Information
Technology 11
Course Length:
Student Responsibility:
All work is to be
submitted on the date specified unless special condition prevails. Since the
course work is compacted over nine weeks, attendance is extremely important,
and is part of the final evaluation.
The student is responsible for finding out about school work
missed.Cheating is completely unacceptable.
If you copy, or let another student copy an assignment, project, or
homework, that is worth any marks, you will receive a “0” for the first
offense, be put on a strict contract for the second offense, and will be
removed from the class on the third offense. (Please refer to the school’s
policy on cheating). Any student
caught copying software to or from network will be removed from class. Any
student caught copying questionable material from the internet will be removed
from the class.
Course Rationale: To participate and make informed
decisions in today’s world, a global citizen requires technological and
information literacy skills that include the ability to gather, process, and
manipulate data. Information technology
is changing the way we work.
Traditional jobs, such as those in the banking industry are
disappearing, while new jobs are
appearing in areas such as multimedia production. This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity
to experience some of the new tools of technology, to understand the science
behind them, and to develop skills needed for
a quickly changing society.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will:
1)demonstrate an
understanding of the integration and use of information technology tools in the workplace
2)use information
technology tools to increase productivity and to enhance communications
3)demonstrate the ability
to draw conclusions about the impact of multimedia communications on society
4)demonstrate a mastery
of media to convey or enhance their own messages
5)demonstrate an
awareness of the power of networked communities
6)demonstrate an
understanding of the networking problems that are common to their own LANs and
their community’s WANs
7)identify the potential
of the Internet in their daily lives analyze information received from the
Internet
8)use the Internet as a
tool for their own communication requirements
Course Components
I) Networks :
Students need to know how
to construct and manage networks within an ethical framework. In Grade 11, they begin to gain an awareness
for the need for a logical approach to solving problems using a network: Students will:
_ differentiate between the concepts
of stand alone workstation and printer-spooling, disk-sharing and file sharing
computer systems
_ identify and analyze legal, ethical,
social, and security issues related to network systems and stand-alone computer
systems
_ distinguish between peer-to-peer
file sharing and centralized file-sharing
_ identify the career opportunities
for and roles of persons employed in environments that use networking
technology
_ analyze the responsibility and roles of network users and technicians
_ understand and apply network
terminology
II)Programming:
Students are introduced
to the basic concepts and terminology of programming as a basis for further
discovery. Students will:
_ use a structured problem-solving
process for solving simple problems
_ demonstrate an understanding of
programming language concepts: reduced
vocabulary, translation to programming language, syntax and grammar
_ apply a high-level programming
language to implement the logical structures of sequence, repetition and
selection
_ design and implement programs on a
computer to solve problem s
_ apply and understand programming
terminology
identify career
opportunities for programmers and people employed in environments that use
programming
III)Electronic Communications:
Students discover a
variety of communications tools: World Wide Web browsers, Telnet, Gopher, FTP
Servers. Students will:
_ identify and describe a variety of
electronic communications environments and software tools available to access
these environments
_ evaluate and use a variety of
electronic communications tools to solve problems
_ present and analyze information
found through electronic communications tools
_ create an interactive document with
hypertext links to other documents
_ analyze the social impact of
electronic communications
IV)Multimedia: Students will:
_ create multimedia documents and
presentations
_ explain the impact of digital
information on society
_ identify a variety of tools and
resources used for multimedia
_ demonstrate an understanding of
various media elements found in multimedia
_ demonstrate an understanding of
multimedia terminology
_ analyze presentation software, and
the effectiveness of media elements used in presentations
_ identify the career opportunities
for and roles of persons employed in multimedia environments
Resources:
Website: http://msint11.tripod.com , http://html-help.tripod.com
Software: (possible packages, other applicable
software to be announced) MS Office,
Microsoft Composer, HTML Editor, Webford, Netscape 4.7, MS Visual C++ 6.0,
Internet, Gif Animator, others TBA.
Print: Text: Corica, Freitas, Presley, A Guide to Programming in C++, Additional Sources:
Student-supplied articles, Internet-supplied articles, teacher-supplied
articles and notes
Information Technology 11
Course Evaluation:
_ Effort and participation(in-class
articles, group work, attendance): 10%
_ Website: 25%
_ Assignments and Projects 25%
_ Tests: 40%
_ Total: 100%
Please Note: Instructor reserves the right to adjust the
weighting of the marks due to time and course
considerations.