|
Week |
Day/Times |
Date/Location |
Activities / Lecture Topic |
Week 1
4/3 - 4/7
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
4/3
Wiegand Auditorium |
Course overview -- how to succeed in
BA271. General ideas about what a wiki is and how to edit and update the
OSU wiki. |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3, 4 p.m. |
4/4
Bexell 324 |
Detailed practice at editing and updating the
OSU wiki. |
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
4/6
Bexell 324 |
Review for the Prerequisite
Exam and the optional
Fluffy spreadsheet competition |
Week 2
4/10 - 4/14
PPT slides |
|
Monday |
4/10
Wiegand Auditorium |
Searching the Internet along with basic
web editing techniques necessary to complete the Treasure Hunt assignment.
Ideas about how to do well on the
Wiki Activities. |
Tuesday
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
4/11
Bexell basement computer lab |
Prerequisite Exam
Arrive and begin the exam between 10:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
No
lab-session class in Bexell 324. |
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
4/12
Bexell 324 |
Treasure Hunt
wrap-up. |
|
Week 3
4/17 - 4/21
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
4/17
Wiegand Auditorium |
IT Tools for Working in
Virtual Environments
Speakers: Holly Gibbs, Summit Information Systems and Sakthi
Angappamudali, Standard Insurance |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
4/18
Bexell 324 |
Website Plan
assignment. Use PowerPoint and Visio to prototype your website's structure.
Create autoshapes and autoconnectors.
Create audio files with Sound Recorder.
|
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
4/20
Bexell 324 |
Website Project: structure of a basic website. |
Week 4
4/24 - 4/28
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
4/24
Wiegand Auditorium |
Website design basics. Basic
versus final website |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
4/25
Bexell 324 |
Creating link bars, building and using a logo.
We will use the files in this
sample website folder. |
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
4/27
Bexell 324 |
Building custom feedback
forms. Image editing, digital cameras, how to use a scanner. Editing
images to work well in web pages. |
Week 5
5/1 - 5/5
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
5/1
Wiegand Auditorium |
Creating a winning website that people will visit: good versus bad
design...how to get an "A" for your website project. |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
5/2
Bexell 324 |
Peer Review and
Microsoft Producer. Practice Midterm review. |
Thursday
@ noon to 4 p.m. |
5/4
Bexell 324 |
Help session-- no regular class. Feel free to
drop by during the regular class times to have your questions answered. Note
that the time is from noon to 4 p.m. -- not the usual 1 to 5 p.m. |
|
Week 6
5/8 - 5/12
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
5/8
Wiegand Auditorium |
General database ideas, learn about the
Northwind Traders database. |
Tuesday
10:00 a.m. -- 6:00 p.m. |
5/9
Basement computer lab |
Midterm exam Go to the basement lab. You can begin the exam anytime
between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. You will have 2 hours to
complete it. Thus, I will be in the computer lab from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. No class in Bexell 324 today. |
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
5/11
Bexell 324 |
Access Assignments Summary and
Access
Assignment 1
Work
through
Tutorial 1 and
Tutorial 2: viewing and
working with tables. |
Week 7
5/15 - 5/19
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
5/15
Wiegand Auditorium |
Ideas about writing successful queries |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
5/16
Bexell 324 |
Finish
Tutorial 2.
Begin
Access Assignment 2:
Writing Queries
by looking at
Tutorial 3 |
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
5/18
Bexell 324 |
Tutorial 3
and writing queries. |
| Friday
anytime |
5/19 |
Last day to withdraw from a course (W grade entered on
transcript). |
Week 8
5/22 - 5/26
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
5/22
Wiegand Auditorium |
How is a relational database designed? Review for the
Query Quiz. |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3 or 4 p.m. |
5/23
Bexell 324 |
More review for the
Query Quiz; Tutorial 5.1:
Querying a Database |
Thursday
noon to 4 p.m. |
5/25
Bexell 324 |
Help session-- no regular class. Feel free to drop by during the regular
class times to have your questions answered. This is an excellent time to
practice query writing or ask other questions.
Note that the time is from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. -- not the usual 1 to 5 p.m. |
Week 9
5/29 - 6/2
PPT slides |
| |
|
Memorial Day Holiday |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3 or 4 p.m. |
5/30
Basement computer lab |
Query Quiz Go to the
basement lab. You can begin the exam anytime between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00
p.m. You will have 1 hour to complete it. No regular class
today. |
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
6/1
Bexell 324 |
Access Assignment 3 and
Tutorial 4: Creating Forms |
Week 10
6/5 - 6/9
PPT slides |
Monday
6 p.m. |
6/5
Wiegand Auditorium |
Course wrap-up: what we learned and why. |
Tuesday
@ 1, 2, 3 or 4 p.m. |
6/6
Bexell 324 |
Access Assignment 3 and
Tutorial 6: Creating Custom Forms |
Thursday
@ 1, 2, 3, or 4 p.m. |
6/8
Bexell 324 |
Review the
Practice Final Exam |
Finals
Week
6/12 - 6/16 |
For the final exam schedule, see the bottom of the
Graded Activities page |
