Mashaw Take Home

Read Chapter1 of Computers, Ch 1, 5 Simplified, and Ch 1, 2, 4 of Office. Go over the review questions at the end of the chapter, though you don't need to turn it in. Read also a few pages of chapter 2.

Your points on each assignment will be based on 1) completeness, 2) professionally prepared work, 3) your efforts and accuracy. Treat a Take-Home assignment as a part of your test. Each assignment is designed for one student -- you must not work together, or get help from anybody to do an assignment. If you use any material, not your own, make sure that you give proper references. Again, No cooperation, no copy/paste is allowed on this TH. It is due on Thursday

Part I Discuss, explain, create space to write the answers.

Discuss briefly, explain (Prefer your own words. Try to type the answer, create more space if you need.

1. What is a Computer System? What are its components?

2. List some of the information system used in Business

3. List some of the productivity tool that you can use for your work

4. What is the unit of measurement for storing data?

Approximately how much storage do you need to store this line (hint: count the number of characters)?

5. In computer terminology, how do you read:

1,000

1,000,000

1,000,000,000

6. Try to purchase a Flash drive (called also travel drive, USB drive, etc.)

a. What is the capacity of your Flash drive?

b. How much did you pay for it?

c. Approximately, how many characters can be stored on it?

Part II Hands on Make a note to show that you did whatever is asked, or explain how to do it. Use snipping tool to show samples. (Handwriting this part is ok, though professionally typed is preferred.)

1. Open "My Computer" Practice Resizing , Moving, Maximizing, Minimizing, and others. Explore the View option. Change the view to Tile, thumbnail, Icon, list, and detail. Report briefly what you did

2. Regarding your Auxiliary Storage Devices:

a. How many "drives" are there in your computer?

b. Enter into one of the drives, and list some of the subdirectories:

c. List some of the files in the subdirectories:

3. Create a Hierarchy of directories, and sub-directories for storing documents for your courses. (In your computer or in your flash drive.) Show, through a chart (see the picture), the hierarchy that you created for this course.

4. Use the MS-word and type a few paragraphs. Make a note of what you see in each of the item in the Standard Toolbar (If

5. Explain briefly how to do, or how you can do the following. Use abbreviation, to explain the toolbar, menu, submenu or the option you can use to do the following.

[Use abbreviation like this example: for saving as a text-file, do: office -> File -> save as -> text -> a-name]

a. Making a word or a paragraph Bold face; or Changing a bold face to normal
highlight the word or paragraph -> Home -> Bold

b. Changing the font, font size

c. Changing the font, font size with a preformatted Style

d. Centering a heading

e. Making a bulleted list; Changing a bullet list to normal

f. Viewing the page in different sizes (zooming), -- print view, page view, zoomed 100%, or zoomed 200%

g. Changing the margins

h. Changing the page orientation of a document. What choices do you have?

i. Counting the number of words in a paragraph, or the number of characters used in a document.

j. Saving a copy for backup purposes

k. Saving a document as "Text" (can you do that?), Saving a document as pdf?

Part III, Applications # 1 (mini-mini Project)

Use one of your previously written paper/report, and prepare it with proper format.

Note: Your report should be a minimum of five pages, should have proper

Titles (or Major Heading),
sub titles, and
sub-sub-titles

Use proper font and sizes. Your report should be professionally prepared and formatted. Minimum: 5 pages, 1 titles, 5 Major headings, 5 subheadings. Also pay attention to the margin and font face and sizes as discussed in the class.