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2 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Welcome to… CGS2060 C o m p u t e r L i t e r a c y with your host Mr. Ken Baldauf

3 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Get acquainted with your Teacher Familiarize you with the goals of this class Explore our course Website Learn the class policies and procedures Discuss our Semester Agenda x Today’s Goals

4 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Preliminary Business All classroom sections are full Students not in attendance today will be dropped Spaces available in the Webbased sections http://apps3.oti.fsu.edu/RegistrarCourseLookup/SearchForm

5 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Mr. Ken Baldauf Your Teacher

6 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Hometown: Chicago BA in Music MS Computer Science Ten years teaching CGS2060 Mr. Ken Baldauf Your CGS2060 Teacher Charged with defining and teaching the computer-related knowledge & skills necessary for FSU students to succeed in life.

7 What is Computer Literacy?

8 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Computer Literacy A working understanding of a Desktop PC and fundamental PC software: Microsoft Office The Traditional View (circa 1996): Does this reflect the use of computers in today’s world?

9 Computers in Contemporary Society

10 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Yesterday’s PC

11 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC

12 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC The iMac

13 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC The Macbook - #1 selling PC for 2006 holiday season

14 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC Dell’s Latest 18 lb Notebook

15 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC Tablet PC, Convertible and Slate Designs

16 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC Blackjack, Blackberry, Treo

17 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC iPods and Zune

18 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Today’s PC

19 CGS2060 Computer Literacy RFID: Giving material objects memory and a voice. Today’s PC

20 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Sentient Things Information and communications technologies are starting to invade the physical world. Shards of sentient silicon will be inside boxtops and dashboards, pens, street corners, bus stops, money, most things manufactured or built, within the next 10 years. A shirt label will gain the power to disclose what airplanes, trucks, and ships carried it, what substances compose it, and the URL of the webcam in the factory where the shirt was manufactured. From Howard Rheingold’s “Smart Mobs”

21 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Trends Pervasive computing: The Trend toward numerous, casually accessible, often invisible computing devices, frequently mobile or imbedded in the environment, connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network structure Ubiquitous computing: or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Check out http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/ http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs6751_97_fall/projects/ closet2000+/FinalEssays/rhonda/ubifra.htmlhttp://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs6751_97_fall/projects/ closet2000+/FinalEssays/rhonda/ubifra.html

22 CGS2060 Computer Literacy The State of techology… …has dramatically changed over the past 10 years. And is impacting our society more strongly than anyone ever anticipated.

23 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Digital technologies play a significant role in our professional and personal lives. To harness technology, you must understand the underlying principles, learn the current skills, and be able to apply your understanding and skills to real life scenarios. Basic Assumptions

24 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Computer Literacy Today A working understanding of digital technologies as they relate to: Information management Communications Computation Automation Art & Entertainment

25 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Computer Literacy Concepts Digital Data Representation Hardware Software Networking Internet Technologies Societal and Ethical Issues Multimedia Database Systems Information Systems E-Commerce Systems Development Skills Operating Systems Email Web Research Word Processing Spreadsheets Presentation Software Database Management Application Integration Web Page Dev and Pub Digital Graphics & Photo Intro to Web Programming

26 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Comp Lit II Comp Lit I Computer Literacy Concepts Digital Data Representation Hardware Software Networking Internet Technologies Societal and Ethical Issues Multimedia Database Systems Information Systems E-Commerce Systems Development Skills Operating Systems Email Web Research Word Processing Spreadsheets Presentation Software Database Management Application Integration Web Page Dev and Pub Digital Graphics & Photo Intro to Web Programming

27 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Comp Lit II Comp Lit I Computer Literacy Concepts Digital Data Representation Hardware Software Networking Internet Technologies Societal and Ethical Issues Multimedia Database Systems Information Systems E-Commerce Systems Development Skills Operating Systems Email Web Research Word Processing Spreadsheets Presentation Software Database Management Application Integration Web Page Dev and Pub Digital Graphics & Photo Intro to Web Programming

28 CGS2060 Computer Literacy This class could change your life! WARNING! If you actively participate! Computer Literacy

29 CGS2060 Computer Literacy Our Website http://campus.fsu.edu Login with garnet username/password Choose course from list Let’s go there now!


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