Syllabus

• E-mail, directory tree structure, computer vocabulary
  • setting up personal directories on a local drive Z:, saving web pages in given locations, creating short text files with notepad
  • creating individual e-mail accounts on the yahoo.com server, replying, forwarding, attaching files
  • preparing together as long as possible list of computer-oriented vocabulary
• WWW browsing, advanced search and information retrieval methods
  • benchmarking popular web search engines (comparing the number of hits for a given phrase)
  • overview of advanced search methods in GOOGLE and MSN SEARCH
  • introduction to Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure and googlewhacking itself
• Working with MS Windows without a mouse
  • some info on the Windows keyboard
  • a short list of general Windows keyboard shortcuts
  • a short list of selected MS Word keyboard shortcuts
  • preparing a cloze-like exercise out of a selected web page (sharing with other students by e-mail, CC: to the teacher)
  • solving an interactive crossword
• MS Word - complex document structure (chapters, sections, title page, table of contents, bibliography, references, footnotes, page numbering, etc.) - preparing a template file in accordance with the example
• MS Word - using phonetic symbols and graphical contents (phonetic transcription with IPAPhon symbols)
  • downloading and storing images from web pages, inserting images into MS Word documents
  • using the screen capture (PrtSc key) feature, basic image manipulation with Paint
  • drawing with MS Word (Auto Shapes)
• On-line dictionaries (OneLook, WordNet), encyclopedias (Wikipedia) and literature databases (Project Gutenberg, Litrix Reading Room, Bibliomania)
• Machine translation (MT) and computer-assisted translation (CAT) with selected on-line resources (LING.PL, e-Dict, Onet.pl, Angool.com, LingvoBit, Ergane/Travlang, SYSTRAN, Poleng/Translatica) - translating fragments of literary text from Polish into English and v.v., comparing to the original , avoiding naive/literal translation.
• MS Excel - using spreadsheets for basic arithmetic and text manipulation (e.g. preparing a table showing the number of occurences of all characters of the alphabet in a sample English text, sorting and transforming textual data - a list of names)
• MS PowerPoint - preparing a presentation on a selected theme (different slide layouts and formats, nonstandard animation and slide transformations, automatic slide change setting, inserting pictures, etc.)
• Introduction to markup languages (HTML, LaTeX)
• Advanced text search and manipulation methods based on regular expressions
• Final test/assessment