Tutorial Sites

Assignment Read the chapters in The Practical PC per the calendar.  Be sure to do all the because they are fun (voice and action) and because they contain important information.  Prove you have read and understood the chapters by completing and printing the 2 At the end of the chapter the exercises are the best because the Practical  PC program informs you immediately whether your answers are right or wrong.  But the CheckIt! are tricky to print. You will have to do a "screen scrape" as follows: Use the vertical scroll bar to position all the answers or on the screen. Scrape the Screen (Hold down Alt and press PrtScn) Start a Word document Paste the clipboard contents (Ctrl+V pr right click Paste) Put a proper header on the document with your name, the date, your CIS100 section and the Chapter.number Save the page and Print the page. For extra credit you can also Do Tutorials Take a Quiz (the Get it!) and print the study guide or you can simply print the results that are on Your tracking disk Either complete the "Check It!", Tutorial  or complete the GetIt! (chapter quizzes) and get 90% correct. (you get to try over and over till you do). Submit in groups of 3 or 4 chapters and all work to be submitted in 10 weeks of the course. Tracking Disk. The online text gives you the opportunity to track your work which you should do.  To get started using a Tracking Disk On 1st page, select Tools menu on top Choose track disk location Select C or your flash drive. Start to read text.  When it displays the dialog box about no tracking disk Click Create Fill in you First and Lat name section number and X for student id (I don't use it)

Required:

1. Testing Key
2. Practical PC with CD ROM

Materials

1. A flash drive or HD floppy disk to use as a Tracking disk for Practice PC

2. One set of CHEAP earphones ($1 at Dollar stores and Harmons)

Required Testing Key

:Individual SAM testing key (UCC Institution Key:V7181545) SAM 2007 Assessment, Training & Projects v3.0 Printed Access Code Course Technology ISBN 13: 978-1-4239-9793-1 © 2008 ISBN 10: 1-4239-9793-X Publish date: June 24, 2008 $38.25 from

Texts

Required: Practical PC with CD ROM

The Practical PC, 4th Edition   June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja ISBN: 0-619-26799-2  ©2006 Publish date: March 29, 2005 220 pages Softcover

or

The Practical PC, 5th Edition June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja ISBN 13: 978-1-4239-2511-8 © 2009 ISBN 10: 1-4239-2511-4 Publish date: December 18, 2007 Softcover

The major difference between the two editions of Practical PC is that the 4^th Edition is based on Office XP operating System, which is what is currently running in UCC PC labs and the 5^th edition features VIsta.

Recommended text:  A step-by-step text that covers the Office 2007 software used in this course:

Microsoft Office 2007: Brief Concepts and Techniques Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Misty E. Vermaat ISBN 13: 978-1-4188-4326-7 © 2008 ISBN 10: 1-4188-4326-1 Publish date: May 16, 2007 760 pages Spiral-bound $76.46 plus $6.20 shipping from Course Direct (the publisher)

Student files and Online Companion

ShopBots:

A shopbot (shopping robot) is a website that links to other websites that sell a product for which the user is searching. 
The shopbot displays the prices (usually shipping and tax too) and typically rates the vendors, so the user can do simple comparison shopping..

Best Book Buys lists several folk including Half.com and Amazon sell new and used books. This site posts user ratings of each vendor (you can contribute your opinion if you buy this way) PPC4 or PPC5, be sure to get CD! (Office 2007)

AllBookStores posts similar to BestBookBuy.  Note the 2004 version is much cheaper PPC4 or PPC5, be sure to get CD! (Office 2007)

As does AddAll (gives you a quote and similar prices). Again, the 2004 version costs much less PPC4 or PPC5, be sure to get CD! (Office 2007)

Software

Microsoft Office Professional 2007 will be taught and your knowledge of it will be tested.  Thus, students must use Office 2007 to do the assignments.  Most of the assignment require features that are not available in earlier version.  All UCC labs in Cranford, Elizabeth and Plainfield have Office 2007 installed as do all the computers in the libraries.  If you have an earlier version installed at home (or wherever you use a computer outside of school) and it has an earlier version of Microsoft Office you will not be able to use it for this course.  You will have to purchase Office 2007 or use the PCs at UCC.

If you have Home or Standard editions of Office 2007, you must do the Access portions somewhere that has Professional edition (such as UCC) though you will be able to do the Word, PowerPoint and Excel assignments on Standard and Home Editions.  The older version of Office (2003 and older) have an interface that is VERY different and passing the SAM Key skills tests will be much more difficult. To Purchase an Academic version of Microsoft Office 2007 online see

	800-817-2347 where Professional is $169.95 with free shipping or
	800-336-1166 lists Professional as $148.36 plus $6.95 shipping to NJ
	Home/Standard editions of Office 2007 are about $20 cheaper.
	If you can locates a site that sells  it cheaper PLEASE inform me so we can pass that information on

Note, you can download portions of the suite of programs for a 60 day free trail directly from the Microsoft site.

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