The PI Comp082 Class return to portal taught by
Vance Stevens |
Homework Assignments
in the PI Foundation Extended Practice Computing Courses
How important is this? Homework is part of your Continuous Assessment grade in this course. Continuous Assessment counts for 40% of your course grade. Click here to see more about your homework in general
Your teacher encourages you to complete your assignments by their due date and then keep working to improve them afterwards. This will help you learn more and will increase your mark on any assignements you improve. If you have questions about when your assignment will be evaluated, please ask Vance. Please note that in order to be evaluated, the assignment must be submitted. Usually this means placed in the Work Finished' folder.
Term Project Due Date: Monday, January 5, 2004 The term project will be to contribute to a class eZine. It will be a challenge to your computing skills and does not require a lot of writing. It requires internet searching, web site evaluation, HTML skills, and familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite. Here are: The Project Description with project folder structure, an example HTML file with link to Word document, how it all comes together in a class eZine |
Keyboarding skills practice:http://www.southwest.com.au/~jfuller/keyboard/jskeyboard3.htm
You
can find a copy of DOS Keyboard
Tutor (only 600 kilobytes) here (fits on a floppy)
Check the class blog for updated information: http://comp082.blogspot.com/
Final Grade %:
Continuous Assessment: Midsemester 5%, Homework 15%, Quizzes 10%,
Work-in-class 10%
Mid-semester exam 15%, EOS
Project 20%, Final exam 25%
Date assigned | Date due |
Assignment |
82a | 82b |
Assigned: Wed Dec 10 | It is not
necessary to prepare the memo on typing exercises 41-50, previously assigned
for Monday Jan 5.
Find some practice with HTML here: |
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Monday January 5, 2004 | DUE: Monday January 5, 2004 | Term projects due before 2 p.m. -
Submit your 'old' html page to Work Finished as usual, and your project folder
to WS0251 Track progress on the class eZines here Typing Quiz up to Lesson 25 |
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Wed Dec 31 |
Practice final exam - possible tasks include:
Here's an example: I want to buy a good laptop available in the UAE with XP Pro operating system. What web sites should I look at
Course evaluation |
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Monday Dec 29 | Work on projects and homework | |||
Assigned: Wed Dec 10 | DUE: Mon Dec 29 | Prepare a memo reporting on your typing progress for DOS Keyboard Tutor lessons 31-40. In your memo, compare your progress with your last report and state whether you are looking at your fingers when you type or not. To see how to prepare the memo, click here. You will see at right when Vance has checked who has handed in this assignment --> | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 631 | 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
Sat Dec 27 | See how to set up folders for eZine, link from html files to project files in folders | |||
Wed Dec 24 | Quiz | There will be a Quiz on Keyboarding 26-30. Students must complete an exercise between 26-30 without looking at fingers while typing. A 'C' score of 75% is achieved by typing 20 wpm with 95% accuracy. Looking at fingers reduces score by 5 points if you report it, 10 points if you don't. You will see at right your score on the quiz. --> | 0080-106 0280 0310-80 0540-110 0710-93 0740-78 0820-77 0840-102 1070 1140-76 1260-91 1670-79 10177-100 10598-99 631 | 0140-92 0360-90 0380-77 0620-87 0640-80 0700-72 0770-91 1180-79 1710-83 |
Assigned: Wed Dec 10 | DUE: Mon Dec 22 | Prepare a memo reporting on your typing progress for DOS Keyboard Tutor lessons 21-30. In your memo, compare your progress with your last report and state whether you are looking at your fingers when you type or not. To see how to prepare the memo, click here. You will see at right when Vance has checked who has handed in this assignment --> | 0080-85 0280 0310-89 0540 0710-91 0740-95 0820-83 0840-85 1070 1140-80 1260-100 1670 10177-88 10598-95 631 | 0140-82 0360-80 0380-98 0620-93 0640-98 0700-80 0770-93 1180-83 1710-78 |
Mon Dec 22 | DUE: Sat Dec 27 |
We'll examine results of web site evaluations and take time to work on:
For full marks on your blog assignment, your blog should contain the following. Your teacher is looking for evidence of thought, reflection, and effort on your project (a few words or one sentence are not evidence of thought or effort). For Sat Dec 27, your blog should give:
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Assigned: Sat Dec 20 | Due by end of class Monday Dec 22 |
Launch PowerPoint and prepare a slide that will be used as a 'book cover' for your project. It should have
From the slide, we will make a screen shot to act as cover sheet for your project |
Submitted to work
finished: 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 631 |
Submitted to work
finished: 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
Assigned: Mon Dec 15 | DUE: Saturday Dec 20 |
We started on Evaluating Websites, based on the TinyURLs students found in "Searching the World Wide Web Part 2". We formed pairs of students whose job it is to evaluate the websites on a given topic (pumping oil, learning PowerPoint, solving math problems, Internet library for students). Each student team will prepare on Wednesday an evaluation score for each website in the topic area based on the criteria questions here.. Students will present findings to the class on Saturday Dec 20, indicating the best and worst sites in the group. |
