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Basic Computing

Presentation

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1. Subject presentation

As part of the Computing Basics area, we kindly welcome you.!!!

The subject of Basic Computing is very important because it provides students with the necessary
knowledge about basic topics for a correct computer and software usage, allowing them to do an
efficient work both as a student and as a future professional.

The computer is a versatile and powerful tool for you and your organization. It allows you to work
efficiently and communicate with people from all over the world.

2. Pre Requisites (Characterization)

Dear student, we are glad to introduce you to Basic Computing, for you to know the pre-requisites you
have to meet in order to undertake this class, as well as to let you know the achievements you will
make at the end of this term.

Basic Technical Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of: web surfing and email.
Take the learning style test, available at www.espe.edu.ec.

Resources
Computer Access or having your own computer.
Internet access, at least two hours a day.
5 hours of free time per week in order to complete the allocated activities.
At least 30 minutes/day access to forums, chat, and collaborative work with your teacher and
classmates as for interacting purposes.

Basic Computing has been conceived for the student to gather the necessary knowledge about
computer concepts considered as basic, before his general studies, whichever career he chooses.

In the same way, it is intended for the student to acquire the necessary skills as user of a Personal
Computer, PC, so he can use it as a learning tool of the definitions exposed in this subject and of those
he will find if he chooses to study Computer Science.

Computers are present in every part of society, work, or our lives. This is the reason why it is very
interesting to receive the knowledge in this academic term, where many of this concepts and systems
that surround us are explained in a gradual and simple way.

This subject involves learning the use of many computer tools, which have been selected according to
their use and influence in the labor market. Therefore, these tools are called Offimatic (Office-
Automatic) tools, mainly because they are used day after day both at work and at school, for the proper
presentation of daily tasks.

3. Study Methodology

At the beginning of each partial term the student will be handled material such as the study guide;
besides, he will have available supplemental files and related websites, among others.

The subject of Basic Computing tries to provide the basic skills that every student needs from the
beginning of his career until he becomes a professional. Hence, the importance this subject has, as
much as any other specialization one. It is recommend that if the students do not have the knowledge
that is described in the current Analytical Plan, they should try to close this gap by previous reading or
by looking for some help from the teacher.

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Interaction

Communication tools such as forums, email, wiki, and video tutorials can be used. A forum will be
open for questioning during the entire semester, in order to answer questions related to the study topics.
Student participation in this forum is not mandatory neither graded.

Learning Activities

For each partial term, different activities have been designed to put acquired knowledge into action.

Follow up

Follow up from the teachers will be permanent, in order to provide support in the development of the
course, through individual and group follow up capabilities of the virtual classroom, related to support
material, forum participation, individual and group tutoring, etc.

In the same way, the teacher-tutor will contact the Support Center in the scheduled time and date in
order to establish videoconferences and, in your case, live support from the subject teacher.

It is very important for students to keep in contact with the teacher-tutor, because he is, among other
things, in charge of communicating orders and news from the subjects coordinator. He is also in charge
of reporting his relationship with all students in written form.

Estimated Study Time

The time the student must allocate for this subject is of one hour per day.

Collaborative Work

Collaborative work is a widely used educational method by teachers in many areas. There are two ways
of doing it: in a collaborative way (collaborating) and in a cooperative way (cooperating). According to
Manuel Antonio Unigarro, students work in a Collaborative way when each student in a group is in
charge of a specific task and finally all the work is joined in a single Final Project. On the other hand,
Cooperative work is performed when all group members work at the same time in all the assigned
tasks.
http://www.eduteka.org/ProyectosColaborativos.php

4. Grading System

The first partial term will be graded in the following way:

Activity for the First Partial Term Grade

Collaborative Work /20 20points
Learning activity /20 20 points
On site Exam /20 20 points
Total 20 points

The second partial term will be graded in the following way:

Activity for the Second Partial Term Grade

Collaborative Work /20 20 points
Learning activity /20 20 points
On site Exam /20 20 points
Total 20points

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5. General Objective

Be able to manage and produce appropriate and accurate work with the correct usage of basic
computing software in order to better students personal life as well for his professional daily activities.

6. Learning Results

First Partial Term

Learn basic and general concepts about Computing.
Learn the parts of a computer.
Be familiar with the usage of computers as working tools.
Identify and know the structure of the components of a PC.
Manage the elements of a computer by means of its operating system.
Advise students about the characteristics of both Free and Proprietary Operating Systems.
Know and manage the principles of internet and communications.
Be capable of using modern information and communication systems as another resource,
satisfying all kind of doubt.
Manage daily information: email messages, tasks, notes, contact, information, etc.
Be capable of interpreting and making comments about book readings.
Share documents in Google drive, onedrive, dropbox
Provide the student with the ability of designing, copying and editing text and documents using
different styles, formats and elements.
Provide the students with the required criteria for creating different applications with diverse
formats and presets.
Facilitate mailing with automatic orthographic and grammatical corrections
Provide the necessary knowledge to apply the new interfaces incorporated in Word 2007 /Word
2010 /word 2013.

