Some basic information about the course:

• Syllabus
• Schedule
• Introduction Questions

Here are some photos (and web links) for some of the students in the class:

• TR 09:30 section
• MR 11:00 Section

Here are the Discussion Questions that are due each Monday/Tuesday

• Ch 01 Discussion Questions - Introduction
• Ch 02 Discussion Questions - Internet
• Ch 03 Discussion Questions - Application Software
• Ch 04 Discussion Questions - System Unit
• Ch 05 Discussion Questions - Input Devices

Here are the Assignments due each Thursday

1. Outlook
2. Web Page
3. Mail Merge
4. Spreadsheet - GPA
5. Spreadsheet - Loan
6. Spreadsheet - Stock
7. Spreadsheet - DVD
8. Linux
9. Access
10. Programming
11. Final

Some samples to help with the assignments:

• HTML Tag Assignment - a list of some common HTML tags
• Mail Merge - a demonstration on how to use MS Word Mail Merge
  • Address List - from MS Excel
  • Template letter - used to merge with addresses
  • Finished letters - showing all 10 pages

Here are some MS Excel samples:

• GPA Assignment - this demonstrates how to set up your GPA using VLOOKUP formulas
• Another GPA sample - Here is another example for the GPA program
• Finances - demonstrates how to compute retirement savings, etc.
• Loans - some additional examples for creating Loan spreadsheets (completed Tue Oct 14, 2008).
• Stock v1 - a stock price example (completed Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 am).
• Stock v2 - a stock price example (completed Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 11:00 am).
• BP stock - a stock price example showing BP prices(completed Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 11:00 am).

Here are some other links for some background material you may find interesting

• Size comparison - of different sized messages
• link to Kate Parks attitude survey