall.
Material Type: Lecture
This course is for all of those struggling with data analysis. That crazy data collection from your boss? Megabytes of sensor data to analyze? Looking for a smart way visualize your data in order to make sense out of it? We’ve got you covered! Using video lectures and hands-on exercises, we will teach you cutting-edge techniques and best practices that will boost your data analysis and visualization skills. This course has been awarded with the Wharton-QS gold education award in the category Regional awards Europe. We will take a deep dive into data analysis with spreadsheets: PivotTables, VLOOKUPS, Named ranges, what-if analyses, making great graphs – all those will be covered in the first weeks of the course. After that, we will investigate the quality of the spreadsheet model, and especially how to make sure your spreadsheet remains error-free and robust. Finally, once we have mastered spreadsheets, we will demonstrate other ways to store and analyze data. We will also look into how Python, a programming language, can help us with analyzing and manipulating data in spreadsheets. This course is created using Excel 2013 and Windows. Most assignments can be made using another spreadsheet program and operating system as well, but we cannot offer full support for all configurations.
Material Type: Full Course
Learn how to use the free Spreadsheets application from Google Docs and Drive.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lecture, Reading
This course will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to spreadsheets; it is designed for first-time users with very little or no exposure to the subject.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Syllabus
Students create a spreadsheet to quantify, analyze and determine the experiences and views towards technology of the Computer Commuter users. Students create the layout of the spreadsheet that best suits the data in the survey. Questions are in different formats: multiple choice and short answer. The student must determine how to set up the spreadsheet to make the data easy and efficiently understandable.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Data Set, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Bureau of Justice Statistics offers dynamic data analysis tools allows you to generate tables and graphs of arrest, recidivism, federal case processing among other data.
Material Type: Lesson
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. Topics include Agriculture, Business, Climate, Education, Energy, Ecosystems, Manufacturing and more.
Material Type: Data Set
This module is part of the Foundations of School Librarianship on using web resources to enhance collaboration between STEM classroom teachers and school librarians, with special emphasis on STEM subjects. The module is built around the understanding and use of data to support classroom projects. The module describes a process by which the school librarian and teacher will collaborate on a high school-level project to explore how to find, evaluate, and use data to produce an infographic. Infographics are increasingly important as a vehicle for explaining complex subjects. They are a wonderful blend of data and information to create meaning and new knowledge. This module is intended as a 'stretching' exercise for school librarians who often have scant background in STEM. The skills learned by school librarian students revolve around identifying data sources, developing evaluative skills, translating data into an infographic, and working with classroom teachers in STEM subject to match resources with teacher identified learning goals.
Material Type: Module
Professional Resource for telling your story with infographics. Basic design elements and resources are linked. Resources include free downloads from Magnolia Consulting, samples created in Venngage, and examples created by ESU #3.
Material Type: Lesson
From "The Spectrum of Apple Flavors" to "We are all Zebras: How Rare Disease is Shaping the Future of Healthcare," we find colorful visual displays of information and data used to persuade, inform and delight their audience-readers. Most infographic assignments result in loose collections of related facts and numbers, essentially a collage or poster. Student create displays of unrelated factoids and spurious data correlations and they "ooh" and "ahhh" at beautiful nothings. However, the visual and textual elements of an infographic can culminate in a coherent multimodal argument which prompts inquiry in the creator and the audience. In order to teach infographics as a claim expressed through visual metaphor, supported by reasoning with evidence in multiple modes, instructors employ a sequence of interventions to invoke the relevant skills and strategies at appropriate moments. Composing and critiquing infographics can enhance understanding of both the content and rhetoric, since people analyze, elaborate and critique information more deeply when visual and textal modes are combined (Lazard and Atkinson 2014).This pedagogy of reading and writing multiple literacies can be adapted to other multimodal products. For an overview, refer to "Recipe for an Infographic" (Abilock and Williams 2014) which is also listed in the references for this module. We recommend that you experience this process yourself as you teach it to students.
Material Type: Module