Second Partial Term

Know the basic elements to handle a worksheet in Excel.

Identify the components of Excels main window.
Perform calculations through the use of formulas and functions.
Know about the usage of dependent graphics of Excel worksheets.
Working with filters and dynamic charts.
Identify the main use and properties of Power Point, for the best performance of this tool.
Identify the main use and properties of Power Point, in order to create quality presentations with
ease in manipulating information.
Use the resources and utilities offered by this application to create any type of report or graphical
presentation, in an easy and precise way, needed by all professionals.
Manage skydrive, dropbox, social folders, flicker, audio and video in the cloud.

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7. Content table
First Partial
Computer system structure
Content Activities Bibliography

1.1. Define the basic Activity 1.1.

concepts of Find some basic http://www.scribd.com/doc/110967/SISTEMAOPERATIVO
Computer. concepts in the letters https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.es.html
1.2. Computer soup
components
(technical
specifications)
1.3. Operating systems
(proprietary and free)
1.4. Device
Management (Control
Panel)
1.5. Virus and
Antivirus:
1.6. File Management
(Explorer)
1.7. Define the basics

Activity1.2.
1.8. Management of Make a letter using all http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/training-courses-
software for tool of Word. for-word-2013-HA104030981.aspx
navigation and
information transfer.
1..9. Other internet
services (mail, groups,
blogs, wiki, social
networks, etc.)
1.10. Master
Documents.
1.11. Initial Document
Settings.
1.12. Handling text
and advanced objects
1.13. Correspondence
1.14. Forms: Fields, buttons
Segundo partial
Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel)
Presentation Manager (Microsoft Power Point)
Content Activity Bibliography

2.1. Introduction to Activity 2.1.

Excel. Work Resolve Exercises https://exceltotal.com/
environment. using formulas.
2.2. Types of Data and
their Format.
2.3. Edition
2.4. Data Menu
2.5. Formulas
2.6. Functions
2.7. Graphics

2.8. Generalized
Tables.
2.9. Protection
2.10. Print
2.11. Introduction to
Power Point:
2.12. Design and
realization of

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advanced
presentations

Activity 2.2
2.1. Introduction to Exercises with tables Texto
Excel. Work and graphics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYDLY6PJ-pw
environment.
2.2. Types of Data and
their Format.
2.3. Edition
2.4. Data Menu
2.5. Formulas
2.6. Functions
2.7. Graphics

2.8. Generalized
Tables.
2.9. Protection
2.10. Print
2.11. Introduction to
Power Point:
2.12. Design and
realization of
advanced
presentations

Activity 2.3
2.1. Introduction to Excel. Presentations in Power Texto
Work environment. Point http://www.aulaclic.es/power/f_power.htm
2.2. Types of Data and their
Format.
2.3. Edition
2.4. Data Menu
2.5. Formulas
2.6. Functions
2.7. Graphics

2.8. Generalized Tables.

2.9. Protection
2.10. Print
2.11. Introduction to Power
Point:
2.12. Design and realization
of advanced presentations

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8. First Partial Term Schedule

DAT E TO PICS TO WE B S IT E S MAND ATO RY ACT IVIT IES

S T UDY
Week 1 Navigating software http://gsi.isf.es/manuales/ By using email, send the teacher a
and information manual_buen_uso_correo. document with an attached file with your
transfer. Usage of pdf personal information.
email software. www.google.com/accounts Make a poll using google docs.
/
Week 2 Internet services and www.blogger.com Create a blog:
applications. web 2.0 tools a) First entry, personal information
Learning http://docs.google.com b) Second entry: upload a video related
Communities. to web information usage.
Firewall c) Third entry: create a paragraph about
Antivirus. you adapting process to the virtual
platform.
d) Fourth entry: copy the information
from item 10.1.
Week 3 Computing basic http://competencias- Make a comparative chart, establishing
concepts. espe.wikispaces.com/ similarities and differences among the
Operating Systems http://www.ila.org.pe/aulav different OS.
File management irtual/docs/uso_computado
ra.pdf Create a timeline about the advance of
Operating Systems.

Week 4 Manage Word http://www.ojolink.com/bu Create a Project with the following

Windows, views, scador/buscar.asp? structure:
menus. Working with busqueda=descargar%20el Cover, Table of Contents, Text
styles and presets. %20manual%20office Formatting, Justify, Bold Titles, Single
Using Words Table of %20word%202007 Line Spacing, Previous and Post
Contents or Index. Spacing. At the end of the project, insert
Table of Graphics and Index.

Week 5 Collaborative Work http://www.eduteka.org/Pr

oyectosColaborativos.php

Week 6 Finish Studying all the Unifying all covered topics Edit a page in the Wiki competences-
topics http://competencias- ESPE with the performed activities,
espe.wikispaces.com/ putting your Project as a hyperlink.

