Web Design Course - Resources for Principles of IT

Resources and links for Erdington 'Principles of IT' classes

Term 1 - Sept to Dec 2003

Week / date	Subjects covered	Relevant resources
Wk1 16/09/03	Induction General introduction to course and resources.	This site for most literature and back-up materials	www.luvvit.com/college
		Google, search engine	www.google.com
		City and Guilds e-quals - course details	www.city-and-guilds.co.uk/e-quals
		The history of computing project	www.thocp.net
Wk2 23/09/03	Computers - what are they & how do they work? What is a computer? What is binary? What are the components? What can effect the components? What is an operating system? What is a Gooey / GUI?	A Binary Primer: Introduction Try Google / Altavista search: nibble bit byte word binary	www.dnaco.net/~ivanjs/binprime.html
		C&G 7261 (old) glossary (appendix A)	212-apx_a.pdf
		C&G 7261 (old) appendices B - P	212-apx_btoend.pdf
Wk3 30/09/03	System security and stability Windows vs UNIX for security viruses and trojans hackers and Windows network settings and firewalls spyware a few simple clean ups for Windows 4 (95,98 and ME) making back-ups	AVG antivirus by Grisoft	www.grisoft.com
		Gibson Research, security issues	www.grc.com
		MIcrosoft Corporation - Windows updates	www.microsoft.com
		Regclean	www.download.com
		Spyware list, Tom Cat	www.tom-cat.com
		Ad-aware spyware remover	www.lavasoftusa.com
		Zone-Alarm, free personal firewall	www.zonelabs.com
		Sygate free personal firewall	www.sygate.com
Wk4 07/10/03	Class cancelled - internet down
Wk5 14/10/03	Searching for resources Using search engines to find resources for Windows: Windows shortcuts special characters translations	Google, uk search engine	www.google.co.uk
		Altavista, uk search engine	www.altavista.co.uk
		Ask Jeeves, uk search	www.ask.co.uk
		Frameseach - multiple searches	framesearch.net
		Babelfish translation	babel.altavista.com
		Help with windows shortcuts	support.microsoft.com
		Unicode	www.unicode.org
Wk6 21/10/03	Health and safety Research H&S issues and record any bits of interest in a Word document	UK Health and Safety Executive	www.hse.gov.uk
Wk6 21/10/03		Others	safety.ngfl.gov.uk www.support4learning.co.uk www.healthycomputing.com www.healthandsafety.co.uk
half term
Wk7 4 /11/03	Recap post-half-term IT Quiz-o-rama look at this half term general admin & stuff start looking at peripherals and connecting up	The quiz	poit/it_quiz.pdf
Wk8 11 /11/03	Okay then, lets hack one to bits & see what there is: CPU memory primary storage back-up storage motherboard cards	Relevant City and Guilds tests	212-tests.pdf
Wk9 18 /11/03	Peripheral devices - printers, keyboards, mices & VDUs input devices output devices shopping online & pricing it all up	Fill-in-the-blanks exercise	poit/hardware.pdf
Wk10 25/11/03	Computer Hardware: finding and installing drivers
Wk11 02 /12/03	So, what exactly is a web server then? comparison of PCs and servers comparison of Windows vs Linux join-up with Geocities	De-mystifying the server - part 1	servers.html
		De-mystifying the server - part 2	servers2.html
		Sun Cobalt Linux servers	Sun Cobalt RAQ
		Microsoft Windows 2003 servers	Windows 2003 Server
Wk12 09 /12/03	Integrated Applications What are the are the pro's & con's? a brief look at each application Microsoft office - what does it do? take notes, build a table of info in a spreadsheet convert to a Word document	A quick look at Microsoft Office	www.microsoft.com/office
		IBM Lotus	www.lotus.com/about
		KDE KOffice	www.koffice.org
Wk13 16 /12/03	Word Processing typing a letter checking spelling formatting text

Last updated 21/10/03