MEMO

Homework 0 (due 1/28)

1. Log in at http://framingham. blackboard.com and “enroll” in 63.151. Go to Communications/Discussion Board, read the Welcome message from the instructor under Topic 0, and comment briefly on it. Your comment is public within the class.

2. In the discussion board, under your choice of Topics 1-9, leave a message stating your intention to prepare a handout or slide presentation on that topic (see Syllabus, Slide/handout assignment, p. 3). Title your thread or message, “handout” or “slides.” Choose a topic and format that not more than one other student has chosen (e.g., up to two students may do handouts about MS Word).

3. Send the instructor (dkeil@frc.mass.edu) an email stating your preference: Do you agree to be called on by name in class in Socratic dialogue? You may change your mind later by sending a new email.

Homework 1 (Text formatting; new specs; due 2/23)

See Syllabus, “Homeworks and semester project.” Write a description of a real or imaginary business or other organization.

1. Define and use styles for:

· A section header;

· A paragraph format;

· A bullet text list.

2. Use page headers and/or footers with pagination.

3. Include a table with multiple rows and columns; this table may, for example, list personnel in your organization with phone extensions.

4. Spell check your document.

5. Include a section in some part of your document with multi-column formatting.

6. Insert a picture of your choice; clip art is OK.

7. Insert a special character such as a dingbat (Insert; Special; choose Wingding, Symbol, or other special-character font)

8. At the beginning, or in your page header, or on a title page, include your name, the course number, date, instructor name, and assignment number (1).

9. Just under the above info, include a word count (Tools/Word Count).

Use your imagination.

Homework 3 (Presentation graphics; new specs; due 3/3)

Create a professional-type slide presentation of at least five slides about your organization, or about one of its products or activities. Make all the following part of the slide show:

1. Include a cover slide;

2. Paginate slides;

3. Use slide footers;

4. Animate at least one slide;

5. Using the drawing tools in your presentation-graphics software, and using a separate file, a create a logo for your company (it can be as simple as a letter or set of initials with a word underneath it), and save this image (just one slide) as a .GIF or .WMF file. Then import that file into your slide presentation as a picture. (Also, place it in the word-processor file of your project; but you need not re-submit that WP file now.)

Submit both the data file and hard copy of a “Handouts” version of your slides.

Homework 4 (Networked computing; due 3/25)

1. Using a browser, visit the FSC web site (www.framingham.edu); navigate to locate the web site of the instructor who teaches HTML (C. Breuning); and list all the URLs you traversed going from framingham.edu to that site.

2. Using a search engine such as Google.com,
a) locate the web site of Dina Goldin. Briefly list this person’s affiliation, rank and credentials.
b) find out what a Turing machine is; paraphrase the definition you find and list the URL where you found it.

3. Using a text formatter that exports HTML, or a web-page editor, create a web page in HTML format that publicizes your organization or business. Include a table or other form of illustration, and include at least one hyperlink.

Homework 5 (Spreadsheet; due 4/12)

Create a spreadsheet for a budget and journal for your business or organization. Include formulas. The budget should list income and expense categories, with amounts, plus total income and expenses, with net surplus/deficit.

Generate bar and pie charts for the budget income and expense categories.

The journal should record transactions, one per row; the columns should correspond to budget categories. Journal should record the net amount for each transaction, the sum for each column (budget category), and the current balance after each transaction.

Also include a text document that describes your budget and has the budget spreadsheet embedded.