| inls 461 Information Tools Professor: Serena Fenton |
Schedule - Fall 2006
| Week 1 | Introduction to Information Science |
| Weds Aug 23 | Assignment 1- WordPad - Due Friday Sept 1 |
| Week 2 | Spreadsheets |
| Aug 28 & 30 | Reading and labs |
| no assignment; no quiz | |
| Week 3 | Spreadsheets- part 2 |
| Sept 4 - no class | Assignment 2- Spreadsheet - due Mon Sept 11 <-revised |
| Sept 6 | Quiz 1: Spreadsheets - due Mon Sept 11 <-revised |
| Week 4 | Database Concepts and Creation |
| Sept 11 & 13 | Reading and labs |
| no assignment; no quiz | |
| Week 5 | Database- Relationships and Keys |
| Sept 18 & 20 | Assignment 3- DB Tables - due Fri Sept 22 |
| Quiz 2: DB Concepts + Tables - due Fri Sept 22 | |
| Week 6 | Access Forms and Queries 1 |
| Sept 25 & 27 | Reading and labs |
| no assignment; no quiz | |
| Week 7 | Access Forms and Queries 2 |
| Oct 2 & 4 | Database continued |
| Week 8 | |
| Oct 9, Monday | Database continued |
| Oct. 11, Wednesday | Information Design - to begin on Oct 11
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| Week 9 | |
| Oct 16, Monday |
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| Oct 18 Fall Break | |
| Week 10 | Copyright |
Oct 23 |
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| Week 11 | UNIX - Introduction & file systems |
| Oct 30 Nov 1 |
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| Week 12 | UNIX - working with large files |
| Nov 6 Nov 8 |
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| Week 13 | UNIX - simple programming |
| Nov 13 Nov 15 |
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| Week 14 | HTML |
| Nov 20, Monday |
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| Nov 22 - no class | |
| Week 15 | XHTML and CSS |
| Nov 27 Nov 30 |
Assignment 8: web page creation - Due Dec 10 <-revised |
Week 16 |
CSS Dreamweaver - ruby site setup and howto -basics (pdf) Assignment 9: web page creation with css - Due Dec 10 |
| Weds Dec 6 = Last day of classes : : : no final exam | |
Course changes
The instructor reserves the right to change course
content, requirements for assignments, grading procedures and other alterations,
as appropriate, to the course. While such changes will be discussed and
decided in class forums, under exceptional circumstances, the instructor may
incorporate changes without notice.