Week 1 Learning Communit Building & Windows Basics (PPT)

To do this week

1. Get to know each other, so we can build understanding, trust, and team spirit.

2. Why take this technology course?

A Vision of K-12 Students Today (YouTube)

The Horizon 2009 Reports: Key emerging technologies in the one to five years

3. What if you have already know a lot about technology to be covered in this course? Go as far as you can through my graduate course EDU551 e-learning and the American Classroom (you can get bonus points through learning and doing some of the projects there).

4. Course Overview (Scavenger Hunt)

5. Create a Cortland Web Account for your website (or your ePortfolio)

You cannot create a web folder unless you have a Cortland e-mail account. (NOTE: You CANNOT get a Net-Id account/E-mail account without a valid Cortland ¡°C¡± number.)

After you have acquired a Cortland email account, Go to http://studentweb.cortland.edu and click the "Create a Web Account" link. Click "Create My Web Account." Enter your Cortland NetID and password, then click OK. Read the Terms of Service and press Continue. Make sure you see a confirmation screen stating "Web Folder Created Successfully."

For more information about student email accounts, changing your password, web accounts, etc, visit links from the Technology Help Center

6. Learn the basics of Windows OS (Operating System)

6.1 Windows Basics - Objectives/Required Skills

1) Demonstrate proper PC startup and shutdown.

  • Start, log on, log off, shut down.

2) Opening and closing an application

  • Two kinds of files: documents and applications/programs.

2) Identify the primary components of a window in Windows XP:

  • .Title bar, menu bar, tool bar, and task bar (These mayl be different in every program. Identify them in programs such as Word, IE, and Powerpoint.)
  • Drop-down menus

3) Desktop ¨C the special window: Identify the primary components of the Windows XP desktop:

  • Icons, windows, and task bar.
  • Open, close, move, resize and restore windows on the desktop.
  • Desktop magic: create a folder, look at the properties, change the appearance of your desktop and the screen saver.

4) Format a flash drive/storage media

6.2 File Management - Objectives/Required Skills

Directories, subdirectories/folders

1) Demonstrate how to save a file to flash drive.
2) Demonstrate how to open a file.
3) Demonstrate how to delete a file.
4) Demonstrate how to rename a file
4) Distinguish between selecting File/Save and File/Save As.
5) Organize multiple files by using folders

For next week

HW: Get familiar with Nvu, the web authoring system that we are going to use for the whole semester.

A Daily Routine : Trick Sharing
We'll set up a couple of minutes to share tricks you have learned at the beginning of every class session.

What to share?

Any technical skills you have recently discovered. It can be any of these or more

Hope you have a mood like this today ...