Week 7 Study Guide Hand- Product of Learning

In

Exam Preparation
Week 8 Exam

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Second Partial Term Schedule

DAT E TO PICS TO WE B S IT E S MAND ATO RY ACT IVIT IES
S T UDY
Week 1 Worksheet http://www.aulaclic.es/exc Create a database of at least 20 people,
Elements of the el2007/epp_16_3_1.htm from which you will write down their ID
worksheet. number (cedula), name, pone, address,
Data analysis and http://hojadecalculo.umh.e email, salary, department, job position,
representation. s/ years at work.
Printing.

Week 2 Basic functions. http://www.mailxmail.com Based on the previous task, calculate

Netted functions. /curso-funciones-excel/si IESS payments, loan payments for at
Conditional formats. least 3 people. Use conditional formats
with different colors for different
departments.

Week 3 Data Validating Create a dynamic chart with the

www.blogger.com
Filters database, in which you have the total
Dynamic charts income for each person.
Graphics Filter the persons whose income is
greater than 800 USD.

Week 4 Presentation Wizard Create a presentation with the following

http://reparaciondepc.cl/bl
Design of advanced structure:
og/descargar-manual-
presentations At least 10 slides, which have
power-point-2007-gratis/
animations, transitions, a flow chart and
http://www.youtube.com/w a sound.
atch?v=LMLq2yiGD9Y
Week 5 Collaborative Work http://www.eduteka.org/Pr
oyectosColaborativos.php

Week 6 Finish studying all the Unifying all covered topics Edit a page in the competences-ESPE
topics http://competencias- wiki with the performed activities,
espe.wikispaces.com/ putting your project as a hyperlink.

Week 7 Study Guide Hand- Product of Learning

In

Exam Preparation

Week 8 Exam

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9. Bibliography

Title: Cloud Computing

Author: David Crookes
Edition: United Kingdom, 2012

Support material Platform.

Optional consultation material

Besides basic and recommended bibliography, support media such as video conferencing, chat,
Messenger, wiki and other computer resources might be offered during the course, which can
result useful as a complement.

Digital books can represent a new help source as well as new challenges that can have great
impact over the capacity that each person has of understanding what he reads. Internet offers new
text formats, new reading purposes and new ways of interacting with information, which can
confuse and even overwhelm those used to extracting knowledge only from conventional reading.

Internet Search Engines: Google.com, Altavista.com, Infosec.com, C4.com, Hotbot.com,

Monografas.com, Yahoo.com, Yupi.com, Lycos.com, Ole.com, Excite.com, Thunderstone.com,
AulaClic.

Links (help URLs)

http://www.ila.org.pe/aulavirtual/docs/uso_computadora.pdf
http://docs.google.com/viewer?
a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtYXRlcmlhbGJpYmxpb3JlZGVzfGd4
OjVkNzgwMmQ0YzFlY2MwNGU&pli=1
http://clic.xtec.cat/db/jclicApplet.jsp?
project=http://clic.xtec.cat/projects/ordinesp/jclic/ordinesp.jclic.zip&lang=es&title=Las+partes+d
el+computador
http://www.portalplanetasedna.com.ar/internet1.htm
http://infobasica.ucuenca.edu.ec/archivos/file/INFORMATICA_BASICA/MANUALES/WORD/
TUTORIAL_WORD_%202007.pdf
http://fcp.unach.mx/manuales/download/Biblia%20de%20Word%202007.pdf
http://www.ciberaula.com/curso/officebasico/temario
http://office.microsoft.com

10. Glossary

Trmino Definicin
Access Each one of the times somebody enters into a
webpage, Access is a good measure of webpage
popularity.
Bandwidth It is like the pipe width through which information
passes. The higher the bandwidth, the faster the
transmission is.
Avatar Virtual personalities that can be adopted by users in
different chat programs, and that allows them to
change gender, race or age, adopt the form of a
comic, etc. Avatars can communicate by written or
voice, as well as through some gestures.
Download Move content from a location on the internet to the
end users computer.
Baud (from the name of J.M.E. Baudot) data transmission
measure that can be considered, for practical
purposes, as a bit per second.

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Bit ( binary digit) it is the mnimum piece of

information, equivalent to a yes or no (1 or 0)
browser Program that displays web page content
Search engine Used to locate content on the web, like Yahoo!
(http://www.yahoo.com/), or Altavista
(http://www.altavista.digital.com)
Upload Move information from the user into the internet.
Chat Programs that allow real time communication
among internet users.
Cyberspace It is the virtual encounter place for people who use
electronic networks
Cybernaut internaut
Click Push the mouse button over a screen element
Client Computer that receives data from a server
Virtual community Collection of people who share the cyberspace.
Connected Being connected is to have internet Access (not
meaning you are always connected)
Password Word used to Access some internet content, prevent
unauthorized Access and identify users.
Email Mail that is originated from a computer and travels
through the cyberspace to reach others.
Pointer Small arrow or other type of indicator that moves
over the computer screen commanded by the
mouse.
Domain Internet server place where a webpage behind a
hyperlink is located.
Encrypt Procedure for hiding content behind a password or
key
Link Connection between webpages
Hacker Computer pirate, person who penetrates
networks, gaining Access to restricted content.

http://www.lawebdelprogramador.com/diccionario/
http://www.adsltodo.com/diccionario-informatico/

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