Introduction To Information Technology (ITIT)

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Introduction to Information
Technology (ITIT)
Lecture 1, October 11-12, 2010

Introduction to Information Technology (ITIT)


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Instructor: Joseph Yu


Ph.D. in Information Systems, NUS



Research interests:


Virtual Communities



Economics of Information Systems



Office: AB 360



Email: jie.yu@nottingham.edu.cn



Office Hours: Wednesday 13:00-15:00





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Lab tutor: Lee Li


Office: Room AB 359



Email: Lee.li@nottingham.edu.cn



Office Hours: Thursdays 9:50am-10:50am

Lab tutor: Sherwin Sung


Office: AB 357



Email: Sherwin.sung@nottingham.edu.cn



Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00am - 11:00am



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Lab tutor: John Twiname


Office: Room TB 314



Email: John.Twiname@nottingham.edu.cn



Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00am - 11:00am

Methods of Delivery


Lectures


Based on assigned readings, which can be downloaded from the NEXUS system



Attendance not taken



Lectures may help you understand the assigned readings and identify contents that the instructor thinks are important



PPT slides for each lecture uploaded every Sunday around 17:00



The lectures will cover only 10% of what you are expected to know about the course. Students expected to read the assigned readings in order to do well easily in the final exam.

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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/nexus



Log in using your university email account



Choose Undergraduate, Click “Go”



Choose “Introduction to Information
Technology” and Click “Go”



Choose “Convenor Page” and Click “Go”



This is the course website

Classroom Discipline


Can



Cant

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Labs




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One lab per week starting from Week of Nov 1


Lab 1: WebCT and Microsoft Word



Lab 2: Microsoft Excel



Lab 3: More on Microsoft Excel



Lab 4: Microsoft PowerPoint



Lab 5: Lab Assessment (25%)

Lab attendance will be recorded. I will explain how it will be done online about one week before you start your lab session.



Labs (cont’d)


Microsoft Office is a productivity suite. It is supposed to increase your productivity. You should learn to use these applications effectively.



It is easy to overestimate your knowledge about these applications because they are What-YouSee-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) software



Quite a number of students failed their lab assessment last year…



Demonstration


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See supp1.doc and supp2.doc from the course website

Assessments


1 x 45 minute computer lab assessment –
(25%)



1 x one-hour multiple choice examination –
(75%)

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Lab Assessment (25%)


In the final computer lab (Lab 5), you will take a test that is worth 25% of your final mark



Test your knowledge about Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint



There will be multiple choice questions, as well as hands-on skill tests on using these applications



The skill tests will be graded by Word Grader and
Excel Grader, both downloadable from http://www.officegrader.com 

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You may want to try them to get some idea how you will be graded.

Final Exam (75%)


Worth 75% of the overall mark for the course



Multiple-choice questions only



Test your knowledge of the information covered in the lectures and required course readings



According to the university’s policy, past year MC exams cannot be distributed to students for their revision. 16

Invitation to Participate in Research


I would like to invite all students to participate in research studies I collaborate with several researchers within UNNC and overseas



As a token of our gratitude, we would reward each participant with 10 RMB worth of print quota.




I know it is not much, and most of you probably do not care about the print quota. However, it is a common practice in academia to provide some reward to research participants.

Information will be provided on the
Announcements page of the course website
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Participants grant permission for the researchers (i.e., me and my collaborators) to make use of data collected through the ITIT