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Assigned: Sat Dec 13 | DUE: Tue Dec 16 |
You should continue to write in your blog what you want to do for your term project. (more information about the eZine here). By now you should have written in your blog what topic you are interested in for the web search, and how you plan to contribute to the eZine presentation. By Tuesday Dec 16 you must put links in your blog showing websites you plan to present and evaluate.Vance checked who has handed in this assignment on Dec 21--> |
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10598 631 Mhmd Younis - GIF animator Mhmd Salah - USA system Abd Aziz - Islam Khalfan - Juventis vs Real Madrid Fahad - Dream car Ahmed - Obesity in the UAE Abdullah - Erika Oil Spill Karim - Using HTML to create simple web sites Salem - none Hassan - none Mhmd Shaikh - Maybach car Omar - traffic accidents and reasons Mhmd Rashid - cars |
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0770 1180
1710 Ahmed Salem - needs a topic Saeed - interesting places in UAE and Islam Ali - Sheikh Zayed Khalfan - most popular or famous sports cars in UAE Rashid - tourism in UAE for 1st-time visitors Mhmd Nasser - environment and problems Ahmed Al Hosani - history of UAE Mansour - Eiffel Tower |
Assigned: Wed Dec 10 | Quiz Mon Dec 15 |
Practice quiz on Keyboarding, on an exercise between 15-20 without looking at fingers while typing. A 'C' score of 75% is achieved by typing 20 wpm with 95% accuracy. Looking at fingers reduces score by 5 points (each time). You will see at right your score on the quiz. --> | 0080(85) 0280(78) 0310(84) 0540(80) 0710(100) 0740(82) 0820(77) 0840(95) 1070 1140(77) 1260(93) 1670(73) 10177(87) 10598(88) 631(60) | 0140(88) 0360(74) 0380(78) 0620(73) 0640(78) 0700(62) 0770(89) 1180(76) 1710(71) |
Wed Dec 10 | Mon Dec 15 | Prepare a memo reporting on your Typing Progress for DOS Keyboard Tutor lessons 10-20. In your memo, compare your progress with your last report and state whether you are looking at your fingers when you type or not. To see how to prepare the memo, click here.You will see at right when Vance has checked who has handed in (in blue) and then marked in this assignment with a grade (and you can see the marking scheme here) --> | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 631 | 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
Assigned: Wed Dec 10 | Sat Dec 13 |
In class Wed, we made Tiny URLs from "Searching the World Wide Web Part 2". Vance checked who had done the assignment on Friday Dec 12 --> |
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Assigned: Sat Dec 6, 2003 | Mon Dec 8 | (1) Write in your blog what YOU would like to do as part of a final project for a class e-zine. Vance checked who had done the assignment on Friday Dec 12 --> | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 631 | 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
Assigned: Sat Dec 6, 2003 | Mon Dec 8 | (2) Complete the worksheet "Searching the World Wide Web Part 2" We will use your answers for questions 3-6 as part of an evaluation exercise later this week. |
Eid Al Fitr Cut-off
Date assigned | Date due |
Assignment |
82a | 82b |
ongoing | Nov 24 |
What should your HTML document have for full marks:
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Nov 22 | Nov 24 |
Before going away for your Eid holiday, I need to know how you're doing with your keyboarding. I need for you to write me a memo that explains your progress. Here's how you do it:
Your keyboarding mark will be taken from this memo (see what the marks mean) |
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Nov 17 | Nov 19 |
Please complete and hand in the worksheets on Internet Searching: Classwork . For Wed Nov 19 each student takes one search question, finds answer, and reports to class how answer was found. Your HTML document will be evaluated on whether or not it works on the Internet. You get ten points each for (1) having a web page (2) all text and picture displays working over Internet (3) all links working over Internet (4) having a picture on it (5) description of picture (6) introduction of yourself (7) hyperlink to your blog (8) having a blog that works (9 and 10) good use of other features covered in the HTML tutorial steps 1-10 (and see Nov 10 assignment) Prepare for Keyboarding quiz:
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Nov 12, 2003 | Nov 15, 2003 | Please complete and hand in the worksheet on Advanced Search Options to Limit or Expand a Search. You will be given another to do in class on Saturday, due as homework on Monday | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 631 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
Nov 10, 2003 | postponed due to missing projector | Catch up on your old work and learn
something new. The new thing is to learn about
Boolean math
and how this can be used with search engines. We learned how to make headings for our HTML pages with <Font size =+2> and we learned how to <center> the heading. Everyone should have a heading in his HTML page. We also learned how to add bacground color to the Body tag like this: <BODY BGCOLOR=#abcdef. For more information about writing html code see http://www.webmonkey.com |
