Due September 13. Late deadline September 20.
Reading:
Read the Projects in Dozer's Quintessential Guide to Computer Literacy while you are in front of the computer and do the steps as instructed.
Part 1: Issue and Conclusion Study Questions (15 points)
Start a new document in Word. Save the document as Task 2. Type your name and press Enter and then Assignment 2 and press Enter.
Click the link to open the editorial in PDF format "China's Cybertooth Tigers." Read the editorial carefully and answer questions 1 through 3:
1. (1 point) What is the issue? The issue must be written as a question.
2. (1 point) What is the author's conclusion? Make sure your conclusion answers the issue question.
3. (1 point) Describe how you located the conclusion. In your answer, refer to the 6 clues in the Asking the Right Questions textbook section titled "Clues to Discovery: How to Find the Conclusion." If you do not have the textbook yet, you can find the information in the PowerPoint presentation linked in the Task instructions.
Click the link to open the editorial in PDF format "Sexting sends message about changing values" Read the editorial carefully and answer questions 4 through 6:
4. (1 point) What is the issue? The issue must be written as a question.
5. (1 point) What is the author's conclusion? Make sure your conclusion answers the issue question.
6. (1 point) Describe how you located the conclusion (see #3 above).
Click the link to open the editorial in PDF format "Signs of texting while driving are hard for officers to read" Read the editorial carefully and answer questions 7 through 9:
7. (1 point) What is the issue? The issue must be written as a question.
8. (1 point) What is the author's conclusion? Make sure your conclusion answers the issue question.
9. (1 point) Describe how you located the conclusion.
Click the link to open the editorial in PDF format "The right marriage debate: children of unwed mothers" Read the editorial carefully and answer questions 10 through 12:
10. (1 point) What is the issue? The issue must be written as a question.
11. (1 point) What is the author's conclusion? Make sure your conclusion answers the issue question.
12. (1 point) Describe how you located the conclusion.
13. (3 points) In a paragraph, say which editorial was the best written. Explain why.
Part 2 File Management (20 points)
In this exercise you will practice managing files and folders. To show that you did the steps, you will make a copy of what is on the screen with the Print Screen key on your keyboard and paste it in your Word document. On some keyboards, the Print Screen key make have a different label or you may need to press another key with Print Screen. All PCs have this feature.
The My Documents folder is called Documents in Windows Vista. All of the "My"s have been dropped from the names in Vista. These instructions leave out the "My."
1. Start a new Word document and save it as Task2Files.
2. Start Computer and create a folder called SpongeBob on your USB drive or in Documents on your hard drive.
3. Create 4 folders under SpongeBob named Squidward, Patrick, Shelly and Sheldon.
5. Switch to an Internet browser window and go to www.google.com. Sheldon is a copepod. Click the Images link and search for an image of a copepod. The result screen will show thumbnail images (small samples). Pick one of the smaller images and click on it to display the real image. Right-click the image and choose Save Picture As from the shortcut menu. Save the image in the Sheldon folder.
6. Switch to your Computer window. Open the Sheldon folder and copy (not move) the graphic to the SpongeBob folder.
7. Rename the copy of the graphic in the SpongeBob folder to CopepodBackup. Make sure you do not change the file extension (most likely .jpg or .gif).
8. Delete the Shelly folder.
9. Display the folders pane at the left side of the Computer window by clicking the Folders button (XP) or by clicking the Folders arrow (Vista). Expand the folder display by clicking the + sign (XP) or arrow (Vista) next to SpongeBob.
10. Click the Sheldon folder in the Folders pane to display the contents in the right. Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard. It looks like nothing happened, but a graphic of the screen is saved to the clipboard. On a laptop, you may need to press another key in combination with Print Screen.
11. Switch to your Word document. Choose Paste from the Ribbon or press Ctrl+V. A graphic of the Computer window should appear in your document.
12. Switch to your Computer window and display the contents of the SpongeBob folder. Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard.
13. Switch to your Word document and make sure your insertion point is at the end of the document. Choose Paste from the Ribbon or press Ctrl+V. A graphic of the Computer window should appear in your document.
14. Briefly describe how the recycle bin works. Explain which files are put in it and how you delete those files.
Save the document and upload it to the Task 2 Assignment in Etudes Tasks, Tests and Surveys.
Part 3 Discussion Article Ranking (5 points)
1. Rank the four articles on the importance of the social issues involved. It is your choice, there is no right or wrong answer.
2. Create a New Topic in the Task 2 Discussion.
3. (1 point) In the subject line, put the title of your rank 1 article.
4. (3 points) In the body of the message, state how you ranked the four articles. Then write at least one paragraph describing why you ranked the articles the way you did.
5. (1 point) Read another student's posting who had a different rank 1 article. Comment about his ranking and how it differs from yours.
The discussion score will be recorded in the Discussion Tool.