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Nov 8, 2003 | Keyboarding Skills Chart - due date will be announced later | Start a new chart showing systematic typing progress starting with Lesson 1, kept by Vance after each lesson. You will be marked on (1) correct fingering of keyboard (start with Lessons if not sure how to place fingers) (2) number of exercises completed, (3) improvement over time, (4) transfer of data to Excel file later, (5) and presentation as memo in Word document due much later. | ||
Nov 8, 2003 | Nov 12, 2003 |
Start Projects I have worked out with your English teachers that you can make as your project DISASTERS in the Oil Industry. In this case, put in your blog your current ideas for carrying out this project. Think about what you would like to research on the Internet and learn more about. Suggestions include: Something you would like to learn:
Something you would like to research or purchase (survey and compare 6 kinds of each):
Your task is to write a proposal and post it to your Blog. Add vance_stevens to your blog and I will comment on your proposal. |
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Nov 5, 2003 | Nov 12, 2003 | Catch up on your old work and learn something new. The new thing is to embed javascript in your blog. We'll look at free javascript libraries such as JavaScript Planet and JavaScript City and JavaScript search and learn how to place the script in your blog template. | ||
Nov 3, 2003 | Nov 12, 2003 | Learn how to see file extensions on your computer and convert BMP images to JPG ones using Imaging. Learn how to get latest version of your home page and alter it to link to JPG image files. | ||
Nov 1, 2003 | Nov 3, 2003 | Your class homepage: In addition to the features assigned Oct 6 and 8 (below) imbed your PAINT file in your homepage and write a short <P>aragraph to describe it. Re-submit your homepage and the graphics file you have linked to Work Finished. Label both files ID#name082descriptor |
Mid-Semester Cut-off
Date assigned | Date due | Assignment | 82a | 82b |
October 21, 2003 | Continuous Assessment (CE) Mark is based at mid-term on your blog and your HTML document. You get 10 CE points for having one of each and ten points for each element in bold below ... | 0080(75) 0280(51) 0310(47) 0540(78) 0710(67) 0740(99) 0820(67) 0840(59) 1070(36) 1140(40) 1260(81) 1670(64) 10177(59) 10598 (90) | 0050(20) 0140(67) 0360(67) 0380(46) 0620(70) 0640(65) 0700(68) 0770(80) 1180(56) 1710(46) | |
Saturday Oct 11 and Wed. Oct 13 | Wednesday Oct 15, 2003 |
Using the
instructions
for changing the template for your blog, put a picture from the
Internet and a link to your class or 082 homepage in the
sidebar Your blog should have the above two elements and two postings as well (your introduction and expectations for this course) |
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Monday Oct 6 and Wednesday 8, 2003 |
Saturday Oct 11, 2003 |
Using the HTML tutorial here continue
working on your html document. Your document should now have: - a paragraph (several sentences) enclosed in <p> and </p> tags - a picture linked with <IMG SRC="pic.jpg">. The pic.jpg can be a file in the same folder as your html document or it can be the URL of a picture on the Internet. - a description of the picture enclosed in <p> and </p> tags - a link to your blog in this format: <p><A HREF ="http://yourblog.blogspot.com">An invitation to click here to see your blog</A></p> Submit your document to Work Finished or to \\ws0251\share Call your document 82x_000yourname_home.htm |
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Saturday Sept 27, 2003 |
Monday Oct 6, 2003 |
Continue work on your DOS Keyboard Tutor
Place your completed file in Work Finished. Make the file description = memo6oct |
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Wed Oct 1, 2003 | Saturday Oct 4, 2003 | Create a one paragraph HTML document and submit it via the Work Finished folder, or place it in the share folder of WS0251. I will then put it on the Meet the Students web site. | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
September 17, 2003 | September 22, 2003 | Work on your blog: Use NEW POST to start an assignment and EDIT to correct or modify a posting already started. There should be two postings. - Posting 2: Tell what you have learned in comp082 so far and what you expect to learn by the end of the course | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
September 2, 2003 | September 8, 2003 | Work on your blog Posting 1: Start a blog and give a brief introduction of yourself | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
September 20, 2003 | now | Obtain a PI student ID and password and use it in class | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
Create an Excel file tracking progress with DOS Keyboard Tutor | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 | ||
Create a Calendar in Word like the model given to you by your teacher and ... | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 | ||
...don't forget to answer (in a Word document) the written assignment at the bottom of the calendar exercise (ANSWER the 8 questions). | 0080 0280 0310 0540 0710 0740 0820 0840 1070 1140 1260 1670 10177 10598 | 0050 0140 0360 0380 0620 0640 0700 0770 1180 1710 |
Marking rubric
Do your
homework in your HOME folder. Always keep a copy there.
When ready to
'hand it in' copy it and paste it to the appropriate folder in Work
Finished
Name
your file: 000name000x__descriptor-v
Please avoid spaces and use
only alphanumeric characters in filenames (underscore_ and dash- are
OK)
When ready to hand it in, make a copy of the file in your Home folder and
This update: January
5, 2004
Address questions or
comments to vstevens at pi.ac.ae http://www.vancestevens.com/